How much does Lago cost?

Lago publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Build (Free) up to On request for Scale. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Build (Free) and Pro on Lago?

Pro costs $399/month against Free, and adds 10,000 entities included (graduated pricing to 100k), 25m usage events included (to 500m with graduated rates), 10k events per second (upgradeable to 100k), custom-branded widgets.

Is the Scale plan on Lago worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom entity and event volumes, 50k events per second (upgradeable to 100k), rbac and sso (saml), multiple billing integrations. It costs On request against $399/month for Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which accounting tools can I use without paying?

2 of the 8 accounting tools listed alongside Lago have a free tier: Stigg, Polar.

Does Lago charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Lago prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Lago against before paying?

The closest accounting tools in this directory are Orb, Creem, Stigg, Dodo Payments. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Lago covering price, platforms and features.

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Lago pricing

Lago publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free
Model: Freemium with optional paid tiers
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Yes

Lago plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Lago pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Build (Free)	Free	8	Entry tier
Pro	$399/month	8	+$399/month, 8 more features
Scale	On request	7	Priced on request

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Build (Free)

Free

The entry tier. It covers 10,000 managed entities per month, 5m usage events per month, 1k events per second rate limit, full credits and entitlements engine, stripe integration, hubspot integration.

Pro

$399/month

Over Build (Free), this tier adds:

10,000 entities included (graduated pricing to 100K)
25M usage events included (to 500M with graduated rates)
10K events per second (upgradeable to 100K)
Custom-branded widgets
Unlimited products
Webhooks and full audit logs
Standard support (2-hour SLA)
99.95% uptime SLA

Scale

On request

Over Pro, this tier adds:

Custom entity and event volumes
50K events per second (upgradeable to 100K)
RBAC and SSO (SAML)
Multiple billing integrations
Premium support (1-hour SLA)
99.99% uptime SLA
Annual contracts

Where Lago stops being free

Build (Free), Free

10,000 managed entities per month
5M usage events per month
1K events per second rate limit
Full credits and entitlements engine
Stripe integration
HubSpot integration
Community support
Open-source codebase

Pro, $399/month

The first thing you pay for:

10,000 entities included (graduated pricing to 100K)
25M usage events included (to 500M with graduated rates)
10K events per second (upgradeable to 100K)
Custom-branded widgets
Unlimited products
Webhooks and full audit logs
Standard support (2-hour SLA)
99.95% uptime SLA

What the product covers

The full Lago feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Core

Real-time usage metering
Multiple pricing models
Automated invoicing
Prepaid credits
Entitlements
Multi-currency support

Integrations

Payment orchestration

Analytics

Revenue analytics

People bring Lago in for building usage-based billing for high-volume apis and infrastructure, implementing metered billing for ai and tokenized services, creating subscription and hybrid pricing models, managing multi-currency billing for global companies, maintaining billing infrastructure without vendor lock-in. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Lago are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Accounting

Too few accounting tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Lago entry price against other Accounting tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Lago (this page)	Free	Freemium with optional paid tiers	-
Orb	On request	Custom pricing based on billing volume and events	-	vs Lago
Creem	$3.9/percent	Per-transaction flat rate	-	vs Lago
Stigg	Free, then $399/month	Freemium with usage-based and custom tiers	-	vs Lago
Dodo Payments	$4/percent + $0.40	Percentage of transaction plus fixed per-transaction fee	-	vs Lago
Metronome	On request	Usage-based and custom	-	vs Lago
Polar	Free, then $20/month	Percentage of transaction plus per-transaction fee	-	vs Lago

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Lago badges page.

Before you pay for Lago

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Lago runs on web, cloud, self-hosted, on-premise, vpc, and is published by Lago. The full record is on the Lago review, and the rest of the category is under best accounting tools.

Lago pricing on the vendor's own site

Lago pricing questions

How much does Lago cost?: Lago publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Build (Free) up to On request for Scale. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Lago have a free plan?: Yes. The Build (Free) tier costs nothing and covers 10,000 managed entities per month, 5m usage events per month, 1k events per second rate limit. Paying starts at $399/month for Pro.
What is the difference between Build (Free) and Pro on Lago?: Pro costs $399/month against Free, and adds 10,000 entities included (graduated pricing to 100k), 25m usage events included (to 500m with graduated rates), 10k events per second (upgradeable to 100k), custom-branded widgets.
Is the Scale plan on Lago worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom entity and event volumes, 50k events per second (upgradeable to 100k), rbac and sso (saml), multiple billing integrations. It costs On request against $399/month for Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which accounting tools can I use without paying?: 2 of the 8 accounting tools listed alongside Lago have a free tier: Stigg, Polar.
What am I actually paying for with Lago?: The record lists 8 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, analytics. In practice it is brought in for building usage-based billing for high-volume apis and infrastructure, implementing metered billing for ai and tokenized services, creating subscription and hybrid pricing models.
Does Lago charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Lago prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Lago against before paying?: The closest accounting tools in this directory are Orb, Creem, Stigg, Dodo Payments. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Lago covering price, platforms and features.