Stripe
stripe.com
Payments infrastructure for the internet
Custom pricingPaid
Chargebee
Subscription billing and revenue operations
Free plan availableAccounting & FinanceSince 2011
from $249/moVisit chargebee.com
What Chargebee is
Complex recurring billing — trials, proration, dunning, revenue recognition and entitlements — sitting on top of a payment gateway.
People use it to
Current offers
Free plan
Free plan, no card required
Ongoing free tier published by the vendor. Limits vary by plan.
Chargebee alternatives
Other tools in accounting & finance that cover similar ground. Full comparison.
QuickBooks
quickbooks.intuit.com
Small business accounting standard
from $19/moFree trial
Xero
xero.com
Cloud accounting with a huge app ecosystem
from $25/moFree trial
Where Chargebee sits on price
Entry prices across Accounting & Finance, cheapest first.
- BrexFree
- Ramp$15
- QuickBooks$19
- Wave$19
- FreshBooks$23
- Xero$25
- Chargebee$249*
6 of these 7 prices were read from the vendor's own pricing page; the rest are marked * and are indicative. The median is taken across the 6 verified prices in Accounting & Finance. 3 more tools in this category do not publish an entry price and are not plotted.
Chargebee pricing questions
- How much does Chargebee cost?
- Chargebee starts at about $249 a month. We have not been able to read that figure off the vendor's own pricing page, so treat it as indicative and confirm on chargebee.com.
- Does Chargebee have a free plan?
- Chargebee offers a free trial, and the vendor also publishes a free entry tier. Check which of the two you are signing up for — the trial ends, the free tier does not.
- What is Chargebee used for?
- Complex recurring billing — trials, proration, dunning, revenue recognition and entitlements — sitting on top of a payment gateway. People mainly use it to bill subscriptions, manage dunning, recognise revenue.
- What are the best alternatives to Chargebee?
- The closest alternatives in the same category are Stripe, QuickBooks, Xero, Paddle. QuickBooks starts lower at $19 a month; Xero starts lower at $25 a month.