Glossary
Short definitions for the runtime monetization terms used across Valqio docs.
Product action
The work your app wants to run, such as an API call, report export, render, generation, invite, or storage write.
Data plane
The hosted runtime service your backend calls to evaluate, enforce, reserve, commit, release, and record evidence.
Control plane
The Console and API surface where your team configures projects, environments, plans, product actions, customers, API keys, and publish state.
Runtime decision
The allow or deny answer Valqio returns before the product action runs.
Evidence
The recorded context behind a decision: subject, action, quantity, inputs, outcome, reason, and IDs needed for support or finance investigation.
Meter
A named usage definition. Its kind determines whether Valqio adds discrete units with a counter, tracks distinct or active identities with an identity set, or records an absolute value with a gauge. Its unit describes what the value means, such as requests, tokens, seats, renders, or GB.
Usage summary
A read-only view of current usage, configured limits, remaining allowance, plan context, and snapshot freshness for a subject.
Event
A named product occurrence captured for evidence or downstream analysis. Capturing an event does not by itself make a pre-action allow or deny decision.
Credit
A unit of prepaid or granted balance that can be spent by product actions.
Quota
A usage cap, usually tied to a plan, customer, environment, or time window.
Reservation
A temporary hold placed before work starts and resolved later with commit or release.
Commit
The successful settlement of reserved value after product work finishes.
Release
The return of reserved value when product work fails, is cancelled, or should not be charged.
Concurrent lease
A temporary slot acquired before bounded concurrent work starts and released when that work finishes. A lease TTL is the safety net for abandoned work.
Generated client
A TypeScript SDK helper generated from Valqio schema or app-action metadata so product code can call domain-native methods instead of raw meter keys.