Paddle alternatives
Every payments provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Paddle's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Paddle's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- StripeMerchant of record: Not supported vs Supported
- Lemon SqueezyPricing model: A cut of each sale and nothing else: no monthly charge for ecommerce features, no trial a…
- PolarFree tier: Yes vs No
- Dodo PaymentsPricing model: One headline rate with named surcharges stacked on it: +3% when the customer pays with Pa…
Where Paddle stands against these 4
Paddle's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Free tier
- No. 1 of the 4 alternatives that document it has one: Polar.
- Per-transaction fee
- 5% + 50 cents per checkout transaction, the same worldwide, with no migration fees, monthly fees or hidden…Joint 3rd cheapest of the 5 that document it. Cheapest: Stripe — 1.5% + 20p for standard UK cards and 2.5% + 20p for EU cards, on the UK pricing page.
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.