Kill Bill
Self-hosted billing platform for subscriptions and complex pricing models
- Also known as
- kill-bill
Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Kill Bill?
Open-source subscription and usage billing system that runs on your infrastructure, supporting recurring charges, tiered pricing, and usage-based models with detailed invoicing and audit trails.
Kill Bill pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free open source or $9,999/month Aviate enterprise
Kill Bill (Open Source)
FreeFree, open-source billing platform with community support
- Subscription and usage billing
- Catalog and invoicing
- Multi-tenancy
- Plugin framework
- REST API
- Community support
- Self-hosted deployment
Aviate
Cloud-hosted enterprise offering with support and additional features
- Catalog UI and plan APIs
- Coupons
- Cloud hosting with auto-scaling
- Aviate Metering for usage events
- Aviate Wallet for prepaid credits
- Aviate Tax
- Level 3 support (first response within 1 business day for P1)
- Monitoring and health checks
- Plugin marketplace
What Kill Bill does
The capabilities that matter for billing & invoicing software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Subscription billing
- ✓
- Usage metering
- Real-time
- Pricing models
- Subscriptions, usage-based, prepaid, postpaid, hybrid, and complex multi-currenc
- Invoicing & AR
- ✓
- Catalog management
- ✓
- Merchant of record
- ✗
- Revenue recognition
- Native ASC 606
- Tax handling
- Native
- Dunning
- Basic retry
- GL / ERP sync
- ✗
- API-first / developer-first
- ✓
- Self-hostable
- ✓
- Revenue analytics
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (20)
Independently observed- Tax Calculation•
- Avalara AvaTax•
- Kintsugi•
- Analytics•
- Salesforce→
- HubSpot→
- NetSuite→
- SAP→
- QuickBooks→
- Hyperswitch•
- Stripe
- Adyen
- Braintree
- PayPal
- GoCardless
- Avalara
- Vertex
- LDAP
- Active Directory
- Email Notifications•
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Kill Bill FAQ
Common questions about Kill Bill, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Kill Bill?
Kill Bill is an open-source billing and payments platform that handles complex subscription, usage-based, and prepaid billing models with multi-currency invoicing, tax compliance, and payment gateway abstraction. Deploy self-hosted or use fully managed hosting with optional enterprise accelerator capabilities. It is indexed under Billing & Invoicing Software.
Source: https://killbill.io/pricing.html
Is Kill Bill free to use?
Kill Bill is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $40 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://killbill.io/pricing.html
What platforms does Kill Bill support?
Kill Bill supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://killbill.io/pricing.html
Can Kill Bill be self-hosted?
Yes. Kill Bill can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://killbill.io/pricing.html
What does Kill Bill integrate with?
We have confirmed 9 integrations for Kill Bill, including Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, PayPal, GoCardless, Avalara, Vertex and LDAP, plus 1 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://killbill.io/pricing.html
What security certifications does Kill Bill have?
We have independently confirmed GDPR for Kill Bill. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Kill Bill not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Is Kill Bill open source?
Yes. Kill Bill is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.
Where is Kill Bill available?
Kill Bill is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.
Source: https://killbill.io/pricing.html
Kill Bill alternatives
Other billing & invoicing software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- ChargebeeBilling and revenue automation for subscription-based businessesmedium · 73%
- Stripe BillingRecurring subscription and billing platform for SaaSmedium · 71%
- RecurlyA platform that automates subscription billing and revenue management for digital commercemedium · 73%
- MetronomeA cloud-based billing platform that scales with your revenue model and business growthmedium · 74%
- MaxioSubscription billing and financial operations platform automating revenue processes for growing SaaS and AI companieslow · 47%
- ViobusinessMobile invoicing and expense app with optional cloud backuplow · 14%
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Kill Bill, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.10 | 8.1 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.06 | 6.3 | ✓ |
| Development activity | 46 | 0.09 | 4.3 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 74 | 0.05 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 20 | 0.16 | 3.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 30 | 0.07 | 2.2 | ✓ |
| Stars | 71 | 0.03 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| Security score | 44 | 0.04 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 20 | 0.06 | 1.3 | ✓ |
| Price level | 25 | 0.04 | 1.1 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | ✓ |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 27 | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 65% |
Adoption
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 8 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 68% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Dunning: basic_retry · Gl sync: No · Analytics: Yes · Api first: Yes · Invoicing: Yes · Tax handling: native | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 10 | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Java | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 95% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 50% |
Pricing
Release
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sla pct | 48 | mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-14 · 75% |
| Pci | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-14 · 75% |
| Trust center | https://killbill.io/platform/tax-compliance.html | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
| Scorecard | 4.4 | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 90% |
| Vulnerabilities | Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.kill-bill.billing%3Akillbill-util&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 90% |
Is Kill Bill the right choice for you?
Tell us the job, the constraints and what you weigh most, and we will rank Kill Bill against the rest of the billing & invoicing software we index, using the same dated evidence weighted your way.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Is this your product?
This profile was built from public sources without asking you. You can take the badge below and use it anywhere, and you can claim the profile to correct anything we got wrong. Both are free, and neither moves Kill Bill up or down: nobody can buy rank here, including you.
Take the badge
Live, always current, and free to use on your own site. It shows Kill Bill's independent score and links back to this profile.
<a href="https://www.vioscale.ai/software/kill-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
<img src="https://www.vioscale.ai/badge/software/kill-bill.svg" alt="Kill Bill, verified on vioscaleAI" width="330" height="76" loading="lazy" />
</a>Markdown, for a README →
[](https://www.vioscale.ai/software/kill-bill)Claim the profile
Verify you control the domain, then point us at the pages that state the facts about Kill Bill and add your own description and media. Free, and it does not change the score.
- Correct anything wrong, with evidence
- Point our crawler at the pages that matter
- Write your own description and add media
Not the owner? How vendor profiles work