Create a Meter Event Stream Authentication Session

Creates a meter event session to send usage on the high-throughput meter event stream. Authentication tokens are only valid for 15 minutes, so you need to create a new meter event session when your token expires.

Returns

Response attributes

• id (string) The unique ID of this auth session.

• object (string, value is "v2.billing.meter_event_session") String representing the object’s type. Objects of the same type share the same value of the object field.

• authentication_token (string) The authentication token for this session. Use this token when calling the high-throughput meter event API.

• created (timestamp) The creation time of this session.

• expires_at (timestamp) The time at which this session expires.

• livemode (boolean) Has the value true if the object exists in live mode or the value false if the object exists in test mode.

curl -X POST https://api.stripe.com/v2/billing/meter_event_session \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <<YOUR_SECRET_KEY>>" \
  -H "Stripe-Version: 2026-04-22.dahlia"

Response

{
  "id": "<AUTH_SESSION_ID>",
  "livemode": false,
  "object": "v2.billing.meter_event_session",
  "authentication_token": "token_12345678",
  "created": "2024-06-01T12:00:00.000Z",
  "expires_at": "2024-06-01T12:15:00.000Z"
}