Fair pricing for all

Our pricing is structured in packages that are tailored to specific company stages: early, scaling, or more on the enterprise side. 

We don’t take a cut on revenue, as we don’t think it’s a pricing strategy that can be worthwhile in the long term. We’re willing to grow with our customers sustainably (if they are successful, we are successful too) so we have included a usage-based dimension (e.g., number of events ingested) in our packages.
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Contact us at hello@getlago.com to discuss what features and usage volumes work best for your company.

Our packages are really straightforward, to give you the peace of mind you need when choosing your billing. The only options you might have to choose are about hosting (cloud or self-hosted/on-premise) and optional integrations.

At the risk of repeating ourselves, we don’t take a cut on revenue. Please contact our team at hello@getlago.com to get more info.

Stripe has 21 products so how much you’re paying to them depends on the products you are using.

We wrote this article that illustrates their pricing structure. This Stripe fee calculator can also help you estimate the total cost of Stripe.

No. Our premium features are available via our cloud-based product and our self-hosted premium solution.

Our open-source product is free forever. You can download it here. 

Regarding our premium products, we don’t usually offer free trials, but in specific cases our Solution Engineering team can organise Proofs of Concepts. Contact us to learn more.

A lot of companies continue building billing in-house, even if it means building systems that engineers hate to build, let alone maintain. Lago has been conceived to address complex billing use cases, with  a unique open-source approach, solving for:
 
- Transparency: you can inspect our code, have an overview on our pull requests, Github issues, what our users say and how they use Lago.
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- Control: you can opt for the convenience of Lago Cloud (our hosted solution) or choose the total control that our on-premise deployment offers: keep your data within your own system, and keep a direct access to all your usage, billing and payment data  in your own infrastructure, with the highest level of granularity. 
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- Extensibility and connectivity: because engineers understand our code and infrastructure better Lago is the only open source metering and usage-based billing solution. A lot of closed source (aka ‘SaaS’) solutions exist (e.g., Stripe Billing, Zuora) but they require you to send your data to third-parties, to blindly trust a Chargebee ‘black box’ with your most critical internal system (billing / revenue) and they take a cut on your revenue.

We have put together these product comparisons if you want to go further.

Lago is the only open source software that gives you:
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1. Real-time event-based usage metering;

2. Subscription billing;

3. Hybrid plans, mixing subscription and consumption (e.g., a usage-based billing plan that requires a recurring minimum spend per month);

4. A fully fledge API to automate ‘self-serve/product-led’ plans, and an intuitive no-code user interface to configure ‘custom/enterprise’ plans;

5. Additional features including: instant charges, modular couponing, spending minimums, grace periods, etc.

Billing is indeed much harder and costly for engineers than it might initially seem.

When getting started, it seems pretty straightforward – you decide on a price, and customers pay you. But as your business grows, things get trickier. It's like managing a puzzle where the pieces keep changing. You have to deal with dates, handle plan upgrades, track usage, avoid charging twice, remind customers to pay, and navigate the tax maze (we have written some posts on this topic here and here).

Lago is an open source metering and billing API tailored for usage-based pricing. Our API and architecture are open, so you can embed, fork and customize them as much as your pricing and internal processes require. 

If you are interested, you can get started here or book a demo.