🏁

Lago

🏁
Open-source, self-hosted metering you control.
Website: getlago.com

Chargebee pitch

Ship product instead of running billing infrastructure.

Why Chargebee wins

  • Supported, not self-hosted β€” Chargebee is a managed platform with SLAs and support β€” no billing engine for your team to operate and maintain.
  • Full lifecycle, not just metering β€” Subscriptions, entitlements, rev-rec and retention out of the box, beyond open-source metering.
  • Scale without rebuilds β€” Change pricing models as you grow without re-engineering your own billing code.

Verdict

Lago hands you the engine; Chargebee hands you the whole car, supported.