Competitors
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Summary
Ask questionsLago is an open-source metering and usage-based billing platform designed for software companies with complex pricing models. It provides tools for real-time usage tracking, flexible pricing plans, automated invoice generation, and subscription management. The platform offers a robust API for integration and a user interface for managing billing operations.
Features10/46
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Must Have
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Developer API Integration
Billing & Subscription Management
Dashboard & Reporting
Recurring Billing
Developer APIs & SDKs
Subscription & Recurring Billing
Payment Processing
Fraud Detection
Credit Card Processing
Online Payments
Developer Tools
Fraud Prevention
Global Payments
Credit Card Acceptance
Other
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Invoicing
Reporting & Analytics
Reporting & Analytics Dashboard
Invoice Creation & Sending
Stripe Connect
Stripe Issuing
Stripe Terminal
Stripe Treasury
Stripe Atlas
Stripe Capital
Stripe Sigma
Stripe Tax
Stripe Invoicing
Multi-Currency Support
Global Payment Methods
Webhook Event System
Customer Portal
Payment Intents
Marketplace Payments
In-Person Payments
Connect Platform
Issuing
Treasury Services
Identity Verification
Mobile App Management
Webhooks & Event Notifications
Multi-Currency Support
Dispute Management
Payout Management
PCI Compliance
Test Mode & Sandbox
Customizable Checkout
PricingFreemium
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Open Source
$0.00 one time
- Usage metering
- Price plans
- Coupons
- Add-ons
- Invoicing
- Prepaid credits
- Billing integrations
- 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
- Custom SQL metrics
- Made for small projects
- No premium features
- Community Slack support only
- No advanced security features (SSO, roles, audit logs)
- No advanced integrations (CRM, CPQ, Marketplaces)
- No advanced analytics (Revenue analytics, MRR dashboard)
Premium
Custom
- All Core billing features
- Instant charges
- Customer portal
- Spending minimums
- Email invoices
- Grace periods
- Timezones
- Credit notes and refunds
- Credit notes
- Billing in customers' timezones
- Invoice grace periods
- Instant charges
- Invoices sent by email
- Customer portal
- Price caps / minimums
- Override prices for negotiated contracts
- Commitments
- Real-time prepaid credit balance
- Revenue analytics
- Edit draft invoices
- Multiple billing entities
- Dunning and payment retries
- Alerts and budget
- Entitlements
- Progressive billing
- Usage ingestion sources (HTTP, Custom)
- Integrations (Stripe Payments, GoCardless, Adyen, Anrok, Avalara, Salesforce CRM & CPQ, HubSpot, NetSuite, Xero, Marketplaces & Hyperscalers)
- Security (Google SSO, Okta SSO, Multiple roles and permissions, API key management, Audit logs)
- Support (Slack private channel, Priority support, Dedicated Solutions Engineer, Custom SLA, Training sessions)
Rationale
Lago is an open-source metering and usage-based billing API, positioning itself as an alternative to Stripe Billing. It explicitly offers features like usage metering, price plans, coupons, add-ons, invoicing, and prepaid credits, which directly align with billing and subscription management. The platform also provides extensive API references and documentation for developers, and features a dashboard for reporting and analytics. While it integrates with payment gateways like Stripe, its core offering is focused on the billing and metering aspect rather than direct payment processing.
