The enterprise revenue platform built on Kill Bill
Aviate is the enterprise edition of Kill Bill: the same proven engine, with product and pricing, commercial workflows, usage, billing and revenue operations in one platform. Run the production runtime and keep billing data in infrastructure your team controls.
Why Aviate
Why customers choose Aviate
Comparing software fees as revenue grows
Annual billing cost
Kill Bill open source
share fee after break-even
Revenue you bill each year
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Control
Run the billing runtime and database in infrastructure your team controls.
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Commercial workflows
Manage products, prices, contracts, usage, billing and revenue operations on the Kill Bill foundation.
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Predictable software fees
Aviate uses a fixed-fee software model rather than a percentage of billed revenue.
- Kill Bill in production since 2010
- 16+ years
- invoiced across Kill Bill deployments
- Billions
- subscriptions managed on Kill Bill
- 100K+
Proven at scale
Built to handle billing at enterprise scale and complexity
Aviate extends the Kill Bill billing foundation with enterprise revenue workflows. Customers deploy and operate the production runtime in their own infrastructure.
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An established foundation
Kill Bill is an open-source billing engine with production use since 2010.
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Customer-controlled operations
Deploy the production billing runtime and database in your cloud or data center.
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A broader revenue platform
Connect commercial workflows from products and pricing through usage, billing and revenue operations.
Core features
Everything your team needs to run enterprise billing
Module functionality, availability and scope vary. Contact the team to confirm current details for your requirements.
Who it’s for
Built for every team that touches billing
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For finance leaders
Accurate invoices, a predictable cost, and the revenue data you need.
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For engineering leaders
Keep control of the same open-source engine, production deployment and data. Aviate is its separately licensed enterprise edition.
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Already on Kill Bill
Upgrade in place to the enterprise edition. Keep your deployment, data and plugins; gain the Aviate platform and support.
Billing models
Built for how you bill
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Subscription Billing
Plans, free trials, and failed-payment retries.
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Usage Billing
Metered usage billed from prepaid customer wallets.
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AI Token Billing
Per-token pricing and prepaid credit balances.
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Marketplace Billing
Global payments, routed to the right provider.
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Fintech Billing
Access roles and customer-controlled deployment for fintech workflows.
Security & compliance
Enterprise-grade security, by design
Built for organizations that take data sovereignty and regulatory compliance seriously. Deploy in your own infrastructure with full control over how your billing engine is run.
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Runs where you choose
Deploy in any cloud or your own data center. Your billing data never leaves your infrastructure.
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Payment data boundaries
Keep production billing data in your database and connect to payment providers through the payment integration you choose.
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Access control
Aviate access-control workflows include predefined and custom roles built from feature permissions. Confirm current functionality, availability and scope with the team.
How it works
Evaluate and plan your deployment
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Try the sandbox
Explore a sample catalog, create a test account and inspect an example invoice.
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Discuss your requirements
Talk through products, pricing, contracts, usage, billing and operational needs.
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Confirm scope and terms
Review the commercial license, module scope and applicable support agreement with the team.
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Deploy in your environment
Your team deploys and operates Kill Bill and the Aviate runtime in infrastructure it controls.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Yes. You can explore Aviate in the sandbox. To discuss your use case, book a demo with our team.
Aviate is offered for a fixed annual fee, not a percentage of revenue. The published offer includes the commercial software license and Premium support; support response terms are defined by the applicable agreement. See Pricing for details.
Aviate is the enterprise edition of Kill Bill. It includes the full Kill Bill engine, with the same architecture, APIs and plugins, and extends it into one revenue platform: product and pricing management, quotes and orders, contracts and approvals, usage metering and rating, billing operations, enterprise administration and revenue workflows, with Aviate catalog, wallet, tax, coupon and operational interfaces and Premium support. Kill Bill open source remains a complete, free billing engine for builders and teams that support themselves; Aviate is the recommended way for companies to run Kill Bill in production. Functionality, access and scope vary by module; talk to the team for details. Talk to the team about functionality, access, and scope.
Premium support is provided through a dedicated Slack channel with the engineers who build Aviate. First response within 1 business day for P1 critical production issues, subject to the applicable support agreement.
Ready to take control of your billing?
See Aviate in action with a live sandbox, or talk to our team about your specific billing needs.