Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Lotus – Open source pricing and packaging infrastructure
Hi HN! We’re building an open-source pricing & packaging engine for SaaS with a built-in billing system. (https://github.com/uselotus/lotus). We strongly believe pricing is the largest untapped growth lever for SaaS, primarily because pricing affects so many critical systems that don’t talk to each other (billing, payments, feature limits, metering, and CRM). We’re building this infrastructure to fix this and enable quick experimentation. Lotus acts as a central repository for all of your pricing plans and utilizes your payment gateway, to manage usage-based, per-seat,…
Lotus is an open-source pricing and billing engine for SaaS companies. It centralizes pricing plans and integrates with payment gateways to manage usage-based, per-seat, and enterprise pricing models. The tool… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Lotus – Open source pricing and packaging infrastructure launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN! We discovered that no one innovates on pricing because every billing software is inflexible. Excited to share our progress with Lotus entering beta (full MIT license, https://github.com/uselotus/lotus). New features: * backtest and run analysis comparing multiple plans * version pricing plans like you version code * Meter and aggregate usage flexibly with custom SQL * billing for usage-based pricing, hybrid, bespoke contracts * generate invoice pdfs or integrate with Stripe, Braintree, Netsuite, Salesforce * webhooks to send alerts when usage thresholds are high…
2023 · demo.uselotus.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Christine and Steven here. As a PM and engineer, we’ve both evaluated and purchased a lot of software. One of the biggest frustrations was figuring out how much it would cost us without having to go through the sales process. When we did have a quote, we had no idea if we were getting a good deal or ripped off. We built a site where you can see what other companies are actually paying for SaaS and enterprise software. Buyers contribute prices via quotes, pricing proposals, and other documentation to ensure quality. We unlocked Talkdesk for Show HN users so that you can use the…
2024 · pricelevel.com · its alternatives →
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Pricing Maker▲414AI Pricing Generator for your Product or SaaS
2024 · pricingmaker.com · its alternatives →
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Lago▲1,013Open-source alternative to Stripe Billing and Chargebee
2023 · getlago.com · its alternatives →
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Figure out the right pricing for your SaaS product
2021 · indiebrands.io · its alternatives →
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Explore, compare and monitor SaaS pricing strategies
2023 · explorer.hyperline.co · its alternatives →
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Swallow▲216Pricing infrastructure for modern insurers - AI & No-Code
2023 · swallow.app · its alternatives →
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Hello HN Community, As an ex-founder of a developers-for-hire agency, I was fortunate to build for many different software organizations around the world, and partner with the most talented product teams. One of the things I learned by coding was how painful it is to build & maintain pricing in SaaS. The pricing structure and logic always end up being coupled with the core application code and the billing platform. The product catalog is typically managed in spreadsheets, by the product & monetization teams, while all the possible package types, including the legacy ones, are typically…
2022 · docs.stigg.io · its alternatives →
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Flexprice▲240Hi HN, We're building flexprice, a monetization platform that helps making usage-based, credit based and hybrid pricing easier and We recently added a managed-storage option to the S3 export system in Flexprice. Originally, S3 exports required the usual setup: your own bucket, IAM policy, access keys, region config, and ongoing credential management. That works if you already have infra in place, but it adds a lot of overhead for teams that just want recurring exports for invoices, events, or credit reports. Now there are two options: - bring your own S3 bucket - use a Flexprice-managed S3…
2025 · flexprice.io · its alternatives →
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Credyt▲100Hey HN! I'm the founder of Credyt (https://credyt.ai). If you're running an AI product that burns $0.50+ per interaction, you need to bill customers as usage happens, not at the end of the month. Otherwise you're a bank for your customers, and you'll run out of money before they do. Why invoice-based billing doesn't work for AI: Most usage-based billing tools (Stripe Billing, Orb, etc.) were built for SaaS. They meter usage all month, then send an invoice. That works fine when your COGS is 5%. It's a disaster when you're paying your AI vendor upfront for every request and your…
Nov 2025 · credyt.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Nir, Gal and Tomer here. Last week, we open-sourced Enrolla (https://github.com/enrolla/enrolla) - feature management for SaaS companies. It makes it easy for developers to control how their product behaves for customers in different pricing tiers. So things like which features are enabled for whom, rate limits and seat limits, but also your customer secrets (with end-to-end encryption), and other configurations. After 15 years of working together at various companies, where we rebuilt the same SaaS foundation layer again and again - we wanted to create something…
2023 · enrolla.io · its alternatives →
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Paritydeals▲331Stripe is great, but is not simple. You end up handling many webhooks, mirroring Stripe data, tracking subscription states, and hardcoding feature checks. Managing upgrades, downgrades, migrations, overrides, and grandfathering often needs custom scripts. ParityDeals keeps that billing logic out of your app. Once you integrate ParityDeals SDK, you can manage everything from a single dashboard. No further code changes required. I'd love to hear your feedback
2025 · paritydeals.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, we are Jevon, Blake and Isaac, we've been working on Tier for a little while ( http://github.com/tierrun/tier ) Tier is "Terraform for Stripe" but it goes further and gives you feature flag style access checks, and allows you to count/report usage which can be used for metered billing. When we started Tier, we knew that there was something interesting in the SaaS pricing and packaging space. Adjusting price is the single most effective lever a business can use to achieve product/market fit, and there's a strong correlation price nimbleness and market…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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UnitPay▲165Price, bill, and prove value for your AI product
Jul 2026 · useunitpay.com · its alternatives →
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Amberflo▲157Cloud metering and usage-based pricing and billing for SaaS
2022 · amberflo.io · its alternatives →
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Build a custom billing system in minutes with just config
2025 · billingrails.com · its alternatives →
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Bunny▲118Subscription management, billing, quoting and analytics
2023 · bunny.com · its alternatives →
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