Paddle pricing and rate limits
Cost at your volume
| Tier | Monthly cost | Breakdown |
|---|---|---|
| Pay-as-you-go$0 base + usage | $650 / mo cheapest | base $0 + Transaction volume (percentage fee) overage $500 + Transactions (fixed fee) overage $150 |
| Custom pricingContact sales | unlisted | Contact sales |
Cheapest: Pay-as-you-go at $650/mo.
Example volumes you can edit; not vendor data. Costs use the shared Overage cost function, identical to the API and MCP. Usage the vendor does not price is excluded, never guessed. Optional add-ons are not included in these totals. Overage marked pay-as-you-go applies only if you enable it; otherwise the allowance is a hard cap.
Tiers
| Item | Pay-as-you-go | Custom pricing |
|---|---|---|
| Base price | ||
| Price | $0 base + usageNo monthly fees, migration fees, or hidden extrassource | Contact salesprice unlisted |
| Overage rates | ||
| Transaction volume (percentage fee) | 5% of volume 5% + 50¢source5% | unlisted |
| Transactions (fixed fee) | $0.50 per 1 5% + 50¢source$0.50 / transaction | unlisted |
| Rate limits | ||
| API requests per minuteper IP | 240An IP address can make up to 240 requests per minute.source | unlisted |
Fee calculator
| Line | Applies to | Rate | Fee | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay-as-you-go card rate | $10,000 over 300 transactions | 5% + $0.50 | $650 | rate5% + 50¢source rate 5% + 50¢source |
- Fees (at least)
- at least $650
- You keep (at most)
- at most $9,350
- Effective rate (at least)
- at least 6.5%
Not included / unlisted: these fees apply to your scenario but the vendor's page does not list them, so they are left out, never guessed.
- No international card fee is listed for this service.
- No currency conversion fee is listed for this service.
- No dispute fee is listed for this service.
Merchant-of-record style: the vendor handles sales tax, so fees cover more than a plain gateway's.
Example scenario, not vendor data: edit the numbers to match your mix. Fees come only from the listed rates and fee rows above; a fee the vendor does not list is shown as unlisted, never estimated. International and currency-conversion shares are assumed to carry the average transaction amount. Refund and payout fees are not included.
Payments facts
| Model | Merchant of recordStart selling globally with Paddle as your Merchant of Record.source |
|---|---|
| Pricing model | flat rateper Checkout transactionsource |
| Sales tax handled | yes (vendor is the seller of record)We collect the correct rate of tax, track the filing deadlines, prepare our records, submit sales tax returns with all the other necessary documentation & payments to stay compliant, so you don’t have to.source |
| Payout timing | unlisted |
| Payout fee | unlisted |
| Minimum payout | unlisted |
| Seller countries | unlisted |
Prices in USD, per the vendor's billing period. Hover or focus a number for the line it came from, with a link to the stored snapshot. "unlisted" means the vendor does not publish it; we never fill the gap.
Rate limits
| Tier | Metric | Limit | Window | Scope | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay-as-you-go | API requests | 240An IP address can make up to 240 requests per minute.source | per minute | per IP | documented |
Change timeline
No changes recorded.
Tracking began 2026-10-24; no change has been detected since.
Sources
| URL | Kind | Last captured | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|
| www.paddle.com/pricing | pricing | 2026-10-24 | snap_paddle-pricing-0_20261023T210553Z |
| developer.paddle.com/api-reference/about/rate-limiting | limits | 2026-10-24 | snap_paddle-limits-0_20261023T210554Z |
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