Paddle

London, United Kingdom

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.

According to our data, Paddle ranks 28th among the payment services we track.
It has 0.5% of the payment market share and is detected on 0.03% of all websites.

🏠 Website
- paddle.com #12,622
🏷️ Previous name
- ProfitWell
🔗 Links
- Paddle acquires ProfitWell for $200M to bring analytics and retention tools to its SaaS payments platform

💸 Pricing

Payment processing5% + 50¢/transaction

Payout feesVia PayPalSubject to PayPal fees
Via PayoneerSubject to Payoneer fees
Wire TransfersIn the same currency$0
Via SWIFT$/€/£15

📊 Rankings and Market Share

Payments
- Rank: 28
- Market share: 0.5%
Subscriptions
- Rank: 10
- Market share: 1.6%

🏆 Paddle Awards

⭐ 8th most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
⭐ 10th most popular in the United States in the Subscriptions category.
⬆️ 26th most popular in the United States in the Payments category.
⬆️ 28th most popular in Germany in the Payments category.

⚡ Sites Powered by Paddle

We have data on 976 websites that use the Paddle payment service. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.

The highest rated site using Paddle is bitly.com.

#	Website	Rank	Country	Language
1	bitly.com	#17		American English
2	prezi.com	#1,030		English
3	arduino.cc	#1,458		English
4	vulture.com	#2,702		English
5	thecut.com	#3,975		English
6	thesimsresource.com	#4,199		English
7	n8n.io	#5,363	Germany	English
8	coolors.co	#5,392		English
9	scribehow.com	#5,406	United States	English
10	genially.com	#5,533		English
11	renderforest.com	#6,096	Armenia	English
12	streamyard.com	#6,315	United States	English
13	opus.pro	#7,359		American English
14	foxit.com	#7,481		English
15	vidiq.com	#8,395	United States	American English
16	clipdrop.co	#9,238	United States	American English
17	vectorstock.com	#11,596		English
18	helloclue.com	#12,536	Germany	English
19	paddle.com	#12,622		English
20	urban-vpn.com	#12,950		American English

📈 Usage Statistics

Most of the sites that use Paddle:

are located in the United States
have content in English
use the .com domain extension
fall into the Internet Services category.

🌎 Countries📢 Languages⭐ TLDs🗃️ Domain Categories

Most of the sites using Paddle are from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Most Paddle users speak English.

The Paddle payment service is especially popular on .com and .io top-level domains.

The primary market segments for websites utilizing Paddle include Internet services, business, and software and hardware.

🕵️ Similar Technologies

These are some of the best Paddle alternatives.

Rank	Name
9	Gumroad San Francisco, California, United States An e-commerce platform serving as a merchant of record that enables creators and digital entrepreneurs to sell digital products, memberships, and other goods directly to their audience. $$$
14	FastSpring Santa Barbara, California, United States A merchant-of-record e-commerce platform that provides an all-in-one payment and subscription infrastructure for SaaS, software, and digital-goods businesses. $$$
22	Lemon Squeezy Salt Lake City, Utah, United States An all-in-one platform for running SaaS business offering payments, subscriptions, global tax compliance, fraud prevention, and email marketing. Free$$$
27	PayPro Global Toronto, Ontario, Canada A platform for digital goods sellers offering online payment processing, invoicing, tax compliance, and subscription management. $$$
34	Cleverbridge Cologne, Germany A cloud-based ecommerce and subscription management platform for selling software, SaaS, and digital goods. $$$