# www.getlago.com

> AI-optimized mirror of www.getlago.com containing 51 pages totalling 17,636 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://www.getlago.com/. Last updated: 2026-04-20T04:17:49.245Z.

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## Homepage

- [The AI-native billing platform](/site-root.html): Scale your AI or tech business with Lago: event-driven usage metering, hybrid pricing-ready, open-source + cloud — build fast, bill accurately. (368 words)

## Articles & Blog Posts

- [blog/office-snacks/index.html](/blog/office-snacks/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/billing-shouldnt-suck/index.html](/blog/billing-shouldnt-suck/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/launch-week-product-marketing/index.html](/blog/launch-week-product-marketing/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/y-combinator-europe/index.html](/blog/y-combinator-europe/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/architect-billing-systems/index.html](/blog/architect-billing-systems/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/the-full-playbook-how-to-design-usage-based-pricing-models.html](/blog/the-full-playbook-how-to-design-usage-based-pricing-models.html) (1 words)
- [blog/lago-entitlements/index.html](/blog/lago-entitlements/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/mistral-billing/index.html](/blog/mistral-billing/index.html) (1 words)
- [The alert object](/docs/api-reference/alerts/alert-object/index.html): This object represents an alert to monitor your subscriptions' usage and billing by firing notifications when certain conditions are met. (426 words)
- [Why building a self-hosted SaaS is a headache (and how we make it easier)](/blog/self-hosted-saas/index.html): Learn how we ship fast without breaking self-hosted instances, why bridge versions matter, and why billing infra needs more care than the average SaaS stack. (1,366 words)
- [blog/why-stripe-paid-1b-for-metronome-instead-of-fixing-billing.html](/blog/why-stripe-paid-1b-for-metronome-instead-of-fixing-billing.html) (1 words)
- [The add-on object](/docs/api-reference/add-ons/add-on-object/index.html): This object represents an add-on, a one-time fee that can be applied on one-off invoices. (435 words)
- [blog/index.html](/blog/index.html) (1 words)
- [Why you shouldn't be your own ICP (we aren't)](/blog/startup-icp/index.html): ICP Misconceptions hurt startups. Learn why you don't need to be your own ICP—but must deeply know the problem—to build products that scale beyond you.  (1,026 words)
- [blog/ai-pricing-models/index.html](/blog/ai-pricing-models/index.html) (1 words)
- [List subscription alerts](/docs/api-reference/alerts/get-all/index.html): This endpoint allows you to retrieve all alerts for a subscription. (422 words)
- [Why Cerebrium "doesn't even think about billing anymore"](/blog/cerebrium-billing/index.html): Introduction

Cerebrium helps AI and ML teams ship more, faster with their serverless infrastructure platform. Infrastructure is one of the core use cases of complex billing: It's rarely charged as a subscription and requires many complexities.

Before using Lago, Cerebrium was managing billing in-house with a system built on DynamoDB. But as an infrastructure platform handling high-volume compute workloads, they ran into issues. Their customers needed billing transparency and their engineering  (1,018 words)
- [Update a subscription alert](/docs/api-reference/alerts/update/index.html): This endpoint allows you to update an existing alert for a subscription. (480 words)
- [Retrieve a subscription alert](/docs/api-reference/alerts/get-specific/index.html): This endpoint allows you to retrieve a specific alert for a subscription. (404 words)
- [How 1NCE scaled global IoT billing with Lago](/blog/1nce-billing/index.html): Introduction

1NCE disrupted the IoT connectivity industry in 2018 with a bold offer: 10 years of global software and connectivity for €10. The model was simple, affordable, and perfectly suited to low-data use cases like smart metering, asset tracking, and street lighting.

But as the IoT market evolved, so did customer needs. Many use cases demanded higher data volumes and faster speeds. In response, 1NCE launched High Data IoT: a pay-as-you-go model offering 5€/GB with speeds up to 25 Mb/s. T (667 words)
- [The AI-native billing platform](/about-us/index.html): Learn about Lago's mission to democratize billing infrastructure through open-source innovation and developer-first design. (413 words)
- [Create subscription alert(s)](/docs/api-reference/alerts/create/index.html): This endpoint allows you to create a new alert for a subscription. (474 words)
- [Delete a subscription alert](/docs/api-reference/alerts/delete/index.html): This endpoint allows you to delete an existing alert for a subscription. (405 words)
- [Why Flipside Crypto's first and last billing system is Lago](/blog/flipside-billing/index.html): Introduction

Flipside Crypto's data-driven growth platform helps blockchains attract users, drive engagement and analyze on-chain activity. Their data is freely available, but premium features like API access and Snowflake integration are charged mostly on usage. This required a robust metering and billing solution.

Flipside Crypto didn't have a billing system before using Lago. They needed to handle both recurring revenue and usage-based pricing without creating an engineering nightmare or di (682 words)
- [Update an Add-on](/docs/api-reference/add-ons/update/index.html): This endpoint is used to update an existing add-on. (283 words)
- [Why DeepSeek had to be open-source (and why it won't defeat OpenAI)](/blog/deepseek-open-source/index.html): DeepSeek Open-Source LLMs win trust & lower costs, but won’t dethrone OpenAI yet. See why open models thrive in infra—but proprietary still leads. (718 words)
- ["Building billing? It sucks!"—Why Arcee built with Lago instead](/blog/arcee-billing/index.html): Introduction

Arcee is a champion of SLMs (Small Language Models) that helps its customers build enterprise-grade AI agents and orchestration of different AI models. To capture the demand from enterprise AI, Arcee has raised $29 million. The company is growing quickly, winning customers like Intel and constantly shipping new products.

