Lago
7.5#2 in usage-based billing softwareFree planFree planWebAPISelf-hosted
VisitLago vs Stigg
What both publish
| Fact | Lago | Stigg |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Lago Premium is offered as cloud or self-hosted deployment, and Lago says it can be run on-premises or in a VPC. | Stigg offers its hosted Cloud API, deployment in a customer's cloud environment (BYOC), and a bring-your-own-database option (BYODB). |
| Entitlements | Premium includes entitlement management for controlling feature access from billing. | Stigg says entitlement logic can be changed outside the codebase without a deployment. |
| Product | Lago is an open-source billing platform for usage-based, subscription, prepaid, and hybrid pricing that connects product usage and commercial terms to customer invoices. | Stigg describes itself as a usage runtime that decides what customers, users, and agents may do, combining credits, entitlements, metering, and governance. |
Lago plans
- Open SourceFree
- Open-source self-hostedFree
- Lago PremiumPriced on request
- PremiumPriced on request
Stigg plans
- BuildFree
- Pro (annual)$399 a month
- Pro (monthly)$499 a month
- BYOCPriced on request
- ScalePriced on request
Pick Lago if…
Lago describes its users as engineering, product, finance, and operations teams, including fast-growing AI companies and global enterprises. It may suit teams that need to bill for metered product usage or combine usage with subscriptions and prepaid balances.
Pick Stigg if…
Stigg suits engineering teams building AI products that need usage metering, entitlement controls and budget caps. Its API, web and self-hosted options accommodate different deployment preferences.