{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "lago", "name": "Lago", "vendor": "Get Lago Corp.", "vendorUrl": "https://getlago.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "payment-platforms", "summary": "Lago is open-source billing software from Get Lago Corp. for usage metering, subscriptions, prepaid credits and invoicing. It is self-hosted under AGPL-3.0 or bought as Lago Cloud, and driven through a REST API, SDKs, a CLI and an MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lago", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lago.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lago.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lago.json", "repo": "https://github.com/getlago/lago", "license": "AGPL-3.0 (platform). The MCP server and agent SDKs are MIT. Premium capabilities and Lago Cloud are commercial", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "oci", "name": "getlago/lago" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "lago-python-client" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "lago-javascript-client" }, { "registry": "go", "name": "github.com/getlago/lago-go-client" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "The REST API takes an organisation API key as a Bearer token. On a self-hosted instance a person signs up in the local UI and copies the key from the Developers section, or the Compose files create the organisation and key from `LAGO_CREATE_ORG` and `LAGO_ORG_API_KEY`. The free edition has one key with full access, which can be rotated. More keys need a Premium licence and per-resource `read`, `write` or `read_write` permissions need an enterprise add-on. No OAuth flow exists.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The open-source edition is free to self-host under AGPL-3.0, with no card or account. Lago Cloud and Premium self-hosted are sold by custom quote. The pricing summary states a five-figure minimum annual commitment for Cloud and publishes no rate. It also says a Cloud free trial is available, which the docs FAQ contradicts. No sandbox exists, so tests run on a separate instance or organisation (https://getlago.com/pricing.md, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402. Lago's llms.txt says direct x402 and general agent-wallet support are not available. Stripe Shared Payment Token collection is a public preview behind a feature flag (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 10665, "npmWeekly": 48093, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://getlago.com/docs/welcome", "llmsTxt": "https://getlago.com/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://swagger.getlago.com/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "payments.metering", "payments.card" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "agpl", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "mcp", "cli", "python", "typescript", "ruby", "go", "docker", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 65.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 311, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 91, "payments": 50, "reliability": 86, "schema": 87, "security": 37, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "9 October 2026. https://getlago.com/llms.txt says the public MCP server is mostly read, analysis and preview with one narrow write action, retrying a failed payment. The server's source at https://github.com/getlago/lago-agent-toolkit (mcp/src/server.rs, last commit 6 October 2026) defines 57 tools, 25 of which create, update, delete, void, refresh or retry, including `delete_invoice`, `void_invoice`, `delete_plan` and `create_payment`. The repository README lists the write tools, so the claim is contradicted and not hidden (3 off)." ], "verdict": "Lago's open-source edition runs usage metering, plans, wallets and invoicing on the owner's servers at no charge, with an OpenAPI 3.1 file of 217 operations and releases about every two weeks. The free edition has one unscoped API key and no audit logs, and Lago's llms.txt understates what its MCP server can change.", "bestFor": "A team that wants usage metering, plans, wallets and invoicing under its own control and can run PostgreSQL and Redis.", "strengths": [ "The whole platform is AGPL-3.0 and installs from the official `getlago/lago` Docker image or Helm charts, with no software fee", "Public OpenAPI 3.1 description with 217 operations, 339 schemas and 76 webhook events, plus llms.txt, a full-text docs export and Markdown twins", "Six tagged releases between 27 July and 7 October 2026, and the five latest test runs on the API's main branch passed on 8 and 9 October", "Usage events are deduplicated on `transaction_id`, so a retried event is billed once when it is resent unchanged", "Self-hosted analytics are listed event by event and switched off with `LAGO_DISABLE_SEGMENT=true`, which the source confirms" ], "weaknesses": [ "The free edition has one organisation API key with full access. Creating more keys needs a Premium licence and per-resource permissions need an enterprise add-on", "Activity logs are closed to free users, and activity, API and security logs also need ClickHouse", "Lago's llms.txt says the MCP server has one write action. Its source defines 57 tools, 25 of which create, update, delete, void or retry, with no read-only mode", "Lago Cloud and Premium have no public price. The pricing summary states a five-figure minimum annual commitment and a custom quote", "The pricing summary says a Lago Cloud free trial is available, and the docs FAQ says Premium plans have no free trial", "No security.txt, repository security policy or published advisory was found, and the privacy policy does not cover data held in the product" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `\u003cyour Lago API origin\u003e/api/v1` with `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. On