Pricing structure
Segment offers three pricing plans, called ‘Free’, ‘Team’ and ‘Business’. As the latter has a custom pricing, we will focus on the first two plans.Plan | Free plan | Team plan |
---|---|---|
Subscription Fee | $0/month | $120/month |
Base Consumption (included) | 1,000 MTUs | 10,000 MTUs |
Consumption (10k-25k MTUs) | n/a | $0.012/month/MTU |
Consumption (25k-100k MTUs) | n/a | $0.011/month/MTU |
Consumption (100k+ MTUs) | n/a | $0.010/month/MTU |
Trial Period | n/a | 14 days |
Get started
1
Set up Lago
2
Create a billable metric
Create a billable metric to track unique users with deduplication.
- Set the
aggregation_type
tounique_count_agg
for counting unique users - Set the
field_name
touser_id
to identify individual users - Set
recurring
tofalse
for metered billing
3
Create a plan
Create a Team plan with subscription fee and graduated usage charges.
- Set the
amount_cents
to12000
for $120 monthly subscription - Set
pay_in_advance
totrue
for upfront payment - Set
trial_period
to14
days for the trial period - Configure
graduated_ranges
with Segment’s tiered pricing structure
4
Create a customer
5
Create a subscription
Create a subscription for the customer with the plan’s Refer to the API reference to create a subscription.Refer to API reference and guide on assigning plans in the documentation.
code
.6
Ingest usage via events
Send usage events to Lago to track usage.Refer to the API reference to create an event.
- Reference your billable metric with
code
- Reference the customer’s subscription with
external_subscription_id
- Include usage and filters data in
properties
7
Monitor current usage
Track real-time customer usage for the current billing period.Refer to the API reference to get the current usage.
Wrap-up
Hybrid pricing plans are very popular among SaaS, API, fintech and data companies like Segment. With Lago, you can easily adapt this template to create your own hybrid pricing plan, using some of our most popular features:- Plan models, including monthly/yearly plans that can be paid in advance or in arrears;
- Billable metrics, including multiple aggregation types; and
- Charges, including our graduated pricing model (and more).