FOSSBilling vs Stripe Billing
FOSSBilling and Stripe Billing are both billing and subscriptions software. FOSSBilling is open source under Apache-2.0, with 1.7k GitHub stars. Stripe Billing is a commercial product from Stripe, Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick FOSSBilling when
- A small web host or reseller wants a free alternative to WHMCS and accepts beta software.
- Pick Stripe Billing when
- You already use Stripe Payments and want recurring billing set up through its API or dashboard with little extra work.
Side by side
Billing and client management for hosting providers and other online services, with automated invoices, payment gateways, client area and provisioning extensions.
Stripe's subscription and usage billing: products, prices, subscriptions, invoices, proration, customer portal and smart retries.
The project itself says it is beta with rough edges and limited support.
A percentage-of-billing fee applies, and you are tied to Stripe as your payment processor.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
PHP, Twig, TypeScript and MySQL
Not published
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Stripe, Inc.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
1.7k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release 0.8.9.
Not known
Other comparisons
More billing and subscription management systems
Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.