Orb was acquired by Adyen on July 1, 2026. Your billing roadmap now runs through a payment processor's priorities. Chargebee is independently focused on revenue operations — no acquirer, no competing payments agenda.
Orb was acquired by Adyen July 1, 2026. Chargebee is payment-processor neutral and independently focused on billing.
| Capability | Chargebee | Orb (Adyen) | Before you choose Orb |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product independence | Dedicated billing platform, independent roadmap | Acquired by Adyen Jul 2026 — roadmap serves Adyen | Billing priorities now compete with a PSP's agenda |
| Usage metering | Native, 200K+ events/sec, no-code aggregations | Strong; SQL custom metrics for engineers | SQL changes need engineering — not a self-serve screen |
| Pricing agility | Finance edits pricing from the UI in minutes | SQL-first; meaningful metric changes need engineering | Pricing iteration speed depends on eng capacity |
| Revenue recognition | Native ASC 606/IFRS 15 subledger | Not included — integrate separately | Another system, another reconciliation |
| Dunning & recovery | ML Smart Dunning + AR collections | Not in scope | Failed payment recovery lives in another tool |
| Payment gateway choice | 40+ gateways, fully PSP-agnostic | Adyen-first; neutrality post-acquisition unclear | Monitor whether gateway priorities shift under Adyen |
| CPQ & quote-to-cash | Native CPQ, billing and RevRec as one flow | Not included | Sales-led contracts need a separate quoting tool |
| Retroactive pricing | Mid-cycle changes, time-travel billing | Historically Orb's standout strength | Validate this capability remains post-acquisition |
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Adyen closed the Orb acquisition July 1, 2026. Orb's future feature investment, gateway neutrality, and pricing strategy now all run through Adyen's priorities. Chargebee is a dedicated billing platform — not a product feature inside a payment processor's suite.
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Orb's SQL-based custom metrics are powerful for engineers. But when your pricing team wants to change a tier or launch a promotion, that goes through engineering. Chargebee's no-code pricing UI means finance and product iterate pricing in an afternoon — no sprint, no ticket.
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Orb is a billing and metering platform — revenue recognition and dunning are out of scope. Your finance team still needs a separate RevRec system, and failed payment recovery still needs a separate tool. Chargebee ships both natively on the same record.
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Under Adyen, Orb's gateway neutrality is uncertain. Chargebee connects to 40+ payment gateways, letting you negotiate rates freely and switch processors without touching your billing layer. That leverage is real money at scale.
Recognized on G2
Orb built a genuinely strong usage billing product. Under Adyen, that strength still exists for some teams.
If your team wants to define billing logic in SQL with complete transparency and flexibility, Orb's custom metrics model gives engineers that level of control.
If Adyen is your payment processor, keeping metering and billing in the same group may simplify your architecture and contract landscape.
Orb's time-travel billing — retroactively re-rating usage — was a genuine differentiator. If that's a hard requirement, verify it remains a priority post-acquisition.
See how Chargebee gives you an independent billing platform with RevRec, dunning and 40+ gateways — all on one system.
