What is Lago?
Lago is an open-source billing platform providing real-time metering, invoicing, and revenue analytics for complex pricing models including hybrid, usage-based, and subscription billing.
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.
Lago Premium
Contact salesPremium tier available with cloud and self-hosted deployment
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
- Hybrid plans, usage-based, subscription, enterprise, multi-product
- Invoicing & AR
- ✓
- Catalog management
- ✓
- Merchant of record
- -
- Revenue recognition
- -
- Tax handling
- Integration
- Dunning
- Basic retry
- GL / ERP sync
- -
- API-first / developer-first
- ✓
- Self-hostable
- ✓
- Revenue analytics
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (4)
Independently observed- CRM
- CPQ
- Accounting software
- MCP
Lago alternatives
Other billing & invoicing software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Stripe Billinglow · 30%
- MetronomeInfrastructure for Modern Monetizationlow · 35%
- MaxioPower your AI business with the billing, rev rec, and reporting engine that's as smart and scalable as your next breakthrough.low · 46%
- StiggThe Usage Runtime for AI Productslow · 45%
- FastSpringGlobal Payments, Subscriptions, & Tax Compliancelow · 22%
- Invoice Ninjalow · 36%
The Vioscale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.12 | 9.5 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 95 | 0.09 | 8.9 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 45 | 0.17 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 92 | 0.06 | 5.3 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 35 | 0.10 | 3.7 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 76 | 0.03 | 2.2 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 20 | 0.08 | 1.6 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 0.15 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing Transparency | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | ✓ |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
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 | 12 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 10,279 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"dunning":"basic_retry","analytics":true,"api_first":true,"invoicing":true,"tax_handling":"integration","self_hostable":true,"pricing_models":"Hybrid plans, usage-based, subscription, enterprise, multi-product","usage_metering":"real_time","catalog_management":true,"subscription_billing":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 4 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | AGPL-3.0 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 95% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 14 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70% |