[ayushrodrigues]

People compare us a lot because they're also another open source YC company that does billing. So definitely some similarities!

I think in practise though we serve a very different segment. Lago is great for high-throughput event metering and mainly target series B+ companies. They don't yet have an offering for feature permissions management (aka entitlements).

Autumn is built more for early stage companies that have payments in-app. Hence we're trying to invest more in the developer experience (eg React hooks), while also providing that abstraction layer for entitlements too.

We absolutely will be adding more payment providers soon. Our biggest requests are Polar and Razorpay for the indian market.

[codegeek]

You say but your landing page almost lists similar features that getlago does including things like "metering" etc. It is ok to be similar of course but I don't really see how you are different than them other than saying that they are focussed on Series B and you are for early stage. So feature wise, I am not seeing a huge difference. I could be wrong of course.

[ayushrodrigues]

I think that's a fault of ours with our landing page and messaging. We can definitely do a better job here. Almost everyone that has used us after using Lago can tell a big difference with the products.

The main reason that people use us is permissions management. We are the source of truth for which of your users can access what, and linking that to billing. Eg, we know that because user ABC is on Pro tier and bought 3 top ups, they have access to 75 AI credits. If their next payment fails, they should only have access to 15 AI credits (etc etc). Our value is in handling this matrix of scenarios related to usage resets, billing cycles, transitioning between monthly and yearly plans, etc.

Lago only handles billing, so if you're using them, then the logic to sync up the user's permissions with the billing state has to be handled yourself.