Lago launches with a $22M funding round & serves leading tech companies

Fair pricing for all

No revenue cut. No lock-in.

Open Source
Made for small projects

Free

Premium
Cloud or Self-Hosted

On demand

Core billing features
Subscription plans
Usage-based charges
Add-ons (one-time fees)
Coupons (% or fixed)
Prepaid usage with credits
Tax management
Billing webhooks
PDF invoices
Customer usage
Premium billing features
Revise invoices using credit notes for clean handling of refunds and errors after issuance.
Bill your customers according to their respective timezones. Align billing cycles and due dates to match your customers' local time.
Make adjustments to customers' usage, even after the billing cycle has ended. Fine-tune and modify usage details.
Charge an event instantly from the money flow, without waiting for the billing cycle to end.
Seamless integration of email communication with the billing engine, allowing businesses to effortlessly send professional invoices directly to their customers' inbox.
Embed a customer portal in your application. Showcase usage details and invoice information to your customers.
Establish minimum spending limits for charges. Define the minimum amount customers must meet for a usage-based component.
When assigning a plan to a customer, you can modify some attributes to create a custom plan for sales negotiated contracts.
Commitments
Real-time prepaid credit balance
Revenue analytics
Edit draft invoices
Multiple billing entities
Dunning and payment retries
Don't wait till the end of a period to bill your customers. Issue an invoice when the lifetime usage crosses defined thresholds.
Usage ingestion sources
HTTP usage ingestion source
Ingest usage from any sources, like AWS, Kafka, Logs, GCP and more.
Integrations
Stripe Payments
GoCardless
Adyen
Anrok
Salesforce CRM & CPQ
HubSpot (coming soon)
NetSuite
Xero
QuickBooks (coming soon)
AWS Marketplace
GCP Marketplace
Azure Marketplace
Security
Google SSO
Okta SSO
Multiple roles and permissions
Support
Slack (community answers)
Slack private channel (Lago answers)
Priority support (phone and email)
Dedicated Solution Engineer
Custom SLA
On demand
Training sessions

FAQs

Common questions about our pricing.

How is your pricing structured?

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.

Contact us at [email protected] to discuss what features and usage volumes work best for your company.

How do I know how much I will pay?

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 [email protected] to get more info.

I'm using Stripe, but I don't know how much our team is paying...

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.

If I want access to the premium features, is it necessarily through Lago Cloud?

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

Do you offer free trials?

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.

How is this different from the other billing tools?

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.

- 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. 

- 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:

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.

I have a home-grown billing infrastructure. How is Lago useful?

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.

Two hosting options, same benefits

Whether you choose the cloud version or decide to host the solution yourself, you will benefit from our powerful API and user-friendly interface.

Lago Premium

The optimal solution for teams with control and flexibility.

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Lago Open Source

The optimal solution for small projects.

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