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The Customer Billing primitive lets a Naive operator monetize their SaaS customers. You define plans (each mapped to an Account Kit + per-primitive usage quotas), give each tenant user a subscription, and Naive meters their primitive usage and enforces quotas automatically.
This is distinct from Billing & Credits, which is your own Naive subscription. Customer Billing is the platform side of “charge your users”: your app still owns the Stripe charge — Naive owns plan → permissions → quota → usage.

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Define plans (control plane)

A plan maps a key to an Account Kit (what the tenant may do) plus quotas (how much, per period). 
import { Naive } from "@usenaive-sdk/node";
const naive = new Naive({ apiKey: process.env.NAIVE_API_KEY! });

await naive.plans.upsert({
  key: "pro",
  name: "Pro",
  accountKitId: proKit.id,        // assigned to the tenant on subscribe
  stripePriceId: "price_123",     // optional — your Stripe price
  quotas: { seo: 1000, aeo: 250, email: 500 }, // calls per period
  period: "month",
});

const { plans } = await naive.plans.list();

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Subscribe a tenant

Typically driven by your Stripe webhook. assignKit (default true) also applies the plan’s Account Kit to the tenant in the same call. 
await naive.forUser(tenant.id).billing.setSubscription({
  planKey: "pro",
  status: "active",
  stripeCustomerId: "cus_123",
  stripeSubscriptionId: "sub_123",
  currentPeriodEnd: "2026-07-01T00:00:00Z",
  assignKit: true,
});

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Usage + quotas

const usage = await naive.forUser(tenant.id).billing.usage();
// { plan: "pro", status: "active", period: "month",
//   quotas: { seo: 1000, aeo: 250 }, usage: { seo: 42, aeo: 3 } }
Metered primitives (currently seo, aeo and email) record one usage event per successful call. When a tenant exceeds the plan’s quota for a primitive, the call returns 429 rate_limited: 
{ "error": { "code": "rate_limited", "message": "Plan quota exceeded for 'seo' (1000/1000 this period)", "used": 1000, "limit": 1000 } }
Tenants without a subscription are not quota-limited — seed a free-plan subscription on signup if you want every customer metered.

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REST

# Plans (company)
curl -X POST https://api.usenaive.ai/v1/plans \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nv_sk_live_..." -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"key":"pro","name":"Pro","accountKitId":"<kit>","quotas":{"seo":1000}}'

# Subscription + usage (per tenant)
curl -X PUT https://api.usenaive.ai/v1/users/<user-id>/billing/subscription \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nv_sk_live_..." -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"planKey":"pro"}'
curl https://api.usenaive.ai/v1/users/<user-id>/billing/usage \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nv_sk_live_..."
See the Customer Billing API reference and the billing sub-client.

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Billing

Free — metering and quota enforcement carry no extra credit cost.