Allegro Options - Aria Systems
Allegro Options
Aria Allegro is a high-performance usage monetization platform designed to help organizations capture, process, control, and monetize any usage-based business model. Whether you’re billing for subscriptions, consumption, APIs, AI services, digital products, connected devices, or network services, Allegro provides a clear path to scale from foundational usage billing to sophisticated real-time monetization.
Allegro options are grouped into three tiers, allowing organizations to align capabilities with their current needs while providing a clear path for future growth:
Allegro Standard provides the essential foundation for usage monetization, including high-volume usage ingestion, mediation, aggregation, and rating for billing. It is included with Aria Billing and is ideal for organizations looking to efficiently process and monetize usage data at scale.
Allegro Premium adds advanced intelligence and monetization capabilities, including enhanced mediation, multi-dimensional rating, allowance management, outcome-based pricing, partner revenue models, revenue optimization, and AI-driven insights. It is designed for organizations seeking to differentiate products, accelerate innovation, and maximize revenue from complex usage models. Allegro Premium can be deployed as a standalone solution, without Aria Billing.
Allegro ACE (Adaptive Charging Engine) extends Allegro into real-time charging and session control. ACE enables pre-authorization, balance reservation, entitlement enforcement, dynamic policy control, and millisecond decisioning for high-volume digital interactions. It is purpose-built for telecommunications and any business that needs to control and monetize usage before and as it happens.
The comparison below highlights the capabilities available in each tier and helps identify the right option based on your monetization strategy, operational requirements, and growth ambitions.
| ##### Aria Allegro | ##### Standard | ##### Premium | ##### ACE |
| Scale & Performance | |||
| Operational Mode Usage Monetization Mode |
Offline | Offline | + Online |
| Eligibility Availability by deployment model |
Aria Billing Only | Aria Billing or Standalone | Aria Billing or Standalone |
| Commercial Meter Processes and monetizes usage at the scale your business demands. |
100M Records per Month | Per Million Records | + Per Million Interactions |
| Throughput Performance Delivers the performance required for high-volume revenue operations. |
500k Records per Hour | Built-In Scaling | TPS (Transactions Per Second) Scaling |
| Online Storage Retains usage history online for billing, audit, and business analysis, before offline storage. |
13 Months Options to extend |
36 Months Options to extend |
36 Months Options to extend |
| AI Enablement Makes monetization data available to AI agents, applications, and automation platforms. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Usage Processing & Mediation | |||
| Rich Transaction Generation Converts raw business events into billable transactions. |
✔ | ✔ Optional AI enrichment |
✔ With AI options |
| Suspended Usage Handling Identifies, isolates, and resolves problematic usage records without revenue loss. |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Data Export Shares monetization data with billing, finance, analytics, and operational systems. |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Configurable Accumulators Tracks balances, quotas, allowances, and consumption across customers and services. |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced Mediation Transforms and enriches complex usage data ready for monetization. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Multi-Level Storage Maintains detailed and summarized records for audit, reporting, and analytics. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Usage Conversions Converts usage and balances into alternative units, rewards, credits, or entitlements. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Rating and Charging | |||
| Single-Dimensional Rating Prices usage using a single business metric such as volume, duration, or quantity. |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Reprocessing & Remediation Corrects and re-rates usage when pricing, data, or business rules change. |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Contract-Based Pricing Supports negotiated customer pricing and commercial agreements. |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Tax & Financial Treatment Applies tax and financial policies before invoicing, charging, balance management and settlement. |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Balance Management Manages customer balances, credits, allowances, and entitlements. |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Multi-Dimensional Rating Prices usage using multiple factors such as volume, time, location, quality, or customer profile. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Dynamic Promotions Applies personalized offers, discounts, and incentives during usage processing. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Brand & Channel Rating Applies personalized offers, discounts, and incentives during usage processing. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Shared Allowances Manages pooled usage and entitlements across groups, teams, or households. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Outcome-Based Charging Monetizes business outcomes rather than consumption alone. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Evolution-Based Pricing Automatically adjusts pricing tiers and benefits based on customer behaviour. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| AI-Optimized Best Price Uses AI to identify and apply the most advantageous pricing option. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Loyalty Tracking & Conversion Converts customer activity into rewards, credits, and service benefits. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| AI Telemetry Processing Ingests AI telemetry data for post event charging. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Real-Time Usage Control | |||
| Real-Time Authorization (IEC) Approves or denies chargeable events before service is delivered. |
✔ | ||
| Unit Reservation (ECUR) Reserves customer funds, credits, or entitlements before usage occurs. |
✔ | ||
| Session Reservation and Charging (SCUR) Continuously authorizes, monitors, and charges active sessions in real time. |
✔ | ||
| Concurrent Session Management Supports millions of concurrent value-generating interactions. |
✔ | ||
| Real-Time Balance Control Keeps balances, quotas, and entitlements accurate at all times for real-time visibility. |
✔ | ||
| Spend Governance Prevents overspend and enforces commercial policies before costs are incurred. |
✔ | ||
| Threshold Enforcement Automatically applies actions when usage or spending limits are reached. |
✔ | ||
| Active Session Monitoring Tracks and manages live customer interactions as they occur. |
✔ | ||
| 3GPP OCS/CCS Compliance Delivers industry-standard online telecom charging. |
✔ | ||
| Partner Settlement | |||
| Partner Revenue Sharing Automatically distributes revenue across partners, suppliers, and affiliates. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Partner Reconciliation Simplifies partner invoicing and settlement through automated reconciliation. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Partner Markups Supports flexible partner pricing, margins, and commercial models. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Commission Models Automates commissions across sales, channel, and partner ecosystems. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Revenue Protection | |||
| Revenue Assurance & Audit Provides end-to-end auditability and protects against revenue leakage. |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Fraud & Anomaly Detection Detects suspicious activity and monetization anomalies before they impact revenue. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Ecosystem Integration | |||
| Ecosystem Access Exposes monetization capabilities and data through open APIs. |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Eventing & Updates Publishes monetization events and updates to connected business systems. |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Predictive Triggers Anticipates customer behavior and initiates proactive business actions. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Edge Deployment Option Deploy at the service edge to deliver ultra-low-latency authorization, charging, and policy decisions closer to where services are consumed. Ideal for distributed environments requiring low latency, operational resilience, or data sovereignty. |
✔ Additional fees may apply |
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| AI-Powered Operations | |||
| Customer AI Guidance Helps customers optimize usage, spending, and service value. |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Operational AI Guidance Assists operations teams in managing exceptions and monetization processes. |
✔ | ✔ |