Payments & POS
Chargebee
Subscription billing and revenue management layered on your processor.
4.4· 1,033 reviews· via G2Founded 2011 · San Francisco, CA
What is Chargebee?
Chargebee is a subscription billing and revenue management platform that layers on top of payment gateways like Stripe. It automates recurring billing, invoicing, proration, dunning, and revenue recognition for subscription and SaaS businesses.
Best known for: Subscription billing and revenue management
Key features
- Recurring billing and invoicing
- Subscription lifecycle management
- Dunning and churn reduction
- Revenue recognition and reporting
- Multi-gateway support
- Usage-based and tiered pricing
Who Chargebee is best for
- SaaS and subscription businesses with complex billing needs
- Finance teams wanting dunning, invoicing, and revenue recognition
- Companies that keep their own gateway but need a billing engine
Ideal team: Subscription and SaaS companies scaling past basic recurring charges who need flexible billing, dunning, and RevRec on top of a processor.
Chargebee pricing
Popular
Starter
$0
- Free for first $250K of cumulative billing
- Then 0.75% on billing volume
- Core subscription billing + invoicing
Performance
$599/flat / mo (annual)
- $599/mo, billed annually
- Up to $100K billing per month included
- Advanced billing, dunning, and analytics
Enterprise
Custom
- Custom pricing for scale
- Advanced controls and support
- Higher billing volume tiers
Costs to watch before you commit
- Chargebee is a billing layer — you still pay your payment processor's card fees separately.
- The Starter 0.75% overage kicks in after $250K cumulative billing and scales with revenue.
- Performance requires an annual commitment.
- Some modules (RevRec, Receivables, Retention) are priced as separate products.
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