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Chargebee vs Polar

See how their public offers line up before you choose your own position. Prices stay in the currency, billing schedule, and charged unit each vendor publishes.

USD · US · source: www.chargebee.com

Plan Pricing Charged by Offer type
Flow Highlighted
0.8% of Monthly Invoicing Volume · USD 0 monthly minimum

$0 + 0.80% $99 + 0.65% $160 /mo Includes 100M usage events/mo

Usage · Monthly Invoicing Volume Standalone · Usage based
Enterprise
Contact sales Other Standalone · Contact sales

USD · US · source: polar.sh

Plan Pricing Charged by Offer type
Starter
Free

$0/month plus 5% + 50¢ per transaction

Unit · per transaction Standalone · Free
Pro
USD 20 monthly

$20/month plus 3.8% + 40¢ per transaction

Flat · per month plus transaction fee Standalone · Fixed
Growth Highlighted
USD 100 monthly

$100/month plus 3.6% + 35¢ per transaction

Flat · per month plus transaction fee Standalone · Fixed
Scale
USD 400 monthly

$400/month plus 3.4% + 30¢ per transaction

Flat · per month plus transaction fee Standalone · Fixed

What each plan includes

Feature names follow each vendor’s own pricing page, so verify the wording before treating them as exact equivalents.

Chargebee

Flow

Highlights

Price book and invoicing

Included

Highlights

Usage ingestion and billing with MCP

Included

Highlights

Real-time usage limits and alerts

Included

Highlights

Usage, pricing, and revenue analytics

Included

Highlights

Pricing tables + 1 growth experiment

1

Included

Highlights

CRM, ERP, and productivity integrations

Included

Highlights

Usage events

100M usage events/mo

Included

Invoicing and Subscription Management

Approvals On Price Points

Excluded

Invoicing and Subscription Management

Account hierarchy

Excluded

Assisted-Sales Workflows

On-demand / Manual discounting

Excluded

Assisted-Sales Workflows

Contract terms

Excluded

Internationalization

Multi-entity management

Excluded

Fraud Management

SAML

Excluded

Usage-based & Hybrid Billing

High-volume infrastructure

Excluded

Enterprise

Highlights

Multi-entity management

Included

Highlights

Account hierarchy

Included

Highlights

Contract terms

Included

Highlights

On-demand discounting

Included

Highlights

Usage events

500M usage events/mo

Included

Highlights

Enterprise access controls

Included

Highlights

Data export to GCS, Amazon S3, Snowflake, and your BI stack

Included

Highlights

Higher limits on API calls, web hooks, sandboxes, and event streams

Included

Invoicing and Subscription Management

Approvals On Price Points

Included

Fraud Management

SAML

Included

API, DevOps & Others

Directory integrations

Included

Assisted-Sales Workflows

eSign Integrations

Included

Polar

Starter

Plan card

Monthly fee

$0

Included

Plan card

Transaction fee

5% + 50¢

Included

Plan card

Standard support

Included

Pro

Plan card

Transaction fee

3.8% + 40¢

Included

Plan card

Support

Prioritized

Included

Plan card

Merchant of record

Included

Growth

Plan card

Transaction fee

3.6% + 35¢

Included

Plan card

Support

Prioritized

Included

Plan card

Subscription billing

Included

Scale

Plan card

Transaction fee

3.4% + 30¢

Included

Plan card

Slack support

Included

Plan card

Global tax and billing

Included

How their prices changed

Each date shows when a public price was observed, not when it took effect. An archived region or currency can differ, so a currency change is not necessarily a price increase.

Chargebee

    • Flow: 0.8% of Monthly Invoicing Volume · USD 0 monthly minimum
    • Enterprise: Contact sales
    • Flow Pay as you go: USD 0 monthly
    • Flow Commit: USD 99 monthly

Polar

    • Starter: Free
    • Pro: USD 20 monthly
    • Growth: USD 100 monthly
    • Scale: USD 400 monthly