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Lotus

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.

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #2421

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.

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High Signal interpretation

Lotus is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Product facets
API companiesopen-core pricing and billing engineself-hosted softwarecompaniescustomersLotusinvoicing
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Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Lotus

Developer tools · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

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shared extracted concepts: companies; shared product terms: enable, api, companie, automate; shared product theme: workflow automation, developer infrastructure, sales and marketing; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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shared extracted concepts: invoicing; shared product terms: api, automate, any, customer; shared product theme: workflow automation, developer infrastructure, sales and marketing; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 74

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shared extracted concept terms: customer; shared product terms: cloud, any, customer, support; shared product theme: workflow automation, developer infrastructure, sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 46

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shared extracted concepts: companies; shared product terms: engine, companie, free

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match 44

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shared extracted concept terms: api; shared product terms: automate, api, test; shared product theme: workflow automation, developer infrastructure

Strategic Blue

match 34

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shared extracted concept terms: pric; shared product terms: cloud, pric; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools