Deliora — Self-Hosted Digital Product Store, Delivery & License Keys vs. renting SaaS
A self-hosted digital product store, delivery, and license-key manager — a Gumroad alternative you own.
How this category is priced
Gumroad [1]
10% + $0.50 per transaction (direct sales); 30% per transaction via Discover marketplace
Fee model, not a monthly plan - at $2,000/mo in direct sales that is roughly $200+/mo in platform fees, forever.
How their pricing grows: Gumroad takes a percentage plus a fixed fee out of every sale instead of charging a flat monthly price, so the cost grows with revenue forever.
“10% + $0.50 Per transaction for all sales through your profile or direct links to your customers.”
What Gumroad does that we don't: Gumroad acts as merchant of record and now handles worldwide sales-tax collection and remittance on the seller's behalf.
If you need recurring subscription billing, stay with Gumroad — Deliora has no recurring-subscription billing engine and sells one-time purchases with license tiers only.
Lemon Squeezy [2]
5% + 50c per transaction (plus additional fees per their docs)
Fee model; verified from the live page HTML. Paddle verified the same day at 5% + 50c per checkout transaction.
How their pricing grows: Lemon Squeezy charges a percentage-plus-fixed transaction fee on every sale rather than a monthly subscription, so costs scale directly with sales volume.
“There are no monthly charges for ecommerce features, and we only take a small cut of each sale so that you keep the majority of what you earn.”
What Lemon Squeezy does that we don't: Lemon Squeezy operates as merchant of record, taking on tax collection and calculation liability across jurisdictions for the seller.
If you need built-in affiliate tracking and coupon codes, stay with Lemon Squeezy — Deliora has no marketplace/multi-vendor features, no affiliate tracking, and no coupons in v1.
We can't print a fair per-month figure for this category — the vendors we checked publish no prices. What we can say: Deliora — Self-Hosted Digital Product Store, Delivery & License Keys is $99.00 once, runs on your own server, and never invoices you again.
Why owning beats renting here
- One payment. No per-month, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. Customer records never live in someone else's cloud.
- No plan ceilings. Records, users, and usage are limited by your hosting, not a pricing tier.
- It keeps working if the vendor doesn't. Self-hosted software can't be sunset out from under you.
Fair trade-offs: you host it, you back it up, and updates are yours to apply — see the product page for honest limitations.
Sources
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Gumroad — price checked 2026-08-02 —
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“10% + $0.50 Per transaction for all sales through your profile or direct links to your customers.”
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Lemon Squeezy — price checked 2026-07-05 —
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“'5% + 50c' ... '*subject to additional fees' (intl/PayPal/subscription surcharges via docs link)”
Competitor prices change — always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown.