Pricing trends for Payments: 4 tracked pricing changes across 16 vendors. Direction: stable.

Payments Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↔ Stable

16
Vendors
1%
of All Tracked Changes
0
At-Risk Vendors
new tier 2 reduced 1 restructured 1

Pricing Change Timeline

Every record we hold is listed here, newest first. A record is never removed from this list, so a vendor named here stays named here whatever its verdict does afterwards.

reduced Qonversion discovered 2026-09-19 · effective date unknown medium
The free tier limit has been reduced from $10k to $7k monthly tracked revenue. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of Qonversion's page, so it does not count toward the rating. Source ↗
new tier Currencyapi discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknown medium
The free tier now offers 300 requests per month. The page also mentions paid plans starting at $7.99/month with 15,000 requests/month and a private forum access. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of Currencyapi's page, so it does not count toward the rating. Source ↗
restructured Polar discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown high
The original 'Pay-as-you-go' tier is no longer available. There's a 'Starter' free tier with different pricing (5.00% + $0.50 per transaction) and several paid tiers (Pro, Growth, Scale) with varying monthly fees and transaction rates. A 'Startup Program' offers the 'Scale' plan free for 12 months. Source ↗
new tier Stripe effective 2026-04-22 low
On 2026-04-22 Stripe made Managed Payments, its optional merchant-of-record service for digital products, generally available to businesses in 39 countries. It adds 3.5% per successful transaction to Stripe's standard processing fees, which did not change. Source ↗

We hold one more record filed under this category that is not counted above: entries the vendor has since reversed, our own index housekeeping, and corrections to earlier entries of our own. Read the full change log.

Stable Picks

All 4 of the 16 vendors we list in this category that qualify, not a selection of them. A vendor is named here for as long as no demotion is in force against it and we hold no change record for it dated in the last 90 days — any record, including ones the timeline above does not count. A vendor can join this section on a day we recorded nothing about it, when the later of those two clocks runs out: 90 days after its newest record, or the day the demotion against it lapses. It leaves on the day we file a new record, or the day we can no longer vouch for the terms we list.

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