Lemon Squeezy vs Tebex Comparison 2026
Lemon Squeezy charges 5 percent plus 50 cents per sale as merchant of record for software and digital products, handling sales tax and VAT registration along the way. Tebex charges a flat 5 percent with no monthly cost on its entry tier, but it is built specifically for game servers selling ranks and cosmetics to their own players. The headline rates are close. The audiences do not overlap: one sells digital goods to any buyer online, the other sells in-game perks to a server's own player base.
Digital product sales with the tax handled
Game server monetization at a flat five percent
At a glance
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Lemon Squeezy | Tebex | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Lemon Squeezy
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
- Covers digital products & storefronts
- Covers creator finance
Tebex
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.
Why people weigh these two
- Tebex instead of Lemon Squeezy
- Tebex charges a flat five percent with no monthly fee, built specifically for game server monetization rather than general digital products.
- Lemon Squeezy instead of Tebex
- Lemon Squeezy handles the sales tax on digital goods, which a flat-rate platform usually leaves to you.
Which one should you pick
Pick Lemon Squeezy if you are selling software, licences or digital products to buyers anywhere, and want sales tax and EU VAT registered and filed for you as part of the 5 percent plus 50 cents rate. Subscriptions, licence keys and an affiliate programme all come with the same account.
Pick Tebex if you run a game server selling ranks, cosmetics or memberships to your own players, since nothing else here is built for that audience. The entry tier has no monthly cost and takes a flat 5 percent, with billing, renewals and in-game delivery handled for you. A quiet month costs nothing, which suits a server that sells irregularly rather than every day.
Common questions
- Are Lemon Squeezy and Tebex really substitutes for each other?
- Rarely. Lemon Squeezy sells digital products and software to any buyer online. Tebex sells ranks and cosmetics specifically to a game server's own players. The similar 5 percent rate is closer to a coincidence than a real point of competition.
- Which charges more per sale?
- Lemon Squeezy, slightly, at 5 percent plus a 50 cent fixed fee against Tebex's flat 5 percent with no stated fixed fee on top. Lemon Squeezy's extra covers tax registration and filing, which Tebex's listing does not claim to offer.
- Does Tebex work for anything outside game communities?
- No, by design. Every part of it assumes a server, a player list and in-game delivery, none of which a general digital product seller has. Lemon Squeezy makes no such assumption and works for any digital product or software sale.
- Is there a monthly fee on either?
- Neither charges one on their entry offerings. Tebex's entry tier has no monthly subscription at all, and Lemon Squeezy has no plan or monthly fee either, so both cost nothing in a month with no sales.
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