PRICING
Free until $5,000 a month. Then half a percent.
One rate on the revenue Orca handles, nothing before it matters, and half the market rate. No flat fees, no add-ons, no caps. Migrating? Your first three months are free.
- Free up to
- $5K
- MTR
- Then
- 0.5%
- of revenue above
- Market rate
- 1%
- + add-ons
01 · HOW IT WORKS
Three stages, one rate.
Launch
$0
up to $5,000 monthly tracked revenue
Everything, free, until your app is making real money.
- —All SDKs: Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, TypeScript, Tauri, Go
- —All four stores: App Store, Google Play, Stripe, GoCardless
- —Sandbox and production environments
- —Signed webhooks
- —Analytics dashboard
- —MCP server and experiments
- —Bulk import
- —Community support
Growth
0.5%
of monthly tracked revenue above $5,000
Half the market rate. No flat fees, no add-ons, no caps, no surprises.
- —Everything in Launch
- —Only revenue above $5,000 MTR is charged
- —Priority support
- —Migration credit: 3 months at $0 when you bulk-import from another provider
Scale
Volume
custom terms at scale
For apps that have made it: volume pricing, an SLA and a named contact.
- —Everything in Growth
- —Volume pricing
- —99.9% monthly uptime commitment with service credits
- —Dedicated edge gateways
- —SSO and team security
- —Dedicated account manager
Billed monthly in arrears via Stripe on the previous month's tracked revenue. Governing terms: the Maxint Terms of Service and the Orca Product Terms.
02 · CALCULATOR
What you would pay, and what you would save.
Enter your monthly tracked revenue and how your customers pay. The calculator shows Orca's fee next to RevenueCat's and Adapty's, the store commission and processor fees you pay in every case, and what moving a slice of subscribers to web checkout is worth.
COST ESTIMATE
Estimates, not quotes
Orca · Growth
$75
0.5% of revenue above $5,000
RevenueCat · est.
$200
1% of revenue above $2,500
Adapty · est.
$200
1% of revenue above $5,000
Costs that apply whichever infrastructure you use
- Store commission · 30% on $16,000
- $4,800
- Stripe · 2.9% + 30¢ on 320 payments
- $189
- GoCardless · 0.5% + $0.05 on 80 payments
- $8
THE REAL SAVING · WEB CHECKOUT
- Store commission you stop paying
- +$480
- Stripe fees you start paying
- −$94
- Net saving per month
- +$386
- Orca fee at this revenue, for comparison
- $75
The web shift pays for Orca 5.1× over. Orca is what makes one entitlement work across the store and the web, so the move is one SDK call, not a second billing system.
Assumptions: one payment per subscriber per month at the average payment; processor fees at standard published rates; competitor figures exclude their add-ons (RevenueCat Growth Tools are another 1%).
03 · THE ARGUMENT
The 1% was never the big number. The 30% is.
Apple and Google keep 15–30% of every in-app subscription. Among the best-performing apps, 41% already take revenue on the web, against 1.3% of hobby apps. Orca is the layer that lets one entitlement work in the store and on the web, so moving subscribers is an SDK call rather than a second billing system.
AT $20K MTR
Move 10% to the web
$2,000 of store revenue becomes Stripe revenue: you stop paying $600 in commission and start paying about $120 in processing. Net saving around $480 a month, against an Orca fee of $75.
AT $80K MTR
Move 20% to the web
$16,000 moves: $4,800 of commission saved for about $950 of processing. Net saving around $3,850 a month, against an Orca fee of $375.
ANY SIZE
Direct Debit, anywhere
GoCardless Direct Debit costs 0.5% + $0.05 per payment and is available in the US, the UK, Europe and beyond. For annual plans it is the cheapest rail there is, and Orca treats it as just another store linked to the same entitlement.
Worked with all revenue in the stores, a 30% commission and a $9.99 average payment; the calculator above uses your own numbers. Web adoption figures from RevenueCat's State of Subscription Apps 2026.
04 · SCENARIOS
Side by side at every stage.
Same rules as the calculator, worked by hand. Competitor figures exclude their add-ons.
| Stage | MTR | Orca · 0.5% above $5K | RevenueCat · 1% above $2.5K | Adapty · 1% above $5K | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Side project | $1,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | Median app one year after launch is ~$72 MTR |
| Finding traction | $5,000 | $0 | $50 | $0 | The free line; roughly the top 20% of new apps |
| Growing | $20,000 | $75 | $200 | $200 | Beyond $10K MTR, reached by ~5% of new apps |
| Established | $80,000 | $375 | $800 | $800 | |
| Large | $250,000 | $1,225 | $2,500 | $2,500 | Scale accounts: volume pricing and the SLA |
Market context from RevenueCat's State of Subscription Apps 2026 (115,000 apps) and Adapty's State of In-App Subscriptions (16,000 apps). Benchmark your own app against the same figures.
05 · DEFINITIONS
Terms used on this page.
- Monthly tracked revenue (MTR)
- Gross subscription and one-time purchase revenue that Orca tracks across all your stores in a calendar month, in USD, before store commissions and processor fees. The same basis RevenueCat and Adapty use, so the numbers compare directly.
- Orca fee
- 0.5% of MTR above $5,000. At $5,000 MTR or less the fee is $0. There is no minimum, no flat component, no add-on and no cap.
- Migration credit
- Teams that bulk-import existing customers and entitlements from another provider or a custom backend pay $0 for their first three months on Growth, whatever their MTR.
- Store commission
- Apple and Google keep a share of in-app purchase revenue (commonly 15% or 30% depending on program and tenure). Paid to the store, not to Orca. This is the cost that web and desktop checkout avoids.
- Payment processing fee
- Stripe charges 2.9% + 30¢ per card transaction and GoCardless 0.5% + $0.05 per Direct Debit payment (standard published rates; regional rates vary). Paid to the processor, not to Orca.
- Competitor usage fee
- RevenueCat charges 1% of MTR above $2,500 (Growth Tools another 1%); Adapty charges 1% of MTR above $5,000, with add-ons extra.
06 · QUESTIONS