{
  "$comment": "§New-2 Stage-2 extraction artifact for Paddle. This file is the evidence behind every Paddle number rendered anywhere on 0saas. If a field's confidence is not 'verified', the UI must render a link to the source, never a number.",
  "incumbent": "Paddle",
  "source_url": "https://www.paddle.com/pricing",
  "fetched_at": "2026-09-28",
  "extraction_method": "fetch official pricing page in-session (2026-09-28), extract plan cards + comparison table to strict JSON (no training-data recall)",
  "currency": "USD",
  "price_view_captured": "2026-09-28. The Pay-as-you-go and Custom pricing cards read verbatim, including the '5% + 50¢' headline, the all-inclusive list, the 'If you're selling products under $10 or require invoicing' footnote and the Paddle-versus-payment-providers comparison table.",
  "plans": [
    {
      "name": "Pay-as-you-go",
      "price": null,
      "price_period": "5% + 50¢ per Checkout transaction — no monthly fee",
      "highlights": [
        "Cross-border sales tax compliance",
        "Protection against fraud and chargebacks",
        "Subscription billing unified with payments",
        "Revenue recovery and 24/7 support included"
      ],
      "confidence": "verified"
    },
    {
      "name": "Custom pricing",
      "price": null,
      "price_period": "quoted; 'tailored pricing for rapidly scaling and established large-scale businesses'",
      "highlights": [
        "Optional premium services",
        "Success management",
        "Custom migration services and implementation support"
      ],
      "confidence": "verified"
    },
    {
      "name": "Comparison table on the same page",
      "price": null,
      "price_period": "the page's own arithmetic, quoted as the page states it",
      "highlights": [
        "Full tax registration, filing and remittance — 'Add on 0.5%' at other providers",
        "Subscription billing and payments — 'Add up to 3.9%'",
        "International card payments — 'Add up to 4.4%'",
        "Total: Paddle '5% + 50¢' against '~7% and above'"
      ],
      "confidence": "verified"
    }
  ],
  "free_tier_ceiling_for_displacement_brief": {
    "claim": "There is no free tier and no monthly fee, which is the point: the entry price is US$0 a month and the meter is per transaction — 5% plus 50 cents, all-inclusive, printed on the page.",
    "confidence": "verified",
    "period_caveat": "The page's own comparison table quotes other providers' add-on percentages and a '~7% and above' total. Those figures are Paddle's characterisation of the market on Paddle's page; this page reproduces them as such and makes no independent claim about any other provider's pricing, which can only be read from that provider's own site."
  },
  "field_confidence": {
    "free_tier_limit": "verified",
    "paid_tier_price": "verified",
    "per_feature_checkmarks": "unconfirmed"
  },
  "receipts": [],
  "next_check_due": "2026-10-28"
}