Lark recently launched!

Launch YC: Lark: Stripe without the workarounds

"Billing Platform for Modern Pricing"

TL;DR: Define complex pricing models, easily rollout pricing changes, and offer your customers an awesome billing experience.

Founded by Jack Brown & Vijit Dhingra

Vijit and Jack both previously built the usage based billing and customer portal product at Stripe.

Problem 🔴

Too often, customers tell us they use Stripe for billing but when they ask how they manage their credits or track usage, they 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.

Solution ⚒️

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).

Whether 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.

A few nice things about them -

  • You don't have to manage any webhooks or store custom billing state (like stripe customer id) in your database
  • Their APIs are simple. You don't have to integrate with a separate checkout API. They also provide frontend SDKs to check billing state (like remaining credits, feature access)
  • Seamless pricing changes that automatically apply to your customers without involving engineers
  • They also help you track margins & LLM costs per customer for AI applications

📘 Quickstart: https://docs.uselark.ai/
Image Credits: Lark

Checkout + customer-facing portal included

No separate APIs, state management, or webhooks

Image Credits: Lark

Customer-facing portal includes real-time usage and subscription management

Image Credits: Lark

Scalability

Lark supports up to 1M events per second so you don’t have to worry about pre-aggregating your data.

Image Credits: Lark

Learn More

🌐 Visit uselark.ai to learn more.
📅 Book a time with the founders here.

👣 Follow Lark on LinkedIn & X.

Posted 
December 11, 2025
 in 
Launch
 category
← Back to all posts  

Join Our Newsletter and Get the Latest
Posts to Your Inbox

No spam ever. Read our Privacy Policy
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.