Immutable Double-Entry Financial Ledgers, Credit Wallets & Revenue Recognition
Track prepaid token/credit balances, multi-party marketplace payouts and revenue recognition with idempotent, immutable double-entry entries — no floating-point drift, no double-spend on retries.
At a glance — Oct 2026
Updated 2026-10-28 · forward this page: /jtbds/ledger-double-entry-accounting#briefPromotion class: deterministic_source_reverified · 7.9 ± 0.5 (7.4–8.4 · editorial_prior) · Pricing verified 2026-10-28.
- Depot Pick
- OpenMeter (Kong Konnect Metering) · 7.92/10 for this job (curated estimate, high confidence)
OpenMeter's grants/entitlements give an append-only, idempotent credit-wallet ledger for usage products; pair with Orb when the ledger also drives invoices. Orb is not promoted to pick because it has no deterministic pricing rows in the frozen catalog (it would be a stale editorial pick).
- Runner-up
- Orb · 8.08/10
Scores higher than the pick on: Capability fit, Latency / reliability, Privacy / data retention, Maturity / track record.
- When not to use the pick
- Pricing science, credit burn-down plans and invoicing from the ledger — Orb (co-pick); OSS self-hosted billing ledger — Lago; SQL-defined usage metrics with commits — Metronome; exactly-once durable posting workflows — Restate; you want to own a Postgres ledger schema yourself — Supabase. Dedicated ledger DBs (TigerBeetle, Modern Treasury Ledgers) are architectural guidance outside the frozen catalog.
- Lock-in / migration
- The pick has lower stored lock-in risk than runner-up Orb (5.5 vs 6.5).
- Sourced price (no comparable unit)
Pick: no sourced price in this job's unit (no_sourced_price).
No cheapest SKU (no_comparable_unit_for_job). No price was invented.
- Free option
- No free resource lists this job. A cheap paid SKU is not a free option.
- Failure modes to watch
- No failure mode plainly applies to this job (no_failure_mode_plainly_applies).
Cite: Agent Provider Depot, Depot Pick for ledger-double-entry-accounting: openmeter, scores as of 2026-10-28. Agents: GET /api/decide?jtbd=ledger-double-entry-accounting
OpenMeter (Kong Konnect Metering)
OpenMeter's grants/entitlements give an append-only, idempotent credit-wallet ledger for usage products; pair with Orb when the ledger also drives invoices. Orb is not promoted to pick because it has no deterministic pricing rows in the frozen catalog (it would be a stale editorial pick).
Pricing (directional): As of 2026-10-28: OpenMeter Cloud repositioned as Kong Konnect Metering & Billing — real-time AI/API usage meters, entitlements, rate cards, invoicing. Strong fit for token metering via Kong plugin (meter_ai_token_usage). Pricing via Kong/K…
Top pick (7.92) and #2 runner-up (8.08) are separated by 0.16 points (<= 0.35 weight-sensitivity band). Treat them as co-picks and use the workload tie-breaker rule below rather than the raw composite decimal.
Workload Tie-Breaker Rule: Pricing science, credit burn-down plans and invoicing from the ledger — Orb (co-pick); OSS self-hosted billing ledger — Lago; SQL-defined usage metrics with commits — Metronome; exactly-once durable posting workflows — Restate; you want to own a Postgres ledger schema yourself — Supabase. Dedicated ledger DBs (TigerBeetle, Modern Treasury Ledgers) are architectural guidance outside the frozen catalog.
Lock-in risk: higher = more lock-in (worse). Overall already inverts this dimension.
Best when your agent product is an API gateway problem (entitlements + token meters). Orb for pricing science; Lago for OSS; Stripe for simple SaaS.
Quote for Immutable Double-Entry Financial Ledgers, Credit Wallets & Revenue Recognition
Depot Pick stays OpenMeter (Kong Konnect Metering). Prices below are sourced SKU rows only (as of 2026-10-28). Input and output are not blended. GET /api/quote?jtbd=ledger-double-entry-accounting
Nothing was compared. no comparable sourced unit for this job; chat input $/1M and other units were not borrowed pickIsPriceWinner is null.
Sourced price unavailable for the Depot Pick. No row in the pricing index.
6 of 6 candidates have no sourced price row. 6 are excluded from the Matching price comparison (none). no comparable sourced unit for this job; chat input $/1M and other units were not borrowed
Runners-up
Orb
Pick Orb when pricing complexity is the product (credits, tiers, simulations). Stripe meters first; Lago if…
Lago
Depot OSS pick for AI usage metering when you refuse to marry Stripe's meter model. Still collect cash with…
Metronome
Strong usage-billing peer when Orb is too sales-opaque and you need SQL metrics + commits. OpenMeter/Kong for…
Restate
Strong Temporal alternative for durable AI agents, especially on Workers/Vercel. Remains medium until paid…
Supabase (pgvector)
Depot default for most agent apps under ~25–50M vectors. Don't add Pinecone until Postgres actually hurts.
When NOT to use the top pick
Pricing science, credit burn-down plans and invoicing from the ledger — Orb (co-pick); OSS self-hosted billing ledger — Lago; SQL-defined usage metrics with commits — Metronome; exactly-once durable posting workflows — Restate; you want to own a Postgres ledger schema yourself — Supabase. Dedicated ledger DBs (TigerBeetle, Modern Treasury Ledgers) are architectural guidance outside the frozen catalog.
Full ranking (score table)
Ranked with this JTBD's weights. Scores are curated estimates unless marked otherwise. Agents: prefer /api/decide then this table for tie-breaks.
| # | Provider | Overall | Fit | $/perf | Latency | DX | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Supabase (pgvector) | 8.6 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 8.6 | 9.4 | 2026-10-28 |
| 2 | Lago | 8.3 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 2026-10-28 |
| 3 | Restate | 8.2 | 8.6 | 7.8 | 8.8 | 8.4 | 2026-10-28 |
| 4 | Orb | 8.1 | 9.2 | 6.5 | 9.0 | 8.2 | 2026-10-28 |
| 5 | Metronome | 8.0 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 2026-10-28 |
| 6 | OpenMeter (Kong Konnect Metering)Depot Pick | 7.9 | 8.4 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 2026-10-28 |
Score methodology for this job
Scores idempotency, immutability, integer-minor-unit math and payout composability. Use integer minor units (never floats) and idempotency keys on every posting.
capabilityFit: 26%pricePerformance: 14%latencyReliability: 18%developerDx: 14%privacyPosture: 10%lockInRisk: 8%maturity: 10%