Lago Cloud the hosts are `api.getlago.com` and `api.eu.getlago.com`", "Send every usage event with a deterministic `transaction_id` and an explicit `timestamp`, and resend the same payload on retry. On the ClickHouse event store a changed timestamp is billed again", "Expect 422 `value_already_exist` for a repeated event on the Postgres event store. Treat it as success for a retry", "Page with `page` and `per_page` and read `meta.next_page` and `meta.total_count`. The default page size is 100 in most cases", "Treat the free edition's API key as full access. It can void invoices and terminate subscriptions, so keep it out of prompts and ask a person before financial changes", "Before giving an assistant the MCP server, note that it includes `delete_invoice`, `void_invoice`, `delete_plan` and `create_payment` and sets no read-only annotations" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 65.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 91, "payments": 50, "reliability": 86, "schema": 87, "security": 37, "transparency": 77 }, "provenanceScore": 41 }, "connect": { "install": "docker run -d --name lago -p 80:80 -p 3000:3000 getlago/lago:latest", "http": "curl --location --request GET \"$LAGO_URL/api/v1/coupons?page=1\u0026per_page=10\" \\\n --header \"Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "lago": { "args": [ "run", "--rm", "-i", "--pull=always", "--name", "lago-mcp-server", "-e", "LAGO_API_KEY=your_lago_api_key", "-e", "LAGO_API_URL=your_lago_api_url", "getlago/lago-mcp-server:latest" ], "command": "docker" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/payments.metering", "tool": "https://letme.dev/lago" }, "area": "payments", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Get Lago Corp.", "domain": "getlago.com", "domainRegistered": "2020-11-27", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://getlago.com/docs/changelog/product", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The privacy policy and the Lago Cloud terms name Get Lago Corp., 1111B S Governors Ave #7455, Dover, DE 19904, United States, company number 86-3963083.", "No terms link is given because the edition graded is AGPL-3.0 software the owner runs. The Lago Self-Hosted Terms and Conditions (updated 9 March 2024) say they apply to self-hosted Premium plans, and the Lago Cloud terms apply through an order form.", "No privacy link is given. The privacy policy (updated 18 September 2026) covers customers' representatives, suppliers, candidates and site visitors, and does not address data held in a self-hosted instance or the Segment analytics it sends.", "The API answers on the owner's own host. Lago Cloud answers at api.getlago.com and api.eu.getlago.com.", "status.getlago.com, on incident.io, covers the US and EU Lago Cloud clusters only, so no status page is recorded for the graded edition.", "getlago.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. The security page gives security@getlago.com.", "RDAP for getlago.com gives a registration date of 2020-11-27 and Gandi SAS as registrar." ], "score": 41 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lago.json", "live": { "slug": "lago", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "getlago/lago", "version": "v1.55.0", "released": "2026-10-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:01:07.029964093Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "lago-javascript-client", "version": "1.55.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:01:06.180706665Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "lago-python-client", "version": "1.55.0", "released": "2026-10-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:01:05.951391418Z" } ], "githubStars": 10667, "npmWeekly": 48093, "pypiWeekly": 4510, "pages": [ { "url": "https://getlago.com/docs/changelog/product", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:39:49.512530703Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "37091c8d6eb7" }, { "url": "https://getlago.com/pricing.md", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:39:51.811950235Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b4af57318431" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T18:39:51.811950235Z" } }, "answer": "Orb and Lago score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 66.5 (B) and 65.7 (B). Lago leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "orb", "name": "Orb", "vendor": "Orb, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.withorb.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "payment-platforms", "summary": "Orb is a hosted billing platform for usage-based, seat-based and hybrid pricing. It ingests usage events, computes metrics, and runs plans, subscriptions, prepaid credits and invoices through a REST API with SDKs in six languages.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orb.json", "repo": "https://github.com/orbcorp/orb-python", "license": "Proprietary service under Orb's Platform Terms and Conditions. The SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.withorb.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "orb-billing" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "orb-billing" }, { "registry": "go", "name": "github.com/orbcorp/orb-go" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "The API takes an API key as a Bearer token. A person creates it in the Orb web app under organisation settings, in test mode or live mode, after Orb's sales team has opened the account. No self-serve sign-up, OAuth flow or programmatic key API was found. Keys can be revoked, which is irreversible, and no scope list was found in the docs.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public prices. Core, Advanced and Enterprise all show custom pricing, based on billings and ingested events, with a platform fee on the upper two tiers, and each starts with a sales contact. The terms describe a 30-day free trial that Orb may grant, and test mode works as a sandbox once an account exists. No free tier was found (https://www.withorb.