Chargify: billing software platform

The short answer

Buy Chargify if you want Chargify's subscription and usage billing with revenue reporting attached, you invoice under $100k a month so the published $599 per month Grow plan applies, and seat count is irrelevant to you, since the vendor charges nothing per user. The rename does not change the billing engine you were shopping for.

Skip it if you are searching for Chargify specifically because you want its original standalone product or pricing, because neither is published any more. Skip it too if you need revenue recognition depth, A/R management, multi-entity or EU hosting, since all of those are unpriced modules rather than plan features, and if you need a free trial, because none is offered.

Where Chargify fits

Chargify pricing

No Chargify price is published, because Chargify is sold as Maxio. Checked on 16 October 2026, the vendor publishes one figure: Grow at $599 per month for businesses with up to $100k in monthly billings. Scale, for anything above $100k in monthly billings, routes to a quote. Seats are free, which removes the usual per-user arithmetic entirely, so your cost comes down to two things: which side of the $100k line your billings sit on, and how many of the optional modules you need.

What the vendor publishes

Grow

$599 / month (Monthly price, with agreements paid annually by default)For businesses with up to $100k in monthly billings. Recurring billing, subscription management and usage-based billing, automated invoicing and payment processing, collections and dunning, 20+ payment gateways, and financial reports, A/R management and revenue recognition at the standard level.

Scale

Quote-based (Custom contract)For businesses with over $100k in monthly billings. Advanced financial reports, A/R management and revenue recognition, advanced revenue management, expense amortisation, metering and rating, and multi-entity support.

Figures as published on the Maxio pricing page and checked on 16 October 2026. No price is published under the Chargify name, and no separate Chargify plan set exists on the page.

Four things move the number, and the first one is specific to anyone arriving here under the old name.

1. What happens to a legacy Chargify contract. If you are already on older Chargify paper, the published plans are not necessarily where you land. Ask which plan your account maps to at renewal, whether the $599 Grow price or a quoted Scale price applies, and whether any feature you rely on today sits in a module that is now priced separately. Get the mapping in writing before the renewal conversation starts, not during it.
2. Your monthly billings, measured at the peak rather than the average. The $100k monthly billings line is the only thing separating a published price from a quote. A business that crosses it in two months of the year is a Scale conversation, so check twelve months of invoiced volume and ask in writing how the tier change is triggered and priced when you cross mid-term.
3. Which optional modules you need. Advanced revenue management, A/R management, expense amortisation, milestone-based projects, multi-entity, event-based billing and EU hosting are modules with no published price. A former Chargify buyer who needs revenue recognition depth or several legal entities is buying at least one of these, so ask for each as its own line item rather than accepting a single platform figure.
4. Contract shape. The vendor says default agreements are paid annually, that monthly and quarterly payment are premium options, and that pricing is flexible based on contract term length. So there are two unpublished adjustments pulling in opposite directions: an uplift for paying monthly, and a discount for committing longer. Ask for both as numbers.

What costs extra

• Optional modules, none of them priced: advanced revenue management, A/R management, expense amortisation, milestone-based projects, multi-entity, event-based billing and EU hosting.
• Monthly or quarterly payment instead of the default annual agreement, described as a premium option with no published uplift.
• Maxio Payments, the vendor's own payment processing, reconciliation and surcharging option, is described as part of the platform with no published fee.
• Nothing is published about migration from legacy Chargify billing, in either direction: no fee is listed, and no statement says the work is free.

Implementation and commercial terms

The rows below are what the vendor's pricing page confirms as of 16 October 2026. Absences here are questions, not reassurance.

Published price

Grow at $599 / month only. Scale is quoted.

Price under the Chargify name

None. Pricing is published only for Maxio plans.

Pricing basis

Monthly billings volume, split at $100k per month.

Per-user charge

None. The pricing FAQ says you can have as many users as you like at no additional charge.

Default payment term

Annual. Monthly and quarterly are described as premium options.

Implementation fee

None published, including for customers moving off legacy Chargify billing.

Free trial

None listed. Both plans route to a demo request.

Multi-year discount

Offered. The vendor says pricing is flexible based on contract term length, with no figure.

Budget this as a Maxio purchase with a Chargify history, because that is what it is. If your monthly billings sit under $100k and you need billing rather than revenue recognition depth, $599 per month is a real number you can plan against, and the absence of per-seat charges means it does not drift as your team grows. If you need any module, or your billings cross the line, you are in a quote and the published price tells you only where the ladder starts. Either way, if you are on legacy Chargify paper, the most valuable thing you can do before renewal is get the plan mapping and the module list confirmed in writing.

Source: the Maxio pricing page, checked 16 October 2026. Confirm current prices with the vendor before you budget.

What Chargify gives up

How Chargify compares

Billing platforms split cleanly on pricing mechanics, and that is the useful axis here rather than feature counts. Chargify and Maxio are the same pricing page, which is itself the finding: a flat monthly fee up to a volume threshold, then a quote. Chargebee and Recurly both charge a monthly fee plus a percentage of what you invoice, so their bills rise with revenue from the first invoice rather than stepping at a threshold. Zuora publishes nothing and its site returned errors to every request on 16 October 2026. Every price below comes from that vendor's own pricing page, checked on 16 October 2026.

What to test in a Chargify demo

No free trial is listed and both plans route to a demo, so this is a demo and a scoped proof of concept. It has two jobs: confirm the billing engine still does what you bought it for, and establish what the rename means for your contract. Treat the second as the more urgent one if you are an existing customer.

1. Open with the contract question. Ask which published plan your account maps to at renewal, whether the $599 Grow price or a quoted Scale price applies, and what your current entitlements become under the module structure. If you are a new buyer, ask the same question in reverse: what is in the plan and what is a module.
2. Bring your real pricing models. Load a fixed plan, a usage-based plan and, if you use them, milestone-based billing and consolidated invoicing across a parent and child customer. Customer hierarchies, proration and renewal management are the mechanics that break first in a migration, so make the demo show them with your own catalogue rather than a sample one.
3. Verify the API surface you depend on. List the endpoints and webhooks your product calls today, get written confirmation of which are supported on the current platform, and ask whether any rework is chargeable. No migration fee is published either way, which means it is negotiable rather than absent.
4. Test the reports your controller will actually open. A/R aging, deferred revenue by transaction, roll forwards, contract details and days sales outstanding are named reports on the platform, and the plan table marks reporting as standard on Grow and advanced on Scale. Ask what that difference is, in writing, against the specific reports you need for close.
5. Price the contract shape, not only the plan. Annual payment is the default, monthly and quarterly are premium options, and multi-year terms attract a discount, with no figure published for any of the three. Get the monthly uplift and the multi-year discount as numbers, plus every optional module you need as its own line, so the quote is comparable with anyone else's.

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