Lago
Billing & Subscription Management
2backers · Y Combinator, SignalFire
50+team · employees, estimated range
2021founded
34stories in the press
Overview
Lago is an open-source billing platform for usage-based and hybrid pricing, used by software and AI companies to meter events, apply pricing plans and generate invoices. It is offered as a self-hosted open-source project and as a managed cloud service with integrations for payment providers and accounting tools. The company is registered in Delaware, United States.
Key facts
These are the key facts about Lago on Alion as of Nov 13, 2026. Lago is headquartered in Mexico City. It was founded in 2021.
- Headquarters
- Mexico CityAlion company profile, updated Nov 5, 2026
- Founded
- 2021Alion company profile, updated Nov 5, 2026
- Employees
- 50+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Technologies in its job postings
- 124Named in its job postings
Funding and backers
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Backers
2
Y Combinator, SignalFire
Momentum
30/100
in the news, rising traction
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 17
First role in Honduras Frontend Developer (React / Shopify Hydrogen)
Aug 7
First role in North Macedonia Back-End Engineer (Talent pool)
Feb 21, 2025
On the Hacker News front page I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen · 172 points
Sep 18, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Problems with homemade billing systems · 179 points
Oct 13, 2022
On the Hacker News front page Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing? · 336 points
May 18, 2022
On the Hacker News front page Billing systems are a nightmare for engineers · 777 points
Oct 11, 2021
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Lago (YC S21): Operationalize Metabase dashboards in a few clicks
Jun 2021
Went through Y Combinator
2021
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Get Lago Corp. | its site |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
23/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
0
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
66 days
faster than 19% of the market
Hiring Dynamics
-100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Marketing
23% ▼
Management
15% ▼
Sales
15% ▲
Early Careers
13% ▼
HR
8% ▼
Frontend
6% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Marketo to stack
Sep 2026
Added Scrum to stack
Sep 2026
Added Waterfall to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added VPN to stack
Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack
Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Added DHCP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Active Directory to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Lago over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
124
Postings analysed
70
Stack modernity
85/100AI adopter
Languages
JavaScript30%
Python27%
PHP23%
SQL17%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js13%
React Router7%
Django6%
Vue.js6%
Databases
PostgreSQL10%
MySQL7%
Redis7%
DynamoDB4%
Cloud & platforms
Figma27%
AWS20%
GCP19%
Azure16%
AI & ML
ChatGPT4%
Claude4%
LLM3%
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124 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
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News
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The White House has insisted there is no conflict of interest in the settlement deal, which ends offshore projects in New York, California and Louisiana
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AI Billing: The Complete Guide
How AI companies actually price and bill for tokens, credits, seats, and outcomes and the metering infrastructure it takes to make any of it work at scale.
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Report
AI Billing is (mostly) token plumbing
Why we built the Lago Agent SDK, and what we're shipping next.We just released the Lago Agent SDK. Two libraries, Python and TypeScript. They wrap your LLM client and send token usage to Lago for billing. That's the surface.The point is what you stop doin
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Embedded software is the biggest growth opportunity for open source
When you link your bank account to Venmo, you're not using Venmo's technology, you're using Plaid. An Uber sends you a ride notification, that originates with Twilio. Maps in Strava, Doordash or Instacart? Powered by Mapbox.These are some of the most succ
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When building AI chat is actually hard (how and why we built our agents)
Most AI features in SaaS are glorified search bars - a chatbot that reads your docs and rephrases the answer. We didn't want to build that. We wanted to build agents that can apply discounts, void invoices, and retry payments - which surfaces open-source
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Trump's Geoeconomic Ripple Effect Widens Council on Foreign Relations
Several economic proposals that Trump ally Stephen Miran articulated in the
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How Donald Trump watched Operation Absolute Resolve live from Mar-a-Lago - Geek Room
As the world has just learned the sensational news of Nicolás Maduro
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
0
Countries
2
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Mexico City
Mexico
HQ
3 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
Dover
United States
Regional office
Lago
1111B S Governors Ave #7455, Dover, 19904
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