Chargebee

What it is for

Chargebee is a hosted subscription-billing desk: you open Subscriptions, and Starter is $0 for Billing customers. Use it when the job is plans you invoice with a public % tile, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is the official Chargebee Subscriptions list (8 Subscriptions, Free/Grow/Hustle rows, Moss Enterprises $296.67, Acme Inc. In trial, Levenne Corp. Cancelled) from the docs still — not a pricing card. The rows themselves are ops of Subscriptions. Chargebee bills invoicing volume + a $99 platform row, not a chat seat.

Key features

• Subscriptions — a customer plan you invoice (cover still; docs). One list. Cover Moss Enterprises $296.67 and the 8-row header sit here.
• Customers — the account on the subscription (cover daveave@example.com / Acme Inc.) (docs). A customer, not a subscription. Profiles sit here.
• Invoices — a bill you raise against a subscription (pricing Monthly Invoicing Volume). An invoice, not a customer. MRR on the cover is the result of invoices.
• Product catalog — the plan / addon you sell (cover Free / Grow / Hustle) (docs). A catalog, not an invoice. Plan families sit here.
• Entitlements — a feature you attach to a plan (docs). An entitlement, not a catalog row. Overrides sit here.

The checkout / hosted-pages snippet is install. Starter / % tiles are the meter. CPQ and Revenue Recognition are add-on SKUs, not a sixth desk we fold into Subscriptions.

Who it's for

Best fit: finance / product teams who will stay on Starter at $0 (Chargebee Billing customers only) while they open a first Subscriptions list, then pay the Growth Flow tile at $0 + 0.80% or $99 / month + 0.65% once monthly invoicing volume is on the estimator.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from chargebee.com/pricing. The Growth Flow estimator we fetched prints a $66K breakeven, $0 / $500K volume marks, and two platform rows.

• Starter — $0. “Launch subscriber growth experiments for free on enterprise-grade infrastructure.” Copy says exclusively for Chargebee Billing customers.
• Growth Flow (estimator) — $0 + 0.80% or $99 / month + 0.65%. Includes 100M usage events / month. Plug-n-play with 40+ payment gateways. Breakeven mark on the slider: $66K.
• Performance / Scale / Enterprise — book a demo / contact sales. Revenue recognition and multi-entity copy do not print a second public seat dollar on the fetch we used.

Confirm the estimator and checkout; taxes follow your location.

Limitations / costs

• Starter $0 is for Chargebee Billing customers. Do not treat it as a public forever-free seat for a new stack.
• Paid dollars are % of invoicing volume, not a $X/seat tile. Re-run the $66K slider before you budget.
• A billing desk, not a usage meter you self-host. For Lago see Lago. For Autumn see Autumn.

Alternatives

• Lago — open-source usage billing when you want Lago’s customer invoice desk, not Chargebee’s $0 / $99 + % Subscriptions list.
• Autumn — entitlements-first billing when you want Autumn’s plan editor, not Chargebee’s Leap subscription table.
• Polar — merchant-of-record for indie SaaS when you want Polar’s checkout, not Chargebee’s invoicing-volume estimator.

Official tutorial

Official Chargebee channel video: Subscription Management in Chargebee (oEmbed author: Chargebee). First-party subscriptions walkthrough; the Leap Subscriptions still is the cover. Invoices on the video are a second desk, not generate-on-Subscriptions.

Written path: chargebee.com/pricing plus the Subscriptions still.

Website

https://www.chargebee.com

Repository

https://github.com/chargebee

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is the official Chargebee Leap Subscriptions list from the docs CDN. Dollars checked on chargebee.com/pricing (Starter $0; Growth Flow $0 + 0.80% or $99/mo + 0.65%; 100M events). Tutorial oEmbed author: Chargebee.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.