Paddle
Payment and billing platform that handles subscriptions, taxes, and compliance for digital product businesses globally.
- Also known as
- paddle
Available worldwide
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.
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
- -
- 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- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (3)
Independently observed- Drift
- HubSpot
- Intercom
Security & compliance
Independently observed- SOC 2 Type 2 · Type IIactive
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.
- Stripe BillingSubscription and usage-based billing platform with automation and compliancemedium · 61%
- RecurlyA platform that automates subscription billing, revenue management, and customer lifecycle engagementmedium · 74%
- 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%
- ChargebeeCloud billing platform for managing subscriptions and usage-based pricing modelsmedium · 74%
- 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 · 2026-09-04 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-09-04 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60% |
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-04 · 75% |
| Pci | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-04 · 75% |
| Soc2 | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-04 · 75% |
| Certifications | SOC 2 Type 2 | mediumsource · 2026-09-04 · 60% |
| Trust center | https://www.paddle.com/billing/tax-and-compliance | mediumsource · 2026-09-04 · 60% |
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