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meteroid: Self‑hosted Billing & Pricing Engine for SaaS founders

Name: meteroid: Self‑hosted Billing & Pricing Engine for SaaS founders
Author: meteroid-oss

Scale subscription, invoicing and usage‑based billing with meteroid’s Rust‑powered platform—ideal for startups needing granular revenue analytics. 1.3k+ GitHub stars.

From the repo · “Open-source Pricing and Billing Infrastructure 🚀 Subscription management, Invoicing, Pricing, Usage-based billing, Cost limiting, Grandfathering, Experiments, Revenue analytics & Actionable insights ”

intermediate⏱ 30 minutes💵 Free

1,343 stars+10★ this week84 forksRustGuide quality 9/10 · reviewed Oct 23Updated 10/21/2026100% free · open source

What it is

Use Meteroid to set up your SaaS app's pricing, billing, and subscription management in just a few hours.

Real use case example

"A founder wants to launch a new SaaS app offering AI-powered data analytics. They use Meteroid to set up a pricing plan with a free trial and a monthly subscription. In 2 hours, they have a working pricing page on their website and a Clickhouse database tracking customer usage."

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When to use it

•You need to manage complex subscription plans with usage-based billing
•You want to analyze revenue and gain actionable insights from your pricing strategy
•You require a scalable and customizable billing system for your growing startup

Ready-to-paste prompt

curl -X POST 'http://localhost:8080/subscriptions' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"customer_id": "cus_123", "plan_id": "plan_123"}'

Heads up: Make sure you have Rust and Cargo installed on your system, as Meteroid is built with Rust and requires the Cargo package manager to build and run

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Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/meteroid && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/meteroid/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/meteroid/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How meteroid: Self‑hosted Billing & Pricing Engine for SaaS founders works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Meteroid: Self‑hosted Billing & Pricing Engine for SaaS founders is a very large Rust project (~253k lines across 1737 code files, plus 87 test files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit this month, AGPL-3.0 license, has a test suite.

Size

Very large codebase

~253k lines · 1737 code files · days to read — use, don't read

Setup

Developer setup

A real software project. Use it via its install path; don't expect to read it all.

Runs on

Rust

Needs API keys (.env)

Rust 72%TypeScript 26%PLpgSQL 1%

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it
2
Cargo.toml
Dependencies and the commands it exposes
3
.env.example
The API keys and settings you must provide
4
modules/meteroid/crates/diesel-models/README.md
Inside modules/meteroid/ — the main logic begins here

What's in each folder

modules/meteroid/Core code — the actual logic1164 files

modules/web/Frontend / UI779 files

modules/adapters/Sub-packages / plugins12 files

crates/Folder103 files

modules/metering/Package54 files

docker/Deployment / infrastructure45 files

k8s/Deployment / infrastructure25 files

extra/Folder7 files

READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksAGPL-3.0 licenseUpdated this month

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/meteroid && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/meteroid/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/meteroid/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

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Creator

meteroid-oss

Language

Rust

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