# Dodo Payments vs Lemon Squeezy for Next.js

Both are payments batteries. A repo takes one of them, not both.

| | Dodo Payments | Lemon Squeezy |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What it is | Subscriptions and one-time payments on Dodo Payments, a merchant of record that sells worldwide and remits sales tax for you. Hosted checkout, the customer portal, refunds and disputes that revoke access, and a Standard Webhooks endpoint with delivery-id idempotency. Plans live in src/lib/pricing.ts and /pricing renders with no keys. | Subscriptions and one-time purchases on Lemon Squeezy, the merchant of record: hosted checkout for monthly, yearly and lifetime prices, the signed customer portal, refunds that revoke access, and X-Signature verified webhooks made idempotent without a delivery id. Plans live in src/lib/pricing.ts and /pricing renders with no keys. |
| Pricing | 4% + 40c per US card or wallet payment, no monthly fee. Non-US payments add 1.5% and subscriptions add 0.5%. Standard payouts are free, with a $5 fee under $1,000. USD SWIFT payouts for non-US businesses cost $25. Sales tax is included: Dodo is the seller. | 5% + 50c per transaction, no monthly fee. Non-US payments and PayPal each add 1.5%, and subscriptions add 0.5%. Tax calculation, filing and remittance are included. |
| Best for | Founders outside the US and EU, India especially, selling software worldwide. Dodo takes local payment methods: UPI in India, cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay. It remits sales tax as the seller, so you never register for VAT abroad. | Solo founders and small teams selling SaaS, desktop apps or digital downloads worldwide. You get checkout, tax, license keys and a customer portal on day one, with no VAT registration anywhere. Strong fit for software sold with license keys, because Lemon Squeezy issues and validates them itself. |

- [Build with Dodo Payments](https://agenticboilerplate.com/build?b=dodo)
- [Build with Lemon Squeezy](https://agenticboilerplate.com/build?b=lemonsqueezy)

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