Adyen Closes $335M Orb Acquisition (July 1), Building the Billing Rail for Usage- and Outcome-Based AI Pricing

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Adyen completed its $335M all-cash acquisition of enterprise billing platform Orb (announced June 11, closed July 1, 2026), explicitly to handle the metering complexity created by AI's shift to usage- and outcome-based pricing. Orb tracks real-time usage and translates complex pricing contracts across millions of events; Adyen is fusing that with payments so billing signals feed risk/identity models and vice versa. As per-resolution and consumption pricing proliferate, the infrastructure to meter and collect on it is itself consolidating — a picks-and-shovels tell for the pricing transition.