Maxio pricing

About

Maxio is a B2B SaaS billing and revenue-management platform that handles the full subscription lifecycle: recurring billing, usage-based and event-based billing, subscription management, GAAP/IFRS revenue recognition, A/R management, and SaaS metrics reporting. It targets high-growth SaaS companies that have outgrown spreadsheets and a raw payment processor but want billing, rev-rec, and reporting in one system.

Maxio is not a single-origin startup — it is a merger. On 2022-04-13, SaaSOptics (revenue operations, revenue recognition, SaaS metrics; founded 2009) and Chargify (subscription and recurring billing; founded 2009) announced they were combining and rebranding to Maxio. The merger followed a $150M growth equity investment from Battery Ventures in April 2021. At announcement, the combined company reported 2,300+ customers and roughly $10B in customer ARR managed, with around 260 employees across San Antonio, Atlanta, Dublin, and Kraków.

The two heritages still show up in the product: Chargify’s DNA is the billing engine (recurring + usage), and SaaSOptics’ DNA is the finance side (revenue recognition, A/R, financial and SaaS-metric reporting). Maxio sits in a crowded billing/monetization space against Stripe Billing, Chargebee, Recurly, Zuora, and Sage Intacct on the rev-rec side.

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Pricing summary : How Maxio’s pricing model works

Maxio prices as a tiered flat fee that scales with your monthly billings — the volume of money you run through the platform — rather than per user or per seat. There are two paid tiers plus a free sandbox.

Grow is the entry paid tier at $599/month for companies with up to $100k in monthly billings. It is marketed as “simple flat pricing” and includes all standard features: recurring billing, usage-based pricing, contract management, revenue recognition, one-click financial reports, CRM and payment integrations, and local EU/NA support. Scale is for companies with over $100k in monthly billings — it is quote-only (“Get a quote” / “Talk to sales”) and layers on advanced revenue recognition, A/R management, expense amortization, multi-entity support, and metering & rating, with volume discounts. A free Build developer sandbox gives engineers limited access to test billing, pricing, and integration compatibility before buying.

Maxio explicitly does not charge per user or per seat (its own pricing FAQ confirms this), and all plans bundle usage-based billing, subscription management, recurring billing, collections/dunning, and 20+ payment gateways.

What makes this different: the meter is your billings volume, not your headcount — so cost tracks the size of the revenue you manage. The published price stops at the $100k-billings line: everything above it is a quote, so larger SaaS companies (Maxio’s real ICP) can’t self-qualify their cost from the site.

Pricing by product

Sales motions across products: self-serve for the free Build sandbox (engineers test compatibility on their own), demo-led for Grow (the page routes to “Get a demo” even at the published $599 price), and fully sales-led for Scale (quote-only, volume discounts, custom features). The tier you land in is driven by your monthly billings volume crossing the $100k line, not by seat count.

Hidden costs : What Maxio users actually pay

Because Grow is a flat $599/month with all standard features included, a small SaaS company under $100k in monthly billings has a predictable bill. The real cost question is when you cross $100k in monthly billings — at that point you leave the published price entirely and move to the quote-only Scale tier, where the rate is negotiated by volume and the finance modules (advanced rev-rec, A/R management, expense amortization, multi-entity, metering & rating) become the value (and cost) drivers.

Two things to budget for. First, historical overage: as Chargify, the equivalent entry plan was also $599/mo up to $100k billings but added a ~0.9% revenue overage above the threshold, with higher tiers ($1,499/mo and ~$3,499/mo) carrying ~0.7% and ~0.5% overage respectively (third-party-reported). Maxio no longer advertises the overage and markets Grow as flat — but the Scale quote is where any volume-based component now lives. Second, optional modules (Advanced Revenue Management, A/R Management, Expense Amortization, Milestone-Based Projects, Multi-entity, Event-based billing, EU hosting) are listed as add-ons on Scale, so a finance team’s true cost depends on which modules they switch on.

The Grow $599/mo figure is the published rate; Scale figures are illustrative bands, not quotes — Maxio does not publish Scale pricing. Historical Chargify overage rates (~0.5-0.9%) are third-party-reported.

Want to estimate your own Maxio bill? Use the Maxio pricing calculator to model your costs based on monthly billings volume.

Pricing evolution : Maxio pricing history and changes

Cadence

Tracked range: 2021–present. Pre-merger Chargify figures are third-party-reported; the 2026 shape (Grow $599/mo, quote-only Scale, free Build sandbox) is from the live 2026-06-10 pricing-page capture.

