lago
by getlago
Lago is an open-source billing and monetization platform designed for AI products, enabling the tracking of product usage and turning it into pricing, credits, entitlements, invoices, and payments.
Ready to useEstablished, openly licensed, and no red flags in its documentation.
- Stars
- 10.7k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Runs on
- A small server
- Setup
- Moderate
- Language
- Go
- Age
- 1701 days
What you can do with it
- Track and meter product usage
- Turn usage into pricing and entitlements
- Generate invoices and handle payments
Could replace
- Stripe
- Adyen
- GoCardless
Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.
Ways a business could use it
- Save on payment processing fees by self-hosting
- Gain flexibility in pricing models for AI products
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use. Anything you distribute that includes it must be open-sourced under the same licence. Running it as an online service also counts, so a hosted version must offer its source.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Self-hosted with Docker
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Checked 26 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.