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The self-hosted Payhip alternative

Deliora: Self-hosted license-key delivery for people selling digital downloads: keys with per-domain activation limits, and download links that expire, served from files kept outside the web root. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Payhip every month.

Own Deliora for $99 Try the live demo

Stop renting Payhip.

Rented Payhip Free Forever $0/month + 5% transaction fee; Plus $29/month + 2%; Pro $99/month with no transaction fee ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

Yours

Deliora

$99 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

4 months of Payhip costs what Deliora costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: Payhip has a genuine free tier, paid for with 5% of every sale; the figure cited is the first paid tier, where the cut drops to 2%. Deliora takes no cut — you pay for the software once and your payment processor takes only its own fee. NOT RE-VERIFIED 2026-09-26: payhip.com/pricing answered 403 (a bot check) to a headless browser and to plain HTTP, so nothing above could be re-read; the figures stay as last read on 2026-09-03 and are marked as such rather than re-dated.

How Payhip pricing grows

Payhip meters by a CUT OF EACH SALE (5%, then 2%) until you pay $99 a month to remove it.

“+5% transaction fee”, their own page, read 2026-08-30

What Payhip does that we don't

Payhip is hosted, free to start, and sells memberships, courses and coaching alongside downloads.

“Free Forever”, their own page

Who should stay with Payhip

Stay with Payhip if you sell little and want a free hosted storefront that takes its cut per sale. Deliora is the store you own: one payment, no percentage, your domain.

What Deliora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.

Why owning beats renting Payhip.

One payment

No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Payhip's cloud.

No plan ceilings

Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Deliora vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off Payhip.

Where does the money actually flow?

Directly from your buyer to your Lemon Squeezy or Stripe account. Deliora never holds funds and never sees card numbers — it fulfills orders from the provider's webhook.

Are my product files safe?

Deliverables sit in a directory denied by the web server. The only path to them is a random token that expires, has a use cap, and is claimed with an atomic database update.

Will this run on shared hosting?

Yes. PHP 8.1+ with pdo and fileinfo, MySQL or SQLite, Apache mod_rewrite. The installer takes about two minutes.

Can my own apps verify licenses?

Yes — the license API's check and activate endpoints return validity, tier, and activations left. Activation is idempotent per domain, so reinstalling on the same site never burns a slot.

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Sources

Payhip: price checked 2026-09-03, source“'$0 /mo' ... '+5% transaction fee' ... '$29 /mo' ... '+2% transaction fee' ... '$99 /mo' ... 'No transaction fee'”

Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.

Replace Payhip with Deliora.

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