{"id":95995,"title":"Lark: Stripe without the workarounds","tagline":"Delete your billing code","body":"**Problem** 🔴\n\nToo often, customers tell us they use Stripe for billing but when I ask how they manage their credits or track usage, I always hear the same answer: “we built it in-house”. These pricing models are not edge-cases. They’re the new normal in the age of AI.\n\n**Solution** ⚒️\n\n[uselark.ai](https://uselark.ai) is a modern billing platform with the flexibility to support any pricing model (credit-based, usage-based, hybrid, dimensional, token-based, etc…) at any scale (**10x more** than Stripe).\n\nWhether you’re building an AI powered API or a B2B SaaS product, Lark provides everything (including checkout + customer-facing portal) you need to implement complex billing logic without the hassle.\n\nA few nice things about us -\n\n* You don't have to manage any webhooks or store custom billing state (like stripe customer id) in your database\n* Our APIs are simple. You don't have to integrate with a separate checkout API. We also provide [frontend SDKs](https://docs.uselark.ai/guides/subscriptions/feature_access/) to check billing state (like remaining credits, feature access)\n* Seamless pricing changes that automatically apply to your customers without involving engineers\n* We also help you track margins \u0026 LLM costs per customer for AI applications\n\n📘 **Quickstart**: https://docs.uselark.ai/\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95995\u0026key=user_uploads/923500/df8c7258-bc58-4c50-99a2-79b06af9fd50)\n\n**Checkout + customer-facing portal included**\n\nNo separate APIs, state management, or webhooks\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95995\u0026key=user_uploads/923500/6adaf51f-5012-4edd-b7f8-773cf5688eff)\n\nCustomer-facing portal includes real-time usage and subscription management\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95995\u0026key=user_uploads/923500/062c65c1-3ddf-409b-bfad-aaf95f24c116)\n\n**Scalability**\n\nLark supports up to 1M events per second so you don’t have to worry about pre-aggregating your data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95995\u0026key=user_uploads/923500/79359907-1af9-4baa-a5c4-cac78402715e)\n\n**Team**\n\n[Vijit](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijitdhingra/) and [Jack](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackcbrown/) both previously built the [usage based billing](https://stripe.com/billing/usage-based-billing) and [customer portal](https://docs.stripe.com/customer-management) product at Stripe.","slug":"OyJ-lark-stripe-without-the-workarounds","created_at":"2025-12-04T22:37:50.310Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T03:55:20.623Z","total_vote_count":25,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OyJ-lark-stripe-without-the-workarounds","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=95995\u0026key=user_uploads/923500/df8c7258-bc58-4c50-99a2-79b06af9fd50","company":{"id":30630,"name":"Lark","slug":"lark","url":"https://getlark.ai/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d081c0c274bbf68a2b6814e7891694bfd2e2c515.png","batch":"Summer 2025","industry":"B2B","tags":["Developer Tools","B2B","DevOps","Automation","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30630"}}