Lago
by Lago · Open-source billing and usage metering for subscription and usage-based pricing
BenchRank score
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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 Lago markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Lago’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“The AI-native billing platform”
- Angle: AI-native
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Lago’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
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
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The Lago pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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