Summary
Lago is an open-source and cloud-based billing and metering platform designed for businesses with complex, usage-based pricing models. It provides tools for subscription management, invoicing, coupon management, and real-time usage metering, with a strong emphasis on API-first integration for developers. Lago aims to simplify billing operations, allowing companies to focus on their core product development.
Features7/19
See allMust Have
3 of 5
Developer API Integration
Billing & Subscription Management
Dashboard & Reporting
Payment Processing
Fraud Detection
Other
4 of 14
Stripe Invoicing
Multi-Currency Support
Webhook Event System
Customer Portal
Stripe Connect
Stripe Issuing
Stripe Terminal
Stripe Treasury
Stripe Atlas
Stripe Capital
Stripe Sigma
Stripe Tax
Global Payment Methods
Identity Verification
PricingFreemium
See allOpen Source
- 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
Premium
- 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
- Real-time prepaid credit balance
- Revenue analytics
- Edit draft invoices
- Multiple billing entities
- Dunning and payment retries
- Alerts and budget
- Entitlements
- Progressive billing
- HTTP usage ingestion source
- Custom usage ingestion sources
- Stripe Payments
- GoCardless
- Adyen
- Anrok (Taxes)
- Avalara (Taxes)
- Salesforce CRM & CPQ
- HubSpot
- NetSuite
- Xero
- Google SSO
- Okta SSO
- Multiple roles and permissions
- API key management
- Audit logs (activity logs, API logs and security logs)
- Slack (community answers)
- Slack private channel (Lago answers)
- Priority support (phone and email)
- Dedicated Solutions Engineer
- Custom SLA
- Training sessions
Rationale
Lago offers a comprehensive billing and metering platform with strong API integration, supporting subscription management, invoicing, and customer portals. While it integrates with payment processors like Stripe, it is not a payment processing platform itself, but rather a billing engine that complements payment gateways. It explicitly mentions 'Coupons' as a core feature, which aligns with managing discounts within a billing system. The API documentation confirms developer-first approach and webhook system. It also offers a customer portal and invoicing features. Multi-currency support is implied through its global focus and tax management features.