These include Arcee Conductor, which intelligently routes prompts to the best model, and Arcee Orchestra, which allows customers to create customized AI agents us (632 words)
- [Why we still build with Ruby in 2026](/blog/why-we-still-build-with-ruby-in-2025/index.html): Why we still choose Ruby on Rails in 2025: Learn how Lago scales millions of API events with Rails, Go, and Rust, balancing developer speed, concurrency, and performance. (811 words)
- [cURL](/docs/api-reference/add-ons/get-specific/index.html): This endpoint is used to retrieve a specific add-on. (224 words)
- [Lune’s journey to perfecting API pricing (and saving the planet) with Lago](/blog/lune-billing/index.html): Introduction

Every founder aspires to make the world a better place. At Lune, they're not just dreaming about it – they're actively creating a climate-positive future. Their journey serves as a blueprint for how to build a thriving business while tackling a very messy, opaque market. Not only for climate tech companies, but for any startup building an API and searching for that elusive product-market fit milestone. To learn how they turned green into gold and leveraged Lago to master billing, r (637 words)
- [Create an Add-on](/docs/api-reference/add-ons/create/index.html): This endpoint is used to create an add-on that can be then attached to a one-off invoice. (271 words)
- [How Porter scaled self-serve billing with Lago](/blog/porter-billing/index.html): Introduction

Before using Lago, Porter was a sales-led company that mostly relied on manual enterprise agreements. But when they wanted to offer usage-based self-serve pricing, they needed a more robust billing system that wouldn't become an engineering headache, but supported enough advanced features.

I sat down with Porter's founder Justin Rhee and engineer Mauricio Araujo to talk about their journey with Lago. Here's what I found out:


Challenges

Before adopting Lago, Porter used Stripe f (523 words)
- [Help us build open-source billing.](/hiring/index.html): Explore career opportunities at Lago and help build the open, event-based billing platform redefining financial infrastructure. (207 words)
- [DELETE an Add-on](/docs/api-reference/add-ons/destroy/index.html): This endpoint is used to delete an existing add-on. (225 words)
- [cURL](/docs/api-reference/add-ons/get-all/index.html): This endpoint is used to list all existing add-ons. (264 words)
- [Meet companies who ship pricing faster](/customers/index.html): Explore how leading companies built scalable monetization with Lago: stories from Mistral, Lune, Together and more. (180 words)
- [6 Proven Pricing Models for AI SaaS (and How to Build Them)](/blog/6-proven-pricing-models-for-ai-saas/index.html): AI is changing how we price and monetize software. Here are AI billing models that work. (1,037 words)
- [Launch Week IV Day 1: Alerts and Budget Limits](/blog/alerts-bugdet-limits/index.html): We’ve all heard the horror stories of unsupervised AWS instances that lead to million-dollar invoices. Lago now helps you prevent those scenarios. With budget & usage alerts, you can put hard edges around consumption and billing. (373 words)
- [Launch Week III Day 1: Back to the future with invoice previews](/blog/invoice-previews/index.html): Invoice Previews in Lago add clarity to usage-based billing—show customers real-time costs & help teams forecast revenue with zero billing surprises. (283 words)
- [Launch Week III Day 5: Effortless Docker deployment in a single command](/blog/launch-week-iii-day-5-docker-command/index.html): Docker Deployment now takes one command with Lago. Self-host billing systems easily for security & compliance—no more complex setup or errors.  (205 words)
- [Launch Week III Day 2: Put a ring on it: Partner Billing](/blog/partner-billing/index.html): Partner Billing now in Lago. Automate partner commissions & self-billing, even for usage-based models—track partner revenue & costs in one place. (255 words)
- [Launch Week IV Day 2: Billing Activity Logs](/blog/billing-activity-logs/index.html): Introducing Activity Logs: Enhancing Billing Transparency and Tracking (249 words)
- [Empowering sophisticated pricing models](/pricing/index.html): Explore Lago's pricing plans for usage-based billing, metering and invoicing. Choose Business or Enterprise tiers to fit your billing complexity and scale. (269 words)
- [Launch Week III Day 4: Crypto payments are now available](/blog/crypto-payments/index.html): Crypto Payments now in Lago via Stripe. Accept USDC & USDP securely, no memecoins—easy toggle on/off for flexible, stable, dollar-pegged transactions. (196 words)
- [Launch Week III Day 3: Record manual and partial payments in Lago](/blog/record-payments/index.html): Partial Payments now supported in Lago. Track manual, wire, or ACH payments with ease & get a clear view of unpaid, paid, or partially paid invoices. (220 words)
- [Launch Week IV Day 3: Lago × Avalara Integration — End Tax Guesswork](/blog/avalara-tax-integration/index.html): Natively connect Lago to Avalara to fetch taxes (256 words)
- [Launch Week IV Day 5: Pricing Group Keys](/blog/pricing-group-keys/index.html): Pricing group keys give you the flexibility to assign distinct prices to a single product based on chosen criteria. (311 words)
- [See Lago in action](/book-a-demo/index.html): Schedule a personalized demo of Lago's open-source billing platform. See how usage metering, hybrid plans and real-time invoices streamline billing for AI & enterprise. (112 words)
- [The Full Playbook: How to Design Usage-Based Pricing Models](/playbook/index.html): Download Lago's comprehensive guide to designing usage-based pricing models. Learn frameworks, strategies and real-world examples for metering, billing and monetization. (192 words)
- [Legal center](/legal/index.html): Explore Lago's legal documents including privacy policy, cloud and self-hosted terms of service, and end-of-service-life policy. (106 words)

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