Paddle pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Paddle (paddle.com) is a payment provider. Flat all-in fee of 5% + $0.50 per checkout transaction as merchant of record, with no monthly fee; custom pricing for high volume.. No free plan.
What Paddle costs
- $10k/mo sales: $600/mo (200 x ($50 x 5% + $0.50) = 200 x $3.00 = $600)
- $10k/mo, 50% intl: $600/mo (Flat worldwide MoR fee, no international surcharge published: 200 x $3.00 = $600)
- $1k/mo sales: $70/mo (40 x ($25 x 5% + $0.50) = 40 x $1.75 = $70)
Plan compared: Pay-as-you-go (5% + $0.50). Total fees in USD per month at standard published rates for one-off online card payments at each sales level: percentage and fixed per-payment fees plus any monthly or gateway fee. Merchant-of-record prices include sales tax and VAT handling, while processor prices cover payment processing only, without tax, billing or fraud add-ons.
Paddle price hikes
No price hikes on record for Paddle.
Cheaper alternatives to Paddle
At $10,000 a month in card sales, Paddle costs $600/mo. 3 payment providers cost less:
- PayPal: $347/mo (Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments (2.89% + $0.29))
- Square: $350/mo (Square Free plan, eCommerce API (2.9% + 30¢))
- Stripe: $350/mo (Standard pricing (pay as you go))
Paddle alternatives: 3 cheaper payment providers compared, at every size.
Sources
Pricing page: paddle.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Rate from paddle.com/pricing, confirmed by PricingSaaS (snapshot 2026-10-05); PricingSaaS logs only packaging changes (custom-tier wording, Price Intelligently discontinued) and no fee increase was found.