Autumn helps AI startups price, meter, and control usage with just 3 API calls. Built on Stripe, it manages subscriptions, usage, and access in one place. No webhooks or backend logic needed. Ideal for early stage teams building LLM and image apps.
Hey Product Hunt! Autumn is a layer over Stripe that makes it 10x easier to setup your app’s free / paid plans, and manage them as you grow.
The Problem
Stripe is low level and it’s hard to build AI pricing. There’s 5 different functions to manage subscriptions, 5 different brittle webhooks and a bunch of DB tables you need to maintain (gate features, track usage etc)
When you change pricing (which AI companies do A LOT), everything needs to be ripped out, replaced with different product/price IDs and migrated. This really sucks.
What’s Autumn?
Autumn is your app’s DB for your customer’s subscription state, feature permissions and usage tracking. You make queries to us and we’ll tell you if a customer can access something:
Model your pricing plans in our dashboard / CLI (set pricing, feature limits, usage-billing, credits etc)
/checkout to handle billing. Use the same function for new subs, upgrades/downgrades, add-ons etc
/track usage events when a customer does something (eg uses a credit)
/check for feature access to handle usage limits / paywalls. Autumn tells you yes/no in realtime.
We built the integration so that it can be reused no matter the pricing model (including org / centralized billing). When you want to change pricing, just update your dashboard / config file, migrate any customers you need to and everything’s done. You can also set custom pricing for enterprise customers in a similar way.
It’s open source, used in prod by 100s of developers, and by YC startups that are processing millions.
About us
We were in YC's F24 batch building software for banks, before pivoting the day before demo day. We pivoted around for a few months before stumbling on this. Now we’re raising with the YC S25 batch!
Ayush — I was a PM at a company called checkout .com (Stripe competitor)
John — I studied computer engineering at Imperial College London, and have been building things / devtools for 6 years.
We at 1stopVAT are excited to see how Autumn will help businesses improve their workflows, and we’re looking forward to seeing how this product grows. Keep up the great work!
Can't believe the docs page is soo small. (docs.useAutumn.com) (in a good way)
We've spent waaaay too long on stripe every time me make changes. Next time we'll 100% give Autumn a try. Looks super good.
Autumn makes pricing and usage control effortless for AI startups. Just 3 API calls no webhooks, no backend logic. Built on Stripe, it handles subscriptions, metering, and access in one clean layer. Perfect for LLM and image app builders.
Autumn is a total game-changer for AI startups! Launching with such a streamlined approach to Stripe integration is impressive.. Ditching the hassle of webhooks and backend logic lets founders focus on what matters most—their product.
Oh wow, finally someone’s making Stripe integration less of a headache for AI startups! I can’t count how many hours I’ve lost to messy payment setups—this is such a game-changer.
🤚 Hi, I'm a developer who recently migrated from subscription -> usage-based pricing for my product. It was exceptionally painful indeed. Unfortunately, I hadn't heard of Autumn until I was nearly done. Even though it was too late to use Autumn by then, Ayush and John had no problem hopping on a call to help me through the last steps. I imagine they're even more helpful if you bring them in the loop at the beginning, so I highly recommend that!
Also, I highly don't recommend the path I took. Please learn from my mistakes 🫠
You have done the almost impossible. The pain of setting up and maintaining a Stripe paywall. Kudos guys! I'm trying this out this week.
Autumn literally saved my weeks of integrating & testing payments down to a couple hours. You guys built something amazing.
Interesting, I'm currently in the middle of modelling a usage based system. I'll check this out and see if it fits the bill. Great timing!
And congrats on the launch! All the best to you folks.
Feels cool. It's like Stripe mixed with feature flags, but for AI tools. The “3 API calls” idea stands out to help small teams ship faster without getting stuck figuring out complex billing systems.
Hey Product Hunt! Autumn is a layer over Stripe that makes it 10x easier to setup your app’s free / paid plans, and manage them as you grow.
The Problem
Stripe is low level and it’s hard to build AI pricing. There’s 5 different functions to manage subscriptions, 5 different brittle webhooks and a bunch of DB tables you need to maintain (gate features, track usage etc)
When you change pricing (which AI companies do A LOT), everything needs to be ripped out, replaced with different product/price IDs and migrated. This really sucks.
What’s Autumn?
Autumn is your app’s DB for your customer’s subscription state, feature permissions and usage tracking. You make queries to us and we’ll tell you if a customer can access something:
Model your pricing plans in our dashboard / CLI (set pricing, feature limits, usage-billing, credits etc)
/checkout to handle billing. Use the same function for new subs, upgrades/downgrades, add-ons etc
/track usage events when a customer does something (eg uses a credit)
/check for feature access to handle usage limits / paywalls. Autumn tells you yes/no in realtime.
We built the integration so that it can be reused no matter the pricing model (including org / centralized billing). When you want to change pricing, just update your dashboard / config file, migrate any customers you need to and everything’s done. You can also set custom pricing for enterprise customers in a similar way.
It’s open source, used in prod by 100s of developers, and by YC startups that are processing millions.
About us
We were in YC's F24 batch building software for banks, before pivoting the day before demo day. We pivoted around for a few months before stumbling on this. Now we’re raising with the YC S25 batch!
Ayush — I was a PM at a company called checkout .com (Stripe competitor)
John — I studied computer engineering at Imperial College London, and have been building things / devtools for 6 years.
(and we really ❤️ Stripe)
Try it out at https://useautumn.com/, where it’s free for builders. Our open source repo is https://github.com/useautumn/autumn, and docs are at https://docs.useautumn.com/