# Lago vs Metronome (slim)

> Metronome scores 69.7 (B) to Lago's 65.7 (B) for usage billing. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Metronome scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Lago's 65.7 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Lago leads on reliability, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do usage billing.

- Lago: B 65.7, rank #311 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lago.min.md
- Metronome: B 69.7, rank #173 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/metronome.min.md
- 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 68; Payments & pricing, 50 against 39; Maintenance & community, 91 against 82. Also Open source.
- Metronome, good for A company that meters usage and bills on contracts, credits and commits, with invoices delivered through Stripe, NetSuite or cloud marketplaces. Ahead on Security & auth, 68 against 37; Transparency & trust, 65 against 59. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Lago loses 3 points for them.

| Category | Lago | Metronome |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 86 | 68 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 37 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 39 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 91 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lago | Metronome |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Get Lago Corp. | Metronome (Stripe) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.metronome.com` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 (platform). The MCP server and agent SDKs are MIT. Premium capabilities and Lago Cloud are commercial | Proprietary service under the Stripe Services Agreement. The SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-28 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-04-28 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 11k stars, 48k npm/wk | 7 stars, 363k npm/wk |