Tool profile
Subscription billing platform for recurring revenue, invoicing, and SaaS finance operations.
B2B SaaS billing with complex plans and usage meters
Chargebee orchestrates subscription lifecycle, usage/hybrid billing, tax, checkout, self-serve portals, and integrations to 35+ payment gateways on the public Starter card. The company also sells CPQ, revenue recognition (RevRec), retention/cancel flows, and related modules—each with distinct pricing pages.
Per chargebee.com/pricing (March 2026), Starter for billing automation shows USD 0/month with: no platform fee on the first USD 250,000 of cumulative billing, then 0.75% charged monthly on billing beyond that threshold. Features listed include flexible subscription/usage billing, hosted checkout and portal, usage metering, and multi-region sales tax support. CPQ Lite is free for the first 50 quotes for existing Billing customers; full CPQ is sales-led. RevRec Performance/Enterprise and Retention Performance (e.g. cancel experiences) show demo/talk to sales or fixed session bundles on the same pricing hub—treat them as separate SKUs.
Compare Stripe Billing when you stay merchant-of-record; compare Recurly and Zuora in mid-market/enterprise billing RFPs; compare Paddle when MoR is required.
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Editorial take
The unusual part of Chargebee is that the starter threshold is cumulative billing, so the economics change permanently once you grow past it. Separate the core billing platform from Retention and RevRec in your budget, because those add-ons can materially change the total software spend.
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Pricing snapshot
Chargebee's current pricing hub shows Billing Starter as free for the first $250,000 of cumulative billing, then 0.75% on billing after that threshold. Billing Performance is $599 per month on an annual commitment for up to $100,000 billed per month, and Enterprise is custom. RevRec and Retention are separate product lines with their own pricing motions.
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