Lemon Squeezy pricing

Lemon Squeezy has no plan tiers and no monthly fee. It is the merchant of record, so it sells your product to the buyer, handles the tax, and keeps a cut of each order before paying you. The table below lists every fee on its pricing page and in its help docs.

Rates from the Lemon Squeezy pricing page, its fees doc and its refunds and chargebacks doc. The add-ons stack: when a buyer abroad renews a subscription, you pay both the international and the subscription add-on.

The fixed part of the fee decides how much of a cheap order goes to Lemon Squeezy. On a $10 product it is a tenth of the sale. On a $299 product it hardly registers.

Now a whole month, for a SaaS product sold at $25 a month. The middle columns are the fee bill if every subscriber pays with a US card, or if every one pays from abroad. Most stores land somewhere between the two.

Our arithmetic from the fee table, before any tax. When VAT is added to an order, the fee is worked out on the larger, tax-inclusive total, as the example in the fees doc shows. Payout fees come off after this.

Notice that the fee stays the same share of revenue at every size. Growing does not earn a lower rate by itself. Lemon Squeezy offers custom pricing to high-volume sellers and to products priced under $10, but you have to ask its sales team for it. To see this bill beside SamCart, Paddle, Gumroad and the rest at your own revenue, use the checkout cost calculator.

Stripe acquired Lemon Squeezy in July 2024. The per-sale rate card above is still the one lemonsqueezy.com publishes. Three things have changed since then.

• Payouts got cheaper in October 2024. The bank payout fees in the table took effect from the 28 October 2024 payout cycle, and the announcement credits the acquisition for the cut.
• The team now builds Stripe's own merchant-of-record product. In a January 2026 post, Lemon Squeezy's CEO wrote that the team has been building Stripe Managed Payments, that this meant slower support and fewer product updates for Lemon Squeezy, and that the goal is an easy way for Lemon Squeezy users to move over. The post gives no date for that move and no deadline.
• Stripe prices that product differently. Managed Payments adds 3.5% to normal Stripe processing, on the tax-inclusive total, and Stripe Billing charges separately for subscriptions. Some third-party write-ups say it costs the same as Lemon Squeezy. Stripe's own page describes the add-on model, so read that page before you assume a migration leaves your margin alone.

So is Lemon Squeezy cheaper than Stripe? Plain Stripe processing costs less per sale, and then the sales tax and VAT registrations, filings and disputes are yours to handle. Stripe's FAQ puts the all-in cost of most merchant-of-record providers at 7% to 9% once currency, payout and dispute costs are counted, which is a fair yardstick for the non-US column above. The merchant of record vs payment processor comparison covers that trade-off.

The cost sellers complain about most is money held back, more than the fee itself. Frozen payouts and account reviews nobody explains are the loudest theme in public reviews, and the CEO's own post concedes support slowed.

Paddle publishes the same headline rate and bundles the same tax work. The head-to-head on add-ons and payout timing is Paddle vs Lemon Squeezy. FastSpring publishes no rate at all and quotes each seller. Lemon Squeezy vs FastSpring puts the two side by side. The fee question against Gumroad is Gumroad vs Lemon Squeezy. If the fee or the payout holds are why you are looking around, the Lemon Squeezy alternatives page ranks the options, and the full Lemon Squeezy review covers the product itself.

For a SaaS product or a download at $49 and up, sold to buyers in many countries, I think the bundled rate is fair pay for never registering for VAT. Below about $20 a sale, I would ask sales for custom pricing before launch, because the fixed fee takes too large a share. Whatever the price, run one real order and one payout through the account before you send it traffic. If you are opening a new store rather than running one, also look at whether Managed Payments accepts businesses in your country, since that is where Lemon Squeezy's own team says its work is going.

• 13 October 2026. Re-read the pricing page and fee docs. Added the payout, cart-recovery, affiliate and dispute fees to one table, worked examples by order size and by monthly revenue, the October 2024 payout-fee cut, the January 2026 Managed Payments update, and new FAQ answers.
• 28 September 2026. First published.