Lago vs Moesif

Lago is an open-source billing platform that connects product usage and commercial terms with customer invoices. It supports usage-based, subscription, prepaid, and hybrid pricing, plus quotes, order forms, prepaid credits, entitlements, quotas, subscription and usage charges, and itemized invoices. For AI products, Lago can meter input, output, and cached tokens separately and assign usage to customers for billing. Applications can connect through a REST API, official JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and Go SDKs, or signed webhooks. Listed AI integrations include OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Google Gemini, and Mistral; payment and finance integrations include Adyen, Stripe, NetSuite, and Xero. The Open source plan is free, licensed under AGPLv3 and self-hosted. Lago Premium is available as cloud or self-hosted deployment, including on-premises or in a VPC, but pricing is provided after contacting Lago. Lago states it is SOC 2 Type II certified and describes single sign-on, role-based access controls, and audit logs. Premium includes platform support, business-hours incident management, and implementation guidance.

Moesif is an API analytics and monetization platform for tracking API usage and understanding how customers consume APIs. It supports REST, GraphQL, XML/SOAP and RPC, as well as incoming and outgoing calls and custom metrics for non-API traffic. Teams can analyze usage with heat maps, time series, segmentation, funnels, retention charts and customer behavior analysis. Monitoring and alerts help identify issues affecting API performance and customers. Monetization capabilities include usage-based billing, billing meters, quotas, governance, prepaid credits and a product catalog. Integrations span API gateways and frameworks such as Kong, Amazon API Gateway, NGINX, Node.js, Python, Java and .NET, alongside tools including Segment, Salesforce, Slack, PagerDuty and Zapier. Moesif is a managed SaaS service running on AWS and Azure, and supports APIs hosted on-premises or in the cloud. It lists web, API and self-hosted access. The free plan is applied automatically after the 14-day trial. Trial Growth features include 10,000,000 events; extra self-service events are billed monthly, and each additional team member costs $75/month. Moesif says it maintains an active SOC 2 Type 2 attestation.