Invio vs Stripe Invoicing
Invio and Stripe Invoicing are both invoicing software. Invio is open source under Unlicense, with 1.2k GitHub stars. Stripe Invoicing is a commercial product from Stripe, Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Invio when
- A freelancer wants simple self-hosted invoicing with European e-invoice output.
- Pick Stripe Invoicing when
- You already take payments through Stripe and want invoices that collect card and bank payments automatically.
Side by side
A small self-hosted invoicing app that creates invoices and exports e-invoice formats including Factur-X/ZUGFeRD, FatturaPA and UBL for PEPPOL.
Stripe's invoicing product for creating and sending invoices, hosted payment pages, automatic reminders and dunning, tied to Stripe payments and Billing.
Young and the author does not guarantee legal compliance for any country's e-invoicing rules.
A per-invoice fee applies on top of payment fees, and it ties your billing to Stripe.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
TypeScript and Svelte
Not published
Open source, Unlicense (public domain)
Closed source, sold by Stripe, Inc.
You can take the code into anything, including a product you sell, with no conditions.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
1.2k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Young: started 14 months ago, latest release v2.4.0.
Not known
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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.