Meteroid Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Meteroid hosting and run a self-hosted usage-based billing platform on your own server. xCloud runs the pinned Meteroid 1.0.0-rc7 release candidate with private PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and Redpanda services, a metering service and a scheduler, generates the secrets and database passwords, mounts persistent volumes and publishes the web app and APIs over HTTPS on three domains. Treat it as a release candidate.

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What is Meteroid?

Self-hosted Meteroid is open-source pricing and billing infrastructure for product-led SaaS. Its README says it addresses the limits of traditional billing for businesses moving to usage-based models, collecting usage through a simple API and applying your pricing models to generate accurate invoices. It lists real-time usage metering, flat, usage-based, tiered or hybrid pricing, versioned plans and invoices. It stands in for hosted billing such as Stripe Billing or Orb, under the AGPL-3.0 licence.

On xCloud the template runs the Meteroid 1.0.0-rc7 release candidate with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redpanda, a metering service and a scheduler, all pinned by immutable digest, with four volumes. The web app, the API and the REST API each get an HTTPS domain. The first registered account becomes the owner, and email is off until you set SMTP.

From Sign-Up to a Live Billing Platform In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Meteroid stack normally means a web app, an API, a scheduler, a metering service, three data stores, generated secrets, volumes, domains and certificates before the first customer. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Meteroid from the OneClick catalog. Choose domains for the web app, the API and the REST API — there are no extra fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the pinned Meteroid release with private PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and Redpanda services kept off the public internet, mount four persistent volumes for the database, the analytics data, the event queue and the invoice store, generate the secrets and passwords, and publish three HTTPS domains. Allow two to three minutes for first-boot migrations.
Step 03
Register And Create Your First Plan
Open your HTTPS Meteroid URL and register right away — there is no pre-created admin, and the first person to register becomes the owner. Create your organization, then your first customer and pricing plan.

Everything Meteroid Does, On Your Own Server

Meteroid runs in full here: the web app, API, scheduler and metering service, with the data stores behind them kept private.

Usage Metering
Turn raw usage events such as API requests, tokens or storage into billable metrics, backed here by ClickHouse and a Redpanda event queue.
Pricing Plans
Model flat-rate, usage-based, tiered or hybrid pricing in versioned plans, so a pricing change does not touch existing customers unless you want it to.
Subscriptions And Customers
Create and update subscriptions through upgrades, downgrades and cancellations, and keep customers, subscriptions and usage in one place.
Invoices And Credit Notes
Generate invoices and issue credit notes, with the PDFs generated and served from your own server.
Trials, Coupons And Add-Ons
Offer trial periods and coupons, and attach add-ons to subscriptions without switching a customer's plan.
A REST API And Webhooks
A separate REST API domain serves API keys, invoice downloads and payment-provider webhooks, with API documentation at /scalar.

Everything You Need To Run Your Billing 24/7

Managed hosting for Meteroid, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Meteroid 1.0.0-rc7 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Secrets and passwords generated for you
Data stores kept off the public internet
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Meteroid

Bill customers by usage
Send usage events to the API, turn them into billable metrics and let Meteroid generate invoices from your pricing plans.
Model flat, tiered or hybrid pricing
Define plans with versioned pricing, so changing a price does not affect existing subscriptions.
Manage customers and subscriptions
Keep customers, subscriptions, invoices and credit notes in one self-hosted system.
Own your billing data
Usage events, plans and invoices sit in PostgreSQL and ClickHouse volumes on your Cloud VPS, not with a hosted vendor.

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Meteroid vs Alternatives

Stripe Billing: Stripe Billing is a hosted billing product from a payment provider. As a meteroid alternative to stripe billing, Meteroid is AGPL-3.0 licensed and keeps usage and invoices on your own server.
Orb: Orb is a hosted usage-based billing service. As a meteroid alternative to orb, Meteroid is open source and, as deployed here, runs on your own Cloud VPS, though it is a release candidate.
Lago: Lago is another open-source usage-based billing platform with its own xCloud template. In a meteroid vs lago choice, compare maturity, pricing models and how each handles analytics.
Invoice Ninja: Invoice Ninja is self-hosted invoicing software with its own xCloud template, aimed at client invoicing rather than metered usage.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Meteroid hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom for a larger metering and analytics workload.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Meteroid itself is licensed by its maintainers under AGPL-3.0.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

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Meteroid on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

How much RAM does Meteroid need?

The manifest asks for 2 CPU cores, 2048 MB of RAM and 10 GB of disk, and QA measured about 1.1 GB idle across the stack. The 6 GB plan on this page leaves real headroom for ClickHouse, PostgreSQL and Redpanda.

Is Meteroid free and open source?

Yes. Meteroid is AGPL-3.0 licensed, per the LICENSE file at the v1.0.0-rc7 tag, so there is no licence fee. Meteroid Cloud features are not included. xCloud bills only for the dedicated Cloud VPS, and your billing data stays on your own volumes.

Can you run Meteroid with Docker?

Yes, and this is Meteroid Docker hosting prepared for you: the template runs the official Meteroid image with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redpanda, a metering service and a scheduler, all pinned by immutable digest, so it works as Meteroid cloud hosting on your own VPS.

What is the difference between Meteroid and Lago?

Both are open-source usage-based billing platforms. Meteroid's README stresses real-time metering, versioned plans and invoices, and this template is a release candidate. Lago has its own xCloud page, so compare maturity and features against your needs.

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How do I sign in to Meteroid the first time?

There is no pre-created admin. Register on the web app right after install: the first account becomes the owner, and sign-up then closes to everyone else. Until you register, anyone who can reach the site can claim it, so do it first.

Is Meteroid production-ready?

This template deploys 1.0.0-rc7, which upstream publishes as a release candidate, so it is not described as production-stable. Read the upstream release notes and test your billing flows before relying on it for live invoicing. Revenue insights are marked coming soon upstream.

Why does Meteroid need three domains?

The dashboard calls the API directly from your browser, and the REST API serves API keys, invoice downloads and payment-provider webhooks. The web app, the API and the REST API each get their own HTTPS domain. Choose them before you integrate.

Does Meteroid send email out of the box?

No. Email stays off until you set MAILER_SMTP_HOST. Setting it also turns on email confirmation for new accounts, so test your SMTP settings first, or you could lock new users out. You can limit who registers with DOMAINS_WHITELIST before the first account.

What should I back up on a Meteroid server?

The four volumes, meteroid_pg_data, meteroid_clickhouse_data, meteroid_redpanda_data and meteroid_object_store, plus the stable JWT_SECRET and SECRETS_CRYPT_KEY values. Changing JWT_SECRET signs everyone out. Copy them off the server, keep the secrets private, and test a restore on a spare server before you depend on it.

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How do I upgrade Meteroid?

Nothing is upgraded for you: the install stays on pinned release 1.0.0-rc7 until you adopt a newer template version. Back up all four volumes first, read the upstream release notes, then check sign-in and an existing invoice afterwards.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.