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Lago
Company blog · getlago.com/blogstartupsbusinessprogramming
Lago is the company blog at getlago.com, writing about startups, business and programming. Since 2021, 56 different Hacker News readers have linked it 156 times, most often “Show HN: Lago (YC S21): Operationalize Metabase dashboards in a few clicks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Lago Cloud runs usage, subscriptions, hybrid pricing and invoicing as a hosted service. Self-hosting is also available. Lago customers include CoreWeave, Mistral AI and PayPal.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Lago (YC S21): Operationalize Metabase dashboards in a few clicks17 people · 24 mentions · first linked 2021-10-11
- Billing systems are a nightmare for engineers5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-05-18
- Which pricing model should you choose for your business?3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-10-18
- Pricing our open-source product3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-07-26
- We got into YC, pre-product, pre-revenue3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-11-11
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-22
- Post-mortem of our first YC startup: a Reverse ETL3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-16
- Biggest problems with homemade billing systems3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-22
- Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-31
- OpenAI shouldn't do credits in ChatGPT3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-07
What Hacker News says?
I went looking for their team on the About Us page and instead found this: > 10x top of HN > Billing remains a major issue for companies, resonating widely. We've consistently hit HackerNews' top page over 10x. [1] [1] https://www.getlago.com/about-us
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on “Why DeepSeek had to be open source”Submitted Billing systems are a nightmare for engineers as a story · 777 points
HN discussionLago | Data Scientist | European Union | full-time | REMOTE or in-person in Paris, France | https://www.getlago.com/ Lago is the leading open-source usage based billing API and is serving companies such as Mistral.ai, Groq, Together. We’re backed by YC, FirstMark Capital, Clement Delangue (Hugging Face), Romain Huet (OpenAI). We’re looking for our first Data Scientist, to leverage the usage/consumption/payment data…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)”Submitted Why DeepSeek had to be open source as a story · 525 points
HN discussionLago (YC S21) | Open-Source Usage Based Billing | Full-time | EU or Bay Area | https://www.getlago.com/ Lago is the leading open-source usage-based billing API, bringing flexibility, transparency and control to teams to handle subscriptions, usage metering and pricing iterations. Lago has been chosen by companies such as Mistral.ai, Swan.io, Together.ai, Groq.com, and raised a total of $22M (FirstMark, Y Combinator)…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)”Submitted Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing? as a story · 336 points
HN discussionLago | https://www.getlago.com/about-us | Founding Marketing Team | US (San Francisco) | Full-time We build open-source billing, and are used by companies like Groq.com, Mistral.ai, Together.ai. So far our marketing has been very organic and founder-led, we're looking for the initial 3-4 people team to take it to the next level: product marketing, brand, demand generation, etc. We've raised a total of $22M, here's o…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)”Submitted I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen as a story · 172 points
HN discussionI'm about to implement https://www.getlago.com/ on my SAAS. Spoke to the team, great bunch
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on “Pains of building your own billing system”Submitted Why we still build with Ruby as a story · 111 points
HN discussionI’d cautiously use Stripe in a way that allows you to switch to another payment provider if/when needed. For SaaS applications, I think Lago is pretty neat, for example: https://www.getlago.com/ (open source, YC S21) And for ecommerce, there’s so much solutions that I don’t know what to recommend. If you’re looking for something headless, I’ve heard good things about Medusa (open source): https://medusajs.com/
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on “Show HN: YourNextStore – an open-source Shopify with Stripe as the back end”Submitted Generating PDF invoices using Lago as a story · 68 points
HN discussionhttps://www.getlago.com/pricing They have open source / no support billing, so why wouldn't use use that? They also have an up to 50% discount for early-stage companies.
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on “Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding”Submitted We crunched the fees of Stripe's 21 products as a story · 55 points
HN discussionThe value prop is composability, extensibility, building trust, and no lock in into Stripe’s ecosystem More details here: https://www.getlago.com/resources/compare/lago-vs-stripe Yes we’d love feedback on our UX/UI as well!
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on “Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding”Submitted Why building a self-hosted SaaS is harder as a story · 54 points
HN discussionWe are starting with billing indeed, with a long term vision of becoming the « open revenue hub » (laid out the high level steps here: https://www.getlago.com/blog/lago-raises-22-millions ), meaning we want to offer an open alternative to everything RevOps. Instead of choosing to be in a closed source ecosystem like Stripe’s (they have 21 products and most founders don’t realise they are using 3-6 of them, not only…
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on “Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding”Submitted We signed Mistral AI from a Hacker News post as a story · 41 points
HN discussionIgnore the Linked text idea, in theory it is solved by the Memex like feature. It might lead to an over engineered trap. Regarding the Memex like feature I did use it a lot, it worked like full text search for the HTML, they had a sync service that worked by importing your search history, I'm guessing they downloaded the HTML and stored it, so they could search against it. My usage of the service is a couple of year…
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on “Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better”Submitted Why Heroku-like pricing models are hard to build as a story · 27 points
HN discussion>* I have a trained ML model that solves a niche task really well — but turning it into a full-blown app seems like overkill.* A RESTful API, either metered billing or otherwise with something like Lago[0] >* I’ve written a CLI tool that processes log files better than anything else I’ve found, but it’s too specialized to justify making a company out of it.* Enterprise. Find organizations that have this problem, kno…
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on “Ask HN: How do you monetize personal code if it's not an "app"?”Submitted Show HN: Lago (YC S21): Operationalize Metabase dashboards in a few clicks as a story · 17 points
HN discussionI think the comparison you're looking for is on the pricing page. https://getlago.com/pricing
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on “I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen”Submitted Solving complex billable metrics with custom SQL expressions in Lago as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThis was actually a great post and made me aware of your product for the first time. I eventually landed here: https://getlago.com/docs/guide/self-hosted/ It would be nice if there was a feature matrix for self hosted premium vs open features, since that's the first thing self-hosted people are going to be looking for. Also, I'm looking at your Lever page, but no SWE roles are listed. Maybe if this post really does…
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on “I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen”Submitted Why AGPL as a story · 10 points
HN discussionOne more data point: at work we use Stripe for most regions [1], but in our largest region (South Africa) we have to use Paystack [2] (a Stripe subsidiary). The API isn't 1:1 compatible and there's no plans to do so in the near future. Having multiple providers is a must for us to consider a solution. Lago is better in that they have have support for custom payment integrations [3]. [1] https://stripe.com/global [2]…
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on “Show HN: Autumn – Open-source infra over Stripe”Submitted Why Stripe paid $1B for Metronome instead of fixing Billing as a story · 9 points
HN discussionNeat! Seems similar to Lago (also open source): https://www.getlago.com/ Are you planning on adding other payment providers besides Stripe?
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on “Show HN: Autumn – Open-source infra over Stripe”Submitted Biggest problems with homemade billing systems as a story · 9 points
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