# ATXP vs Lago (slim)

> Lago scores 65.7 (B) to ATXP's 42.9 (E) for usage billing. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Lago scores 65.7 (B) on agent readiness against ATXP's 42.9 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ATXP leads on payments & pricing. Both do usage billing.

- ATXP: E 42.9, rank #887 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atxp.min.md
- Lago: B 65.7, rank #311 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lago.min.md
- ATXP, good for An agent that needs to start with no human signup and pay small amounts for inference, search, media, email or SMS from one balance, and builders who want to charge per MCP tool call. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 75 against 50. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Lago loses 3 points for them.
- Lago, good for A team that wants usage metering, plans, wallets and invoicing under its own control and can run PostgreSQL and Redis. Ahead on Reliability, 86 against 13; Schema & documentation, 87 against 54; Agent ergonomics, 71 against 51; Maintenance & community, 91 against 33; Transparency & trust, 59 against 43. Also Open source.

| Category | ATXP | Lago |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 13 | 86 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 54 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 51 | 71 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 41 | 37 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 75 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 33 | 91 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 43 | 59 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ATXP | Lago |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Circuit & Chisel, Inc. | Get Lago Corp. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://llm.atxp.ai/v1` | no (local only) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | payer tooling only | no |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Circuit & Chisel's Terms of Service. The SDK packages and the `atxp` CLI on GitHub are MIT | AGPL-3.0 (platform). The MCP server and agent SDKs are MIT. Premium capabilities and Lago Cloud are commercial |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-06-02 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-03 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-17 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 6 stars, 499 npm/wk | 11k stars, 48k npm/wk |