Chargebee

About Chargebee

A billing platform earns a slot in an analytics directory when the reporting layer could stand alone, and Chargebee's RevenueStory nearly could: more than 150 ready-made reports and ten default dashboards — Sales Watch, Customer Success Watch, and Monthly Watch among them — covering MRR movements, churn cohorts, activations, and collections, plus a Report Builder for custom cuts, included with every account and reading from the same system that generates the invoices. No connector, no sync lag, no reconciliation between the metrics tool and the billing truth.

The rest of the stack is full quote-to-revenue: billing automation for usage-based, tiered, and flat-fee pricing; ASC 606 and IFRS 15 revenue recognition; AI-powered retention offers with save-rate tracking; CPQ for multi-year ramped quotes and approval workflows; 480+ pre-built API workflows; and payments through 40+ gateways in 100+ billing currencies across 150+ countries. Gartner has named Chargebee a Magic Quadrant Leader for Recurring Billing Applications three consecutive years through 2026, and 6,500+ businesses run on it, including Zapier, Typeform, and LegalZoom. The pricing meter is billing volume, not seats: the Flow plan is pay-as-you-go at 0.80% of monthly billing value with no platform fee, or $99 a month plus 0.65% on a monthly commit, with up to 100M usage events a month included; CPQ Lite is free for the first 50 quotes for Billing customers; Enterprise Plus adds multi-entity management, account hierarchy, and up to 500M usage events on custom annual terms. Founded in Chennai in 2011 and now run from San Francisco and Chennai, Chargebee raised $250 million at a $3.5 billion valuation in February 2022, in a round co-led by Tiger Global and Sequoia.

Pricing

Model

Paid

Starting price

0.80% of monthly billing (pay-as-you-go, no platform fee)

Notes

Billing (Flow) plan: pay-as-you-go at 0.80% of monthly billing value with $0 platform fee, or a monthly commit at $99/mo fee + 0.65% of billing value; includes up to 100M usage events/mo. Enterprise Plus (up to 500M usage events/mo, multi-entity, account hierarchy) is custom annual pricing. CPQ Lite is free for the first 50 quotes for Billing customers; RevRec and Growth/Retention tiers are quoted separately.

Key Features

• RevenueStory analytics with 150+ ready-made reports, 10 default dashboards, and a custom Report Builder
• Billing automation for usage-based, tiered, flat-fee, and custom pricing models
• Subscription lifecycle management: trials, upgrades, pauses, and self-service changes
• ASC 606 / IFRS 15 revenue recognition (RevRec)
• AI-powered churn prevention with targeted retention offers and save-rate tracking
• Payments via 40+ gateways across 150+ countries and 100+ billing currencies
• CPQ for multi-year ramped quotes and approval workflows; 480+ pre-built API workflows

Platforms

• Web
• API

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