{"name":"Flowglad","tagline":"YC-backed, open-source payments and billing infrastructure with a zero-webhook, source-of-truth approach.","url":"https://www.flowglad.com","category":"automation","pricing":"freemium","price_note":"free tier; Plus $40/mo (annual billing, save $120); Max $400/mo (annual billing, save $1,200); Enterprise from $1,500/mo","free_tier":true,"open_source":true,"api":true,"self_host":false,"verdict":"situational","verdict_text":"Worth evaluating if you are building an AI/SaaS app and want billing state as a single source of truth without maintaining webhook handlers. The open-source billing engine and SDK are promising, but the product is young, the documented path is the hosted SaaS, and the pricing table is only on the homepage.","limitations":["Young launch; several billing features (seat-based billing, wallets) are still on the roadmap.","Pricing details live only on the homepage, not on a standalone /pricing page.","The open-source repo is available, but the documented onboarding is the hosted Flowglad service.","Plan usage limits (organization credits, spaces, connections, automations) are visible but not defined in detail.","You still need a payment-processor relationship; Flowglad is not itself a processor."],"strengths":["Open-source billing engine and SDK with a source-of-truth data model.","Zero-webhook approach reduces the integration surface.","YC-backed with transparent, if homepage-only, pricing tiers."],"use_for":["AI/SaaS apps that want billing state managed without custom webhook handlers.","Teams evaluating an open, auditable billing engine alongside a hosted option."],"skip_when":["You need mature seat-based billing or wallet features today.","You want a standalone /pricing page rather than a homepage table.","You need Flowglad itself to be the payment processor."],"receipts":["https://www.flowglad.com","https://github.com/flowglad/flowglad","https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flowglad","https://www.flowglad.com/terms-of-service"],"affiliate":"none","evidence_tier":"source-verified","momentum":"blueshift","featured":false,"last_verified":"2026-08-20","observed_by":"whysanesanders","slug":"flowglad","canonical_url":"https://noemium.com/tools/flowglad/","attribution":"Noemium catalog data is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). See https://noemium.com/method/ for how entries are verified."}