Billing and subscription management · RankedRecurly
Recurly is subscription billing and recurring revenue software that helps subscription businesses manage billing, recover failed payments, and reduce churn · recurly.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.
Stripe Billing is first at 48%.
Chargebee is first at 57%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Zuora is first at 67%.
Why models recommend it
“Chargebee and Recurly are considered strong all-round subscription management platforms”Llama 4 Maverick · Comparative question · first choice
“Chargebee and Recurly are widely considered the top industry standards”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“Chargebee or Recurly are the safest bets.”MiniMax M2.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Recurly excels at retention and payment recovery, making it strong for high-volume subscription businesses.”MiniMax M2.5 · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Avoid Chargebee/Recurly until your monthly transaction fees exceed their minimum monthly plan cost.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Avoid enterprise-heavy tools like Recurly, Chargebee, or Maxio unless you're scaling quickly”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“While Recurly is generally considered reliable, it has received mixed signals and a couple of documented warnings.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Recurly isn't built for advanced subscription billing management and doesn't support multi-entity structures”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Recurly, over the 145 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 140 | 38 | Compare → | |
| 130 | 30 | Compare → | |
| 96 | 25 | View → | |
| 82 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 73 | 0 | View → | |
| 35 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 20 | 4 | View → | |
| 19 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 2 | View → |
What the models named instead of Recurly →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Recurly's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Mid-market to enterprise B2B companies with $5M+ in annual recurring revenue seeking scalable subscription billing, revenue recovery, and compliance automation
- Price stated
- Transparent recurring revenue software pricing designed to scale from fast-growing startups to enterprise volume.
- Starting price
- $249
- Free plan or trial
- Start free sandbox
- Certifications
- SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, GDPR, Privacy Shield, PSD2, CCPA
- Customers named
- Cinemark, Lucid Software, Nuuly, Pandadoc, Powtoon, Output, Fabfitfun, Twitch
- Headquarters
- Austin, United States
- Founded
- 2009
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 132 of the 145 answers that named Recurly and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
360 of the 393 domain citations in answers naming Recurly 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 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 862 | 19 | 2026-09-22 | Billing | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 229 | 0 | 2026-01-30 | Billing | |
| Glossary or explainer | 214 | 0 | 2026-04-10 | ||
| Report or ebook | 78 | 0 | 2019-06-04 | ||
| Case study | 52 | 0 | 2025-08-07 | ||
| Comparison | 20 | 0 | 2025-10-09 | ||
| Template or tool | 18 | 0 | 2023-10-24 | Billing | |
| Conference or event | 13 | 1 | 2026-07-22 | ||
| News or press | 2 | 0 | 2025-09-29 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-22Signs shopify subscription app holding you back blog
- 2026-09-21Migrate shopify subscription without disruption blog
- 2026-09-21Is recurly commerce right for you blog
- 2026-09-21Winning first 90 days for every subscriber blog
- 2026-09-02Telehealth companies leaving stripe blog
- 2026-08-24Mental health platform billing complexity blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page recurly.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 September 29, 2026.