lago
Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing API ⭐️ Consumption tracking, Subscription management, Pricing iterations, Payment orchestration & Revenue analytics
⭐ 10,442 stars on GitHub · 🍴 732 forks · 📜 License: agpl-3.0 · 💻 Language: Go
What is lago?
Usage-based billing usually means wrestling with inflexible payment gateway catalogs or building a fragile, custom metering engine from scratch. By decoupling high-volume consumption tracking from the actual payment processing, you get an API-first monetization infrastructure purpose-built to
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open-source
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Quick install
The project supports Docker Compose:
git clone https://github.com/getlago/lago.git
cd lago
docker compose up -d
Check the README in the repo for required env variables.
Minimum system requirements
| Component | Recommended |
|---|---|
| RAM | 4096 MB |
| CPU | 2 vCPU |
| Disk | 50 GB SSD |
| OS | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / Debian 12 |
| Docker | 24.0+ |
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Resources
- 🔗 GitHub: getlago/lago
- 🌐 Homepage: https://www.getlago.com
- 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
- 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions
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