Deliora vs renting the software.
Sell digital downloads with license keys, expiring links and a buyer portal; checkout stays with your provider.
Competitor prices on this page read between 2026-07-05 and 2026-09-03, each row dated, each one read on the vendor's own page and linked in Sources.
The subscription math.
3 months of Podia costs what Deliora costs once.
The fine print
How their pricing grows. Podia meters TWICE on its entry plan — a monthly subscription and 5% of every sale — and the only way off the percentage is the plan above it.
“$49/month billed monthly or $42/month billed annually. 5% transaction fee” Read 2026-09-03.
Who should stay with Podia. Stay with Podia if you want the storefront, the email list and the community hosted for you. Deliora is the delivery half only — license keys with per-domain activation limits and download links that expire, served from files kept outside the web root — bought once, on your own server.
How we counted. The entry paid tier at its month-to-month price. Read the fee, not just the plan: the cheapest Podia plan takes 5% of every sale ON TOP of the subscription, and the way to stop paying it is to pay twice as much a month. Deliora is $99 once and takes nothing per sale — your payment processor is between you and your buyer.
4 months of Payhip costs what Deliora costs once.
The fine print
How their 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” Read 2026-08-30.
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.
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.
3 months of SendOwl costs what Deliora costs once.
The fine print
How their pricing grows. SendOwl meters by SALES VOLUME: each plan caps orders and revenue per year, and the price steps up when you sell more.
“$10,000 sales per year” Read 2026-08-30.
Who should stay with SendOwl. Stay with SendOwl if you want a hosted delivery service with affiliates and drip built in and your volume fits a plan. Deliora is the self-hosted store with license keys and delivery; nothing caps how much you sell.
How we counted. The month-to-month entry plan, which caps yearly sales at $10,000 — cross it and the plan steps up. Deliora has no sales cap.
4 months of Sellfy costs what Deliora costs once.
The fine print
How their pricing grows. Sellfy meters by YEARLY SALES: cross the plan cap and pay 2% overage or step up.
“Up to $10k in sales per year” Read 2026-08-30.
Who should stay with Sellfy. Stay with Sellfy if you want print-on-demand merch and a hosted storefront and your yearly sales fit a plan. Deliora is your own store on your own domain, for digital products, uncapped.
How we counted. The month-to-month Starter price; the plan is sized by yearly sales and charges 2% above its cap. Deliora has no cap and no overage.
Work out your own numbers.
The rented figures use the cited plan price above; per-seat plans scale by the seat count from that same cited price. This is arithmetic, not a quote.
Also in this category.
“10% + $0.50 Per transaction for all sales through your profile or direct links to your customers.”
“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.”
Why owning beats renting here.
No per-month, per-seat or per-location fees: the license does not expire.
Your data sits on a server you choose; customer records are not held in a vendor's cloud unless you put them there.
Records, users and usage are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
It keeps working if the vendor doesn't: no one can switch your copy off, and keeping it up to date is in your hands.
The fair trade-offs: you host it, you back it up, and updates are yours to apply. The product page lists what Deliora deliberately doesn't do.
Related on this site
Sources
- Podia: price checked 2026-09-03, source“$49/month billed monthly or $42/month billed annually. 5% transaction fee ... $99/month billed monthly or $84/month billed annually. no transaction fee”
- Payhip: price checked 2026-09-03, source“'$0 /mo' ... '+5% transaction fee' ... '$29 /mo' ... '+2% transaction fee' ... '$99 /mo' ... 'No transaction fee'”
- SendOwl: price checked 2026-09-03, source“'$39/month' ... '$32.50/month' ... '5k orders per year' ... '$10,000 sales per year' ... '$87/month' ... '$159/month' ... 'Business plans start at $299/month'”
- Sellfy: price checked 2026-09-03, source“'$29 $22 /mo' ... 'Up to $10k in sales per year' ... '$79 $59 /mo' ... '$159 $119 /mo' ... '0% Transaction fees' ... 'a 2% overage fee'”
- Gumroad: price checked 2026-09-03, source“10% + $0.50 Per transaction for all sales through your profile or direct links to your customers.”
- Lemon Squeezy: price checked 2026-07-05, source“'5% + 50c' ... '*subject to additional fees' (intl/PayPal/subscription surcharges via docs link)”
Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown.