Overview

Free Tier

Bayou provides a free tier to help you evaluate the product and get started:

You can create and onboard as many customers as you need, and unlock data for up to 10 meters across those customers completely free of charge.
When you attempt to unlock data for your 11th meter, you'll get a message saying that you've hit the free tier limit. At this point, please reach out to [email protected] and we'll quickly get you set up for billing and remove the free tier restriction.
Once you unlock data for your 11th meter, usage-based billing begins for all data, including the data from your first 10 meters.

Usage Based Pricing

The pricing for Bayou’s Data product is $2 per meter per billing period, and is based only on what you unlock.

Examples are given below to further explain the product pricing:

Utility bill scenario	Electric meters	Gas meters	Total meters on bill	Total cost (assuming you unlock all)
Scenario 1	1	0	1	$2
Scenario 2	0	1	1	$2
Scenario 3	1	1	2	$4
Scenario 4	3	2	5	$10

Companies can control what meters they have access to data from on every bill, called unlocked data.

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If your company has multiple Bayou accounts (e.g. one for testing, one for production) and the same utility customer account is used across them, you will only be billed once for each meter data unlock that applies to that customer account, regardless of which Bayou account it was unlocked within.

Utility bill scenario	Electric meters	Unlocked electric meters	Gas meters	Unlocked gas meters	Total meters on bill	Total Bayou bills	Total cost
Scenario 1	1	1	0	0	1	1	$2
Scenario 2	0	0	1	0	1	0	$0
Scenario 3	1	1	1	0	2	1	$2
Scenario 4	3	2	2	1	5	3	$6

How Bayou invoices companies for product usage

Bayou typically sends invoices within the first seven calendar days of each calendar month for the previous month's usage. As an example, companies will receive an invoice from Bayou for their July usage on ~ August 7th. Each invoice will contain a detailed breakdown of all usage from the invoicing period.