Notable changes

• 2021-06 — As Chargify, the published model was tiered flat fee + percentage-of-revenue overage: Essential ~$599/mo (up to $100k billings) + ~0.9%, Standard ~$1,499/mo + ~0.7%, Premium ~$3,499/mo + ~0.5% (third-party-reported). SaaSOptics sold revenue-ops/rev-rec on a separate contract.
• 2022-04-13 — SaaSOptics + Chargify merge and rebrand to Maxio, combining billing, revenue recognition, and SaaS metrics into one platform after a $150M Battery Ventures investment; 2,300+ customers and ~$10B customer ARR at announcement.
• 2023–2026 — Maxio consolidates to Grow ($599/mo flat, up to $100k billings) and quote-only Scale (advanced rev-rec, A/R, multi-entity, metering), adds a free Build developer sandbox, and stops advertising the revenue overage — Grow is now “simple flat pricing”.

What’s unique : Maxio’s distinctive pricing mechanics

1. Priced on your billings volume, not your seats.

Maxio’s pricing FAQ explicitly answers “Do you charge for users/seats?” — and the platform fee scales with monthly billings instead. That ties Maxio’s cost to the size of the revenue you manage, which is a defensible value metric for a billing/rev-rec tool, and avoids the per-seat creep common in horizontal SaaS.

2. A single published price, then a cliff into “quote”.

The site publishes exactly one number — $599/mo Grow for up to $100k billings — and everything above $100k is quote-only Scale. That’s transparent for SMB but opaque for Maxio’s actual mid-market/enterprise ICP, who must talk to sales to learn their rate.

3. Merged DNA = billing + finance in one fee.

Because Maxio is Chargify (billing) + SaaSOptics (rev-rec, metrics), the flat fee bundles things competitors split across products — recurring + usage billing AND GAAP/IFRS revenue recognition AND SaaS-metric reporting — with the heaviest finance modules reserved for the Scale quote.

4. Free sandbox instead of a free production tier.

Rather than a freemium production plan, Maxio offers a free Build developer sandbox so engineers can de-risk integration before buying — a developer-trust mechanic, not a usage-based free tier.

Strengths & weaknesses

Billing UX : Maxio billing controls and transparency

• Billing controls — Grow is a flat monthly fee with all standard features, so there is little to tune below $100k billings; the main control is which optional Scale modules (A/R, multi-entity, metering, EU hosting) you enable. Monthly, quarterly, and annual payment cadences are offered, and multi-year agreements carry discounts.
• Usage visibility — Maxio is itself a billing and SaaS-metrics platform, so its dashboards (Advanced Revenue Summary, A/R Aging, projections, cohorts, subscription momentum) give finance teams deep visibility into their own customers’ billings — though Maxio’s own fee to you above $100k is a quote, not a live meter.
• Payment options — All plans include collections, dunning, and 20+ payment gateways, plus Maxio Payments; accounting (QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite) and CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive) integrations are bundled. Grow and Scale start via “Get a demo” / “Talk to sales” rather than instant self-serve checkout.

Strategic wins : Why Maxio’s pricing decisions worked

1. Billings-based metric matches the buyer’s mental model.

Pricing on monthly billings (not seats) means cost grows with the revenue a customer manages — a metric finance buyers already track and accept. See choosing the right usage metric.

2. One transparent SMB price, negotiation room above it.

Publishing a single $599/mo Grow price wins SMB self-qualification while keeping the lucrative mid-market/enterprise band ($100k+ billings) behind a quote — preserving negotiating room where deals are large. Related: how AI companies structure pricing.

3. Merger bundled billing + finance into one fee.

Combining Chargify’s billing with SaaSOptics’ rev-rec and SaaS metrics let Maxio sell one platform fee against competitors who split those across products — a packaging win born from the 2022 merger. See outcome-based pricing trends.

Areas to improve : Gaps in Maxio’s pricing approach

1. The published price ends right where the ICP begins.

Grow tops out at $100k in monthly billings, but Maxio’s real customers are larger SaaS companies — so the one public number is below where most buyers actually land, forcing a sales call to learn the true cost. See bill shock and cost unpredictability.

2. Scale modules are unpriced.

Advanced rev-rec, A/R management, expense amortization, multi-entity, and metering are listed as Scale value but with no indicative pricing, so finance teams can’t model total cost before a quote.

3. The “flat pricing” claim sits on an overage history.

Because Chargify openly charged a revenue overage (~0.5-0.9%) and Maxio now markets Grow as flat, buyers should confirm in the Scale quote whether any billings-based component still applies above the threshold.

