Every free payments tier that clears our bar in 2026: 9 offers meet the criteria and 3 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 7 of them: on 3 the page we cite did not answer, and on 4 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.

Best Free Payments Tools

Every free payments tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-09-30.

9 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 4 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, 1 a recorded widening, and we publish no durability signal for 3. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page. They are listed in an order that rotates daily. Here is how that order is derived. There is no top slot here to sell.
Why trust this data? Every free tier is verified against the vendor's pricing page with dates tracked. We monitor 476 pricing changes and flag vendors that have reduced or removed free tiers. Rankings start every offer at zero and can only demote. There is no signal a vendor can acquire, lobby for, or buy — there is nothing to add. A record reaches a function page when its category names the function or when it carries a subtype label that names the function. Adding a label to a record publishes it here; removing one withdraws it. No page holds a list of vendors. See all 16 payments offers →
1
Free

Product Billing management with 3 pages & up to 50 payments. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-13, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

2
Adapty.io stable
Free

One-stop solution with open-source SDK for mobile in-app subscription integration to iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, Unity, or web app. Free for apps earning under $5,000/month (rolling 30-day revenue); Pro tier charges 1% of monthly revenue above the $5K threshold.

3
Free

Free up to $7K MTR No credit card required Note — discovered 2026-09-19: The free tier limit has been reduced from $10k to $7k monthly tracked revenue. Source ↗

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-19 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: The free tier limit has been reduced from $10k to $7k monthly tracked revenue. Source ↗
4
Free

Reliable Exchange Rates and Currency Conversion for your Business, 100 API requests/month free. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-18, we refused the change we considered recording because it named no figure that had moved, and refusing a change is not a confirmation of the terms above, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

5
Free

An easy-to-use currency conversion JSON API. The free tier updates once per day with a limit of 1,500 requests/month.

6
Currencyapi stable
Free

Offers a free tier with 300 requests / month. Paid plans start at $7.99 / month with 15,000 requests / month and private forum access.

7
vatlayer stable
Free

Instant VAT number validation and EU VAT rates API, free 100 API requests/month

8
RevenueCat stable
Free

Hosted backend for in-app purchases and subscriptions (iOS and Android). Free up to $2.5k/mo in tracked revenue.

9
Free

Provides cryptocurrency market data including the latest crypto and fiat currency exchange rates. The free tier offers 10K call credits/month. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-13, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Demoted — and exactly why

These offers reach this page too and rank below the list above. Each one names the recorded fact behind it. A recorded limit reduction, pricing restructure or new restriction is shown on every surface where the offer appears, with its date and summary — but it does not move rank. We have change records for only 16% of vendors, and disproportionately for well-known ones, so ranking on them would demote the vendors we happen to watch most closely.

−1
Free

Provides real-time and historical exchange rates. The free tier requires attribution. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-10, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Generate revenue from APIs via usage-based billing. Connect to Stripe, Chargebee, etc. The free tier offers 30,000 events/month. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Automatically adjust pricing based on visitor location to expand your business globally and reach new markets (purchasing power parity). The free plan includes 7,500 API requests/month. We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-09-15, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 2 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-09-15 — page content too short (likely JS-rendered SPA); a rendering client read 147 characters), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)

Not on our ranked list

4 of the 16 offers matching this query are not on our ranked list — 4 are not free offers. Here is how that order is derived.

Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-09-30
query_key
best-of:Payments
seed
4254b204ef30702235da1a7a64fff259db818bf762fd15966d6ce67da495522d
tie_count
9

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Durability Read / catalogue date
Zoho Checkout Free Product Billing management with 3 pages & up to 50 payments. not published
read not reconciled · 2026-09-13
2026-09-13 / 2026-07-30
Adapty.io Free One-stop solution with open-source SDK for mobile in-app subscription integration to iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter... stable 2026-09-25
Qonversion Free Free up to $7K MTR No credit card required watch
discovered 2026-09-19 · effective date unknown
2026-09-19 / 2026-09-01
currencylayer Free Reliable Exchange Rates and Currency Conversion for your Business, 100 API requests/month free. not published
no difference measured · 2026-09-18
2026-09-18 / 2026-08-14
exchangerate-api.com Free An easy-to-use currency conversion JSON API. The free tier updates once per day with a limit of 1,500 requests/month. stable 2026-09-13
Currencyapi Free Offers a free tier with 300 requests / month. Paid plans start at $7.99 / month with 15,000 requests / month and private...
read found the page different · 2026-09-18
improving
discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknown
2026-09-18 / 2026-08-11
vatlayer Free Instant VAT number validation and EU VAT rates API, free 100 API requests/month stable 2026-09-18
RevenueCat Free Hosted backend for in-app purchases and subscriptions (iOS and Android). Free up to $2.5k/mo in tracked revenue. stable 2026-09-18
CoinMarketCap Free Provides cryptocurrency market data including the latest crypto and fiat currency exchange rates. The free tier offers 1... not published
read not reconciled · 2026-09-13
2026-09-13 / 2026-08-10

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free payments tool in 2026?

We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 9 free payments offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

Which of these free payments tiers have held their terms?

9 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 4 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, 1 a recorded widening, and we publish no durability signal for 3. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.

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