Paddle
Manage payments, billing, and tax compliance globally through a single merchant-of-record platform
- Also known as
- paddle
Available worldwide
What is Paddle?
A comprehensive payment and billing service for digital product companies that handles transactions, subscriptions, sales tax compliance, and regulatory requirements across 300+ markets, eliminating the need for separate payment processors and tax administration infrastructure.
Paddle 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.
5% + 50¢ per transaction with no monthly fees or hidden costs. Custom pricing available for large-volume businesses.
Pay-as-you-go
- Checkout and payment processing
- Subscription management and recurring billing
- Sales tax and VAT compliance across jurisdictions
- Fraud protection and chargeback management
- Financial and management reporting
- Customer support and billing assistance
- Migration service for subscribers
Custom pricing
Contact sales- Flexible pricing for high-volume or low-value transactions
- Dedicated customer success team
- Premium implementation services
Add-ons
- Premium Advisory
- Invoicing
- Implementation service
What Paddle 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
- -
- Pricing models
- Subscriptions, per-user, usage-based, and tiered billing
- Invoicing & AR
- ✓
- Catalog management
- -
- Merchant of record
- ✓
- Revenue recognition
- -
- Tax handling
- Native
- Dunning
- Smart
- GL / ERP sync
- -
- API-first / developer-first
- ✓
- Self-hostable
- ✗
- Revenue analytics
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (3)
Independently observed- Drift
- HubSpot
- Intercom
Security & compliance
Independently observed- SOC 2 Type II · Type IIactive
- PCI DSS · SAQ Aactive
Paddle FAQ
Common questions about Paddle, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Paddle?
Paddle processes payments and manages subscriptions for software and app companies that sell across multiple countries. It automatically handles tax collection and remittance, recovers failed payments, and provides revenue analytics. It is indexed under Billing & Invoicing Software.
Source: https://www.paddle.com/blog/saas-pricing-models-strategies-fltr
How much does Paddle cost?
Paddle is sold across 2 plans: Pay-as-you-go and Custom pricing. We have not confirmed a published price for every tier. There is no free tier. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.paddle.com
What platforms does Paddle support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Paddle. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.paddle.com/blog/saas-pricing-models-strategies-fltr
Can Paddle be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Paddle, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Source: https://www.paddle.com/blog/saas-pricing-models-strategies-fltr
What does Paddle integrate with?
We have confirmed 3 integrations for Paddle, including Drift, HubSpot and Intercom. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.paddle.com/blog/saas-pricing-models-strategies-fltr
What security certifications does Paddle have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Paddle. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Paddle not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Paddle 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%
Compare Paddle
Side by side against other billing & invoicing software, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
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 Paddle, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 65 | 0.16 | 10.2 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.08 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 75 | 0.05 | 3.5 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 55 | 0.06 | 3.5 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 17 | 0.05 | 0.9 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.04 | 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.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Dunning: smart · Analytics: Yes · Api first: Yes · Invoicing: Yes · Tax handling: native · Self hostable: No | mediumsource · 2026-10-07 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-10-07 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-07 · 60% |
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-07 · 75% |
| Pci | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-07 · 75% |
| Soc2 | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-07 · 75% |
| Certifications | SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS | mediumsource · 2026-10-07 · 60% |
| Trust center | https://www.paddle.com/billing/tax-and-compliance | mediumsource · 2026-10-07 · 60% |
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