Paymenter vs Stripe Billing
Paymenter and Stripe Billing are both billing and subscriptions software. Paymenter is open source under MIT, with 2.8k GitHub stars. Stripe Billing is a commercial product from Stripe, Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Paymenter when
- You run a small game or web hosting business and want a free alternative to WHMCS.
- 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
A self-hosted billing and storefront for hosting companies, handling products, invoices, Stripe and PayPal payments and provisioning through Pterodactyl and other panels.
Stripe's subscription and usage billing: products, prices, subscriptions, invoices, proration, customer portal and smart retries.
Smaller ecosystem of provisioning extensions than WHMCS.
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 and Laravel
Not published
Open source, MIT (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.
2.8k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v1.5.9.
Not known
Other comparisons
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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.