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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

• weird-eye-issue 2mo ago
  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
  • manquer 2mo ago
    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 .
    • weird-eye-issue 2mo ago
      Lol there is no way that self-hosted Sentry gets more volume than the SaaS version You are way off here
      • tommica 2mo ago
        Would be great if either one would be able to back their claims with some data. But yes, I'd also imagine that SaaS version gets more traffic, but maybe there are some self-hosted enterprise editions that get insane amount of traffic
        • manquer 2mo ago
          Here you go > Sentry processes 594 trillion events a year across 200,000 organizations.[1] That translates to an average of 18.8M events/sec , peak is likely 3-5x of that rather than evenly distributed 365dx24h. Even in 2019/2020 they were doing 500B events a year[2]. There are few single applications anywhere close to that scale, (it is nature of the error monitoring stack), certainly not outside Hyperscalers -Google's Zanzibar [3] comes to mind as definitely larger and equally complicated to be precise as its surface involves security. The parent poster misunderstood my statement, I only said Lago is likely more self-hosted than cloud(like Sentry), not that some single's tenant self-hosted instance is larger than Sentry cloud (!). In terms of reliability they need pretty high nines - nobody would accept their error logging infra to go down, not that different from as payment gateway. While payments is more complex for precision and all the banking integrations you need to manage and reconciliation, error monitoring tooling is orders of magnitude more scale buy its nature. [1] https://blog.sentry.io/self-healing-software https://blog.sentry.io/self-healing-software [2] https://sentry.io/about/press-releases/sentry-application-monitoring-achieves-200-increase-in-enterprise-growth/?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://sentry.io/about/press-releases/sentry-application-mo... [3] https://research.google/pubs/zanzibar-googles-consistent-global-authorization-system/ https://research.google/pubs/zanzibar-googles-consistent-glo...
          • tommica 1mo ago
            That is a big number... Thanks for sharing the data!
    • nl 2mo ago
      Stripe did $1.9T payments in 2025. That's 1.6% of global GDP. It's take a lot to persuade me that there is another payment provider close to that volume. Lago did around $10B in total API payment volume for comparison.
      • weird-eye-issue 2mo ago
        Yes exactly and once you factor in that a lot of sites have the Stripe JS code on every single page the total number of requests is quite high... Plus they do outbound webhook requests for dozens if not hundreds of different events so a single end to end customer checkout actually can fire dozens of webhook events (depending on what is set up for the particular merchant - it does for us!)
        • hvb2 2mo ago
          > once you factor in that a lot of sites have the Stripe JS code on every single page That's rarely a hit to origin though? That's mostly cached at the browser, if not at the CDN.
          • weird-eye-issue 2mo ago
            It sends analytics events to Stripe constantly...
            • archonis 2mo ago
              Processing analytics is very different than processing mission critical api endpoints. No response required.
              • weird-eye-issue 2mo ago
                Yes, congratulations on being correct but this particular thread was just talking about API volume.
      • saberience 2mo ago