Hardcount
Open-source (MIT) self-hosted usage billing for AI products, an alternative to Stripe Billing and Lago: price tokens per model and token type on one meter, sell prepaid credit, add a base fee plus usage on one invoice, and see margin per customer and per model. Hardcount makes the invoices and Stripe charges the card, with failed-payment retries; test clocks preview invoices, and a LiteLLM proxy can send usage events. One Go program with Postgres and Redis; pre-1.0, Stripe and cards only, no SDKs yet.
- Category
- PaymentsAccept payments, subscriptions and handle billing.
- Website
- gethardcount.comOfficial site, opens in a new tab.
- Pricing
- See official siteWe only list verified pricing.
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