COMPARETHE #1 STRIPE ALTERNATIVE
The full-feature, flexible platform for fast-growing subscriptions
Why Stripe yourself into a corner with no options?
Recurly offers choices at every turn—more gateways, more payment methods, more analytics, and better support. Let us show you how we do it.
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$1.7B
in annual recovered revenue
96%
subscription renewal rate
18x
ROI average
2,300+
subscription businesses powered by Recurly
Stripe is a great payment processor but growing subscription companies need a platform built for the job. Leading consumer brands prefer Recurly to scale their subscription business.
By unifying on a single subscription platform, we were able to become more efficient by creating a community of subject matter experts within the division."
Stephen Comstock
Chief Information Officer (former), Customer since 2015
CAPABILITIES
Why choose Recurly over Stripe?
Built for the subscription industry
Stripe’s true stripes lie in the swipes—as a payment processor. Recurly is a purpose-built subscription management and recurring billing platform.
Reducing churn non-stop
Recurly solves churn with machine learning from billions of transactional data points, recovering more revenue—$1.3 billion annually.
Gateway choices
Stripe customers have zero gateway options. Recurly merchants can choose from 20+ (including PayPal)—and more choice means more reach.
Deep and wide subscription analytics
Recurly reigns supreme with in-app analytics and benchmarks that eclipse Stripe—so you can make data-backed decisions.
Unified revenue recognition
Recurly delivers robust revenue recognition capabilities, including automated ASC-606 and IFRS-15 directly into the platform.
We've got your industry covered
Consumer & financial services
Tailored pricing plans and analytics provide actionable insights, enhancing customer relationships and driving revenue growth.
Media & entertainment
Automate billing, dynamic pricing, and real-time analytics keeps subscribers signing up and tuning in.
Consumer goods & retail
Streamlined payment ecosystems, taxation, and compliance fuel global expansion and customer satisfaction.
Software/SaaS
Robust subscription management, flexible billing, revenue optimizations, and analytics solutions that scale.
Education
Flexible subscription solutions cater to diverse subscriber needs and preferences, freeing internal resources.
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Book my demoFrequently asked questions
Recurly is purpose-built for subscription billing, revenue recovery, and churn prevention. Piano is an analytics and paywall platform with basic billing bolted on. If your priority is maximizing subscriber revenue (not just audience behavior), Recurly is the better fit.
Piano offers static retry schedules with minimal insight into recovery performance. Recurly’s dunning management software uses machine learning to optimize retry timing, recover failed payments automatically, and prevent passive churn.
Recurly’s intelligent retry engine and Account Updater automatically recover revenue that Piano’s basic dunning misses. For every $100 in payment volume, Recurly’s failed payment recovery tools save publishers an additional $20.60 that would otherwise be lost.
Yes! Many publishers keep Piano for audience analytics or advanced paywalls while using Recurly for subscription billing, revenue recovery, and RevRec. A global business news publisher uses this exact architecture. Recurly integrates with Piano and lets you decouple billing from content access.
Dunning management software automates the process of recovering failed subscription payments. It determines when and how to retry declined transactions, updates expired card details, and communicates with subscribers to prevent involuntary churn. Recurly’s ML-powered dunning recovered $1.2B in 2023.
Leading publishers including The Washington Post, Fortune, Axios, Yahoo, and Business of Fashion use Recurly. Recurly manages 12.3M+ active publisher subscribers and has recovered $82M in publisher revenue in the last 12 months.