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 3.4% + 30¢ flat, $15 disputes, no per-refund fee
DODO PAYMENTS ALL-IN
6% + 40¢
TIUN ALL-IN
3.4% + 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 |
|---|---|
3.4% + 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 |
All-in Transaction Fees | ~3.4% + $0.30 | ~6% + $0.40 |
Additional Fees | ||
Payout fees | 1.5% | $25 |
Per dispute | $15 | $30 |
Refunds | Included | $1 |
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 with a $50 AOV, that's over $17,000 a year over tiun's 3.4%, before accounting for the engineering time spent building authentication and webhook infrastructure 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
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
FAQs
Is Dodo Payments a Merchant of Record?
Yes. Dodo Payments is a Merchant of Record, and so is tiun. Both sell on your behalf and handle tax, VAT, refunds, and chargebacks, so the MoR coverage is not the deciding factor between them. The difference is what sits around the payment: tiun adds authentication, a customer database, and analytics that Dodo Payments leaves you to build.
Does tiun handle VAT and tax the way Dodo Payments does?
Yes. As a Merchant of Record, tiun remits VAT, GST, and sales tax across global jurisdictions, validates EU VAT IDs at checkout, and absorbs the tax liability, the same model Dodo Payments uses. You receive net revenue and never deal with the tax authority directly.
How hard is it to migrate from Dodo Payments to tiun?
tiun ships an MCP server and a GitHub Skill for AI coding agents. Your agent reads tiun's API as native context, wires up auth and billing directly in your codebase, and the integration goes live in minutes rather than days of manual SDK work.
Is tiun a good Dodo Payments alternative for SaaS?
tiun is a strong fit if you want Merchant of Record coverage and the rest of your billing stack in one system. You get the same MoR tax handling as Dodo Payments at a flat 3.4% + 30¢, versus the roughly 6% Dodo reaches once its international and subscription fees stack on the base rate, plus authentication, a customer database, and AI analytics that would otherwise be three more vendors to integrate and reconcile.