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Subscription revenue platform

Recurly

A subscription revenue platform for recurring lifecycle, plans, payments, recovery, and orchestration.

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Editorial verdict

Choose Recurly when subscription lifecycle, payment orchestration, and recovery are leading requirements and its volume-based commercial model fits.12

Best for

  • Subscription-first products
  • Teams requiring multiple gateway or payment-method paths
  • Organizations valuing mature dunning and lifecycle controls
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Not ideal for

  • Very early products that need only processor-native billing
  • Businesses seeking a Merchant of Record
  • Teams unwilling to adopt a separate subscription system
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Main trade-off

Subscription specialization and orchestration are gained with a separate data model, commercial commitment, integration, and migration boundary.12

Product boundary

Whether Recurly's subscription-first operating model and commercial terms fit the business.

This Tool covers Recurly Subscriptions and its included payment workflow, not Recurly Engage, RevRec, or Commerce add-ons.12

For: Subscription businesses that value mature lifecycle and multi-gateway payment operations

  • The business needs seller-of-record delegation.
  • A processor-native system covers the lifecycle.
  • Billing-volume economics or migration do not fit.

Why teams consider Recurly

  • Subscription focusRecurring plans and subscriber lifecycle are the primary product.12
  • Payment orchestrationRecurly documents multiple gateways and payment methods.12
  • Recovery controlsDunning and churn-prevention controls are part of the subscription operation.12

Pricing

Public pricing combines a monthly platform fee and percentage of billing volume for Starter, with volume-based annual commercial terms for scaled plans.2

Starting subscription business

Starter

$249 per month plus 0.9% of billing volume at verification, with the first $40,000 of monthly billings included.2

Scaled subscription business

All-Access

As low as under 1% of billing volume, billed annually, with a stated $1 million billing-volume minimum.2

Primary meters
Monthly fee and billing volume2
Add-ons
Engage and RevRec have separate pricing2
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Recurly vs alternatives

Stripe Billing

Choose when
Choose a Stripe-native recurring lifecycle.
Avoid when
Multi-gateway subscription operations are required.
Compared with Recurly
Integration simplicity replaces orchestration breadth.45

Chargebee Billing

Choose when
Choose Chargebee's gateway-connected billing and broader revenue workflow.
Avoid when
Its additional operational breadth is unnecessary.
Compared with Recurly
A different billing catalog and commercial model apply.67

Paddle

Choose when
Choose a Merchant of Record lifecycle route.
Avoid when
The business must remain merchant.
Compared with Recurly
Delegated seller operations replace direct control.89

Resources and sources

Official product, policy, and pricing

  • Recurly Subscriptions documentation
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  • Recurly pricing
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  • Recurly status
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    Recurly Subscriptions documentation

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    Recurly pricing

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    Stripe Billing subscriptions

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    Chargebee Billing

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    How Paddle works

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