Lago Pricing, Plans & Alternatives (2026)

Overview

Lago is a metering and usage-based billing platform distinguished by its open-source edition, licensed under AGPLv3, which companies can run in their own cloud account or on premises free of charge^[15]. A hosted version, Lago Cloud, is offered in US and EU regions^[15]. Lago names CoreWeave, Mistral AI and PayPal among its customers^[21].

The product meters events such as AI input, output and cached tokens separately, applies spend alerts and prepaid credits, and generates invoices; its documented API lets developers define plans and charges in code^[15]^[21].

Lago Cloud has three plans. Launch has no minimum commitment and includes a one-time allowance of the first US$100,000 of processed billings and first five million production events free, then charges 0.7% of billings and US$20 per million events. Scale has a US$12,000 annual minimum and billing rates from 0.6%. Enterprise, which can be deployed in the cloud, a virtual private cloud or on premises, is custom^[15]. The self-hosted edition requires the customer’s own engineering team to operate it.

Lago features

AGPLv3 open-source self-hosted edition
Lago Cloud in US or EU regions
Separate metering of token types
Spend alerts and prepaid credits
Documented billing API and CLI

Lago pricing

Open source: free, self-operated. Launch: no minimum; first US$100,000 of billings and 5 million events free (one-time), then 0.7% of billings and US$20 per million events. Scale: US$12,000 annual minimum; from 0.6% of billings. Enterprise: custom.