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Lotus

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Lotus is an open-core pricing and billing engine. We enable API companies to automate their custom usage-based pricing for any metric. Rather than guess on how to charge their customers, Lotus provides companies with powerful new tools from metering to invoicing to testing new pricing. Our self-hosted software is free on GitHub, and we offer a p

Founded 2022Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Lotus is an open-core pricing and billing engine. We enable API companies to automate their custom usage-based pricing for any metric. Rather than guess on how to charge their customers, Lotus provides companies with powerful new tools from metering to invoicing to testing new pricing.

Our self-hosted software is free on GitHub, and we offer a paid cloud version and enterprise tier for support.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Mikael Nida

Founder

Mikael graduated from MIT with two degrees in Computer Science and Physics, and has worked at a range of companies from D.E. Shaw to Lyft.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2022 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

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Website observationsite error
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedNew York City, NY, USA; Remote
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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