Lago
Open-source billing infrastructure for managing usage-based and subscription pricing models
- Vendor
- Get Lago Corp.
- Also known as
- lago
Available worldwide
What is Lago?
A billing platform that ingests usage events, applies pricing rules, and generates invoices for any billing model. It supports usage-based, subscription, prepaid, and hybrid pricing, with real-time metering, payment orchestration, and revenue analytics.
Lago pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free open-source tier; Premium pricing custom
Open Source
FreeAGPLv3 licensed self-hosted version
- usage metering
- subscription billing
- prepaid credits
- hybrid pricing
- REST API
- SDKs
- self-hosting
Lago Premium
Contact salesManaged cloud or self-hosted with customization, security, and support options
Add-ons
- Accounting Integrations
What Lago does
The capabilities that matter for billing & invoicing software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Subscription billing
- ✓
- Usage metering
- Real-time
- Pricing models
- Subscription, usage-based, hybrid, flat-rate, prepaid credits, per-unit metering
- Invoicing & AR
- ✓
- Catalog management
- ✓
- Merchant of record
- -
- Revenue recognition
- Integration
- Tax handling
- Native
- Dunning
- Basic retry
- GL / ERP sync
- ✓
- API-first / developer-first
- ✓
- Self-hostable
- ✓
- Revenue analytics
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- Self-hosted
Integrations (17)
Independently observed- Xero→•
- NetSuite→•
- Stripe→•
- Adyen→•
- GoCardless→•
- Braintree→•
- Salesforce•
- HubSpot•
- AWS Kinesis←•
- Amazon S3←•
- Webhooks⇄•
- Avalara
- Kafka
- Kinesis
- Google Cloud Pub/Sub
- AWS S3
- Azure
Security & compliance
Independently observed- SOC 2 Type II · Type IIactive
Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Lago FAQ
Common questions about Lago, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Lago?
A billing platform that handles subscriptions, metered usage, hybrid pricing models, and invoicing. Designed for teams managing complex pricing with options for cloud hosting or self-deployment. It is indexed under Billing & Invoicing Software.
Is Lago free to use?
Lago is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the AGPL-3.0 licence. Paid editions are also offered: Lago Premium, priced on request. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.getlago.com
What platforms does Lago support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Lago. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Can Lago be self-hosted?
Yes. Lago can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
What does Lago integrate with?
We have confirmed 6 integrations for Lago, including Avalara, Kafka, Kinesis, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, AWS S3 and Azure. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
What security certifications does Lago have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Lago. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Lago not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://www.getlago.com
Is Lago open source?
Yes. Lago is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.
Source: https://github.com/getlago/lago
Where is Lago available?
Lago is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.
Lago alternatives
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- MaxioSubscription billing and financial operations platform automating revenue processes for growing SaaS and AI companieslow · 47%
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- ViobusinessMobile invoicing and expense app with optional cloud backuplow · 14%
Compare Lago
Side by side against other billing & invoicing software, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Lago, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 50 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 87 | 0.08 | 6.8 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 94 | 0.05 | 4.9 | ✓ |
| Development activity | 42 | 0.09 | 4.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 34 | 0.07 | 2.5 | ✓ |
| Stars | 76 | 0.03 | 2.0 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | ✓ |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Security score | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 21 | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 65% |
Adoption
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 8 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 65% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Dunning: basic_retry · Gl sync: Yes · Analytics: Yes · Api first: Yes · Invoicing: Yes · Tax handling: native | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 14 | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | AGPL-3.0 | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 95% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 75% |
Pricing
Release
Reliability
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Soc2 | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 75% |
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60% |
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 75% |
| Vulnerabilities | Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fgetlago%2Flago%2Fevents-processor&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 90% |
| Certifications | SOC 2 Type II | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
| Trust center | https://getlago.com/security | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
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