$306.20 /mo
saves $373.80 (55%)
Pay as you go plan
Covers all 2 things you need.
Also has: usage-based billing, no extra fee on international cards, invoices for your customers.
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6 tools compared. Prices checked 2026-10-20.
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What do these mean?
- Sales tax and VAT handled for you
- The vendor is the legal seller (a "merchant of record"): it collects, reports and pays sales tax and VAT in the countries you sell to, so you do not register for tax yourself.
- Subscriptions (recurring billing)
- Charge customers every month or year automatically, with upgrades, downgrades and cancellations.
- Usage-based billing
- Charge for what customers use, such as credits, tokens or API calls, instead of a flat price.
- Software licence keys
- Issue and check a license key automatically after each sale.
- Checkout with PayPal
- Let customers pay with PayPal as well as a card.
- No extra fee on international cards
- Many vendors add a percentage when the customer's card is from another country. This one does not.
- Invoices for your customers
- Automatic invoices or receipts that businesses can use for their own books.
You pay now
$680 /mo
Gumroad Direct sales, the cheapest plan with everything you need
6 of 6 alternatives cover what you need. The cheapest of those saves $373.80 (55%) a month.
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Cover everything you need
Polar
Open source
$320.40 /mo
saves $359.60 (53%)
Pro plan
Covers all 2 things you need.
$341 /mo
saves $339 (50%)
Standard plan
Covers all 2 things you need.
Also has: usage-based billing, software licence keys, checkout with PayPal.
$390 /mo
saves $290 (43%)
Pay-as-you-go plan
Covers all 2 things you need.
$419 /mo
saves $261 (38%)
Ecommerce plan
Covers all 2 things you need.
Also has: usage-based billing, software licence keys, checkout with PayPal.
$471.80 /mo
saves $208.20 (31%)
Payments + Managed Payments plan
Covers all 2 things you need.
Also has: usage-based billing.
Cheaper, but missing things you need
Each paying customer is charged $29 once a month (one subscription payment). A US seller, US cards, USD, no refunds or disputes, no discount codes. The cost is the vendor's fee on those payments (a percentage plus a fixed amount each, and a monthly fee where a plan has one), which includes card processing, plus the 0.7% Stripe charges for Stripe Billing and the 0.5% Lemon Squeezy and Dodo Payments charge on subscriptions. Fees for international cards, PayPal, payouts and disputes are not included; they are listed on each tool's page. "Sales tax and VAT handled for you" is a must-have by default (US sellers owe sales tax in many states too), so Stripe is priced with Managed Payments, its merchant of record service; untick it to see Stripe Payments on its own, where you collect and file tax yourself. Prices are worked out from each vendor's published rates, not read off a calculator.
Compare in detail
Gumroad and the 4 cheapest alternatives. ✓ included +$ paid add-on ~ partly ? not stated – not offered
| Feature | Gumroad your tool | Creem | Polar | Dodo Payments | Paddle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | |||||
| 50 paying customers | $170 | $76.55 | $95.10 | $85.25 | $97.50 |
| 200 paying customers | $680 | $306.20 | $320.40 | $341 | $390 |
| 500 paying customers | $1,700 | $765.50 | $771 | $852.50 | $975 |
| 2,000 paying customers | $6,800 | $3,062 | $2,888 | $3,410 | $3,900 |
| What you need | |||||
| Sales tax and VAT handled for you | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Subscriptions (recurring billing) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Also useful | |||||
| Usage-based billing | ? | ✓ | ? | ✓ | ? |
| Software licence keys | ? | ? | ? | ✓ | ? |
| Checkout with PayPal | ? | ? | ? | ✓ | ? |
| No extra fee on international cards | ? | ✓ | – | – | ? |
| Invoices for your customers | ? | ✓ | ? | ✓ | ? |
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