Lago

Open-source alternative to Stripe Billing and Chargebee

4.6•10 reviews•

1.5K followers

Open-source alternative to Stripe Billing and Chargebee

4.6•10 reviews•

1.5K followers

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Lago makes it easy to build and iterate on complex pricing. 👓 No-code UI 🔌 Top-notch API 📏 Billing & metering in one place ☁️ Self-hosted or cloud 🐇 Deploy and iterate fast From metering to invoicing, Lago handles everything!

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Hi Makers! Raffi here, with Jeremy, Vincent, Romain, Mike, Mathieu and Anh-Tho. We’re excited and a little bit nervous to introduce you to Lago. Thanks Michael Seibel for hunting us! We started Lago to help businesses grow their revenue faster, and one of the most impactful levers to growth is optimizing pricing. However, finding the right pricing is a matter of hundreds of experimentations, and billing systems are the main bottleneck to fast iterations. After owning revenue at a Fintech unicorn before (from pre-launch to $100M ARR), we learnt first hand that pricing optimizations were very much slowed down (when not stopped) by clunky billing systems. The problem is closed source systems like Chargebee and Recurly lack transparency, and Stripe tries to lock you into its payment processor and steep fees. But building and maintaining your billing system in-house is a huge pain, and small mistakes can break your business. This made no sense to us, so that’s why we created Lago, the product we always wanted: 📦 A complete and out-of-the-box developer-first billing platform: including usage-based metering, subscriptions, coupon managements, credit notes, and the ability to create plans for custom contracts ✨ A beautiful and intuitive user interface, to cater to the business and finance teams, and their iterations on pricing 🧱 A customizable product: our architecture is made to fit any pricing grid (and the dozens of iterations that are bound to happen) and so that you can build on top of Lago, for your specific needs (and any growing business has specific needs) 🔌 An agnostic approach: you can use Lago with any adjacent tools you like: payment processors, quoting, CRM, internal tools 👐 Open-source: so that engineers can look under the hood and fully understand how Lago works (Billing platforms can be a black box, while billing is a critical system, every team should be able to dig in and know how it works!) We offer Lago as a cloud product “Lago Cloud” and you can also self-host and use it within your own infrastructure. Let go of your billing problems, and just use Lago. We love feedback, so comment with your feature requests and questions. You can visit our website (https://www.getlago.com/), our Github repo (https://github.com/getlago/lago), and our slack (https://www.getlago.com/slack)!

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Lago is praised for its ease of use, flexibility, and robust features, making it a strong choice for businesses seeking to streamline billing processes. The makers of

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highlight its simplicity in implementing usage-based billing via API. Users appreciate its no-code UI, top-notch API, and the ability to handle everything from metering to invoicing. While some users note communication challenges with the Lago team, the platform's open-source nature and customizable options are seen as significant advantages for startups and growing businesses.

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Billing is a core topic for lots of companies. I'm used to work with in-house systems to tackle the specifics of complex activities (telecom is a tough playground!) and never found an appropriate third party solution... until Lago. At first, what interested me was the way the product is built with a well thought modeling of usage costs. Then I discovered and liked the people behind it, the community and the open source project that is pretty inspiring. Thanks Lago and hope we will keep growing together and support you at our small level.

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I'm discussing every week with SaaS founders and I very often mention the different SaaS I'm a business angel in. And Lago is one which is the "easy to sell" because founders immediately relate to the pain points of setting up a billing system. Billing should really be decoupled from payment providers for various reasons (billing system from PSP are often not customizable enough, easier to change PSPs etc...) and the open source model of Lago is a great choice for that.

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Congratulations!!!!!! After having recently integrated, I am a huge fan. Billing can be so complicated, and the way Lago organises billing really helped us to better understand what we were trying to accomplish in the first place. We were able to build exactly what we wanted, and now have automated billing for each of our products.

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Open-source alternative to Stripe Billing and Chargebee

Open-source alternative to Stripe Billing and Chargebee

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