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Open source alternatives to Stripe Billing

We track 4 open-source Stripe Billing alternatives, of which 4 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 4 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, Apache-2.0, BUSL-1.1 and 1 other licences.

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36k
Combined stars
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Showing 4 of 4 tools

All 4 Stripe Billing 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 ↗

  • Akaunting

    86 GOOD

    Accounting software designed for small businesses and freelancers.

    ★ 10k · ⟳ today · 3.2.3 · BUSL-1.1

    PHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

Stripe Billing alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to Stripe Billing?

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 Stripe Billing alternatives use a permissive licence?

1 of 4 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 Stripe Billing alternatives run in Docker?

3 of 4 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.