Key takeaways

1. Maxio is a merger, not a startup. SaaSOptics (rev-ops, 2009) + Chargify (billing, 2009) combined and rebranded to Maxio on 2022-04-13 after a $150M Battery Ventures investment.
2. It prices on billings volume, not seats. Grow is $599/mo flat for up to $100k monthly billings with all standard features and no per-seat charges.
3. There’s exactly one public price, then a quote. Everything above $100k in monthly billings is the quote-only Scale tier — transparent for SMB, opaque for the real ICP.
4. The flat claim has an overage past. As Chargify, higher tiers carried ~0.5-0.9% revenue overage; Maxio now markets Grow as “simple flat pricing,” so the quote is where any volume component lives.
5. Free sandbox, not free production. Maxio offers a free Build developer sandbox to de-risk integration rather than a freemium production plan.

UBP implications

1. Billings volume is a clean value metric for billing tools. Charging on the money a customer runs through the platform aligns cost with value delivered — a model others monetizing financial flows can borrow. See usage-based pricing strategy.
2. A flat tier with a hard volume ceiling is a qualification gate. The $100k-billings line on Grow quietly sorts SMB self-serve from quote-only mid-market — a UBP-style threshold dressed as a flat plan.
3. Mergers can repackage usage into one fee. Combining a billing engine with a rev-rec/metrics product let Maxio bundle several usage surfaces into a single platform fee — a packaging lesson for consolidating monetization stacks.

Sources

• Maxio pricing page (accessed 2026-06-10) — live capture: Grow $599/mo up to $100k billings, Scale quote-only >$100k, free Build sandbox
• Maxio official website (accessed 2026-06-10)
• SaaSOptics and Chargify Announce Merger, Rebrand to Maxio — Business Wire (accessed 2026-06-10) — $150M Battery Ventures, 2,300+ customers, ~$10B ARR managed
• Chargify (becoming Maxio) pricing & plans — G2 (accessed 2026-06-10) — historical tiered + overage pricing
• Chargify Developer pricing — ITQlick (accessed 2026-06-10) — historical Essential ~$599/mo + ~0.9% overage figures

Bottom line

Maxio is a SaaS billing and revenue-management platform born from the 2022 merger of SaaSOptics and Chargify, and it prices on billings volume rather than seats. The one published number is Grow at $599/month for companies billing up to $100k/month — flat, with all standard features and no per-seat charges — after which you cross into the quote-only Scale tier (advanced rev-rec, A/R, multi-entity, metering) above $100k in monthly billings. A free Build developer sandbox de-risks integration before purchase. The model is transparent for SMB but opaque exactly where Maxio’s real mid-market ICP begins, and its “simple flat pricing” claim sits on a Chargify-era revenue-overage history worth confirming in the Scale quote. Browse the pricing blueprint for more fully-researched company profiles.

Want to compare Maxio against other billing and monetization-infrastructure companies? Browse the pricing blueprint.

Pricing timeline : Major events on a vertical axis

Each milestone below corresponds to a public pricing change, product launch, or material adjustment. Major events use a filled marker; minor adjustments use a faded one.

Grow $599/mo flat + quote-only Scale + free Build sandbox

Jun 2026

Current shape: Grow is flat $599/mo for up to $100k in monthly billings (all standard features, no per-seat charges); Scale is quote-only for >$100k in monthly billings, adding advanced rev-rec, A/R management, expense amortization, multi-entity, and metering & rating; a free Build developer sandbox is offered for testing. Grow is now marketed as 'simple flat pricing' (overage % no longer advertised).

SaaSOptics + Chargify merge and rebrand to Maxio

Apr 2022

SaaSOptics (revenue ops, rev-rec, SaaS metrics) and Chargify (subscription/recurring billing) announced their merger and rebrand to Maxio on 2022-04-13, following a $150M growth investment from Battery Ventures in April 2021. The combined platform spans billing, revenue recognition, and SaaS metrics; at announcement it managed 2,300+ customers and ~$10B in customer ARR.

Chargify tiered flat-fee + revenue overage (pre-merger)

Jun 2021

Before the merger, Chargify published a tiered model: Essential at $599/mo (up to $100k monthly billings) + ~0.9% overage, Standard at ~$1,499/mo + ~0.7%, Premium at ~$3,499/mo + ~0.5%. Tiers differed by supported billing volume and overage rate. SaaSOptics sold revenue-ops/rev-rec separately. (Historical, third-party-reported figures.)