What Lemon Squeezy costs
Lemon Squeezy sells your products as the merchant of record. That means it is the legal seller on the invoice, so it calculates, collects and remits digital sales tax and VAT on your behalf in every jurisdiction it operates in. That is genuinely hard, genuinely valuable, and it is what the percentage pays for.
An extra 1.5% applies to international transactions, and an extra 5% to payments recovered through abandoned-cart emails.
Lemon Squeezy figures verified on 5 September 2026 against Lemon Squeezy pricing, Lemon Squeezy fees documentation. Check there for current rates.
Lemon Squeezy takes
5% + 50¢ per sale
Monthly: None
Komerza takes
0% on every plan
No payout, dispute, affiliate or fraud-tooling fees on any plan
Built for scale
Built for everyone. Engineered for the top end.
Globally, Komerza sellers do over €2 million a month, and the largest single stores clear over €200,000 a month. There is no product cap, no team cap and no revenue ceiling on any plan, so the store you start with is the store you scale, without a migration in the middle.
Where Lemon Squeezy stops
Lemon Squeezy's percentage buys tax handling, which is worth a lot to a small seller shipping worldwide. At volume the arithmetic changes: 5% plus 1.5% on international sales, on a store doing serious revenue, is a full-time salary paid to the platform every year. Komerza's largest stores clear over €200,000 a month on a flat plan, and keep the tax decision in their own hands.
What it costs you
A percentage and a flat monthly fee cross over at some point, and where that point falls depends entirely on your numbers. Put your own in and see what Lemon Squeezy and Komerza each cost at that volume.
- Komerza Premium€20/mo
No transaction fee, no product cap and no revenue cap on any plan.
- Lemon SqueezyUS$350/mo
Excludes the +1.5% on international transactions and the +5% on cart-recovered payments, which depend on your mix.
Estimates from each platform’s published rates, excluding payment processor charges, which you pay on any platform. Rows are shown in the currency each platform quotes and are not converted between them. Fees verified September 2026; check each provider for current rates.
Feature by feature
Komerza and Lemon Squeezy across 48rows. “Not advertised” means the feature does not appear on Lemon Squeezy’s own pricing or documentation pages.
Komerza | Lemon Squeezy | |
|---|---|---|
| Fees and model | ||
| Transaction fee | 0% | 5% + 50¢ |
| International surcharge | None | +1.5% |
| Cart recovery surcharge | None | +5% |
| Merchant of record | ||
| Sales tax / VAT handled for you | ||
| Storefront and builder | ||
| Visual drag-and-drop builder | Not advertised | |
| AI builder: chat to edit, generate sections, write copy | Not advertised | |
| Storefront templates | Not advertised | |
| Edit the storefront's source code | Built in, with hot reload and a CLI | Not advertised |
| Autosave, version history and rollback | Not advertised | |
| Custom domain | On Premium and Business | Not advertised |
| Page-level SEO controls | Not advertised | |
| Built-in store blog | Not advertised | |
| Product reviews with seller replies | Not advertised | |
| Analytics, ad pixel and chat widget integrations | Google Analytics, Tag Manager, Plausible, Clarity, Hotjar and more | Not advertised |
| Checkout and payments | ||
| Payment processors you connect yourself | Stripe, PayPal, Square, Mollie, SumUp, Authorize.Net, NMI, Shopify and more | Cards and PayPal, through Lemon Squeezy |
| Multi-processor failover | Not advertised | |
| Apple Pay, Google Pay and Cash App | Not advertised | |
| Crypto payments | Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, USDT, USDC, Monero and 10 more | |
| Self-custody crypto, settled to your own wallet | On Business | Not advertised |
| Custom payment methods | Not advertised | |
| Embeddable checkout and Checkout Elements | ||
| Automatic currency and language localization | Not advertised | |
| Subscriptions with retries and reminders | ||
| Store credit, balances and split payments | Not advertised | |
| Coupons, volume discounts and pop-up offers | ||
| Custom checkout fields | Not advertised | |
| Invoices | ||
| Delivery | ||
| Licence keys with stock tracking | ||
| File delivery | Up to 100 MB, with download limits and expiry | |
| Discord role delivery, revoked on refund | ||
| Dynamic delivery via webhook | Not advertised | |
| Customer account portal | ||
| Fraud and security | ||
| Anti-fraud | Included, no per-transaction charge | Not advertised |
| Block by email, domain, IP range, ISP, city or country | Not advertised | |
| Fraud and dispute tracking | Not advertised | |
| Team members and permissions | Included on every plan, with an audit log | Not advertised |
| Growth | ||
| Affiliate programme | All plans, with a branded portal | |
| Reseller network | On Premium and Business | Not advertised |
| Email marketing from your own domain | 50,000 sends a month on Business | |
| Abandoned cart recovery | On Business | +5% on recovered sales |
| Live visitor, referrer and geographic analytics | Included, and on your own site too | Not advertised |
| Platform | ||
| Public REST API with OAuth2 apps and SDKs | ||
| Signed webhooks with delivery logs and retries | ||
| Mobile apps (iOS and Android) with push sale alerts | Not advertised | |
| Products per store | Unlimited on every plan | Not advertised |
| Categories per store | Unlimited on every plan | Not advertised |
| Import from another platform | Sellhub, SellAuth, Sell.app and Shoppex, in one click | Not advertised |
When Lemon Squeezy is the better choice
- You want somebody else to be legally responsible for sales tax and VAT. Lemon Squeezy is the merchant of record, so it files and remits on your behalf. Komerza is not, and that obligation stays with you.
- You sell into many countries and do not want to register for tax in any of them. This is the single strongest reason to pay a percentage.
- You would rather pay nothing in a month where you sell nothing. A percentage costs zero at zero sales; a subscription does not.
When to switch to Komerza
- You already handle your own tax, or you sell somewhere the compliance burden is manageable, in which case the 5% buys you something you are not using.
- Your international share is high. The extra 1.5% on non-US transactions compounds quickly on a business selling worldwide.
- You use cart recovery. Komerza includes it on Business with no surcharge; on Lemon Squeezy every recovered sale costs an extra 5%.
- You want your own processors with failover between them, crypto, Discord delivery, a reseller network or a store you can edit down to the source code, none of which Lemon Squeezy offers.
We ranked them ourselves
Harry, who co-founded Komerza, ranked the platforms for selling digital products in a tier list and explained each placement on screen. It is our own assessment rather than a neutral one, so weigh it against the sourced figures above.
Watch on YouTubeCommon questions
What people ask when they are weighing Lemon Squeezy against Komerza, answered with the same figures as the table above.
5% plus 50¢ on each sale, with an additional 1.5% on international transactions and an additional 5% on payments recovered through abandoned-cart emails. There is no monthly subscription. Figures verified on 5 September 2026 from Lemon Squeezy's own pricing and fees documentation; check there for current rates.
No, and this is the most important difference between the two. Lemon Squeezy acts as merchant of record and takes on tax calculation, collection and remittance. Komerza does not: you are the seller of record, so registering for and remitting VAT or sales tax where you owe it stays your responsibility. If that liability is what you are paying 5% to remove, Lemon Squeezy is the better product for you.
On fees, past a modest volume, yes: 5% + 50¢ of everything you sell against a flat monthly plan. But fees are not the only cost. Factor in what handling your own tax compliance costs you in time or in an accountant before treating the fee difference as savings.
No. Abandoned-cart recovery is included on the Business plan and recovered sales are charged at the same 0% as any other order. Lemon Squeezy charges an additional 5% on payments recovered this way.