RevenueCat Pricing Too High? There Is a Better Alternative

RevenueCat charges a subscription fee for analytics and subscription management but does not include a payment processor or MoR coverage, meaning you pay RevenueCat on top of Stripe or Paddle fees plus Apple's 30% commission. Allocents charges 5% + 50¢ per transaction as full Merchant of Record, which covers payments, tax remittance in 190+ countries, chargebacks, fraud, and customer support in one line item. The BYOS plan drops that to 0.5% of migrated revenue if you bring your own Stripe account.

Allocents is designed to replace the combination of RevenueCat plus a payment processor for direct billing. It handles subscription lifecycle management, checkout UI, migration flows, and billing infrastructure in a single SDK. If you currently use RevenueCat solely for Apple IAP analytics, Allocents includes an analytics dashboard that tracks migration rates, cohort adoption, and revenue impact from direct billing.

Yes. The Switch and Save campaign feature intelligently surfaces offers to your existing StoreKit subscribers to move to direct billing, configurable by timing and discount level. The gradual rollout feature lets you start with 10% of users and scale up only after verifying that conversion and retention metrics look healthy, with instant rollback available from the dashboard at any time.

Under Allocents Billing (the full MoR plan at 5% + 50¢), Allocents handles all tax calculation, collection, and remittance across 190+ countries, including US sales tax, EU VAT, and AU GST. Chargebacks, fraud protection, refunds, and customer support are also covered. Under the BYOS plan at 0.5%, the developer retains MoR responsibilities and handles those obligations through their own Stripe account.

Allocents is built for a 15-minute integration using under 10 lines of code, with native SDKs for Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin, Flutter, and React Native. A typical RevenueCat plus separate payment processor setup requires integrating two systems, configuring webhooks between them, and building or purchasing checkout UI separately. Allocents ships all of that in a single SDK with pre-built native-feeling UI flows configurable from a dashboard.