Lago (YC S21): Operationalize Metabase dashboards in a few clicks
Open-source billing for usage, subscriptions and hybrid pricing. Lago customers include CoreWeave, Mistral AI and PayPal.
Lago (YC S21): Operationalize Metabase dashboards in a few clicks launched on October 11, 2021 with 17 votes, #1,166 of 2,933 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
In plain words
Lago is a tool that makes it easy to operationalize Metabase dashboards with minimal setup. It enables users to take their analytics dashboards and put them into action quickly through a simplified process. The product is designed for teams and organizations that want to move beyond viewing data in Metabase and start using those insights operationally. Lago streamlines what would typically require significant manual work or custom development into a straightforward workflow.
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From the sources
Lago helps companies like CoreWeave, Mistral AI and PayPal manage and scale any pricing model with full transparency, control and flexibility. Engineering gets granular usage data. Finance gets a clear path from consumption to revenue. Illustrative stacked bar chart of 18 days of AI usage, totaling 1,185,000 tokens. Input, output, and cached tokens are measured separately. Daily usage grows from 24,000 to 135,000 tokens. Every token, captured. Meter input, output, and cached tokens separately. Attribute usage to each customer, so every event has a place on the bill. See how ambitious teams build and scale their billing with Lago. Role-based access control to set user roles and permissions.…from getlago.com
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