Recurly vs Stripe Billing: What are the differences?

What is Recurly? Subscription Billing. Zen Simplicity. Recurly is the leading pay-as-you-go recurring billing service because setup is easy, integrations are quick, and our service grows with the needs of your business.

What is Stripe Billing? A set of tools for billing and subscriptions. A set of billing and subscription tools for developers and business people. Developers can use out-of-the-box functionality to get started quickly or use the composable API building blocks to design fully customized subscription logic and pricing models. Business people can create and manage subscriptions and invoices—and view detailed financial reports.

Recurly and Stripe Billing belong to "Payment Services" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Recurly are:

• Subscription Plans
• Account Dashboard
• Dunning Management

On the other hand, Stripe Billing provides the following key features:

• Accept Orders - From the dashboard, Stripe.js and Elements, Billing API & Mobile SDKs
• Billing & Invoicing - One-off billing, recurring billing, flexible billing, invoice delivery, hosted invoice pages, and sales tax integrations
• Collect Payments - Credit cards, ACH and wire, local payments, retry logic, card updater, payment reminders

LinkedIn, Twitch, and Asana are some of the popular companies that use Recurly, whereas Stripe Billing is used by Nextdoor, eero, and Unleak. Recurly has a broader approval, being mentioned in 39 company stacks & 7 developers stacks; compared to Stripe Billing, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.