Creator and commerce

Lemon Squeezy alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

getlago/lagoOpen Source Metering and Usage Based Billing API: consumption tracking, subscription management, pricing iterations, payment orchestration & revenue analytics.Open on GitHub meteroid-oss/meteroidOpen-source Pricing and Billing Infrastructure: subscription management, invoicing, usage-based billing, revenue analytics.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Merchant of Record handling (tax remittance & liability)
Global tax and VAT compliance handled for you
A.I.-driven fraud prevention and risk intelligence
Global payouts / multi-currency merchant infrastructure
Scale, support SLAs, and managed chargeback handling

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Lemon Squeezy, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.