Our take
Pick Chargebee if finance / product teams who will stay on Starter at $0 (Chargebee Billing customers only) while they open a first Subscriptions list, then pay the Growth Flow tile at $0 + 0.80% or $99 / month + 0.65% once monthly invoicing volume is on the estimator. 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
Best for
Chargebee Plans you invoice with a public % tile
Lago Plans, usage, and invoices you can start at $0
Free plan
Chargebee $0 · “Launch subscriber growth experiments for free on enterprise-grade infrastructure.” Copy says exclusively for Chargebee Billing customers
Lago $0 · you run the app. Premium features (invoice previews, extra entities, some integrations) are add-ons — do not invent those dollars
Lowest paid
Chargebee Not published by the vendor
Lago Not published by the vendor
Runs where
Chargebee Local or hosted
Lago Local or hosted
Watch out
Chargebee Starter $0 is for Chargebee Billing customers
Lago Cloud has no printed public $
Last checked
Chargebee 2026-10-23 · chargebee.com/pricing
Lago 2026-10-23 · getlago.com/pricing
finance / product teams who will stay on Starter at $0 (Chargebee Billing customers only) while they open a first Subscriptions list, then pay the Growth Flow tile at $0 + 0.80% or $99 / month + 0.65% once monthly invoicing volume is on the estimator.
Read the Chargebee pagefinance-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.
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