Lago

Name: Lago
Rating: 4.6 (10 reviews)

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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Launch tags:Open Source•Developer Tools•Finance

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Crew

Seems solid! We're using Stripe Billing at Crew, how is it better?

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

Thanks, @amine_skalli! Stripe Billing is a good solution for subscription-based pricing models, but it doesn't really meet the needs of usage-based and hybrid pricing models. Stripe users often need to pre-aggregate usage on their side and they can't create yearly plans with monthly charges for instance. We wrote a post on this topic if you're interested: https://www.getlago.com/blog/is-...

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3yr ago

Crew

@mathieu_ Thanks for the quick reply. Indeed, we do exactly this, and can be quite painful. I'll take a look and read the article then

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@mathieu_ @amine_skalli Once you try it, there's no going back 😬 😁

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3yr ago

Easop 2.0

Is Lago 100% Open source? Would love to try it!

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3yr ago

Easop 2.0

@valentin_haarscher what are we waiting for? 😇

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@valentin_haarscher @thierreasop Yes, our public repository is available here: https://github.com/getlago/lago Happy to help you get started if needed, and here's our documentation: https://doc.getlago.com/docs/gui...

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@valentin_haarscher @thierreasop @mathieu_ We love Easop and we would dream of partnering with you!!! Your pricing and go to market motion are a great fit for Lago!

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3yr ago

Congrats on the launch! What prompted you to take the open source approach?

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@between_team Thanks David! 1/ Transparency : Billing is mission critical, users should be able to "look under the hood" and know exactly how their billing system works. Having a black box as a billing system is a complete non-sense to us. 2/ Extensibility: Because users understand Lago better, it's easier to build on top of Lago to customize our product to the specifics of your company. And every company has edge cases for billing, as they iterate on pricing, packaging, international launches, new product lines, business models, etc. Our vision isn't to be the platform that promises to tackle every use case - it's impossible, we've been there - but rather to the the "Legos" that makers will use to build their own unique billing system. We also wrote a longer post about it: https://www.getlago.com/blog/the...

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3yr ago

@anhthochuong Point #2 is super interesting on a business sense. Congrats! You'll get loads of clients :)

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@between_team Thank you so much for the encouragements!

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3yr ago

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Congratulations on launching Lago! It's great to see a developer-first billing platform that's customizable and agnostic. I'm curious, how does Lago integrate with different payment processors and internal tools?

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

Thanks, @tjerkienator! We provide some native integrations, with Stripe Payments and GoCardless for instance, or our users can set up their own integrations using our webhook messages for instance. https://doc.getlago.com/docs/int... With our native payment integrations, a payment request is automatically sent by Lago to the payment provider when a new invoice is finalized. We also automatically update the payment status of the invoice based on the information provided by the PSP. We'll continue to add more integrations like Adyen, HubSpot, QuickBooks, etc.

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@tjerkienator Thanks Douwe for the support!!!

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3yr ago

Jitter

Congrats on the launch guys! Quick question: why did you choose to make Lago open-source?

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@robi Thanks! It was quite obvious to us: 1/ Transparency : Billing is mission critical, users should be able to "look under the hood" and know exactly how their billing system works. Having a black box as a billing system is a complete non-sense to us. 2/ Extensibility: Because users understand Lago better, it's easier to build on top of Lago to customize our product to the specifics of your company. And every company has edge cases for billing, as they iterate on pricing, packaging, international launches, new product lines, business models, etc. Our vision isn't to be the platform that promises to tackle every use case - it's impossible, we've been there - but rather to the the "Legos" that makers will use to build their own unique billing system.

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3yr ago

Jitter

@anhthochuong Makes a lot of sense, thanks for sharing the rationale!!

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3yr ago

Crew

I've been looking at what the Lago did these past few months and I have to say I'm very impressed. Billing is such a hard topic and these guys are rocking it. 🚀 If you have any sort of billing in your app, I'd recommend Lago! 🫶

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@arthureichelberger Thanks for the kind words Arthur! They make our days and motivate us! 💪

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@arthureichelberger Thanks for the support 🫶

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@arthureichelberger Thanks Arthur for your support! Means the world to us

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3yr ago

Cycle

Amazing, congrats @raffi_sarkissian1 @anhthochuong & team! We're huge fans at Cycle 😍

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@raffi_sarkissian1 @mboudoukhane Thanks Mehdi! Such a huge compliment from a product expert like you! 🙌

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3yr ago

Lago

Maker

@anhthochuong @mboudoukhane Thanks Mehdi! It means a lot to us 🙏

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3yr ago

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4.6

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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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