Alternatives to Paddle

Stripe Billing gives more control over payment flows, pricing structures, and customer experience when merchant-of-record tax outsourcing isn't the priority. The tradeoff is owning tax compliance in every jurisdiction.

Chargebee handles multi-gateway flexibility and complex subscription logic better when the business has grown beyond Paddle's pricing constraints and needs more control over the payment and billing stack.

Recurly handles the subscription lifecycle management and revenue recovery use case better than Paddle when the team wants more pricing flexibility and direct billing relationships rather than Paddle's merchant-of-record model where Paddle owns the customer payment relationship.