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24 alternatives to Lotus – open-source pricing engine

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…

Lotus is an open-source pricing engine that handles billing for usage-based, hybrid, and custom pricing models. It lets teams test multiple pricing plans, version pricing changes like code, and meter usage with custom… 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 engine launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Lotus▲520

    Open-source pricing & billing

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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,…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Lago▲1,013

    Open-source alternative to Stripe Billing and Chargebee

    2023 · getlago.com · its alternatives →

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    Autumn▲719

    If you’re on tech twitter you may have noticed an increasing dissent with Stripe and it’s DX. t3.gg (Theo) summarizes it best: “IMO, the biggest issue with Stripe is the "split brain" it inherently introduces to your code base. When a customer checks out, the "state of the purchase" is in Stripe. You're then expected to track the purchase in your own database via webhooks. There are over 258 event types. It's far too easy to have a payment be failed in stripe and "subscribed" in your app.” We've built an OSS abstraction to build any pricing model 1 line of code. The idea is a layer over…

    2025 · useautumn.com · its alternatives →

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    AI-native billing & payments for usage-based AI products

    Jun 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Credyt▲100

    Hey 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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    AI Pricing Generator for your Product or SaaS

    2024 · pricingmaker.com · its alternatives →

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    Automated metering and billing for usage based pricing

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Swallow▲216

    Pricing infrastructure for modern insurers - AI & No-Code

    2023 · swallow.app · its alternatives →

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    Paigo▲267

    Automate billing for any pricing, 0% transaction fee forever

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    ZenVoice▲300

    Stripe invoices without the fee

    2024 · zenvoice.io · its alternatives →

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    Create embeddable pricing tables in minutes

    2024 · journey.io · its alternatives →

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    Stripe 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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    Invoya▲140

    Automate Stripe invoicing without the 0.4% fee

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I’am Koshima, co-founder of Flexprice (https://flexprice.io/). Flexprice is an open source monetization platform for AI & Agentic companies. You can build usage-based, credit-based, or hybrid pricing models with full control. Usage-based billing works on paper, but breaks fast in production: (1) High-volume data (e.g., 10k API calls/sec from AI inferences) breaks naive pipelines, dropping events and causing underbilling or customer complaints. (2) Backfilling missing events or retroactive discounts screws up invoices, forcing 3 AM log stitching to avoid revenue…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    LLMs price comparison tool developed and updated by LLM

    2024 · ailesson.io · its alternatives →

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    Flexprice▲240

    Hi 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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    AiPrice▲96

    API for calculating OpenAI LLM tokens and pricing

    2023 · aiprice.dev · its alternatives →

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    Calculate and compare the cost of the latest LLM APIs

    2024 · docsbot.ai · its alternatives →

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    UnitPay▲165

    Price, bill, and prove value for your AI product

    Jul 2026 · useunitpay.com · its alternatives →

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    Invoicing made simple

    2018 · billingengine.com · its alternatives →

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    Get paid promptly with software that makes it simple to create, send and manage invoices.

    2013 · invoiceomatic.io · its alternatives →

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    Pricing made easy for businesses

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Outcome Billing and Payments Infrastructure for AI Agents

    2023 · valmi.io · its alternatives →

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