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Run a side project or have a hobby SaaS? Go with Stripe billing.

Manage a SaaS product or run a SaaS company?

Togai is built for you.
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When should you choose Stripe over Togai?You have -
Over-staffed engineers who want to build internal metering and billing systems
A ton of money and are happy to pay > 0.5% of your revenue as a Stripe tax
A lot of time to browse 17100 pages of documentation to figure things on your own
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An aversion to diversification and want to get locked into a single payment processor 
Excitement when your financial information sits across multiple 3rd party systems
A side project that is only self-serve and you do not want larger companies as customers
For everything else, there is Togai
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A purpose built billing system for SaaS. Stripe is a payment processor with a billing feature. 

We built billing so you don’t have to. Go with Stripe and you will have to.

Not convinced? Here is the feature by feature comparison

Category
Description
Togai
Stripe
Tracking and Metering
Model monetizable action as an event
Custom event definition
Enrich events with additional formula
Retrieve events information in real time
Usage metrics in real time
Filter and meter events based on rules
Types of metering
No-code interface for metering
Price configuration
Building block
Feature
Product

Purchase type

  • One time
  • Recurring
Any combination possible
Choose only one per product

Pricing model

  • Usage based
  • Flat/seat based
Any combination possible
Choose only one per product

Payment type

  • Prepaid
  • Postpaid
Any combination possible
Choose only one per product

GTM motion

  • Self serve
  • Custom contracts
All types of pricing plans supported with overrides
Custom contracts require individual plans to be created for every contract
Proration
Plan upgrade/downgrade/cancel
Plan versioning
Slabs - Standard/tiered/volume
Pricing type - flat/per unit/package
Minimum commitments
Discounts
Credits - one-time/recurring
Limited
Bulk update pricing changes
Billing and payments
Billing cycle - Monthly/quarterly/semi-annual/annual
Any combination possible within a single plan
Only one cycle allowed per plan
Free trials
Scheduled pricing changes
Yes, completely flexible with a timeline view
Supporting different payment providers
Supporting different accounting providers
Multi-currency support
End user experience
Customer billing portal

Customized checkout
Limited
Custom invoicing
Limited
Self-serve plan management
Limited
Entitlements (feature access & limits)
Limit access to features

Entitlement types
Unmetered, metered, free text
One-time / recurring entitlements
Static / dynamic entitlements
Usage limits and credits for features
Slabbed entitlements
Single source of truth
Real-time metrics & reporting
Not real-time
Custom workflows
Dynamic private and public workflows
Bulk upload of events and customers
Sync with other tools
One click
Alerting and notifications
Limited
Self-service internal upgrades (admin console)
Other considerations
Support
Priority - slack, email, chat
None
Migration effort
None
Requires engg effort
Cost of the service
Max 0.5% of invoiced amount
0.5% to 0.8% of invoiced amount
Moves fast - on demand features & reprioritization requests
Surface area of integration
Equal to Stripe
N/A
Description
Togai
Stripe
Tracking and Metering
Model monetizable action as an event
Custom event definition
Enrich events with additional formula
Retrieve events information in real time
Usage metrics in real time
Filter and meter events based on rules
Types of metering
No-code interface for metering
Price configuration
Building block
Feature
Product

Purchase type

  • One time
  • Recurring
Any combination possible
Choose only one per product

Pricing model

  • Usage based
  • Flat/seat based
Any combination possible
Choose only one per product

Payment type

  • Prepaid
  • Postpaid
Any combination possible
Choose only one per product

GTM motion

  • Self serve
  • Custom contracts
All types of pricing plans supported with overrides
Custom contracts require individual plans to be created for every contract
Proration
Plan upgrade/ downgrade/cancel
Plan versioning
Slabs - Standard/tiered /volume
Pricing type - flat/per unit/package
Minimum commitments
Discounts
Credits - one-time/recurring
Limited
Bulk update pricing changes
Billing and payments
Billing cycle - Monthly/quarterly/semi-annual/annual
Any combination possible within a single plan
Only one cycle allowed per plan
Free trials
Scheduled pricing changes
Yes, completely flexible with a timeline view
Supporting different payment providers
Supporting different accounting providers
Multi-currency support
End user experience
Customer billing portal

Customized checkout
Limited
Custom invoicing
Limited
Self-serve plan management
Limited
Entitlements (feature access & limits)
Limit access to features

Entitlement types
Unmetered, metered, free text
One-time / recurring entitlements
Static / dynamic entitlements
Usage limits and credits for features
Slabbed entitlements
Single source of truth
Real-time metrics & reporting
Not real-time
Custom workflows
Dynamic private and public workflows
Bulk upload of events and customers
Sync with other tools
One click
Alerting and notifications
Limited
Self-service internal upgrades (admin console)
Other considerations
Support
Priority - slack, email, chat
None
Migration effort
None
Requires engg effort
Cost of the service
Max 0.5% of invoiced amount
0.5% to 0.8% of invoiced amount
Moves fast - on demand features & reprioritization requests
Surface area of integration
Equal to Stripe
N/A
OUR PROMISE

Unparalleled Support and Solutions

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Time to go-live
24/7 support that minimizes the time to begin your monetization

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Flexible
Supports every pricing model and configuration

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Scalable
Ingestion and metering that is built for scale in real-time

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Cost effective
Max pricing of 0.5% of invoice amount, talk to us for discounts

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Reliable
Built by a team that has processed 30bn$ worth invoices and payments

Go live today and never worry about billing again.   

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