🆚 Chargebee vs. Paddle

Type

Subscription management tool
Payment service

About

Chargebee is a subscription management platform that handles recurring billing, invoicing, and revenue operations for subscription-based businesses.

It allows users to configure and sell subscriptions with flat-fee, usage-based, and tiered pricing models, automates billing cycles and invoicing, supports multiple payment methods and over 30 payment gateways, provides analytics with over 150 subscription metrics, and manages the full subscription lifecycle including upgrades, downgrades, and proration.

Paddle is a software-as-a-service commerce platform that provides payments, tax compliance and subscription infrastructure for software companies.

It acts as the merchant of record, handling global sales tax collection and remittance across 200+ markets, supports hosted and inline checkouts, one-time and recurring billing, offers developer APIs and webhooks for subscription lifecycle events, and provides reporting on MRR, churn, and ARR.

Headquarters

North Bethesda, Maryland, United States
London, United Kingdom

Website

Pricing

Starter
Free version ✔️Free for the first $250K of cumulative billing
Extra0.75%/charge
Performance
$100K billing limit$599/month
Extra0.75%/charge
Payment processing5% + 50¢/transaction
Payout fees
Via PayPalSubject to PayPal fees
Via PayoneerSubject to Payoneer fees
Wire Transfers
In the same currency$0
Via SWIFT$/€/£15

Categories

Subscriptions › Rank #12
Subscriptions › Rank #10
Payments › Rank #38
Payments › Rank #28

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Paddle payment service is 1.7 times more popular than Chargebee.
Total websites

Market share

Subscriptions
Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Paddle is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Canada, while Chargebee is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Netherlands.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Australia
France
Netherlands
Canada
Italy
Poland
Finland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Paddle is more popular among sites focused on Internet services, business, and software and hardware, while Chargebee is more commonly used on health, real estate, and general news sites.
Internet Services
Business
Software/Hardware
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Interactive Web Applications
Entertainment
Games

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#2,513
sniffies.com
#3,850
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Name
Rank
#1,030
#1,458
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See also

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