Merchants of record · RankedFreemius
Freemius is a billing and subscription management platform that also acts as a merchant of record, handling tax compliance and software licensing · freemius.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Paddle is first at 44%.
Paddle is first at 44%.
Cleverbridge is first at 35%.
Why models recommend it
“Tailored for micro-SaaS, with a 3.8% + $0.50 fee and no monthly fee”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Freemius 3.8% + $0.50 is the stage-mapped cheapest specialist”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Freemius wins on price for developers”MiniMax M2.5 · Comparative question · alternative
“Purpose-built for WordPress ecosystem”Kimi K2 · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Freemius, over the 20 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 9 | View → | |
| 17 | 3 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | View → | |
| 13 | 1 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 1 | View → | |
| 10 | 7 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Freemius's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- software makers
- Price stated
- No setup fees. No monthly fees. Pay only when you sell.
- Starting price
- 3.8% + 50¢
- Free plan or trial
- free trials
- Certifications
- PCI DSS
- Customers named
- Fullworks plugins
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 20 of the 20 answers that named Freemius and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy-two of the eighty-eight domain citations in answers naming Freemius came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 56 | 9 | 2026-09-14 | Merchants of record | |
| Comparison | 12 | 4 | 2026-09-21 | ||
| Case study | 8 | 0 | 2026-06-10 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | 0 | 2025-09-18 | ||
| Conference or event | 4 | 0 | 2026-05-14 | ||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-21Taxjar vs avalara tax compliance comparison
- 2026-09-14Software tax compliance costs blog
- 2026-09-09Saas subscription management tools blog
- 2026-09-02Freemius release notes august 2026 blog
- 2026-08-30Paypro global alternative comparison
- 2026-08-27Outbound sales tools accelerate growth software business blog
Events in person
- June 24, 2026Makers' MeetupTel Aviv, Israel · took part
- June 5, 2026Makers' MeetupKraków, Poland · took part
As the event pages on freemius.com state them, read October 5, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page freemius.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.