Autumn

Billing infrastructure for AI

Summer 2025

Active

Billing infrastructure for AI

Autumn is open-source infrastructure over Stripe that allows AI startups to build their pricing plans quickly, and flexibly. We act as your app's DB and manage who's paying for what, track usage and manage customer feature access. YC companies use us because we make it easy to handle common pricing models like usage-based, credits, subscriptions, rollovers and more in 3 functions and no webhooks. As you scale, you get reliable billing, that you can change however you want without wrangling code (we handle versioning, migrations etc), and manage custom pricing too. Everything you could down the line (credits, multiple subscription groups, rollovers, referral program, usage analytics, centralized team billing etc), you can drop in at any point.

Active Founders

Ayush Rodrigues

Founder

Building Stripe infra for AI startups. Previously a PM at a London-based payment company called Checkout.com.

Ayush Rodrigues

Founder

Building Stripe infra for AI startups. Previously a PM at a London-based payment company called Checkout.com.

John Yeo

Founder

I've been building software for 6 years now, and before Recase, built a low-code platform to help devs speed up backend development. Studied computer engineering at Imperial College London.

John Yeo

Founder

I've been building software for 6 years now, and before Recase, built a low-code platform to help devs speed up backend development. Studied computer engineering at Imperial College London.

Company Launches

Autumn: Stripe for AI Startups

See original launch post

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.

https://youtu.be/0IBujDkuieE

It’s open source, used in prod by 100s of developers, and by YC startups that are processing millions.

“The only thing I regret is not moving onto Autumn sooner” (one YC founder we work with)

About us

We were in the 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 S25.

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 do really ❤️ Stripe)

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YC Summer 2025 Application Video