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Paddle pricing
Paddle publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the software tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- $29/month
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Not on record
Paddle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $5/transaction | 3 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full Paddle 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
- Payment processing
- Sales tax handling
- Subscription management
- Checkout
- Revenue metrics
Integrations
- Stripe
- PayPal
- Various
Security
- PCI DSS
- SOC 2
Platform
- Web support
- Api support
People bring Paddle in for selling saas or digital products with a merchant of record handling tax, global subscription billing and checkout, offloading sales tax and vat compliance for cross border sales. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Paddle are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Paddle
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: a single tier at $5/transaction. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Paddle against the tools that do have one before committing.
Paddle runs on web, api, and is published by Paddle.com Market Ltd of London, UK. The full record is on the Paddle review.
Paddle pricing questions
- How much does Paddle cost?
- Paddle publishes a single tier, Standard, at $5/transaction.
- Does Paddle have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Paddle is listed as usage-based. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What am I actually paying for with Paddle?
- The record lists 12 features across 4 areas: core, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for selling saas or digital products with a merchant of record handling tax, global subscription billing and checkout, offloading sales tax and vat compliance for cross border sales.
- Does Paddle charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 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 Paddle 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 Paddle against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Paddle to make a useful price comparison.