<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danpalmer</author><text>I see your point, but I think this might work for them. At my previous place we started on Stripe it was really nice to work with, cost nothing in absolute terms because we had few sales, easy to integrate.&lt;p&gt;But a few years in we were doing substantial volume and we wanted to re-negotiate the contract. If we had Lago and could re-integrate with that, using it as leverage on a Stripe contract renewal, that could have been worth $3k a month, given that we were paying Stripe $30k per month in fees.&lt;p&gt;Our situation was a little different being retail rather than SaaS billing, but I could see a world where this makes financial sense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>plantain</author><text>I tried to use it for a new SaaS product - but their plans start at 3000$&amp;#x2F;mo.&lt;p&gt;It seems like they have things backwards. The small fry like me don&amp;#x27;t want to self-host, we want a managed solution. The big fishes have enough scale to self-host.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/14/lago-a-paris-based-open-source-billing-platform-banks-22m/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>boudin</author><text>They have things backwards only if their strategy is to focus on the low end of the market. It doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to be the case here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>plantain</author><text>I tried to use it for a new SaaS product - but their plans start at 3000$&amp;#x2F;mo.&lt;p&gt;It seems like they have things backwards. The small fry like me don&amp;#x27;t want to self-host, we want a managed solution. The big fishes have enough scale to self-host.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/14/lago-a-paris-based-open-source-billing-platform-banks-22m/</url></story>