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title: Pricing Plans Overview
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## Understanding Pricing Plans

In Amberflo, **Pricing Plans** are collections of rate templates that define how customers are billed. These plans determine how usage is measured, priced, and rolled up into a final invoice.

**Available Rate Templates**

Amberflo provides out-of-the-box support for several common pricing models:

- **Usage-Based: **Customers are charged based on actual usage during the billing period.
- **Seat-Based: **Customers are billed for the number of active entities (such as users, files, or devices) at the end of the billing cycle.
- **Flat Rate: **Customers pay a fixed amount per billing period. Flat rate plans can also include overage charges if usage exceeds predefined limits.
- **Service Fees: **A percentage-based charge is applied to the total invoice (for example, as a support or platform fee).



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## Default Pricing Plan

Amberflo always maintains a **default pricing plan**:

- If there is only one pricing plan, it is automatically set as the default.
- If multiple plans exist, you can configure which one is the default.

When a new customer is created and no pricing plan is explicitly assigned, the default plan will be applied automatically when their first usage event is ingested.



## Assigning Pricing Plans to Customers

Pricing plans can be assigned to customers in two ways:

- **Via the Amberflo Console: **Use the Customer page to manually assign a pricing plan.
- **Via API: **Programmatically assign plans using the Amberflo API or SDKs.

Once a pricing plan is assigned, the customer’s usage will be rated according to the plan’s rules. Invoices are then generated at the defined billing frequency using those rates.



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