Cloud Billing Market Report 2025

The cloud billing market size has grown rapidly in recent years. It will grow from $8.66 billion in 2024 to $9.79 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.1%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to increased demand for subscription-based services, scalability requirements of growing businesses, need for efficient and centralized billing systems, expansion of digital transformation initiatives, growing demand for cost optimization and efficiency in business operations.

The cloud billing market size is expected to see exponential growth in the next few years. It will grow to $20.59 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.4%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to growing adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, increasing focus on real-time billing and invoicing, emphasis on compliance and security in cloud billing, increasing demand for sustainable and eco-friendly cloud billing solutions, growing demand for cloud billing solutions in the retail, healthcare, and telecommunications sectors. Major trends in the forecast period include integration of artificial intelligence in billing processes, integration of blockchain for secure and transparent transactions, demand for personalized and customizable billing experiences, continuous evolution of pricing models, increasing collaboration between cloud service providers and billing solution providers.

The increasing demand for reduced capital and operating expenditures is anticipated to propel the growth of the cloud billing market in the upcoming years. With the emergence of cloud technology, billing has evolved from being a standalone back-office product to a crucial element of the entire quote-to-cash process. Cloud billing enables businesses to cut costs while also providing excellent customer service. For example, in January 2024, the India Brand Equity Foundation projected that the overall public cloud services market in India would reach USD 17.8 billion by 2027. Thus, the rising demand for lower capital and operating expenditures is driving the growth of the cloud billing market.

The growing subscription-based business models are significantly contributing to the growth of cloud billing market going forward. Subscription-based business model refers to selling a product or service to receive monthly or yearly recurring subscription revenue. Subscription-based business model requires efficient and fast billing methods which can be achieved by cloud billing. For instance, in October 2023, according to the data released by Veza Digital a Canada-based provider of software as a service (SaaS) subscription business models, the sales of subscription-based business models is projected to grow from $22. 7 billion in 2023 to $66 billion in 2027. Therefore, growing subscription-based business models fuels the growth of the cloud billing market.

Advancements in technology are shaping the cloud billing market. Major companies operating in the cloud billing sector are focused on developing technological solutions for cloud billing to accelerate business growth. For instance, in May 2023, FinOps Foundation a US-based provider of financial operations on cloud launched FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) a technological initiative to develop and maintain an open specification for how cloud usage, billing, and pricing information is shown. FOCUS will facilitate collaboration among key cloud providers, FinOps tool manufacturers, significant SaaS providers, and the most sophisticated FinOps organisations, many of whom struggle to manage heterogeneous terminology, pricing, and billing ideas across billing sources. It would also provide a single FinOps-serviceable format for cloud billing data, as opposed to the various FinOps tools and platforms currently in use, each with its own method of summarising, normalising, or reporting such data.

Major companies operating in the cloud billing market are focusing on developing usage-based billing. Usage-based billing refers to a business concept that allows clients to pay only for the services they use. Usage-based billing helps cloud billing providers to optimize their operations to better serve their customers. For instance, in September 2022, Cacheflow a US-based provider of billing and subscription management software, launched a cloud zero-code usage-based pricing and billing solution. The system streamlines cash flows and automates client billing, which makes it simpler for software firms to adopt usage-based pricing models without the administrative load that usage-based billing usually entails.

In October 2022, WELL Health Technologies Corp. a Canada-based provider of outpatient health clinics acquired Cloud Practice Inc. for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition adds Cloud Practice’s cloud medical billing assets to WELL Health’s portfolio of assets. Cloud Practice Inc is a Canada-based provider of cloud-based SAAS electronic medical records software applications.

Major companies operating in the cloud billing market include Aria System Inc., Amdocs Inc., Oracle Corporation, NEC Corporation, Jamcracker Inc., IBM Corporation, CGI Group Inc., SAP SE, Zuora Inc., BillingPlatform Corp., Recurly Inc., Cerillion plc, ConnectWise LLC, AppDirect Inc., Chargebee Inc., RecVue Inc., Chargify Inc., Salesforce. com Inc., Orbitera Inc., Amazon Web Services Inc., ChargeOver Inc., Fusebill Inc., Chargezoom LLC, Gotransverse Inc., SaaSOptics LLC, Cheddar Inc., PayStand Inc., Invoiced Inc., Zoho Corp., Paddle Ltd.

Cloud billing refers to a combination of cloud computing and electronic billing. Many firms are broadening their horizons by implementing an on-premises billing infrastructure. Cloud billing is transforming the computer system, allowing for greater billing flexibility and easier data access.

The main types of cloud billing are subscription billing, metered billing, cloud service billing, provisioning, and others. Subscription billing is a billing strategy that allows businesses to bill customers for a certain service or product on a set schedule. The different deployment types include private cloud, public cloud and are employed in large enterprises and SMEs. It is used in account management, revenue management, customer management, and others and is implemented in various verticals such as BFSI, telecommunications and ITES, consumer goods and retail, healthcare and life sciences, and others.

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North America was the largest region in the cloud billing market in 2024. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest region in the forecast period. The regions covered in the cloud billing market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa.

The countries covered in the cloud billing market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Italy, Canada, Spain.

The cloud billing market includes revenues earned by entities by providing services such as On-Premise infrastructure, public cloud, virtual private cloud (VPC), hybrid cloud, multi-cloud. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. Only goods and services traded between entities or sold to end consumers are included.

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD, unless otherwise specified).

The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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