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Index › Vendors › Lemon Squeezy · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Lemon Squeezy

18Judge labels

2First choices

6Negative labels

7 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Lemon Squeezy was named 7 times in Billing, where Chargebee led with 58%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business7 of 67

under the label threshold

Mid-market21 of 57

under the label threshold

Enterprise51 of 53

under the label threshold

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 Lemon Squeezy 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
Billing and subscription management	Revenue operations	0%	21 of 57	29%	7	under 10 labels · led by Chargebee at 58%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Lemon Squeezy yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Lemon Squeezy across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	2	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	2	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labels1

Scale-constrained2 labels1

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“Lemon Squeezy - Simple storefront, Stripe-native workflows” Mistral Small · Billing · negative prompt · alternative

“Choose Paddle or Lemon Squeezy (Merchant of Record)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Billing · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for: Creators, small digital product sellers” Mistral Small · Billing · budget prompt · alternative

“Lemon Squeezy - Best for Indie Founders” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Billing · budget prompt · alternative

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.

“highly popular MoR alternative with the same 5% + $0.50 pricing, though following its acquisition by Stripe, some creators have experienced slower support” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Billing · budget prompt · soft negative

“both Lemon Squeezy and Paddle have faced major backlash from developers” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Billing · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Lemon Squeezy, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Lemon Squeezy was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Stripe Billing17 of 188Not in the top three

Chargebee17 of 181Not in the top three

Paddle15 of 181Not in the top three

Zuora11 of 182Not in the top three

Recurly10 of 180Not in the top three

Maxio7 of 180Not in the top three

Braintree5 of 180Not in the top three

FastSpring5 of 180Not in the top three

Zoho Billing4 of 180Not in the top three

Zoho Subscriptions3 of 181Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Lemon Squeezy. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 1 of the 18 answers that named Lemon Squeezy and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cashflowpick.com1

guides.reviews1

reddit.com1

resources.rework.com1

Four of the four domain citations in answers naming Lemon Squeezy came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cashflowpick.com/subscription-billing-software-small-business1

guides.reviews/ecommerce-payments/best-subscription-billing-platforms-saas-20261

reddit.com/r/clickup/comments/1w3992a/terrible_billing_experience_with_clickup1

resources.rework.com/tools/billing-revenue/best-subscription-billing-software-20261

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

The company

Q140989022 is the company behind Lemon Squeezy.

Website: lemonsqueezy.com
Headquarters: United States
Ownership: Part of Stripe

From Wikidata, fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · LinkedIn

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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 Lemon Squeezy'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 Lemon Squeezy, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at lemonsqueezy.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.