ChargeOver vs Paymenter
ChargeOver
chargeover.com
Paymenter
paymenter.orgSide by side
| Figure | ChargeOver | Paymenter |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $229/mo | €5/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 3 |
| Spec score · Subscription Billing Software | 8.6 (#11) | 8.8 (#8) |
| Multi-currency invoicing | Yes | The product site says Paymenter supports multiple currencies and automatic currency conversion and rates. |
| Product | ChargeOver provides subscription billing and recurring billing management for businesses across many industries. | Paymenter is an open-source billing platform tailored for hosting companies. |
| Security | ChargeOver says it is a PCI DSS Level 1 service provider and that compliance reports are available on request. | The installation guide says the APP_KEY encrypts data such as user passwords and warns that losing it makes encrypted data irrecoverable. |
| Support | The company says every customer gets live support by chat, email, or phone, without support tiers. | The platform includes customer support tickets and supports adding ticket replies through email piping. |
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In their own words
ChargeOver
ChargeOver has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Paymenter
Paymenter is an open-source billing platform tailored to hosting companies. It supports automated billing and service deployment, with custom themes and extensions available through its marketplace. A REST API lets users control the platform and automate workflows. Built-in payment gateway extensions include Mollie, PayPal and Stripe; server extensions include cPanel, Convoy, DirectAdmin, Enhance, Plesk, Pterodactyl, VirtFusion and Virtualizor. Proxmox is available only as a paid extension. The platform includes customer support tickets and can receive ticket replies through email piping. Its WHMCS importer can transfer currencies, users, admins, categories, products, tickets, orders, services, cancellations, invoices and payments. Paymenter is released under the MIT License and is available as a self-hosted product or hosted PaaS. Self-hosted installation lists Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04, CentOS 9 and 8, and Debian 13, 12 and 11 as supported; Windows is unsupported. The Paymenter plan costs nothing. PaaS costs €5 a month, with free daily backups and Cloudflare DDoS protection described for hosted instances. The installation guide warns that losing the APP_KEY makes encrypted data irrecoverable.