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Both cover monetization & payments. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Digital product sales with the tax handled
Game server monetization at a flat five percent
Lemon Squeezy | Tebex | |
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| Starting price | Free | Free |
| Pricing model | Free | Free |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Usage-based | Usage-based |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Yes |
| Data export | Not stated |
Digital product sales with the tax handled
Lemon Squeezy acts as merchant of record, so sales tax and EU VAT stop being your problem. That alone justifies the fee for anyone selling internationally. Subscriptions, licence keys and affiliates are all included.
Our note
Worth the 5 percent the first time an EU VAT return would otherwise be yours to file. Against Gumroad it is half the rate and more setup, which is a good trade at any real volume.
Only on this side
Game server monetization at a flat five percent
Tebex sells ranks, cosmetics and subscriptions to the players on a game server, and handles the billing, renewals and plan changes that a community running its own payments ends up doing by hand. The entry tier has no monthly cost and takes a flat five percent instead, so a quiet month costs nothing. Store layouts are customisable and the checkout is theirs rather than a redirect somewhere else. Anybody outside game communities is the wrong audience, because everything here assumes a server and its players.
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| Not stated |
| Their cut | 5% of what you earn | 5% of what you earn |
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| Runs on | Not stated | Web |
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| Covers | Digital Products & Storefronts, Creator Finance, Monetization & Payments | Monetization & Payments |
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| Works with | Nothing in particular | Nothing in particular |
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| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
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| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
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Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Our note
The flat 5 percent is the number to hold against alternatives, because it does not move with volume and most competitors in this space negotiate rather than publish. Work out what the paid tier costs in your own currency before upgrading, since the page quotes it in pounds and the exchange rate is doing part of the pricing.