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Paddle

Payments, billing and tax platform (merchant of record) whose AI Toolkit lets coding agents set up and test your billing.

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What Paddle does

Paddle is a merchant-of-record platform for software and AI companies: it handles checkout, subscriptions, sales tax and compliance. Its AI Toolkit bundles Agent Skills, a Docs MCP and a Billing MCP into one plugin for Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI, so an agent can create products and localised prices, manage subscriptions, inspect billing data and test in a sandbox before going live. In Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community, then /plugin install paddle@claude-community.

Good for

  • Setting up SaaS or app billing with a coding agent
  • Running localised pricing experiments
  • Checking a billing setup in sandbox before launch

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    Honest take

    No red flags in our notes so far

    • Keep the agent on sandbox keys and have a person review prices and tax settings before switching to live.
    • Customer results on the page (e.g. '150+ localized pricing experiments') are Paddle's own marketing.

    Pricing

    AI Toolkit free to use; Paddle charges per transaction (published rate 5% + 50¢ per checkout transaction; check paddle.com/pricing).

    Prices as listed by the maker when we last checked (2026-11-03); usually in US dollars. Check the website for current prices.

    Latest update

    • : Promoted the Paddle AI Toolkit: Agent Skills + Docs MCP + Billing MCP in one plugin for Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI.

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