Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 7 → 14 of 66
1 category · RankedRecurly
129Judge labels
3First choices
36Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
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
6% in Billing for enterprise buyers
Rank 8 of 54 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 14% of its 43 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Recurly →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business14 of 72
0%41 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market8 of 54
0%43 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise5 of 59
6%45 labels
criticized 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 Recurly 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 | 0% | 8 of 54 | 14% | 43 | accepted challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Recurly held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Billing · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 5 → 8 of 51
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 5% → 7%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 5% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 5 of 58, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billing | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 → 8 of 54 |
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 Recurly 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 Recurly 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 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
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
Direct21 labels2
Paraphrase17 labelsNone
Comparative34 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained12 labels1
Scale-constrained17 labelsNone
Negative28 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative129 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 5 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.
“Safer Bets: Stripe Billing ... or Recurly (churn-focused) for most users—high ratings” Grok 4.20 · Billing · negative prompt · first choice
“Chargebee and Recurly are the strongest all-round subscription management platforms” Muse Glimmer 30B · Billing · comparative prompt · first choice
“alternatives that appear to have better sentiment scores include Chargify, Recurly, and Stripe Billing” MiniMax M2.5 · Billing · negative prompt · alternative
“Best for High-Volume Subscriptions ... Watch out for: Percentage-of-revenue pricing can get expensive” Kimi K2 · Billing · direct 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.
“Recurly is a strong tool technically, but it is known for aggressive sales tactics and opaque pricing structures.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Billing · negative prompt · soft negative
“Be aware: Their percentage-of-revenue pricing becomes expensive once you exceed ~$500K MRR” Kimi K2 · Billing · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Hidden costs and pricing opacity ... the cost structure can balloon unexpectedly” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Billing · negative prompt · soft negative
“these platforms often require additional systems for taxes, fraud, or gateways” Perplexity Sonar · Billing · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Recurly, over the 129 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Recurly was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Recurly, over the 129 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Recurly 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 Recurly. 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 122 of the 129 answers that named Recurly and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
resources.rework.com50
zoneandco.com49
g2.com47
younium.com46
whop.com44
maxio.com41
guideflow.com40
learn.g2.com38
solvimon.com34
solidgate.com33
422 of the 422 domain citations in answers naming Recurly came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
recurly.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Recurly takes 0% of first choices and Chargebee takes 60%.ShowHide
Search and answers
recurly.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Recurly takes 0% of first choices and Chargebee takes 60%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “subscription billing platform”
2
Position for “best subscription billing platform”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 3,600 a month (“recurly”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 105 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 22,718 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,653 · 259 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 5,144
- Paid Google search
- 5 searches its ads show for, about 262 clicks and $12,207 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 8 of 54 in billing
Segment leader
60%
Chargebee
- First choices
- 3 across its categories
- Named in
- 129 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 122 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 recurly.com
1,615
subdomains included
Content
1,488
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
37 · 1
| 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.
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The company
Q141010333 is the company behind Recurly.ShowHide
The company
Q141010333 is the company behind Recurly.
ShowHideOn record
Wikidata- Website
- recurly.com
- Headquarters
- Austin, United States
- Founded
- 2009
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
- From flexible billing to AI-powered retention, Recurly helps subscription businesses grow recurring revenue and reduce churn at any scale.
- 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. recurly.com/pricing
- Starting price
- $249 recurly.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Start free sandbox recurly.com
- Certifications
- SOC 1 Type IISOC 2 Type IIPCI-DSSPCIGDPRPrivacy ShieldPSD 2CCPA
- Customers named
- CinemarkLucid SoftwareNuulyPandadocPowtoonOutputFabfitfunTwitch
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What Recurly's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: recurly.com, recurly.com/pricing, trust.recurly.com, recurly.com/product, recurly.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where Recurly 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 Recurly, 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.