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That was very informative - it certainly does not give me the motivation to build my own billing system, but it does shed light on the scope of the task.

Side note: Is "I don't want to write/use a billing system" a compelling reason to release software for free?

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It sounds compelling, but it's very difficult to convince free users they need to pay now if your software gets popular and you actually want to monetize it.

Lago is currently free to use and we already have paying users.

I think indeed some users will use us for free and never pay, whereas larger companies actually want to pay to get the hosted product, custom features, SLA, etc.

We are still in the early days, but here is how we think about our own pricing : https://www.getlago.com/blog/how-we-think-about-our-own-pric...

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