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Lago

Open-source billing server for metering usage, managing subscriptions and invoicing, which apps call through its API.

Lago is a billing server for usage-based and subscription pricing. It meters usage events and produces subscriptions and invoices, and applications call its REST API to do that, directly or through one of the client libraries. The back end is a Rails API with a web interface in front of it. The self-hosting overview describes two install routes, Docker Compose and the official Helm charts for Kubernetes.

The Docker stack runs a front application, the API, its workers, a clock worker, Postgres, Redis and a PDF service. Postgres stores the application data, Redis serves as the queue for asynchronous tasks, and ClickHouse can be enabled as the event store for new organizations.

Worth knowing

The open source edition is licensed under AGPL-3.0. A premium edition with features and support that differ from the open source edition is offered under a commercial license, and custom roles are a premium add-on. Lago Cloud is the hosted option for teams that do not want to operate the stack.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Get Lago Corp.5
Maintained by
Company
First release
20224

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Always on9
Install with
docker6

Releases

Current major version
14
Last release
2026-11-027

Adoption

GitHub stars
10,7522
Contributors
492

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-11-03: links
    www.getlago.com
  2. 2026-11-03: links, Categories, Written in, License, GitHub stars, Contributors
    github.com/getlago/lago
  3. 2026-11-03: links
    getlago.com/docs
  4. 2026-11-03: First release, Current major version
    github.com/getlago/lago/releases
  5. 2026-11-03: Maintainer
    www.getlago.com/privacy
  6. 2026-11-03: License, Install with
    getlago.com/docs/guide/lago-self-hosted/overview
  7. 2026-11-03: Last release
    github.com/getlago/lago/releases/tag/v1.56.0
  8. 2026-11-03: Databases, Content storage
    getlago.com/docs/guide/lago-self-hosted/docker
  9. 2026-11-03: Runtime, Runs as, Admin interface
    getlago.com/docs/guide/lago-self-hosted/kubernetes
  10. 2026-11-03: Content API
    getlago.com/docs/llms.txt
  11. 2026-11-03: links
    getlago.com/pricing

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