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 – Open source pricing and packaging infrastructure launched on November 6, 2022 with 120 votes, #336 of 3,471 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
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 addresses fragmentation between billing, payments, feature limits, metering, and CRM systems, enabling faster pricing experimentation. Built for developers, it offers an MIT-licensed foundation that can be extended for custom pricing and integration needs.
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From the sources
Open Source Pricing & Packaging Infrastructure. Contribute to uselotus/lotus development by creating an account on GitHub.
In the maker’s words, at launch
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…
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