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Recurly

Subscription management and billing.

What it is

Recurly manages subscription billing: plans, trials, dunning and revenue reporting on top of a payment processor. Its focus is recovering revenue that would otherwise silently churn, through retry logic and account updater services. Like its rivals it sits on top of a processor, so it is an addition to your payment stack rather than a replacement.

Recurly pricing

Recurly does not publish a plan ladder we could verify. Pricing not verified.

Prices read from the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-09. Vendors change plans without notice — check the source before you budget.

Key features

  • Churn recovery

    Retries and repairs failed payments to reduce involuntary churn.

  • Flexible plan modelling

    Supports tiered, usage and add-on pricing structures.

  • Revenue analytics

    Reports subscription metrics and cohort retention.

Strengths and trade-offs

What works well

  • Strong dunning and failed-payment recovery
  • Detailed subscription analytics
  • Works with major processors

Where it falls short

  • Priced for established subscription businesses
  • Implementation is a project
  • More than simple monthly plans need

Who it is for

Subscription businesses losing revenue to failed payments.

Pick it or skip it

Pick Recurly if

  • Subscription businesses starting out: Starter is $249 per month plus 0.9% of billing volume, with the first $40K of billings each month included at no charge
  • Teams that want to try before committing — Recurly offers a 90-day free trial on Starter and a free sandbox on the higher tier
  • Businesses past $1M in billing volume: All-Access is quoted as low as under 1% of billing volume, billed annually, and the rate improves with volume

Skip it if

  • Your billing volume is small and irregular — a percentage of billings on top of a $249 monthly floor is expensive relative to a flat tool
  • You need multicurrency, single sign-on, payments orchestration across gateways or intelligent churn prevention: those are All-Access, which carries a $1M billing volume minimum
  • You want one published number: the All-Access rate is volume-negotiated rather than listed

Our verdict

The dunning recovery alone can justify it at scale. Small subscriber counts do not need this.

Frequently asked questions

How is Recurly priced?
Recurly charges a platform fee plus a percentage of what you bill. Starter is $249 per month plus 0.9% of billing volume, and the first $40,000 of billings each month is included at no charge; it comes with a 90-day free trial. All-Access is quoted as low as under 1% of billing volume, billed annually, and requires a $1M billing volume minimum — the rate improves as volume grows. Starter includes automated global subscription billing, one dunning campaign, 10+ payment methods and 20+ payment gateways; multicurrency, SSO, payments orchestration and multiple dunning campaigns sit on All-Access.
Who is Recurly best for?
Subscription businesses losing revenue to failed payments.
What are the main drawbacks of Recurly?
The trade-offs we noted: Priced for established subscription businesses; Implementation is a project; More than simple monthly plans need.
When should you not use Recurly?
Skip Recurly if: Your billing volume is small and irregular — a percentage of billings on top of a $249 monthly floor is expensive relative to a flat tool; You need multicurrency, single sign-on, payments orchestration across gateways or intelligent churn prevention: those are All-Access, which carries a $1M billing volume minimum; You want one published number: the All-Access rate is volume-negotiated rather than listed.

What we checked

  • Public APIOffers a documented API you can build against.Yes
  • Mobile appHas a native app for iOS or Android, not just a mobile website.No
  • Open source / self-hostableSource is open and the tool can be run on your own infrastructure.No
  • SSO (SAML)Supports SAML single sign-on on at least one plan.Yes

“Not checked” means exactly that — we have not verified it, and we do not guess.

Evidence and freshness

Status: Vendor pricing page verifiedReviewed: 2026-09-09

  • Recurly — Pricing ↗

    Checked 2026-09-09 · Supports: Starter: $249 per month + 0.9% of billing volume; first $40K of billings included at no charge each month; 90-day free trial, Starter includes: automated global subscription billing, flexible plans and pricing, static churn-prevention tools, 1 dunning campaign, 10+ payment methods, 20+ payment gateways, All-Access: as low as <1% of billing volume, billed annually, $1M billing volume minimum; rate improves with volume, All-Access adds: AI-powered agents and analytics, intelligent churn-prevention, multiple dunning campaigns, advanced plans/pricing/promotions, payments orchestration across gateways, custom reporting and automated exports, ACH and additional gateways, multicurrency, single sign-on, All-Access for Shopify offered as a separate bundle

Limit: Vendor pricing page was reviewed by an editor on this date; this record is not a ToolCompare benchmark. Prices and limits change.

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