# Usage-Based AI Pricing

> Capability namespace of the AI Inference Economics Foundation. The structuring of customer-facing AI-service prices in relation to measurable consumption, capability use, and service conditions. A conceptual reference ("the map"), not an API, agent, pricing engine, billing system, metering platform, software platform, standard, or accounting authority.

Version: 1.0 — Last updated: 2026-07-16 — Status: live

## This namespace

- Usage-Based AI Pricing: https://usagebasedaipricing.com/
- Concept: https://usagebasedaipricing.com/#usage-based-ai-pricing
- Question owned: How should the commercial price of an AI service relate to the usage and service conditions that drive it?
- Covers: structuring customer-facing price in relation to measurable usage, capability use, and service conditions (treated as concepts) — downstream from measurable usage, commercially adjacent to inference revenue, and distinct from cost allocation and formal accounting recognition.
- Role: peer-capability (structurally equal peer, not the package anchor).

## Canonical package

- AI Inference Economics Foundation (canonical package namespace) — https://aieconomicsfoundation.com/
- Buyer walkthrough — https://aieconomicsfoundation.com/storyboard.html
- Capability architecture — https://aieconomicsfoundation.com/#architecture

## Peer capability namespaces (structurally equal peers)

- AI Usage Metering — https://aiusagemetering.com/
- Model Cost Allocation — https://modelcostallocation.com/
- Inference Revenue — https://inferencerevenue.com/

These capability namespace links identify LJP-controlled namespace positions within the AI Inference Economics Foundation; their reference pages may be published or updated independently as the capability set is completed. Peer capability reference pages may be published or updated independently. Publication status does not imply that any capability namespace is an API, agent, service, platform, or standard.

## Boundary

- Usage-Based AI Pricing is a conceptual reference, not a pricing engine, rate calculator, billing engine, metering platform, API, agent, software platform, standard, or accounting authority. It structures price in relation to usage as a concept; the pricing decisions, implementation, and financial policy remain the buyer's.
- It does not claim that any pricing model is economically optimal, and it does not represent current accounting treatment under ASC 606, IFRS 15, or any other standard. LJP provides no live measurement, pricing calculation, invoicing, accounting, settlement, or revenue-recognition service.

## Machine-readable

- Ontology: https://usagebasedaipricing.com/ontology.jsonld
- Namespace manifest: https://usagebasedaipricing.com/namespace.json
- Sitemap: https://usagebasedaipricing.com/sitemap.xml

## Publisher

- Publisher: LJP Asset Group LLC — https://ljpassetgroup.com/
- Evaluation: support@ljpassetgroup.com