What it sells
The AI Native Billing Platform
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedEngineering and finance leads who would otherwise build billing in-house.
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
Shipping usage-based, credit and hybrid pricing for AI products without building billing from scratch.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Meter usage events, define plans and entitlements, generate invoices, collect cash, recognize revenue and analyze, via API, CLI or MCP.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Open-source core (self-hosted) plus paid Lago Premium (cloud or self-hosted) with add-ons and professional services.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Open source on GitHub, developer docs/API, demo-led sales for Premium.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Summer 2021 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.