Available worldwide
What is Paddle?
Paddle is a comprehensive billing and payments platform for SaaS and mobile apps, offering subscription management, invoicing, tax compliance, fraud protection, and revenue analytics in one integrated solution.
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. No hidden fees or migration costs.
Pay-as-you-go
Global payments and billing seamlessly unified
- Global compliance
- 24/7 customer support
- Revenue recovery
- Cross-border sales tax compliance
- Fraud and chargeback protection
Custom pricing
Contact salesTailored pricing for rapidly scaling and established large-scale businesses
- Premium services
- Success management
- Custom migration services
- Implementation support
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
- Real-time
- Pricing models
- Pay-as-you-go and custom enterprise pricing
- Invoicing & AR
- ✓
- Catalog management
- ✓
- Merchant of record
- ✓
- Revenue recognition
- -
- Tax handling
- Native
- Dunning
- Basic retry
- GL / ERP sync
- -
- API-first / developer-first
- ✓
- Self-hostable
- ✗
- Revenue analytics
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (1)
Independently observed- RevenueCat
Paddle alternatives
Other billing & invoicing software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Stripe Billinglow · 30%
- MetronomeInfrastructure for Modern Monetizationlow · 35%
- MaxioPower your AI business with the billing, rev rec, and reporting engine that's as smart and scalable as your next breakthrough.low · 46%
- StiggThe Usage Runtime for AI Productslow · 45%
- FastSpringGlobal Payments, Subscriptions, & Tax Compliancelow · 22%
- Invoice Ninjalow · 36%
The Vioscale 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 | 0.17 | 11.4 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.12 | 9.5 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.09 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 55 | 0.07 | 3.9 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 9 | 0.08 | 0.7 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 0 | 0.05 | 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.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"dunning":"basic_retry","analytics":true,"api_first":true,"invoicing":true,"tax_handling":"native","self_hostable":false,"pricing_models":"Pay-as-you-go and custom enterprise pricing","usage_metering":"real_time","catalog_management":true,"merchant_of_record":true,"subscription_billing":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 1 | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |