Autumn - Stripe made easy for AI startups
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.
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Autumn
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/
Sprinto
@ay_ush congrats Ayush, love this !
Autumn
@cheerst thanks Tuneer! Means a lot
Visla
Autumn
@mogabr glad to hear that! Right now just support stripe but hoping to offer more providers soon to give people optionality
@ay_ush this looks incredibly useful for anyone who’s wrestled with Stripe’s complexity. Love how you’ve made pricing changes painless, that’s a real pain point. Curious, have you seen more adoption from early-stage startups or established AI companies so far?
SnowSEO
Autumn
@sanjaydotpro Thank you Sanjay!! So happy to have you on board <3
Whispering
Been a huge fan ever since I saw their `better-auth` integration. The Autumn founders personally onboarded me and helped me set up billing. I had never touched Stripe before, and had no idea how to start, but everything was done in ~45 minutes. Absolutely unbelievable! Their npm package also is dope, great ergonomics
Autumn
@braden_w i'm never going to forget seeing you code that day. blew my mind. so bullish on you <3
Klu - Search bar for all Gmail Accounts
Have been using the product and it's been very smooth. The team is super responsive to support us, and I totally recommend it. Go big Autumn!
Autumn
@wzulfikar It's been so awesome to have you on board since day 1 Wildan. Appreciate all the feedback you gave us :)
Asteroid
Going to switch from Stripe to this, setting up Stripe was so painful...sending to our founding eng. right now!
Autumn
@pie3 PERSONAL onboarding awaits you in London 🤝 hyped!
@ay_ush Hey! Congrats on going live, upvoted, we launched today as well and your feedback would help.
Love the product.
Autumn
@marlon_van_wyhe thanks Marlon! Will check it out.
@ay_ush Number 1....Lets go bro! Its such a pity that we can't get stripe here, so i have to settle for paypal.
Senja
I'm currently setting up autumn for Ferndesk and it's been an absolute joy to use.
Congrats to Ayush and the team!
Autumn
@wilsonsquared it’s been a pleasure working with you Wilson and really appreciate all your feedback!!
Autumn is great
Autumn
@cichykrzysztof and you are even greater <3
Byterover
Congratulations on the launch, team! This solution is truly ideal for AI startups.
Autumn
@ha_my_tran really glad you like it!
fReddit - Explore your interests
Congrats on the launch ⚡
Autumn
@souptikdn Thanks so much Souptik!!!
StakeWeb
Autumn
@eliasstravik with the support you give us we've already won!! Thanks Elias :D
mcp-use
It's great to support a fellow YC founder also launching today! ❤️
Congrats on the launch! @ay_ush @johnyeocx 🚀
Autumn
@johnyeocx @pederzh You guys are awesome, thanks Luigi ❤️
This is a huge pain for not just AI companies but every software company that wants to experiment with their monetization model. Glad to see people build solutions to make this easier 💪
Autumn
@jurn means a lot coming from the GOAT of pricing himself. Thank you Jurn!!!
LocalOps
The moment you start using autumn, You won't go back. The DX is addictive.
Without autumn it would would take minimum a week to setup your stripe. With meterd pricing, credit tracking, it might take longer to get it to perfection. But with autumn, once you know it, you can finish setting it up within 30mins-1hour. Everything comes out of the box. There is no backend for you to manage.
Autumn is open source and works on top of your stripe account, so there is no lock in either.
Also, the team is highly skilled and approachable.
Just use autumn.
Autumn
@sibiraj grateful for all the feedback and support you’ve given us 🙌🏾 excited to keep making autumn better for you guys!!
Opine - AI Native Social Media
Been using Autumn for the last 3 months and love it! Definitely worth check it out. Amazing founders as well :)
Autumn
@diogo_valdivieso glad to have you on board man!!!
Waffle
We've been using Autumn since we started doing billing on our project. Seamless experience and great customer service!
Autumn
@manuj1 it’s been a pleasure working with you guys pushing our product to the limits 🫶
This looks like a real time-saver for startup
Autumn
@adarshreddy hopefully! Give it a try when you next play with pricing :)
@ay_ush Sure
ittybit
Awesome idea and this looks like a really nice implementation. Having built all this ourselves, I 100% agree on how much friction the hard way adds to pricing experiments. Congrats on the launch!
Autumn
@paulantwilliams thank you Paul! If you’re ever feeling the pain it’s about 36 hours to migrate to us and we’re always happy to welcome you :)
Asteroid
We just spent a couple of weeks setting up stripe subscriptions. I didn't realise I needed a PhD in Faff Management and Webhooks to get it done.. looking forward to this getting more traction! super needed
Autumn
@joe_hewett thank Joe! Super happy you like the look of it. Stripe is the one part of the SaaS stack that has remained pretty low-level for over a decade, and this is a higher level of abstraction which should make things easier :)
@german_merlo1 that's the goal! stripe is def still the gold standard for APIs but with all the new pricing models coming out these days along with the need for an easy way to iterate on pricing, turns out there's a lot to be built on top of Stripe so we hope we can make that whole bit dead simple for builders :)
Autumn
@german_merlo1 launching faster for sure! We also have bigger startups that switch over from existing setups because autumn is easier to maintain as you grow too