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Replacement brief
Stripe
Replaces payment processing + billing
Don't. Card processing, PCI scope, dunning, tax, and 3DS are why every sane founder pays Stripe's ~3%. There is no savings here worth the risk.
The verdict weighs direct cost against maintenance, reliability, migration risk, and founder time.
- Verdict
- hard Keep the managed service
- Estimated annual saving
- $0 no meaningful saving
- Open-source options
- 2 reviewed alternatives
01 / Deploy
Start with one command
A Teploy-style starting point for a small VPS. Review the generated configuration, then replace the example host and domain with your own.
# keep stripe. seriously.Our recommendation
Keep Stripe managed unless you have a non-cost reason to leave. The one line item on this entire site we tell you not to cut.