Re:Launch HN: OpenMeter (YC W23) – Real-Time, Open Source Us...
by nylonstrung on Thursday June 22, 2023 @02:00PM
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What does this do that cannot be accomplished with the other YC open source billing tools– Lago and lotus
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Re:Launch HN: OpenMeter (YC W23) – Real-Time, Open Source Us...
by hekike on Thursday June 22, 2023 @02:18PM
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It depends on your use-case. On a higher-level OpenMeter focuses on the data challenge to collecting usage data from infrastructure components on scale, and providing aggregated meters real-time.
The other platforms you mentioned focuses more on billing with some metering component. For example Lago looks like writes all events to a relational database first than aggregates usage at query time when they do billing. Metering with a database has some limitation when it comes to scale or when you need to monitor meteres real-time and trigger actions based on them. I can see for example some combining OpenMeter with other billing platforms to have a scalable usage-based billing.