# Lago vs Orb (slim)

> Orb and Lago score within a point of each other for usage billing, 66.5 and 65.7 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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 & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do usage billing.

- Lago: B 65.7, rank #311 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lago.min.md
- Orb: B 66.5, rank #289 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb.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 77; Payments & pricing, 50 against 5; Maintenance & community, 91 against 82. Also Open source.
- Orb, good 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. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 84 against 71; Security & auth, 55 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 | Orb |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 86 | 77 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 84 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 37 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 5 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 91 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lago | Orb |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Get Lago Corp. | Orb, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.withorb.com/v1` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| 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 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-09 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2024-11-13 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2025-05-07 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 11k stars, 48k npm/wk | 5 stars, 185k npm/wk |