meteroid
by meteroid-oss
Meteroid is a self-hostable billing platform that tracks customer usage, applies your pricing rules and produces invoices and subscriptions. It is aimed at software companies that charge by usage or use mixed pricing models.
- Stars
- 1.4k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Runs on
- A small server
- Setup
- Technical
- Language
- Rust
- Age
- 1205 days
What you can do with it
- Set up flat-rate, tiered, usage-based or hybrid pricing plans and keep versions of them
- Manage subscriptions, trials, coupons and add-ons, and send quotes that turn into subscriptions once signed
- Collect usage events through an API and turn them into invoices and credit notes automatically
Make money with it
A freelance developer could set up and run self-hosted usage-based billing for small SaaS clients as a paid integration service.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Bill customers by usage, such as API calls or tokens, without building a billing system in-house
- Replace a paid billing service with a self-hosted one to cut subscription fees and keep customer data under your control
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use. Anything you distribute that includes it must be open-sourced under the same licence. Running it as an online service also counts, so a hosted version must offer its source.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Self-host with the Docker Compose files in docker/deploy (aimed at testing) or the Helm chart for Kubernetes, or try the hosted Meteroid Cloud instead.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- AGPL-3.0 licence requires sharing changes if you offer a modified version as a network service
- The Docker Compose setup is described as minimal and for testing or development only
- The insights and reporting feature is marked as coming soon
- Billing data is sensitive, so production use needs careful setup and backups
Who's talking about it
- OpenSourceCRMs team: Best Billing Software for Small Business (published 19 Oct 2026) Featured in a roundup
Checked 30 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