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI description, the docs index or the pricing page. Orb can charge a Stripe Shared Payment Token granted by a buyer's agent, through the merchant's Stripe account and on request (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 5, "npmWeekly": 184768, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.withorb.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.withorb.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.withorb.com/api-reference/orb-openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "payments.metering", "payments.card" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "sales-led", "enterprise", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "python", "typescript", "go", "java", "kotlin", "ruby", "status-page", "soc2", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-09", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 289, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 84, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 5, "reliability": 77, "schema": 88, "security": 55, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Orb suits a company that bills on usage and wants one API for events, plans, credits and invoices. It publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 file, numeric rate limits, idempotency keys and a dry-run header. Every plan is priced on request and access starts with sales. No scope list for API keys or public sub-processor list was found.", "bestFor": "A software or AI company that bills on usage and needs event metering, plan versioning, prepaid credits, invoicing and revenue reporting behind one API, with Stripe or Adyen collecting the money.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.1 description with 147 operations and 79 webhook events, plus llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page", "`Idempotency-Key` on every POST and PATCH for 48 hours, with `Idempotent-Replayed` and `Transient-Error` response headers", "A `Dry-Run: True` header validates most write requests and returns the would-be result without saving it", "Rate limits are published per category for live, test and trial accounts, from 10 analytics queries a second to 100 reads a second in live mode", "SDKs for Python, TypeScript and Go were each released on 9 October 2026, with 30 Python releases since 11 July" ], "weaknesses": [ "All three plans (Core, Advanced, Enterprise) show custom pricing only, and the pricing page sends new customers to sales", "No list of API key scopes or a read-only key was found. Keys are created in the web app and revocation is irreversible", "Audit logs are in private preview and limited to the Enterprise plan", "The DPA and SOC reports sit behind an access request, and no public sub-processor list or hosting region was found", "The SDK changelog shows the ingestion `debug` parameter removed on 12 September 2026 while the reliability page still refers to it, and the product changelog has no entry" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `https://api.withorb.com/v1` with `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. A person creates the key in the Orb web app under organisation settings, in test mode or live mode", "Send an `Idempotency-Key` of at most 64 characters on every POST and PATCH. A 409 means the first request is still running or the body changed", "Add `Dry-Run: True` to check a write first, and confirm `Orb-Dry-Run: true` in the response. Ingest, amend and deprecate event calls ignore it and run for real", "Do not send `Idempotency-Key` with `Dry-Run`. Orb returns a validation error", "Page with `limit` (default 20, maximum 100) and pass `next_cursor` back as `cursor` while `has_more` is true", "Back off exponentially on 429. Test mode allows 5 writes a second and 2,000 ingested events a minute" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 66.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 84, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 5, "reliability": 77, "schema": 88, "security": 55, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 84 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install orb-billing", "http": "curl --request POST \\\n --url https://api.withorb.com/v1/subscriptions \\\n --header 'Dry-Run: True' \\\n --header 'Accept: application/json' \\\n --header 'Authorization: Bearer \u003cTOKEN\u003e' \\\n --header 'Content-Type: application/json'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/payments.metering", "tool": "https://letme.dev/orb" }, "area": "payments", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Orb, Inc.", "domain": "withorb.com", "domainRegistered": "2019-10-12", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.withorb.com/terms", "privacy": "https://www.withorb.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.withorb.com", "changelog": "https://changelog.withorb.com", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The website terms of use (effective 21 April 2025) give Orb, Inc., 2261 Market Street #5171, San Francisco, CA 94114. The trust centre and the API description's contact block also name Orb, Inc.", "The Platform Terms and Conditions at /terms govern the Orb Platform and Orb API to the extent an Order Form refers to them, under California law. No version date was read on the page.", "The privacy policy was last updated on 7 May 2025 and covers data collected through the website and the product, including end customers' names and billing addresses.", "The API answers at api.withorb.com and the web app at app.withorb.com, both on the vendor's domain.", "www.withorb.