Vocabulary · Volume 1 and Volume 2

Metered cost

Cost calculated from counted consumption, such as requests, worker-hours, GB-months, or tokens, and a pricing rule. Metering describes the billing mechanism; it does not exclude a minimum payment or commitment.

The definition appears in the Volume 1 glossary and Volume 2 glossary. This page collects where the book uses the term and where the blog takes it up.