Best Chargebee alternatives in 1970.

Looking for alternatives to Chargebee? Here are the best options depending on your use case.

Why look for alternatives?

Chargebee ranks lower on setup complexity, fee competitiveness, paywall and conversion tooling, which is the most common reason teams evaluate alternatives.

Top alternatives

Stripe Billing

Subscription billing with full developer control

percentage

Maximum flexibility and lowest fees at scale. You own tax compliance. Best for technical teams building complex billing.

Pricing: Pay-as-you-go: 0.7% of billing volume. Or from €500/month (pay monthly, up to €80k volume/mo, 1-year contract, 0.67% beyond). Plus standard Stripe payment processing (1.5%+€0.25 EU cards).
Pick if: you need advanced billing (usage, dunning, entitlements)

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Recurly

Enterprise subscription management

flat monthly

Enterprise subscription billing with deep dunning and revenue recovery. Not relevant below serious scale.

Pricing: From $249/month
Pick if: you need advanced billing (usage, dunning, entitlements)
Facts: Tax handling

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Paddle

Complete payments infrastructure for SaaS

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Merchant of Record for SaaS. Handles global VAT and tax remittance across 190+ countries.

Pricing: 5% + $0.50 per Checkout transaction, all-inclusive (tax compliance, billing, fraud protection included). Custom pricing for $2M+ ARR or sub-$10 products.
Pick if: you want global tax and VAT handled for you
Facts: Merchant of record

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Maxio

B2B SaaS billing and revenue management

custom

Formerly Chargify + SaaSOptics. B2B SaaS billing with revenue recognition, dunning, and usage-based pricing. Built for $1M+ ARR companies.

Pricing: Custom pricing (contact sales)
Pick if: you need advanced billing (usage, dunning, entitlements)
Facts: Tax handling

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Kill Bill

Open-source subscription billing and payments

open source

Battle-tested open source billing platform. More complex than Lago but more mature. Requires significant technical resources to set up and maintain. Free if self-hosted.

Pricing: Open source: free (self-hosted). Cloud: from $250/month.
Pick if: lowest fees matter most
Facts: Open source

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Recharge

Subscription management for ecommerce

freemium

Leading subscription management platform for Shopify and ecommerce. Handles recurring orders for physical products, boxes, and D2C brands. Not for SaaS or digital products.

Pricing: Standard: free + 1.25% + $0.19/transaction. Pro: $499/mo + 0% transaction.
Pick if: lowest fees matter most

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Lemon Squeezy

Payments, subscriptions and MoR for indie SaaS

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Default choice for indie SaaS founders. Tax compliance out of the box, license key management, excellent DX. Acquired by Stripe in 2024.

Pricing: 5% + $0.50 per transaction. Acquired by Stripe 2024.
Pick if: you want the fastest, simplest setup
Facts: Merchant of recordNo-code

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Polar

Open-source monetization for developers

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Lowest MoR fees on the market (4% + $0.40). Open source, built for developers and OSS projects.

Pricing: 4% + $0.40 per transaction (lowest MoR fees on the market)
Pick if: you want the fastest, simplest setup
Facts: Merchant of recordNo-codeOpen source

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Comparison table

Tool	Pricing	MoR	A/B	Ease
Chargebee	From $249/month	No	No	2/5
Stripe Billing	Pay-as-you-go: 0.7% of billing volume. Or from €500/month (pay monthly, up to €80k volume/mo, 1-year contract, 0.67% beyond). Plus standard Stripe payment processing (1.5%+€0.25 EU cards).	No	No	2/5
Recurly	From $249/month	No	No	2/5
Paddle	5% + $0.50 per Checkout transaction, all-inclusive (tax compliance, billing, fraud protection included). Custom pricing for $2M+ ARR or sub-$10 products.	Yes	No	3/5
Maxio	Custom pricing (contact sales)	No	No	2/5
Kill Bill	Open source: free (self-hosted). Cloud: from $250/month.	No	No	1/5
Recharge	Standard: free + 1.25% + $0.19/transaction. Pro: $499/mo + 0% transaction.	No	No	3/5
Lemon Squeezy	5% + $0.50 per transaction. Acquired by Stripe 2024.	Yes	No	5/5
Polar	4% + $0.40 per transaction (lowest MoR fees on the market)	Yes	No	5/5

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