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Chargebee pricing
Chargebee publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- $29/month
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Not on record
Chargebee plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Performance | $599/month | 3 | +$599/month, 3 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Starter
FreeThe entry tier. It covers first $250k revenue free, basic billing, invoicing.
Performance
$599/monthOver Starter, this tier adds:
- Revenue recognition
- Advanced analytics
- Multi-currency
Where Chargebee stops being free
Starter, Free
- First $250K revenue free
- Basic billing
- Invoicing
Performance, $599/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Revenue recognition
- Advanced analytics
- Multi-currency
What the product covers
The full Chargebee feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Subscription management
- Recurring billing
- Revenue recognition
- Dunning management
- Checkout pages
Integrations
- Stripe
- PayPal
- Salesforce
- NetSuite
Security
- SOC 2
- PCI DSS
Platform
- Web support
- Api support
People bring Chargebee in for subscription billing, revenue operations, pricing experimentation. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Chargebee are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Accounting & Finance
Across the 3 accounting & finance tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $29/month. Chargebee starts at $29/month, which puts it in line with the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chargebee (this page) | $29/month | subscription | - | |
| Lemon Squeezy | On request | transaction | - | vs Chargebee |
| Karbon | On request | subscription | - | vs Chargebee |
| Hnry | On request | transaction | - | vs Chargebee |
| FreeAgent | On request | subscription | - | vs Chargebee |
| Airwallex | Free | freemium | - | vs Chargebee |
| BlackLine | $29/month | subscription | - | vs Chargebee |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Chargebee badges page.
Before you pay for Chargebee
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $599/month, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Chargebee against the tools that do have one before committing.
Chargebee runs on web, api, and is published by Chargebee Inc of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Chargebee review, and the rest of the category is under best accounting & finance tools.
Chargebee pricing questions
- How much does Chargebee cost?
- Chargebee publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Starter up to $599/month for Performance. The cheapest paid tier is Free.
- Does Chargebee have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Chargebee is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Starter and Performance on Chargebee?
- Performance costs $599/month against Free, and adds revenue recognition, advanced analytics, multi-currency.
- Is Chargebee expensive for a accounting & finance tool?
- It starts in line with the middle of its category. Across the 3 accounting & finance tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $29/month; Chargebee starts at $29/month.
- Which accounting & finance tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 accounting & finance tools listed alongside Chargebee have a free tier: Airwallex.
- What am I actually paying for with Chargebee?
- The record lists 13 features across 4 areas: core, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for subscription billing, revenue operations, pricing experimentation.
- Does Chargebee charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Chargebee prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Chargebee against before paying?
- The closest accounting & finance tools in this directory are Lemon Squeezy, Karbon, Hnry, FreeAgent. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Chargebee covering price, platforms and features.