Tier

A single tool to configure, orchestrate and manage your entire billing stack

Available providers

Why use Tier on Plural?

Plural helps you deploy and manage the lifecycle of open-source applications on Kubernetes. Our platform combines the scalability and observability benefits of managed SaaS with the data security, governance, and compliance benefits of self-hosting Tier.

If you need more than just Tier, look for other cloud-native and open-source tools in our marketplace of curated applications to leapfrog complex deployments and get started quickly.

Tier’s website GitHub License Installing Tier docs

Deploying Tier is a matter of executing these 3 commands:

AWS

Azure

GCP

plural bundle install tier tier-aws

plural build

plural deploy --commit "deploying tier"

Read the install documentation

Tier’s readme

Pricing as Code

tier is a tool that lets you define and manage your SaaS application's pricing model in one place (pricing.json).

Tier will handle setting up and managing Stripe in a way that is much more friendly for SaaS and consumption based billing models. Tier's SDK can then be implemented for access checking, metering/reporting, and more.

Docs and Community

Documentation is available here
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Key Features and Capabilities

Manage your features, plans and their pricing in one place
On demand test environments and preview deployments allow you to work with confidence
Create custom plans and variants as needed for specific customers or tests
Stripe is kept in sync and fully managed by Tier
Access Checking and Entitlements are handled by the Tier SDKs

How to use Tier

Install Tier CLI
Create your first pricing.json and tier push to your dev or live environment
Get a Tier SDK and add it to enable Access Checks and Metering

You can see and example here: Tier Hello World!

Install

Homebrew (macOS)

brew install tierrun/tap/tier

Binary (macOS, linux, Windows)

Binaries for major architectures can be found at here.

Go (most operating systems and architectures)

If go1.19 or later is installed, running or installing tier like:

go run tier.run/cmd/tier@latest

go install tier.run/cmd/tier@latest

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What makes Plural different?

Plural is open-source and self-hosted. You retain full control over your deployments in your cloud. We perform automated testing and upgrades and provide out-of-the-box Day 2 operational workflows. Monitor, manage, and scale your configuration with ease to meet changing demands of your business. Read more.

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