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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Maker

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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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3yr ago

ChartMogul

@raffi_sarkissian1 congratulations 👏 let's talk ChartMogul integration sometime :)

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@raffi_sarkissian1 @nick_franklin Thanks Nick! Let's do it!!! I've just emailed you, looking forward to it!

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3yr ago

Document AI by Relevance

@raffi_sarkissian1 @anhthochuong congrats on the PH launch!

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3yr ago

50+ Contract Templates by Clientjoy

@raffi_sarkissian1 Hey Raffi and team, congratulations on launching Lago! 🎉 It sounds like a fantastic solution to a common pain point for businesses.

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@raffi_sarkissian1 @danvass Thanks Daniel, we're so grateful for your support!

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3yr ago

Kilo Code

both why and how you're building Lago really is inspiring. I enjoyed learning about how you ship (fast), how you built your design system and, more recently, how you reached 2,000 stars on GitHub. enjoy your launch day, ?makers, and keep up your great work 👏👏

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@fmerian Thanks for the kind support Flo! 🙌

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@fmerian Hi Flo! It means a lot to us, thanks!!

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@fmerian thanks a lot for the support! 🙌

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3yr ago

Amazing, team! And amazing team! And this year I will implement monetization in some marketplace features of Beluga Dive, guess what I will use? Wish you all the best!

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@emilio_maciel Thanks Emilio for the kind words! Would love to help you implement Lago this year 🙌

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

Thanks, @emilio_maciel! We're glad to hear that our product can help develop new solutions!

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3yr ago

Formaloo

I was looking for this, could you share a little bit about what will the pricing looks like in the future?

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@farokh_shahabi The pricing is mainly related to premium features (grace periods, billing in customers' timezones...), or a fully hosted version of Lago. We price a fix platform fee and tiers (with large free tier) on the number of usage-based events ingested, so depending a lot on use cases. We also offer startup deals!

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@farokh_shahabi Thanks Farokh! Yes - here is how we think about it : https://www.getlago.com/blog/how... - Another thing is: we have a startup plan for early stage companies! Email me if anything anhtho@getlago.com!

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3yr ago

API reference seems down. How do I use this in a rails app? I just need the most basic low code solution to enable users to process billing. Nothing fancy, just for basic subscription management.

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@duarteosrm Here's the link to the documentation, including the Ruby client: https://doc.getlago.com/docs/api... And here are the instructions to set up Lago with Docker: https://doc.getlago.com/docs/gui...

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@duarteosrm Hi Duarte, were you able to access the API reference?

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@duarteosrm @mathieu_ Thanks Mat for sharing!

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3yr ago

Carbonfact

This is such an exciting and ambitious project! Congrats @raffi_sarkissian1 & @anhthochuong for bringing the open source approach to the billing pond. Payment information can be quite sensitive. Are you the one processing the payment?

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@raffi_sarkissian1 @martindaniel4 Thanks Martin! Lago does not process payments, what we do: - Usage metering: we keep track of how much the end-users use the product: if you sell electricity, we'll meter KwH, if you sell a database -> GB space etc - Billing : calculating how much the end-users have to pay, based on their subscription, usage, discounts, credit notes etc - Invoicing: actually producing the official .pdf file accountants need We send a "payment intent" to payment processors with the amount each end-user needs to pay, and they take care of the payment. We have native integrations with Stripe Payments and GoCardLess, but our users can also use our webhooks to use Lago with any payment processor of their choice: https://doc.getlago.com/docs/cat... Some people in the community offered to contribute by building native integrations with other payment processors as well, stay tuned!

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3yr ago

Sales Compensation Hub

Congrats!! Well done taking on this massive challenge, and making the solution OS on top of that! Very impressive 🤩 how long would it take to switch from stripe billing?

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@jelorillon Thanks! A matter of hours, just ping @mathieu_ he'll plan a smooth transition for you!

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@jelorillon The timeline usually depends on your pricing model and the scope of the integration (e.g. faster implementation for subscription-based models) but in any case, our team will guide you through the migration process to help you achieve your goals as quickly as possible, with a proper QA plan as well. Happy to hop on a call if you'd like!

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3yr ago

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Reviewers mostly see Lago as a strong fit for metering and usage-based billing, especially when teams need transparent, customizable setup and easy integration. Several say it handles complex billing well, helps clarify pricing logic, and makes it possible to build exactly what they need, with installation, API quality, and overall product design getting repeated praise. Sentiment is largely positive, but one reviewer says communication with the team and upgrade quoting were difficult, and wishes pricing were published more clearly.

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