Meteroid Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Meteroid hosting and run usage-based billing on your own server. xCloud runs the pinned Meteroid 1.0.0-rc7 release candidate with private PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and Redpanda services, a metering service and a scheduler, generates the secrets and database passwords, mounts persistent volumes and publishes the web app, the API and the REST API over HTTPS on three domains of your choice.

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What is Meteroid?

Meteroid is an open-source billing platform for SaaS companies moving to usage-based or hybrid pricing. Upstream describes it as closing the gap between what customers use and what they are billed: it collects usage events through an API, applies your pricing plans and generates the invoices.

It covers usage metering, pricing plans, subscriptions, customer management, quotes, invoicing and credit notes. This template deploys release 1.0.0-rc7, a release candidate, as the full stack: the web app, the API, a scheduler and a metering service.

From Sign-Up to a Live Billing Platform In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Meteroid stack normally means a web app, an API, a scheduler, a metering service, three data stores, generated secrets, volumes, domains and certificates before the first customer. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Meteroid from the OneClick catalog. Choose domains for the web app, the API and the REST API — there are no extra fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the pinned Meteroid release with private PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and Redpanda services kept off the public internet, mount four persistent volumes for the database, the analytics data, the event queue and the invoice store, generate the secrets and passwords, and publish three HTTPS domains. Allow two to three minutes for first-boot migrations.
Step 03
Register And Create Your First Plan
Open your HTTPS Meteroid URL and register right away — there is no pre-created admin, and the first person to register becomes the owner. Create your organization, then your first customer and pricing plan.

Everything Meteroid Does, On Your Own Server

Meteroid runs in full here: the web app, API, scheduler and metering service, with the data stores behind them kept private.

Usage Metering
Turn raw usage events such as API requests, tokens or storage into billable metrics, backed here by ClickHouse and a Redpanda event queue.
Pricing Plans
Model flat-rate, usage-based, tiered or hybrid pricing in versioned plans, so a pricing change does not touch existing customers unless you want it to.
Subscriptions And Customers
Create and update subscriptions through upgrades, downgrades and cancellations, and keep customers, subscriptions and usage in one place.
Invoices And Credit Notes
Generate invoices and issue credit notes, with the PDFs generated and served from your own server.
Trials, Coupons And Add-Ons
Offer trial periods and coupons, and attach add-ons to subscriptions without switching a customer's plan.
A REST API And Webhooks
A separate REST API domain serves API keys, invoice downloads and payment-provider webhooks, with API documentation at /scalar.

Everything You Need To Run Your Billing 24/7

Managed hosting for Meteroid, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Meteroid 1.0.0-rc7 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Secrets and passwords generated for you
Data stores kept off the public internet
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Meteroid

Charge by usage instead of by seat
Meter API requests, tokens, transactions or storage and bill customers for what they actually consume.
Run subscription and hybrid pricing in one system
Combine flat-rate, tiered and usage-based charges in versioned pricing plans, with trials, coupons and add-ons.
Issue invoices from your own server
Create customers and invoices, issue credit notes, and keep the generated invoice PDFs on a server you control.
Give a billing engine to your own product
Send usage from your application through the REST API with an API key, and receive payment-provider webhooks on your own domain.

Meteroid Screenshots

Meteroid vs Alternatives

Lago: Another open-source usage-based billing platform that xCloud also deploys in one click; it is a separate project with its own stack.
Stripe Billing: A hosted billing product from a payment provider. Meteroid is open source, licensed AGPL-3.0, and runs on your own server.
Orb: A hosted usage-based billing service. Meteroid is open source and, as deployed here, keeps its data in volumes on your own server.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Meteroid hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom for a larger metering and analytics workload.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Meteroid itself is licensed by its maintainers under AGPL-3.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Billing Platform?

Meteroid on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

How do I sign in the first time?

There is no pre-created admin. Register on the web app right after install: the first account becomes the owner, and sign-up then closes to everyone else. Until you register, anyone who can reach the site can claim it.

Can I limit who registers?

Yes. Before you register, set DOMAINS_WHITELIST in the Environment editor to a comma-separated list of email domains and redeploy.

What runs alongside Meteroid?

PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redpanda, a metering service, a scheduler and a small topic helper. None of them has a public port.

Why does Meteroid need three domains?

The dashboard calls the API directly from your browser, and the REST API serves API keys, invoice downloads and payment-provider webhooks. The web app, the API and the REST API each get their own HTTPS domain.

Why does the site show an error right after install?

The first start runs database migrations, prepares the analytics store and downloads exchange rates from the internet, which takes about two to three minutes. The server needs outbound internet access for that.

Is Meteroid production-ready?

This template deploys 1.0.0-rc7, which upstream publishes as a release candidate. Read the upstream release notes before relying on it for live billing.

Is the API open to other websites?

The API domain accepts cross-origin requests from any website, which is upstream behaviour, but every call needs a signed-in token or an API key.

Does Meteroid send email out of the box?

No. Email stays off until you set MAILER_SMTP_HOST. Setting it also turns on email confirmation for new accounts, so test your SMTP settings first.

What should I back up?

The four volumes — meteroid_pg_data, meteroid_clickhouse_data, meteroid_redpanda_data and meteroid_object_store — plus the stable JWT_SECRET and SECRETS_CRYPT_KEY values in the environment file. Changing JWT_SECRET signs users out, and changing SECRETS_CRYPT_KEY makes stored payment-provider credentials unreadable.

Backups in xCloud

What do the "Error publishing event SendError" log lines mean?

They appear occasionally when you create organizations, customers or plans. They are harmless and the app works normally.

What survives a restart?

Your organization, customers, plans and invoice PDFs survived an xCloud Restart in QA, because they live on persistent named volumes.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Meteroid?

No. The template pins Meteroid 1.0.0-rc7 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release and existing sites are not automatically upgraded. To upgrade, read the upstream release notes, then bump the image tag and digest together. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 2 CPU cores, 2048 MB of RAM and 10 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 1.1 GB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Meteroid?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Meteroid project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Meteroid project.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.