About Lago
Lago is an open-source billing API for usage-based and metered pricing models. It handles event ingestion, real-time metering, invoice generation, and payment collection. Self-hostable and developer-friendly, Lago is popular with infrastructure and API companies implementing consumption pricing.
What's Great
- ✓Open-source with self-hosting option for full data control
- ✓Developer-friendly API for event ingestion and real-time metering
- ✓Supports complex usage-based and consumption pricing models
- ✓Active open-source community with transparent roadmap
Watch Out For
- !Requires engineering resources to self-host and maintain
- !Younger product with fewer enterprise features than established competitors
- !Cloud-hosted version has limited free tier capacity
Common Use Cases
1
Infrastructure company implementing pay-per-API-call pricing
2
Engineering team wanting open-source billing they can self-host and customize
3
Startup building usage-based pricing without vendor lock-in
Pricing Model
Freemium
Free plan available. Paid plans unlock advanced features and higher limits.
Category
Usage & Metered Billing
Billing platforms for usage-based, metered, and consumption pricing models.
Tags
lagoopen sourcemetered billingusage-basedapi