Small business▼−13Since September 2026: 27% → 14%, −13 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
14%from 27% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 2 pointsRank 2 of 66, unchanged
2 categories · RankedChargebee
190Judge labels
42First choices
38Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
60% in Billing for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 54 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
14 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 17% of its 65 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Chargebee →By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
Small business2 of 72
13%60 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market1 of 54
60%65 labels
endorsed leader
Enterprise3 of 59
12%62 labels
accepted challenger
In billing · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Chargebee for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billing and subscription management | Revenue operations | 60% | 1 of 54 | 17% | 65 | endorsed leader | ▲+2Since September 2026: 60% → 62%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Pricing optimization | Revenue operations | 0% | 72 of 76 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Pricefx at 53% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Chargebee held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Billing · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 60% → 62%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
62%from 60% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 1 of 51, unchanged
Enterprise▲+6Since September 2026: 7% → 13%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
13%from 7% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 3 of 58, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billing | 60% | 62% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 60% → 62%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 1 of 54, unchanged |
| Pricing optimization | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 72 of 76, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Chargebee across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Chargebee across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct37 labels20
Paraphrase34 labels13
Comparative37 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained31 labels6
Scale-constrained20 labels3
Negative31 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative190 labels in all, every segment counted; 42 of the 46 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Chargebee - Known for its flexible pricing, strong dunning, and revenue recognition capabilities, making it a good fit for mid-market SaaS companies.” Llama 4 Maverick · Billing · direct prompt · first choice
“Chargebee - offers a robust free tier (up to $50k in revenue) that supports essential features like automated invoicing and dunning management.” Llama 4 Maverick · Billing · budget prompt · first choice
“Chargebee | Flexible SaaS/subscriptions | $599/mo | Usage/hybrid pricing, 300+ integrations” Grok 4.20 · Billing · scale prompt · first choice
“For most mid-market B2B companies, Chargebee offers the best balance of features, pricing, and scalability.” MiniMax M2.5 · Billing · direct prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“many users report surprise fees ... making it expensive as you scale. Support inconsistencies and billing issues are frequently mentioned” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Pricing optimization · negative prompt · hard negative
“Chargebee — Highest number of recurring complaints ... the most consistent negative feedback across user review sites.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Billing · negative prompt · hard negative
“This is one of the most commonly criticized platforms.” MiniMax M2.5 · Billing · negative prompt · hard negative
“Chargebee: Caution on Vendor Lock-In & Support ... Users should avoid this platform if they prioritize a smooth relationship lifecycle or easy customization.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Billing · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Chargebee, over the 190 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Chargebee was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Chargebee, over the 190 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Chargebee was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Chargebee. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 180 of the 190 answers that named Chargebee and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
zoneandco.com68
resources.rework.com67
younium.com66
g2.com63
whop.com62
maxio.com59
chargebee.comYour site57
learn.g2.com57
guideflow.com54
solidgate.com47
543 of the 600 domain citations in answers naming Chargebee came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Chargebee stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Chargebee stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “subscription billing platform”
7
Position for “best subscription billing platform”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 5,400 a month (“chargebee”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 140 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 69,891 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 7,794 · 790 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 8,873
- Paid Google search
- 7 searches its ads show for, about 78 clicks and $1,889 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
60%
rank 1 of 54 in billing
First choices
42
across its categories
- Named in
- 190 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 180 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on chargebee.com
1,548
subdomains included
Content
1,070
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
32 · 35
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 677 | 10 | 2026-09-25 | ||
| Case study | 101 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 91 | 0 | 2025-10-08 | ||
| Report or ebook | 77 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 49 | 0 | 2021-04-29 | ||
| Comparison | 30 | 0 | 2025-10-25 | ||
| Conference or event | 23 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 15 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 6 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-25Subscription cancellation dark patterns 5 steps to help audit your cancel flow blog
- 2026-09-10What works in go to market the new revenue playbook blog
- 2026-08-31How to monetize ai features faster blog
- 2026-08-25How to price ai products framework for choosing the right model blog
- 2026-08-13Chargebee named a leader in the 2026 gartner magic quadrant for recurring billing applications blog
- 2026-08-12Subscription business model blog
Events in person
Last twelve months
- October 14, 2026Beelieve roadshow ParisParis · hosted
- October 6, 2026Beelieve roadshow BerlinBerlin · hosted
- September 22, 2026Beelieve New YorkNew York City · hosted
- September 15, 2026Beelieve roadshow SydneySydney · hosted
- June 4, 2026Beelieve '26 LondonTobacco Dock, London · hosted
- April 15, 2026 to April 16, 2026Beelieve '26 San FranciscoFort Mason, San Francisco · hosted
As the event pages on chargebee.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page chargebee.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.
Names read as Chargebee
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Chargebee; a claim can dispute any of them.
Chargebee (Subscription Billing with pricing features) 1Chargebee Starter 1
Follow Chargebee
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Q141009096 is the company behind Chargebee.ShowHide
The company
Q141009096 is the company behind Chargebee.
ShowHideOn record
Wikidata- Website
- chargebee.com
- Headquarters
- North Bethesda, United States
- Founded
- 2011
Fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · LinkedIn · Crunchbase
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Billing & Monetization for SaaS and AI Companies
- For
- SaaS and AI companies
- Price stated
- Pricing chargebee.com
- Starting price
- 0 chargebee.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Start Free Trial chargebee.com
- Integrations claimed
- 480 chargebee.com · 40 chargebee.com/pricing · 60 chargebee.com/features pages disagree
- Certifications
- 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Recurring Billing ApplicationsASC 606IFRS 15PCI DSS Level 1ISO 27001:2022SOC 1 Type IISOC 2 Type IIEU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework
- Hosting
- 150+ countries
- Customers named
- WherebyPretDeliverrLegalZoomSesameFMGZenchefZapier
What Chargebee's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: chargebee.com, chargebee.com/pricing, chargebee.com/security, chargebee.com/features, chargebee.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Chargebee's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Chargebee, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Chargebee by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Chargebee is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Chargebee, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Chargebee is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Chargebee is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideEvery AI model in the set recommends Chargebee first in Billing and subscription management this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.