Best Square Alternatives (2026)
Looking for something other than Square for payments? Here are the 10 alternatives we track, ranked, with verified pricing for each.
Pricing verified Oct 14, 2026
Price watch
Get an email when Square changes its price.
Square has changed its pricing 2 times since we started watching. Last change Sep 20, 2026.
One email per change, with the old and new price. No newsletter. Unsubscribe in one click.
Stop checking your competitors manually.
Outmano watches your competitors' pricing, features, roadmaps and reviews. Every Monday, you get one brief on what changed.
14-day free trial · $0 today
Square alternatives at a glance
| Product | Entry price | Plans | Free plan | Free trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Square this page's subject | $49/mo | 3 | Yes | Yes |
| Adapty | Custom | 2 | Yes | No |
| Braintree | Custom | 2 | No | No |
| Chargebee | Custom | 2 | Yes | No |
| GoCardless | Custom | 4 | No | No |
| Mollie | Custom | 2 | Yes | No |
| Paddle | Custom | 2 | No | No |
| Qonversion | Custom | 2 | Yes | No |
| Recurly | $249/mo | 5 | No | Yes |
| RevenueCat | Custom | 2 | Yes | No |
| Stripe | Custom | 2 | No | No |
-
Adapty
PaymentsGrow mobile subscription revenue.
Adapty undercuts flat-fee subscription tools like RevenueCat by staying free for early-stage apps and only charging once you're making real money — making it the low-risk pick for indie devs and small teams testing monetization. It's not trying to be premium; it's positioned as the tool you can adopt on day one without a pricing conversation.
Plans: Pro $0/mo · Enterprise Contact Sales
-
Braintree
PaymentsPayments platform from PayPal.
Braintree targets mid-market to enterprise merchants who've outgrown Stripe's standard rates and want negotiated pricing without moving to a full acquiring bank relationship. They're not the cheapest, but the custom rate structure means high-volume businesses can potentially undercut what they'd pay on Stripe's published rates.
Plans: Standard Contact Sales · Charity Contact Sales
-
Chargebee
PaymentsSubscription management and billing.
Zero fixed cost plus a sub-1% take rate undercuts the old guard of sales-led billing vendors and lets them compete for startups that would otherwise start with Stripe Billing. They're clearly betting on land-cheap, grow-with-you economics rather than winning on sticker price at scale.
Plans: Flow $0/mo · Enterprise Contact Sales
-
GoCardless
PaymentsBank payment collection at scale.
GoCardless sits mid-pack against Stripe and Adyen — not fighting on subscription price since there isn't one, but competing on transaction fees for bank-to-bank payments specifically, which undercuts card-based processors for recurring billing use cases. They're chasing subscription businesses and B2B billing teams tired of card decline rates and interchange fees.
Plans: Standard Contact Sales · Advanced Contact Sales · Pro Contact Sales · Custom Contact Sales
-
Mollie
PaymentsEffortless payments for Europe.
Plans: Standard pricing $0/mo · Volume pricing Contact Sales
-
Paddle
PaymentsRevenue platform for SaaS.
Sitting in the merchant-of-record space next to Stripe and Lemon Squeezy, Paddle isn't the cheapest per-transaction but bundles in tax/compliance handling, so it's positioned as the 'pay more, worry less' option. They're chasing SaaS teams who'd rather outsource global sales tax headaches than DIY it with a cheaper processor.
Plans: Pay-as-you-go Contact Sales · Custom pricing Contact Sales
-
Qonversion
PaymentsMobile subscription analytics.
Qonversion undercuts flat-fee competitors like RevenueCat by staying free for smaller apps and only charging once you're generating real revenue, making it the cheaper option for anyone under that $7K MTR line. They're clearly courting indie developers and small teams who resent paying fixed SaaS fees before they've proven product-market fit, while still leaving a path to bigger accounts via Enterprise.
Plans: Pro $0/mo · Enterprise Contact Sales
-
Recurly
PaymentsSubscription management platform.
This sits mid-to-premium in the subscription billing space — cheaper to start than enterprise players like Zuora, but the revenue-share model plus custom enterprise pricing on All-Access signals they're chasing mid-market and up, not scrappy startups. They're not competing on sticker price; they're betting that companies with real billing complexity will pay for reliability over cost.
Plans: Starter $249/mo · RevRec $850/mo · Engage $1600/mo · All-Access Contact Sales · All-Access for Shopify Contact Sales
-
-
Stripe
PaymentsPayment infrastructure for the internet.
Stripe sits at the premium end of payment processors on a per-transaction basis, but wins on developer experience and breadth of tooling rather than being the cheapest swipe fee around. They're chasing technical teams and scaling startups who'll pay a bit more for reliable APIs and fewer integration headaches than legacy processors like Braintree or Authorize.net.
Plans: Standard Contact Sales · Custom Contact Sales
Comparing on features, not just price? Use our feature comparison template →
None of these fit? See every payments tool we price →
Square Alternatives FAQ
- What is the best alternative to Square?
- Adapty is the closest Square alternative we track for payments. It has a free plan you can start on. Braintree and Chargebee are also worth a look.
- Are there free alternatives to Square?
- Yes — Adapty, Chargebee, Mollie and 2 more offer a free plan, so you can switch without paying up front.
- How much do Square alternatives cost?
- Recurly starts at $249/mo. The rest of the list uses custom (contact-sales) pricing.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Square?
- Not on entry price — Square starts at $49/mo, which is at or below every priced alternative here. Where you land depends on the tier you actually need.
Set it up once. Get a plan every week.
Add the competitors you care about. Outmano keeps watching them, so you can stop checking their sites.
14-day free trial · $0 today