Comparison

Stripe vs Lemon Squeezy

Overview

Financial infrastructure for the internet

Stripe is a payment infrastructure platform for businesses to accept online payments, manage billing and subscriptions, handle marketplace payouts, and build financial products.

Lemon Squeezy

Sell digital products and software licenses, beautifully

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Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record platform for selling digital products, SaaS subscriptions, and software licenses with built-in global tax handling and affiliate management.

Which should you choose?

Stripe is broad financial infrastructure for any payment model, fitting startups through enterprise. Lemon Squeezy is a merchant-of-record built specifically for selling digital products and software licenses, aimed more narrowly at startups and SMBs, and it bundles affiliate management alongside tax compliance. Choose Stripe if you need general-purpose payment infrastructure across many business models; choose Lemon Squeezy if you're specifically selling digital products or software licenses and want tax/compliance and affiliates handled together.

TLDR

—If you need general-purpose payment infrastructure across many business models, choose Stripe.
—If you're selling digital products or software licenses and want tax and affiliates handled together, choose Lemon Squeezy.

Features

—Payment acceptance (135+ currencies)
—Subscriptions and billing
—Connect (marketplace payments)
—Fraud detection (Radar)
—Invoicing
—Terminal (in-person payments)
—Financial connections
—Tax automation

—Merchant of record
—Digital product sales
—Subscription billing
—Software license delivery
—Affiliate management
—Global tax compliance
—Checkout customization
—Analytics

Pricing

Stripe

usage based

Plan	Price	Notes
Standard	Contact sales	No monthly fees; 2.9% + 30¢ per successful card charge.
Custom	Contact sales	Volume discounts and custom rates for high-volume businesses.

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Lemon Squeezy

usage based