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Open source alternatives to Chargebee

We track 3 open-source Chargebee alternatives, of which 3 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 3 ship a Docker image. Lago leads on health at 96/100 with 33 commits in the last 90 days; across all 3 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, Apache-2.0, Elastic-2.0.

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All 3 Chargebee alternatives, ranked by health

  • Top pick · highest health

    Lago

    96 GOOD

    Metering and usage-based billing.

    ★ 11k · ⟳ today · v1.53.0 · AGPL-3.0

    Docker
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Kill Bill

    95 GOOD

    Subscription billing & payments platform. Have access to real-time analytics and financial reports.

    ★ 5.7k · ⟳ today · killbill-0.24.21 · Apache-2.0

    DockerJava
    Website ↗ Source ↗

Chargebee alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to Chargebee?

Lago scores highest at 96/100, with 33 commits in the last 90 days, 11k GitHub stars and its latest release (v1.53.0) published 6 days ago. Invoice Ninja has the most raw commit activity at 287 commits in 90 days.

Which Chargebee alternatives use a permissive licence?

1 of 3 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): Kill Bill (Apache-2.0). 1 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.

Which Chargebee alternatives run in Docker?

3 of 3 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Lago, Invoice Ninja, Kill Bill. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.