Tiun vs Dodo Payments, more system, lower fees

Compare Tiun and Dodo Payments for SaaS billing. See how MoR features, authentication, customer database, and developer experience come together in one system, for less

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Lower all-in pricing

Dodo Payments starts at 4% + 40¢. International cards add 1.5%, subscriptions add 0.5%. Disputes are $30 and every refund is $1. Tiun is 4.9% + 30¢ flat, $15 disputes, no per-refund fee

DODO PAYMENTS ALL-IN

6% + 40¢

TIUN ALL-IN

 4.9% + 30¢
Auth, billing, customer data, and analytics in one place

Dodo Payments handles billing, a hosted customer portal, and entitlements. It does not ship authentication for your app: sign-up, login, MFA, and social SSO are still your responsibility. Tiun ships auth, customer data, billing, and AI analytics behind one SDK, queryable through the same call that runs checkout

Built-in AI analytics

Ask questions in plain English across signups, revenue, and product usage. Dodo Payments ships a real-time reporting dashboard with filters and an API. Tiun lets you query revenue trends, pricing signals, user usage in plain language. No SQL, no separate BI vendor

Same MoR, wider scope

Both Dodo Payments and Tiun act as your Merchant of Record for tax, VAT, refunds, and chargebacks. Tiun extends the model to authentication, customer database, and AI analytics in one system, with one SDK and one source of truth

Tiun vs Dodo Payments, side by side

Tiun

Dodo Payments

4.9% + 30¢

all-in · international subscription

6% + 40¢

all-in · international subscription

✓ Authentication included

✗ Auth0 ~$35/mo + $0.07/MAU beyond 500

✓ Customer database included

✗ International cards +1.5% on top

✓ Webhook & sync logic included

✗ You build webhook handlers for auth + billing

✓ Customer database included

✗ You build the customer database


Tiun

Dodo Payments

Merchant of record

Platform fee

Free

Free

Base Transaction

2.9% + $0.30

4% + $0.40

Subscription Billing

+0.5%

+0.5%

International cards

Included

+1.5%

Currency conversion

Included

Included

Tax compliance

Included

Included

Webhook & sync logic

Included

DIY

Payout fees

1.5%

$25

Per dispute

$15

$30

All-in, international subscription

~4.9% + $0.30

~6% + $0.40

How much you save switching from Dodo Payments to Tiun

Annual fees on international subscription revenue with currency conversion, after you add Dodo's subscription surcharge, international card fee, and Adaptive Currency. The percentage looks small. The number doesn't

The fee gap compounds

Stack the subscription fee, international card fee, and per-dispute charge on top of Dodo's 4% + 40¢ and you land at 6% + 40¢ all-in. On $500k of international subscription revenue, that's over $5,500 a year over Tiun's 4.9%, before the engineer time spent building auth and webhook handlers Dodo Payments doesn't provide

Dodo Payments handles billing and distribution. Tiun handles the stack around it

Dodo Payments + Auth0 + your customer database is three products from three vendors, each with its own dashboard, its own pricing, and its own way of representing the same user. Tiun ships the whole stack, sold as MoR, behind one SDK

Skip the Auth0 bill and the webhook handlers

Dodo gives you a Customers API and a hosted customer portal. To get a usable account system for your app you still wire up an auth provider, a database, and the webhook handlers that keep all three in sync as subscriptions renew, fail, get refunded, cancel, or upgrade. Tiun ships authentication, social login, multifactor, and entitlements as part of the platform.

  • Email + password login — included

  • Social SSO (Google, GitHub) — included

  • Multifactor auth (SMS + Email) — included

  • User profile + entitlements — live state

Customer, subscription, and payment state in one query

No more reconciling webhook payloads from Dodo Payments, Auth0, and a tax service to figure out what your customer can access right now

```javascript
// one SDK, one source of truth
const customer = await Tiun
  .customers
  .get("cus_abc123");

customer.subscriptions
customer.entitlements
customer.payments
```
```javascript
// one SDK, one source of truth
const customer = await Tiun
  .customers
  .get("cus_abc123");

customer.subscriptions
customer.entitlements
customer.payments
```
```javascript
// one SDK, one source of truth
const customer = await Tiun
  .customers
  .get("cus_abc123");

customer.subscriptions
customer.entitlements
customer.payments
```
MCP server + GitHub Skill for AI coding agents

Install once. Your agent reads Tiun's API as native context, wires up auth and billing in your codebase, and the integration is live in minutes

```bash
# Cursor, Claude Code,
# Copilot, Windsurf, +40

gh skill install \
  tiun-app/skills

# done.
```
```bash
# Cursor, Claude Code,
# Copilot, Windsurf, +40

gh skill install \
  tiun-app/skills

# done.
```
```bash
# Cursor, Claude Code,
# Copilot, Windsurf, +40

gh skill install \
  tiun-app/skills

# done.
```

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