Kill Bill
Subscription billing & payments platform. Have access to real-time analytics and financial reports.
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Still maintained? Yes: 56 commits in the last 90 days, latest release killbill-0.24.22 (Sep 2026).
Also an alternative to Stripe Billing and Chargebee.
At a glance
Kill Bill quick facts
- Health score
- 95/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 5,831
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- killbill-0.24.22, Sep 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
Top alternatives to Kill Bill
Full rankings: Stripe Billing alternatives, Chargebee alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Kill Bill is an open source subscription billing and payments platform, in production since 2010. It handles catalogs and pricing, subscriptions, usage metering, invoicing, payments across gateways, credits, tax and dunning. You run it on your own infrastructure and you own your data, so there is no vendor lock-in."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Kill Bill scores 95/100, #10 of 43 in Money, Budgeting & Management: 56 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (killbill-0.24.22, 1 month ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 5,831 stars add 15.1 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 4.9 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
56 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
killbill-0.24.22 released 1 month ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 15.1 / 20
5.8k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 56
- Last 90 days
- 224
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #10 of 43 tools in Money, Budgeting & Management by health , between ezbookkeeping (#9) and OctoBot (#11) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Java, Docker |
| Latest release | killbill-0.24.22 · 1 month ago |
| Stars | 5,831 |
| Open issues | 244 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | killbill/killbill ↗ |
Kill Bill vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Kill Bill (Money, Budgeting & Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HyperSwitch | 99 | 46k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Firefly III | 98 | 25k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Invoice Ninja | 96 | 10k | Elastic-2.0 | today |
| Lago | 96 | 11k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Kill Bill (this tool) | 95 | 5.8k | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| Akaunting | 86 | 10k | BUSL-1.1 | yesterday |
Kill Bill: common questions
What does Kill Bill replace?
Repoly lists Kill Bill as an open-source alternative to Stripe Billing and Chargebee. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Kill Bill stands against the others.
Is Kill Bill still maintained?
Kill Bill had 56 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago; the latest tagged release, killbill-0.24.22, is from 1 month ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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