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 public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Stripe Billing has the lower entry price — Stripe Billing starts at $0/mo, Recurly at $249/mo. Free tier: Stripe Billing No, Recurly No. HIPAA: Stripe Billing —, Recurly —.
As of 2026-09-02 · figures link to their source below
Side by side
Stripe Billing
$0/mo entryRecurly
$249/mo entrySources — Stripe Billing: stripe.com (verified 2026-09-02) · Recurly: recurly.com (verified 2026-09-02)
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