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Autumn vs Lago

Our take

Pick Autumn if teams who will stay on Free at $0 (8K monthly billing volume, 10,000 customers, 10M API requests) while they open a first Plans editor, then buy Pro at $375 / month when volume or the data-warehouse tile matters. Pick Lago if finance-plus-eng teams who will stay on self-host $0 while they open a first customer billing overview, then request Lago Cloud when they want Lago to run ClickHouse / Kafka and

Autumn

Autumn

hosted (and open-source) Stripe

Lago

Lago

open-source usage-billing desk

Best for

Autumn Plans, entitlements, and balances you start at $0

Lago Plans, usage, and invoices you can start at $0

Free plan

Autumn $0 · / month. 8K monthly billing volume. 10,000 customers and entities. 10M API requests included. CLI and MCP. Community support

Lago $0 · you run the app. Premium features (invoice previews, extra entities, some integrations) are add-ons — do not invent those dollars

Lowest paid

Autumn Pro $375

Lago Not published by the vendor

Runs where

Autumn Local or hosted

Lago Local or hosted

Watch out

Autumn Free is 8K monthly billing volume and 10M API requests

Lago Cloud has no printed public $

Last checked

Autumn 2026-10-23 · useautumn.com/pricing

Lago 2026-10-23 · getlago.com/pricing

Which one, then?

Pick Autumn if

teams who will stay on Free at $0 (8K monthly billing volume, 10,000 customers, 10M API requests) while they open a first Plans editor, then buy Pro at $375 / month when volume or the data-warehouse tile matters.

Read the Autumn page

Pick Lago if

finance-plus-eng teams who will stay on self-host $0 while they open a first customer billing overview, then request Lago Cloud when they want Lago to run ClickHouse / Kafka and SOC 2 for them.

Read the Lago page

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