Lemon Squeezy acts as a merchant of record, meaning it handles global sales tax and VAT for you — a common choice for solo developers who want to sell without dealing with tax compliance themselves.
Pick Lemon Squeezy when tax compliance is the thing you most want to avoid building yourself — it collects and remits sales tax/VAT on your behalf across most of the world. The trade-off is less flexibility than Stripe and a bigger cut per transaction.
| Provider | Best for | Starters |
|---|---|---|
| Stripe | Teams that want full control over checkout and billing logic, and the widest ecosystem of integrations. | 80 |
| Polar | Indie hackers and open-source maintainers who want subscription billing without configuring Stripe themselves. | 5 |
| Lemon Squeezy | Solo developers selling internationally who want to never think about VAT or sales tax filings. | 24 |
| Paddle | SaaS products selling to many countries that want MoR simplicity with more subscription-management tooling. | 5 |
| Revenuecat | Mobile apps that need unified subscription logic across iOS and Android. | 4 |
| Chargebee | Billing that has outgrown flat subscriptions: usage-based tiers, enterprise contracts, complex proration. | 1 |
| Paypal | Reducing checkout friction for buyers who already trust and use PayPal. | 2 |
| Superwall | Mobile apps that want to A/B test and iterate on paywall design without app-store review cycles. | 1 |