Lago
Metering and usage-based billing.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 53 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.55.0 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Stripe Billing and Chargebee.
At a glance
Lago quick facts
- Health score
- 96/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 10,725
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.55.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
Top alternatives to Lago
Full rankings: Stripe Billing alternatives, Chargebee alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Meter tokens, compute, API calls, or any product usage."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Lago scores 96/100, #6 of 43 in Money, Budgeting & Management: 53 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.55.0, 23 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 10,725 stars add 16.1 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 3.9 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
Health over time
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
53 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v1.55.0 released 23 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 16.1 / 20
11k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 53
- Last 90 days
- 196
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #6 of 43 tools in Money, Budgeting & Management by health , between Invoice Ninja (#5) and Sure (#7) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | v1.55.0 · 23 days ago |
| Stars | 10,725 |
| Open issues | 17 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | getlago/lago ↗ |
Lago vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Lago (Money, Budgeting & Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HyperSwitch | 99 | 46k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Invoice Ninja | 96 | 10k | Elastic-2.0 | today |
| Lago (this tool) | 96 | 11k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Kill Bill | 95 | 5.8k | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| FOSSBilling | 93 | 1.7k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Akaunting | 86 | 10k | BUSL-1.1 | yesterday |
Lago: common questions
What does Lago replace?
Repoly lists Lago as an open-source alternative to Stripe Billing and Chargebee. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Lago stands against the others.
Is Lago still maintained?
Lago had 53 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v1.55.0, is from 23 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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