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How yRecurring compares.
Honest, side by side comparisons with the platforms teams evaluate us against: what each is good at, what it costs as you grow, and where the differences actually matter. Competitor pricing is checked against their public pages and dated.
yRecurring vs Chargebee Chargebee is a mature subscription suite. Teams usually start looking elsewhere when the base fee plus a percentage of billing volume stops matching the value, or when finance cannot explain a number an invoice produced. yRecurring is the complete billing engine with flat pricing and a receipt behind every amount. Read the comparison → yRecurring vs Recurly Recurly earned its reputation on subscription management and payment recovery. Teams usually compare alternatives when the monthly fee plus a percentage of billing volume grows faster than their plan list, or when usage based pricing needs more than metered add ons. yRecurring covers the same core with flat pricing, built in usage and token billing, and every charge explained. Read the comparison → yRecurring vs Stripe Billing Stripe is excellent payment infrastructure, and yRecurring works with it rather than against it: your customers keep paying through your own Stripe account. The comparison is about the billing layer on top, where Stripe Billing adds 0.7% of billing volume on top of processing fees, and invoices, usage models, and recovery live inside Stripe's model of the world. Read the comparison → yRecurring vs Paddle Paddle is a merchant of record: it sells your product for you, collects the tax, and keeps 5% plus 50 cents of every transaction. Teams look elsewhere when that share grows faster than the service behind it, or when they want the customer, the payment account and the data to be their own. yRecurring is a billing engine on your own payment account, from $39 a month. Read the comparison → yRecurring vs Lemon Squeezy Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record for digital products: 5% plus 50 cents per transaction, half a percent more on subscription payments, and Stripe owns it now. Teams look for an alternative when the percentage stops matching the value, when they need real invoicing, or when they want billing that is not in transition. yRecurring is a flat priced billing engine on your own payment account. Read the comparison → yRecurring vs Lago Lago is an open source metering and billing engine, free to self host under AGPL, with a hosted edition priced by quote. Teams weigh it against yRecurring when they want usage billing without running the infrastructure, a customer portal and recovery out of the box, and a price they can read on a page. Read the comparison → yRecurring vs Maxio Maxio, the platform formed from Chargify and SaaSOptics, sells to finance teams that need billing and revenue recognition together, from $599 a month on an annual agreement. Teams evaluate yRecurring when they need the billing half at a price that fits before the finance function exists, with every amount explained. Read the comparison → What a percentage costs you Enter what you bill in a month and read what each platform would charge, from their public rates, beside a flat plan. Open the fee calculator → Switching from one of them The exports, the dry run import, what carries over and what happens to the saved cards, one page per platform. Read the switching guides →