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. The security page gives security@withorb.com and a written disclosure scope.", "RDAP for withorb.com gives a registration date of 2019-10-12 and Squarespace Domains II LLC as registrar.", "The DPA is available on request by email or through the trust centre at security.withorb.com, and was not read." ], "score": 84 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb.json", "live": { "slug": "orb", "probe": { "target": "https://api.withorb.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:19.26710225Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 403, "lastMs": 279, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 258, "p95ms24h": 369, "samples24h": 107, "samples30d": 107, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 22, "ok": 22 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.withorb.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T02:06:21.191359015Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "orbcorp/orb-python", "version": "v4.83.0", "released": "2026-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:11:19.948988838Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "orb-billing", "version": "6.27.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:11:19.103890585Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "orb-billing", "version": "4.83.0", "released": "2026-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:11:18.985061165Z" } ], "githubStars": 5, "npmWeekly": 184768, "pypiWeekly": 334816, "pages": [ { "url": "https://changelog.withorb.com", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:33:43.924244658Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2f5e7d2a385a" }, { "url": "https://www.withorb.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:55:42.770953537Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a352af138f81" }, { "url": "https://www.withorb.com/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:55:45.239973302Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1516bbe57809" }, { "url": "https://www.withorb.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:55:47.191671669Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "4e15ade75c2a" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:19.26710225Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Get Lago Corp.", "b": "Orb, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.withorb.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "AGPL-3.0 (platform). The MCP server and agent SDKs are MIT. Premium capabilities and Lago Cloud are commercial", "b": "Proprietary service under Orb's Platform Terms and Conditions. The SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-07", "b": "2026-10-09", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2024-11-13", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2025-05-07", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "11k stars, 48k npm/wk", "b": "5 stars, 185k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Orb and Lago score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 66.5 (B) and 65.7 (B). Lago leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Lago or Orb?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Lago and Orb need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Lago. Orb has a hosted endpoint at https://api.withorb.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Lago and Orb without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Lago is open source (AGPL-3.0 (platform). The MCP server and agent SDKs are MIT. Premium capabilities and Lago Cloud are commercial). No open-source release is listed for Orb.", "question": "Are Lago and Orb open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 86 against 77", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 5", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 91 against 82" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "A team that wants usage metering, plans, wallets and invoicing under its own control and can run PostgreSQL and Redis.", "slug": "lago", "watchFor": "The free edition has one organisation API key with full access. Creating more keys needs a Premium licence and per-resource permissions need an enterprise add-on" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 84 against 71", "Security \u0026 auth, 55 against 37", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 59" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "No incidents deducted, where Lago loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A software or AI company that bills on usage and needs event metering, plan versioning, prepaid credits, invoicing and revenue reporting behind one API, with Stripe or Adyen collecting the money.", "slug": "orb", "watchFor": "All three plans (Core, Advanced, Enterprise) show custom pricing only, and the pricing page sends new customers to sales" } ], "job": { "capability": "payments.metering", "name": "Usage billing" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atxp-vs-lago.json", "title": "ATXP vs Lago", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atxp-vs-lago" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atxp-vs-orb.json", "title": "ATXP vs Orb", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atxp-vs-orb" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-metronome.json", "title": "Lago vs Metronome", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-metronome" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-nevermined.json", "title": "Lago vs Nevermined API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-nevermined" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-paid.json", "title": "Lago vs Paid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-paid" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-stripe-mcp.json", "title": "Lago vs Stripe API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-stripe-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-tempo.json", "title": "Lago