Maxio
An all-in-one billing and financial-reporting platform for B2B SaaS companies, handling subscriptions, usage-based charges, revenue recognition and payment collection in one place.
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Description
SaaS pricing has gotten complicated — flat subscriptions, usage-based metering, mid-cycle upgrades, multi-year contracts with custom discounts — and most companies end up gluing together a payment processor, a spreadsheet, and an accountant to make the numbers add up correctly for investors and auditors. Maxio is built to be the single system that actually understands SaaS billing logic natively, so finance teams aren't reverse-engineering GAAP-compliant revenue numbers from raw Stripe transaction data every month-end.
Maxio (formed from the merger of SaaSOptics and Chargify) is a subscription management and billing platform purpose-built for B2B SaaS and AI companies, covering usage-based metering and rating, contract and subscription lifecycle management, 20+ payment gateway integrations, automated dunning, and revenue recognition/financial reporting compliant with GAAP and IFRS. It supports multi-entity configurations, self-serve billing portals, PCI-compliant payment forms, and an "Entitlements Management" feature for gating product features by plan — with 85+ built-in integrations plus 6,000+ more via Zapier.
💬 Our review
The short version: Maxio is a strong fit for a B2B SaaS company past the early-stage Stripe-billing-plus-spreadsheet phase that needs GAAP/IFRS-compliant revenue recognition and complex usage-based pricing handled natively, but it's priced and positioned for that mid-market stage, not for a two-person startup.
It competes directly with Chargebee, Recurly, Maxio's own former identity as Chargify, and newer entrants like Meteroid — the differentiator is Maxio's dual heritage from SaaSOptics (deep finance/rev-rec DNA) merged with Chargify's billing engine, which shows up as genuinely strong financial-reporting features rather than billing bolted onto a generic subscriptions tool. At $599/month for the Grow plan (capped at $100k in monthly billings) scaling to custom Enterprise pricing, it's meaningfully pricier than Chargebee's entry tier, and the jump to custom pricing above $100k/month billings can be steep — worth negotiating rather than accepting the sticker number. For a company whose finance team is already spending real hours reconciling revenue recognition by hand, the switch pays for itself; for a simple flat-subscription SaaS without complex usage billing, Chargebee or even Stripe Billing directly will be cheaper and sufficient.
💰 Pricing
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
Grow: $599/month (up to $100k monthly billings). Scale: custom quote (over $100k monthly billings). Multi-year discounts available; unlimited user seats included.
Pros
Native GAAP/IFRS revenue recognition, not bolted on
Usage-based metering and rating built for complex SaaS pricing
85+ built-in integrations, 6,000+ via Zapier
Multi-entity support and unlimited user seats included
Cons
$599/month entry price is steep vs. Chargebee's lower entry tiers
Jump to custom pricing above $100k/month billings can be a significant cost step
Overkill for simple flat-subscription products without usage billing or rev-rec complexity