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Lago

Open-source metering and billing API.

About Lago

Lago is an open-source metering and billing API designed for usage-based and subscription models, offering flexibility for complex pricing strategies.

Key Features

Metering
Invoicing
Pricing Models

Perfect For

SaaS billing
Usage-based pricing
Complex subscriptions
Metered billing

Getting Started

  1. 1

    Sign up at lago.com

  2. 2

    Define pricing model

  3. 3

    Integrate API

  4. 4

    Track usage events

What Makes Lago Different?

Open-source billing

Usage-based & hybrid pricing

Self-hostable

Modern API design

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Best Stripe alternative
  • Modern API
  • Transparent pricing

Cons

  • Smaller ecosystem
  • Fewer integrations
  • Newer platform

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PricingOpen Source
CategoryPayments
Primary TaskUsage-based Billing
Founded2022

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