vs Tempo", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-skyfire" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orb-vs-payman.json", "title": "Orb vs Payman Genie MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orb-vs-payman" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orb-vs-skyfire.json", "title": "Orb vs Skyfire API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orb-vs-skyfire" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 9, "edge": "lago", "key": "reliability", "lago": 86, "name": "Reliability", "orb": 77, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "orb", "key": "schema", "lago": 87, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "orb": 88, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 13, "edge": "orb", "key": "ergonomics", "lago": 71, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "orb": 84, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 18, "edge": "orb", "key": "security", "lago": 37, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "orb": 55, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 45, "edge": "lago", "key": "payments", "lago": 50, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "orb": 5, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "lago", "key": "maintenance", "lago": 91, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "orb": 82, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "orb", "key": "transparency", "lago": 59, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "orb": 65, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Orb and Lago score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 66.5 (B) and 65.7 (B). Lago leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do usage billing.", "verdicts": { "lago": "Lago's open-source edition runs usage metering, plans, wallets and invoicing on the owner's servers at no charge, with an OpenAPI 3.1 file of 217 operations and releases about every two weeks. The free edition has one unscoped API key and no audit logs, and Lago's llms.txt understates what its MCP server can change.", "orb": "Orb suits a company that bills on usage and wants one API for events, plans, credits and invoices. It publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 file, numeric rate limits, idempotency keys and a dry-run header. Every plan is priced on request and access starts with sales. No scope list for API keys or public sub-processor list was found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-orb", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-orb.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-orb.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-orb.min.md" }, "markdown": "Orb and Lago score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 66.5 (B) and 65.7 (B). Lago leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do usage billing.\n\n- Lago: grade B, 65.7/100, rank #311 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lago.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lago.json\n- Orb: grade B, 66.5/100, rank #289 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orb.json\n- Best payment and monetisation platforms for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/payment-platforms/index.md\n- All 76 platforms comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/payment-platforms/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Lago (B)\n\nGood for: A team that wants usage metering, plans, wallets and invoicing under its own control and can run PostgreSQL and Redis.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 86 against 77\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 5\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 91 against 82\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The free edition has one organisation API key with full access. Creating more keys needs a Premium licence and per-resource permissions need an enterprise add-on\n\n### Orb (B)\n\nGood for: A software or AI company that bills on usage and needs event metering, plan versioning, prepaid credits, invoicing and revenue reporting behind one API, with Stripe or Adyen collecting the money.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 84 against 71\n- Security \u0026 auth, 55 against 37\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 59\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- No incidents deducted, where Lago loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: All three plans (Core, Advanced, Enterprise) show custom pricing only, and the pricing page sends new customers to sales\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Lago | Orb | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 86 | 77 | Lago +9 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 88 | Orb +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 84 | Orb +13 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 37 | 55 | Orb +18 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 5 | Lago +45 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 91 | 82 | Lago +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 65 | Orb +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **65.7 · B** | **66.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Lago | Orb |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Get Lago Corp. | Orb, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.withorb.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | AGPL-3.0 (platform). The MCP server and agent SDKs are MIT. Premium capabilities and Lago Cloud are commercial | Proprietary service under Orb's Platform Terms and Conditions. The SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-09 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2024-11-13 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2025-05-07 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 11k stars, 48k npm/wk | 5 stars, 185k npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Lago.