🆚 Paddle vs. Recharge

Type

Payment service
Payment service

About

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.

Recharge is a subscription billing platform for Shopify and BigCommerce stores that manages recurring payments, subscription plans, and customer retention workflows.

It includes subscription lifecycle tools such as customer self-service portals, prepaid and gift subscriptions, cancellation and pause controls, payment retry and dunning management, and analytics for churn and cohort tracking.

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Headquarters

London, United Kingdom
Santa Monica, California, United States

Website

Pricing

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
Free version ❌Free 60-day trial
Starter
$99/month
Trasaction fee1.49% + 19¢
Pro
$499/month
Trasaction fee1.25% + 19¢

Categories

Payments › Rank #28
Payments › Rank #18
Subscriptions › Rank #11
Subscriptions › Rank #5

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Recharge payment service is 3 times more popular than Paddle.
Total websites

Market share

Payments
Subscriptions

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Recharge is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Paddle is more popular in the Netherlands, Poland, and India.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Germany
Canada
France
New Zealand
Ireland
Netherlands
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Recharge is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty, while Paddle is more commonly used on business, Internet services, and software and hardware sites.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Fashion/Beauty
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Health
Alcohol
Blogs/Wiki
Pharmacy

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,030
#1,458
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Name
Rank
#15,090
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See also

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