Lago
98 · HealthyUsage metering and billing engine for subscriptions, usage-based plans, credits and invoicing.
Open source Billing & subscriptions
Polar
97 · HealthyBilling platform for software products, with subscriptions, usage billing, checkout and license keys.
Autumn
90 · HealthyPricing and billing layer on top of Stripe that handles plans, usage limits, credits and feature access.
OpenMeter
88 · HealthyReal-time usage metering for AI, API and infrastructure products, feeding usage-based billing.
Kill Bill
77 · StableSubscription billing and payments platform with product catalogs, invoicing, dunning and payment gateway plugins.
Flexprice
72 · StableUsage-based pricing and billing with real-time metering, credits and top-ups, and feature entitlements.
Lago
Usage metering and billing engine for subscriptions, usage-based plans, credits and invoicing.
Will it still be around?
Healthy
Score 98/100
Can a business use it freely?
Free, share hosted changes
AGPL-3.0 · open source (copyleft)
Flat Rate Deploy
Orb doesn't publish prices, so this starts at a $100 a month bill, the smallest where switching saves money. Lago on OpenTools costs $99 a month, setup included, so you save $1 a month, about $36 over three years. Enter your actual bill to see yours.
Monthly cost
- Lago on OpenTools
- $99
- Orb
$100
You save each month
$1/mo
1% less than today
Saving from month one
You save
- Over 3 years
- $36
- In year one
- $12
List price checked 9 Oct 2026 · Source · Disclaimer
Health score: 98/100
Healthy · activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness, from GitHub
Score v2 · How it works
Activity
45% weight100/100
- Last commit 2 days ago (100/100).
- 195 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 29 releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor
30% weight100/100
- Top contributor wrote 21% of the last 87 commits (past 12 months).
- 20 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness
25% weight92/100
- 93% of all issues are closed (17 open, 224 closed) (100/100).
- 20 of 23 recent issues got a reply or were closed (87/100).
License
Free, share hosted changes
AGPL-3.0 · Open source (copyleft)
What you need to do
Free for any use, commercial included. If you change the code and people outside your company use it over the network, you must publish your changes under the same license.
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 · Open source (copyleft). OSI-approved license that requires sharing changes under the same license when you distribute (AGPL: also when you offer it over a network).
Detected by GitHub as AGPL-3.0.
GitHub activity
- Stars
- 11k
- Forks
- 766
- Commits, 12 mo
- 195
- last 2 days ago
- Releases, 12 mo
- 29
- last 2 days ago
- Contributors
- 49
- 20 in last 87 commits
- Open issues
- 17
- 224 closed
Snapshot from 2026-10-09
Top contributors
Points for pull requests merged into Lago and reviews of them since 10 October 2025. Building something another user asked for earns more. 31 people have points on Lago in all.