** Lago's open-source edition runs usage metering, plans, wallets and invoicing on the owner's servers at no charge, with an OpenAPI 3.1 file of 217 operations and releases about every two weeks. The free edition has one unscoped API key and no audit logs, and Lago's llms.txt understates what its MCP server can change.\n\n**Orb.** Orb suits a company that bills on usage and wants one API for events, plans, credits and invoices. It publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 file, numeric rate limits, idempotency keys and a dry-run header. Every plan is priced on request and access starts with sales. No scope list for API keys or public sub-processor list was found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Lago\n\n1. Call `\u003cyour Lago API origin\u003e/api/v1` with `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. On Lago Cloud the hosts are `api.getlago.com` and `api.eu.getlago.com`\n2. Send every usage event with a deterministic `transaction_id` and an explicit `timestamp`, and resend the same payload on retry. On the ClickHouse event store a changed timestamp is billed again\n3. Expect 422 `value_already_exist` for a repeated event on the Postgres event store. Treat it as success for a retry\n4. Page with `page` and `per_page` and read `meta.next_page` and `meta.total_count`. The default page size is 100 in most cases\n5. Treat the free edition's API key as full access. It can void invoices and terminate subscriptions, so keep it out of prompts and ask a person before financial changes\n6. Before giving an assistant the MCP server, note that it includes `delete_invoice`, `void_invoice`, `delete_plan` and `create_payment` and sets no read-only annotations\n\n### Orb\n\n1. Call `https://api.withorb.com/v1` with `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. A person creates the key in the Orb web app under organisation settings, in test mode or live mode\n2. Send an `Idempotency-Key` of at most 64 characters on every POST and PATCH. A 409 means the first request is still running or the body changed\n3. Add `Dry-Run: True` to check a write first, and confirm `Orb-Dry-Run: true` in the response. Ingest, amend and deprecate event calls ignore it and run for real\n4. Do not send `Idempotency-Key` with `Dry-Run`. Orb returns a validation error\n5. Page with `limit` (default 20, maximum 100) and pass `next_cursor` back as `cursor` while `has_more` is true\n6. Back off exponentially on 429. Test mode allows 5 writes a second and 2,000 ingested events a minute\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Lago or Orb?\n\nOrb and Lago score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 66.5 (B) and 65.7 (B). Lago leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Lago and Orb need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Lago and Orb without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Lago. Orb has a hosted endpoint at https://api.withorb.com/v1.\n\n### Are Lago and Orb open source?\n\nLago is open source (AGPL-3.0 (platform). The MCP server and agent SDKs are MIT. Premium capabilities and Lago Cloud are commercial). No open-source release is listed for Orb.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-orb.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-orb.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"lago\", \"b\": \"orb\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare lago orb`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lago.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orb.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Lago or Orb\n\n- [ATXP vs Lago](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atxp-vs-lago.md)\n- [ATXP vs Orb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atxp-vs-orb.md)\n- [Lago vs Metronome](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-metronome.md)\n- [Lago vs Nevermined API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-nevermined.md)\n- [Lago vs Paid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-paid.md)\n- [Lago vs Stripe API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-stripe-mcp.md)\n- [Lago vs Tempo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-tempo.md)\n- [Metronome vs Orb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/metronome-vs-orb.md)\n- [Nevermined API + MCP vs Orb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nevermined-vs-orb.md)\n- [Orb vs Paid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orb-vs-paid.md)\n- [Orb vs Stripe API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orb-vs-stripe-mcp.md)\n- [Orb vs Tempo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orb-vs-tempo.md)\n- [Adyen MCP server vs Lago](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adyen-mcp-server-vs-lago.md)\n- [Adyen MCP server vs Orb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adyen-mcp-server-vs-orb.md)\n- [Crossmint API + Docs MCP vs Lago](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-lago.md)\n- [Crossmint API + Docs MCP vs Orb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-orb.md)\n- [Lago vs Payman Genie MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-payman.md)\n- [Lago vs Skyfire API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-skyfire.md)\n- [Orb vs Payman Genie MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orb-vs-payman.md)\n- [Orb vs Skyfire API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orb-vs-skyfire.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-10", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Lago vs Orb", "url": "" } ], "description": "Orb and Lago score within a point of each other for usage billing, 66.5 and 65.7 out of 100. 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