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Re:Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding by redslazer on Sunday April 07, 2024 @07:20AM (#39960048)
Got trapped by the same thing. Usage based billing is a huge pain point for us we were really excited by lago but dont want to self host infra if we can outsource it.

We ended up talking to about 5 different usage based billing API providers and basically no one is interested in servicing the sub $1000 per month market which is where we will realistically be for the next year as we grow.

Additionally lago and other providers advertise "no revenue cut" and then always quote pricing as a percentage of revenue (which is technical not a revenue cut except your fee scales pretty linarly with revenue).

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Re:Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding by symfrog on Sunday April 07, 2024 @08:02AM (#39960184)
Did you consider Kill Bill https://github.com/killbill/killbill ? I used it a few years ago for usage based billing.
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Re:Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding by carlosjobim on Sunday April 07, 2024 @08:38AM (#39960337)
Why do you spend time talking to 5 different payment providers while still not billing even $1000 per month?
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Re:Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding by redslazer on Sunday April 07, 2024 @10:11AM (#39960901)
We are billing more than $1000 a month :). The providers didn’t want our business for less than $1000 per month (at a heavily discounted time limited price).

We talked to this many providers because it’s a huge pain point for us and the thing we hacked together was inadequate for tracking usage.

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Re:Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding by helsinkiandrew on Sunday April 07, 2024 @09:04AM (#39960488)
> Why do you spend time talking to 5 different payment providers while still not billing even $1000 per month?

Presumably because "no one was interested" in taking their business?

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Re:Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding by carlosjobim on Sunday April 07, 2024 @09:31AM (#39960637)
Stripe doesn't have any lowest limit, as far as I know.
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Re:Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding by sturgill on Sunday April 07, 2024 @09:12AM (#39960531)
This is actually a space I’m exploring. Would love to chat about your use case if you’re interested. Shoot me an email at chris. Domain name revenuehq.com.
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Re:Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding by jngiam1 on Sunday April 07, 2024 @12:44PM (#39961934)
https://www.stigg.io/ might fit (we are in the midst of integrating it into our product and it’s been good so far)
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Re:Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding by cable on Sunday April 07, 2024 @03:03PM (#39962920)
Take a look at https://revenium.io (full disclosure: I'm co-founder/cto.) We are a fully hosted solution with a free/developer tier and plans that start at $19/month. We also have a self-hosted option.
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