Chargebee vs Stripe Billing: What are the differences?

Developers describe Chargebee as "Lets you bill, manage and understand your SaaS or subscription based eCommerce business easily". Chargebee is a subscription billing platform that lets you bill, manage and understand your SaaS or subscription based eCommerce business easily. On the other hand, Stripe Billing is detailed as "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.

Chargebee and Stripe Billing can be categorized as "Payment Services" tools.

Some of the features offered by Chargebee are:

• Recurring Billing
• Customer Portal
• Hosted Payment Pages (with Theme Support)

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

According to the StackShare community, Chargebee has a broader approval, being mentioned in 24 company stacks & 6 developers stacks; compared to Stripe Billing, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.