Comment by danielmarkbruce
3 hours ago
You'd be surprised how little volume of api calls payments companies get compared to advertising companies or consumer internet companies. Stripe aren't especially well placed to own this asset on a technical level. That doesn't make this a bad acquisition per se, but there is no magic stripe can inject here as far as infra/technology is concerned.
Agree, even in the payments space usage-billing metrics providers like Chargebee / Lago etc get order(s) of magnitude more data than payment.
Granted payments and associated ledges require a level of consistency that other systems do not require, but that is orthogonal to high volume.
Stripe also supports usage based billing... If you think Lago gets more volume than Stripe I just don't know what to tell you lol
Lago cloud ? Probably not , lago like sentry is more likely to be self-hosted .
Stripe completed the metronome acquisition their usage billing offering just 8months back , that hardly makes Stripe the largest player in this place when they are not even fully integrated .
You'd be surprised how antiquainted many of them are. I don't mean Stripe or Braintree but the long tail of terrible terrible credit card processors. If I hear "Chase Payment Gateway" I shudder.