Lago
by Lago · Open-source billing and usage metering for subscription and usage-based pricing
68.2 — BenchRank score out of 100
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Homepage Pricing page
Overview
Lago is an open-source billing platform for subscriptions, usage-based pricing and hybrid combinations of the two. It meters events in real time, generates and manages invoices, and handles prepaid credits, entitlements, dunning, cash collection and revenue analytics. Teams use its API or a visual interface, and it connects to payment, accounting, tax and CRM tools.
- Best for
- Engineering and finance teams billing usage-based or hybrid pricing who want self-hosting
- Pricing
- No figures are published: the pricing page lists Lago Premium features for cloud or self-hosted deployment and directs buyers to contact the company, with several capabilities sold as add-ons.
- Runs on
- WebSelf-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Open-source code you can inspect and self-host
- Metering, invoicing, dunning and analytics in one platform
- Deploy on-prem, in a VPC or on Lago's cloud
- SOC 2 Type II, RBAC, audit logs and SSO via Okta
Trade-offs
- No prices published; Lago Premium is contact-us only
- Dunning, tax, custom branding and more are paid add-ons
- Billing entities and data pipeline volume are capped before add-on charges
- 24x7 incident cover and an assigned solution engineer cost extra
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
- MCP support
- 60 out of 100
- API quality
- 45 out of 100
- Documentation
- 100 out of 100
- Agent friendliness
- 98 out of 100
- Pricing transparency
- 25 out of 100
- Changelog
- 100 out of 100
- Marketing site structure
- 70 out of 100
- Operational trust
- 60 out of 100
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
- Openness
- 65 out of 100
- Maintenance
- 100 out of 100
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