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Paddle pricing

By Dana Rourke, Lead reviewer. Reviewed by Campaign Buyer Editorial. Verified 8 September 2026.

The plans

Paid plans start at $0/mo.

No platform subscription. Standard Checkout is 5% plus $0.50 per transaction, bundling payments, sales-tax compliance, fraud and dispute handling, subscriptions and buyer support. Products under $10 need bespoke pricing.

Verified against the vendor on 2026-09-08. Prices change quietly, so confirm on the vendor site before you commit.

Is it worth the money?

Paddle is the checkout to pick if you sell software or SaaS and want a platform that becomes the legal seller for you. It calculates your sales tax, owns fraud screening and takes disputes off your plate. It is the wrong tool for direct response, though: its rules bar most high-risk products, you cannot route a charge across accounts you hold, and the 5% plus 50 cents a sale climbs as you grow.

What works

  • Registers as the seller for tax, so it calculates, files and remits sales tax and VAT worldwide and carries that compliance load for you
  • One bundled rate covers payments, fraud screening, subscription billing, buyer support and disputes, with no separate platform fee
  • Its payment recovery retries a failed renewal up to seven times across about a month and emails the customer to update a card
  • It contests chargebacks for you automatically, using the transaction evidence it already holds as the seller on the receipt

What to watch

  • Its rules bar a long list of restricted categories, so most nutra, supplement and other high-risk sellers cannot onboard at all
  • You cannot move volume between several of your own accounts. You sell on Paddle's rails, so a declined card has no second processor to fall back to
  • At 5% plus $0.50 a transaction it sits well above the bare processor rate, and that gap only widens as you scale
  • You never control a dispute. Paddle keeps its fee even when it wins one, and can throttle or suspend a seller above a 0.65% chargeback rate

Pricing FAQ

How much does Paddle cost?
No platform subscription. Standard Checkout is 5% plus $0.50 per transaction, bundling payments, sales-tax compliance, fraud and dispute handling, subscriptions and buyer support. Products under $10 need bespoke pricing.
Does Paddle have a free trial or free tier?
Paddle has no free tier; check the vendor for current trial terms.

Sources

9 discussions and reviews read for this page. Quotes are excerpts; open a link to read the original in context.

  1. [r-payout-hold] Paddle withholds vendors/sellers payouts for inexplicable reasons for inexplicable periods · Reddit
  2. [r-200-days] Paddle.com / Paddle.net Big Scam! · Reddit
  3. [r-mass-closure] Paddle closed my account today, same thing happened to many other SaaS founders over the past 24 hours · Reddit
  4. [r-mass-closure-comment] Comment on: Paddle closed my account today · Reddit
  5. [r-blocked-onboarding] Avoid Paddle as payment processor. Blocked my account for no reason. · Reddit
  6. [r-closed-after-apology] Warning: Paddle.com closed my account after admitting it was their mistake! · Reddit
  7. [r-zero-notice] WARNING: Paddle just closed my account with ZERO notice and is holding all payouts hostage · Reddit
  8. [r-tax-worth-it] How are you handling tax in different regions? · Reddit
  9. [r-stripe-tax-burden] How are you handling tax in different regions? · Reddit
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