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usage-based fee

[ˈjuːsɪdʒ beɪst fiː]
nounpl: usage-based fees
taxa baseada no uso
1. A charge or payment calculated according to the actual amount or extent of a service or resource consumed by a user
The company switched to a usage-based fee model to ensure customers only pay for what they use.
A empresa mudou para um modelo de taxa baseada no uso para garantir que os clientes paguem apenas pelo que usam.
2. A billing structure where costs are directly proportional to consumption metrics such as data transfer, storage, or processing time
With the cloud service's usage-based fee, you only pay for the computing power you actually utilize.
Com a taxa baseada no uso do serviço em nuvem, você paga apenas pelo poder de computação que realmente utiliza.
Synonyms
pay-as-you-go feeconsumption-based feemetered feevariable feeusage-based pricing
Antonyms
flat feefixed feesubscription feeflat-rate fee

Regional Variations

General Brazilian
taxa baseada no uso
Most common usage in Brazil; also used in business and telecommunications
São Paulo
cobrança por uso
Alternative phrasing common in business contexts
Rio de Janeiro
taxa de consumo
Informal variant used in telecommunications sector
Portugal
taxa baseada na utilização
Portuguese European preference; more formal variant of 'baseada no uso'

Related Idioms & Phrases

pay only for what you use
metered billing
consumption-based pricing model
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