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

Payments Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↑ Prices rising

16
Vendors
1%
of All Tracked Changes
1
At-Risk Vendors
restructured 2 reduced 1 new tier 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. 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. 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 ↗
restructured Stripe effective 2026-02-01 high
Managed Payments (Merchant of Record) service entering general availability — Stripe handles tax, billing, fraud, and disputes Source ↗

At-Risk Vendors

All 1 of the 16 vendors we list in this category that carry one. A vendor is named here for as long as a demotion is in force against it: a one-off pricing event, recorded against a source we cite, whose date falls in the last 180 days — or a standing condition, also cited, such as a free tier withdrawn or a product retired, which does not expire with time. A demotion can lift with nothing about the vendor having changed, and that happens on the day the vendor's newest qualifying event passes 180 days.

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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