What each one costs
TrialValid Starter is $29 a month for accounts under $10,000 of monthly recurring revenue, starting with a 14-day trial for $1; larger bands follow your revenue: Growth is $95 a month, Scale $295, Pro $595 and Max $995, and Enterprise from $1,995 a month. Chargebee: Billing Flow plan: $0 + 0.80% of monthly invoicing volume, or $99 + 0.65%, with a $66K breakeven shown on the slider (read 2026-10-19, see the pricing table below).
| At a glance | Chargebee |
|---|---|
| What it is | A subscription billing and revenue platform with invoicing, usage-based billing, dunning, tax, quoting and revenue recognition modules, connecting to more than 40 payment gateways including Stripe. |
| Who it suits | Teams that want a billing system of record for hybrid pricing, contracts and usage, with finance modules around it. |
| Starting price | Billing Flow plan: $0 + 0.80% of monthly invoicing volume, or $99 + 0.65%, with a $66K breakeven shown on the slider |
| Free tier | The Billing Flow plan has no base fee at low volume, and the page offers a Start Free Trial button and a free Growth Starter plan for Billing customers. |
| Date checked | 2026-10-19 |
Chargebee pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing basis | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Billing: Flow, low volume end | $0 + 0.80% of monthly invoicing volume | Slider starts at $0 of monthly invoicing volume and includes 100M usage events a month | vendor page |
| Billing: Flow, high volume end | $99 + 0.65% of monthly invoicing volume | Slider runs to $500K of monthly invoicing volume | vendor page |
| Billing: Flow, breakeven | $66K monthly invoicing volume | The page marks this volume as the point where the $99 option starts to cost less | vendor page |
| Billing: Enterprise | Contact sales | Demo required; adds multi-entity management, account hierarchy and higher limits | vendor page |
| Growth: Starter | $0 | Only for Chargebee Billing customers; pricing tables, hosted checkout, self-serve portal and cancel pages | vendor page |
| Growth: Enterprise | Custom, based on number of active subscribers | Contact sales; adds trial conversion experiments and upsell experiments | vendor page |
| CPQ Lite | Free for the first 50 quotes | Only for Chargebee Billing customers | vendor page |
The Chargebee prices above come from www.chargebee.com, read on 2026-10-19. Chargebee can change them at any time.
What Chargebee is
A subscription billing and revenue platform with invoicing, usage-based billing, dunning, tax, quoting and revenue recognition modules, connecting to more than 40 payment gateways including Stripe.
Feature comparison
| Capability | TrialValid | Chargebee | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Card hold at sign-up before a trial starts | yes | not stated | none |
| Trial subscription created in your own Stripe account | yes | different approach | source |
| Capture before the trial ends with retries | yes | not stated | none |
| Exact agreement text stored with time, IP and terms version | yes | not stated | none |
| Statement descriptor rules | yes | not stated | none |
| First-touch attribution per signup | yes | not stated | none |
| Automatic recovery after a failed charge | no | yes | source |
| Free-to-paid trial conversion experiments | different approach | yes | source |
Where TrialValid and Chargebee overlap
Chargebee is where the subscription and its invoices live, and TrialValid is a thin layer over the trial itself. Both can sit on Stripe, since Chargebee lists Stripe among its gateways. They overlap at the trial-to-paid moment: Chargebee offers dunning, checkout pages and trial conversion experiments on its top Growth plan, while TrialValid holds the card up front and captures it shortly before the trial ends. A team already running billing in Chargebee would ask whether it needs a separate card-hold step at all.
When to pick which
Pick Chargebee when
- You need a billing system of record for usage, hybrid pricing, quotes or revenue recognition.
- You want dunning and payment retries inside the same system that issues invoices.
- Your pricing involves multiple entities, account hierarchies or contract terms.
Pick TrialValid when
- Your billing already runs in your own Stripe account and only the trial conversion step is missing.
- You want the card held at sign-up and captured close to the trial's end, with retries.
- You want each signup stored with the agreement text shown, plus its time, IP and terms version.
- You want a flat plan tied to connected MRR rather than a percentage of invoicing volume.
Sourced facts
| Fact | Read on | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The Billing Flow plan is priced by monthly invoicing volume on a slider from $0 to $500K, with $0 + 0.80% at one end and $99 + 0.65% at the other. | 2026-10-19 | vendor page |
| The slider marks a $66K monthly invoicing volume as the breakeven between the two Flow price points. | 2026-10-19 | vendor page |
| The Flow plan includes 100M usage events a month and connects to more than 40 payment gateways. | 2026-10-19 | vendor page |
| Billing Enterprise is described for companies running billing at global scale with multiple business entities, account hierarchies and high-spike billing events, and is reached through a demo. | 2026-10-19 | vendor page |
| The Growth Starter plan costs $0 and is available exclusively to Chargebee Billing customers. | 2026-10-19 | vendor page |
| Growth Enterprise is priced on the number of active subscribers and, unlike Starter, lists free-to-paid trial conversion experiments. | 2026-10-19 | vendor page |
| Both Billing plans in the comparison list basic dunning and smart dunning, with payment retries described as machine-learning powered in the navigation. | 2026-10-19 | vendor page |
| Stripe is named in the list of supported payment gateways, alongside GoCardless and others. | 2026-10-19 | vendor page |
| The comparison lists card payment methods covering credit, debit and prepaid cards, and full API checkout including Stripe.js. | 2026-10-19 | vendor page |
| Stripe Radar transaction-level and customer-level alerts are listed as included under fraud management. | 2026-10-19 | vendor page |
| Revenue recognition plans are priced by demo or quote, with a Performance plan for finance teams that asks you to book a demo and request pricing. | 2026-10-19 | vendor page |
| The page shows a Start Free Trial button and a Get a Demo button at the top. | 2026-10-19 | vendor page |
Questions
How is Chargebee priced?
The Flow billing plan is $0 + 0.80% of monthly invoicing volume at the low end and $99 + 0.65% at the high end, with a $66K breakeven marked on the slider.
Does Chargebee work with Stripe?
Stripe is named in the list of supported gateways, and the comparison lists Stripe.js checkout and Stripe Radar alerts.
Does Chargebee support free trials?
The solutions menu mentions running free trials and self-serve checkout, and Growth Enterprise lists free-to-paid trial conversion experiments.
Does Chargebee include dunning?
Yes. Basic dunning and smart dunning are listed in the Billing plan comparison.
Could TrialValid stand in for Chargebee?
No. TrialValid does not issue invoices or manage usage billing. It handles the card hold, the trial and the first charge in your Stripe account.
What we could not verify
- Whether Chargebee can hold a card at sign-up before a trial begins: the pricing page does not describe the mechanism.
- What a trial subscription costs to run inside Chargebee beyond the invoicing percentage: the page prints no trial-specific price.
- Billing Enterprise, Growth Enterprise and revenue recognition prices: the page says to contact sales.
- Whether agreement text, statement descriptor rules or per-signup attribution are stored: the pricing page does not say.