Best Billing Subscription Management · head-to-head
Stripe Billing vs Recurly
A sourced, side-by-side comparison for billing subscription management. Stripe Billing has the lower entry price. Every figure links to the vendor's own page and the date we captured it.
At a glance
- Price: Stripe Billing $0/mo vs Recurly $249/mo — Stripe Billing is cheaper to start.
- Free tier: Stripe Billing No; Recurly No.
- HIPAA: Stripe Billing —; Recurly —.
Side by side
| Stripe Billing | Recurly | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $0/mo (Pay as you go) | $249/mo (Starter) |
| Free tier | No | No |
| HIPAA (BAA) | — | — |
| SOC 2 | Yes | — |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| Best for | Developer-first companies already on Stripe Payments | Mid-market and enterprise SaaS with $1M+ billing volume |
Sources — Stripe Billing: stripe.com (verified 2026-06-14). Recurly: recurly.com (verified 2026-06-14).
Key features
Stripe Billing: Usage-based metering at 100M events/month scale; Smart retries and automated dunning; Customer self-service billing portal; Native payment processing (no third-party gateway required); SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 annual audits
Recurly: AI-powered churn propensity modeling and cancel-save flows (Engage add-on); Automated ASC 606/IFRS 15 revenue recognition (RevRec add-on); 20+ payment gateways with payments orchestration; Multi-GAAP immutable audit trail; Tax calculation in 47+ countries