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An open-source alternative to Stripe Billing

Lago is the one project in our catalog listed as a replacement for Stripe Billing. It is payments software with 10.7K GitHub stars. Below is how it measures against the questions people usually ask first.

Lago

Payments

Usage-based billing that turns metered usage into invoices.

Lago handles the part of a software business that sits between usage and revenue. It records what customers use, applies the pricing, and produces invoices and payment requests, so a product team does not have to build and maintain its own billing engine.

  • Meter tokens, compute, API calls or any product usage as billable events.
  • Turn usage into pricing, credits, entitlements, invoices and payments.
  • Integrate through the REST API, SDKs, a CLI or an MCP server for coding agents.

What people use it for

Bill an AI product by usage

Send an event for each request with its input and output tokens, and let Lago apply the price per token and add the charges to the customer's invoice.

Sell prepaid credits

Give customers credits that usage draws down, and use entitlements to control what each plan can access.

Offer billing inside your own platform

Use Lago Embedded to provide metering and invoicing to your own customers, rather than building a billing engine yourself.

10.7K starsAGPL-3.0GoLatest release 24 days agoWebsite ↗Full profile →

Fact checklist

The same questions the pages with more alternatives let you sort by, answered for Lago.

  • Does not meet: Permissive licence (MIT, Apache, BSD)Licence: AGPL-3.0 (copyleft)
  • Open-source licence (copyleft or permissive)Licence: AGPL-3.0 (copyleft)
  • Released in the last 90 daysLatest GitHub release Oct 7, 2026 (24 days ago)
  • Does not meet: Gaining stars this weekNot enough star history yet to tell
  • Written in GoMain language on GitHub
  • Recommended in a stackIn Indie software founder

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