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Recurly - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: March 2026

Recurly overview

What is Recurly?

Recurly’s all-in-one, integrated platform removes the complexities of automating subscription billing at scale by enabling teams to manage and optimize their subscriber lifecycles with ease.

Category-defining companies including Sling, Twitch, BarkBox, FabFitFun, Paramount, Lucid, and Sprout Social have chosen Recurly to manage billions of dollars in recurring revenues, future-proof their recurring billing and revenue management, and recover billions of dollars in lost revenue due to churn.

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The Recurly subscription and billing platform allows brands of all sizes to launch, manage, and scale every aspect of their subscription business from plan and pricing creation to marketing promotions, subscriber management, payments orchestration, recurring billing, and churn reduction so you can grow faster, smarter, and stronger.

Plans, Pricing & Promotions

Quickly configure and launch new offers, dial in best pricing, upsell one-time products, celebrate with gift subscriptions, and entice customers through discounted promotions.

- Pricing models

- Plans and add-ons

- Item catalog

- Trial management

- Coupons and discounts

- Gift subscriptions and cards

Subscriber Management

Gain a complete view of subscribers and subscriptions. Manage them with ease through integrated subscription and communications tools that simplify complexity and accelerate growth.

- Subscription management

- Multi-subscription support

- Lifecycle communications

- Account hierarchy

Payments Orchestration

Optimize, simplify, and secure complex payment processing with a symphony of resources that reach and win subscribers anywhere in the world you choose to play.

- Multiple payment gateways

- Alternative payment methods

- Subscriber wallet

- Fraud management

Recurring Billing

Streamline and automate the entire subscription billing and invoicing lifecycle, even with complex subscription billing scenarios as you confidently scale locally and across borders.

- Automated and manual invoicing

- Invoice and receipt customization

- Charges and credits

- Taxes and compliance

Churn Management

Maximize recurring revenue, minimize attrition, and boost subscriber lifetime value with machine-learning-powered churn and revenue recovery technology and tools.

- Intelligent retries

- Account updater

- Expired card management

- Dunning campaigns

- Backup payment method

- Pause subscription

Revenue Recognition

Streamline and automate compliance with multiple revenue reporting standards with Recurly’s enterprise-grade, fully configurable solution.

- Revenue recognition automation

- Compliance automation

- Revenue forecasting

- Multiple revenue models

Starting price

Free

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Pros & Cons

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Billing and Subscription Management

Pricing

Customer Support

Invoices and Refunds

Dunning and Revenue Recovery

Security and Access Control

Recurly’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

Recurly pros, cons and reviews insights

To determine these pros and cons insights, we analyzed responses from 

Overall rating

Reviews sentiment

 
 
 
1-2(3)
3-4(15)
5(44)

What do users say about Recurly?

Having used it almost every day in the past 3+ years I can say I am satisfied from both the core feature, subscription and invoicing management, the support, the fact that also when dealing with difficult to identify issues, like double charges or the 3-D Secure Authentication issues, they are striving to get it solved.

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Who uses Recurly?

Based on 62 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Midsize Businesses

Enterprises

Top industries

Computer Software
Consumer Services
Health, Wellness and Fitness
Sports
Others

Use cases

Billing and Invoicing
Payment Processing
Subscription Management
Recurring Billing
Publishing and Subscriptions

Recurly's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Recurly users:

Recurring/Subscription billing
Dunning management
Subscription plan management
Self service portal

All Recurly features

Features rating:

Access controls/permissions
Accounting
Accounting integration
ACH payment processing
Activity dashboard
Activity tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Bank reconciliation
Billing & invoicing
Billing portal
Billing rate management
Cancellation management
Catalog management
Client portal
Compliance management
Contact database
Credit card processing
CRM
Customer accounts
Customer database
Customer profiles
Customizable branding
Customizable fields
Customizable invoices
Customizable reports
Customizable templates
Data import/export
Data security
Data visualization
Debit/Credit card processing
Deferred billing
Discount management
Dunning management
Electronic payments
Email reminders
Enrollments/Onboarding
Forecasting
Fraud detection
Invoice creation
Invoice history
Invoice management
Invoice processing
Mobile access
Mobile payments
Multi-Currency
Multi-Language
Multi-Period recurring billing
Multiple payment options
Online invoicing
Online payments
Order management
Partial payments
Payment gateway integration
Payment processing
PCI compliance
Product catalog
Real-Time analytics
Real-Time data
Real-Time reporting
Receipt management
Recurring invoicing
Recurring/Subscription billing
Refund management
Reminders
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & statistics
Revenue management
Revenue recognition
Sales tax management
Search/Filter
Self service portal
Subscription management
Subscription plan management
Summary Reports
Tax calculation
Tax management
Template management
Third-Party integrations
Transaction history
Usage tracking/analytics
Workflow management

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Recurly pricing

Value for money rating:

Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan
Free trial
Subscription

Core

0.00

Features included:

  • Business and Professional Services
  • Consumer Goods and Retail
  • Digital Media and Publishing
  • Elearning
  • Mobile App
  • Saas
  • Streaming Media

Professional

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Features included:

  • Business and Professional Services
  • Consumer Goods and Retail
  • Digital Media and Publishing
  • Elearning
  • Ideal for Businesses With Revenue $ 1m- $ 25m Annually
  • Mobile App
  • Saas
  • Streaming Media

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No pricing info

Features included:

  • Business and Professional Services
  • Consumer Goods and Retail
  • Digital Media and Publishing
  • Elearning
  • Ideal for Businesses With Revenue Over $ 25m Annually
  • Mobile App
  • Saas
  • Streaming Media

User opinions about Recurly price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Recurly's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“Having used it almost every day in the past 3+ years I can say I am satisfied from both the core feature, subscription and invoicing management, the support, the fact that also when dealing with difficult to identify issues, like double charges or the 3-D Secure Authentication issues, they are striving to get it solved.”
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Paul B.

Customer Experience Manager

“It handles subscription billing well across multiple environments, and the interface is user-friendly.”
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Eugene S.

CEO

Recurly integrations (45)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 62 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as Recurly integrations and how users feel about them.

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

Payment Processor for credit card payments.

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Sal W.

Director Of Operations

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

Para conectar mi campaña de Meta. y asi poder captar leads

We use Zapier to connect our boards and automate some of our projects.

EG

Ezequiel G.

Administrador de empresas

1/2
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Stripe

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

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SaaSquatch

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

quickbooks is where I did all my bookkeeping. was a little clunky to send the balance invoice via honeybook because there was no way to differentiate products and services, which is why i took off one star.

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Sarah D.

CEO

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

Recurly support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

FAQs/Forum
Phone Support
Chat
Email/Help Desk

Training options

Documentation
Webinars
Videos
Live Online

Recurly FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of Recurly?

Recurly has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Small Business, Mid-size Business

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Q. What level of support does Recurly offer?

Recurly offers the following support options:
FAQs/Forum, Phone Support, Chat, Email/Help Desk

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