Kontier
Subscription and usage billing built for Europe
- Data: Mixed
- Self-hostable

Kontier is billing infrastructure for businesses serving European markets. It turns subscriptions, seats and usage events into invoices, with product catalogs, versioned pricing, proration and multi-currency billing. Its billing workflows support EU VAT, reverse-charge checks, XRechnung and ZUGFeRD e-invoices, payment collection through Stripe and GoCardless, and automated dunning. Finance teams can export accounting data in DATEV CSV format. Developers connect through a REST API and signed webhooks, while finance and operations teams use a web dashboard. Built in Regensburg by Frontier Algorithmics UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Kontier offers EU-hosted cloud plans and an on-premise option. Payment processing may involve international transfers as documented in its subprocessors register. Plans start at EUR 199 per month excluding VAT, with a 14-day trial.
Kontier is billing infrastructure for businesses serving European markets. It turns subscriptions, seats and usage events into invoices, with product catalogs, versioned pricing, proration and multi-currency billing. Its billing workflows support EU VAT, reverse-charge checks, XRechnung and ZUGFeRD e-invoices, payment collection through Stripe and GoCardless, and automated dunning. Finance teams can export accounting data in DATEV CSV format. Developers connect through a REST API and signed webhooks, while finance and operations teams use a web dashboard. Built in Regensburg by Frontier Algorithmics UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Kontier offers EU-hosted cloud plans and an on-premise option. Payment processing may involve international transfers as documented in its subprocessors register. Plans start at EUR 199 per month excluding VAT, with a 14-day trial.
Highlights
- ✓EU VAT OSS
- ✓XRechnung & ZUGFeRD e-invoicing
- ✓SEPA payments
- ✓DATEV CSV export
- ✓Usage-based billing
- ✓Proration
- ✓Multi-currency billing
- ✓Dunning & retries
- ✓REST API
- ✓Web dashboard
- ✓On-premise option
- ✓14-day free trial
- Data location
- Mixed
- Pricing
- Paid
- EU-owned
- No
- Self-hostable
- Yes
Good for
- SaaS billing
- Subscription management
- Usage-based monetization
- EU compliance billing
- Finance automation
Frequently asked questions
- Is Kontier EU-owned and GDPR-native?
- Kontier — European-owned: No; GDPR-native: No; self-hostable: Yes; data stored in: Mixed.
- How much does Kontier cost?
- Pricing model: Paid. Check Kontier's own site for current plans and numbers.
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