Rank #6 of 7 in Billing & Subscriptions
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$curl -si https://v3.recurly.com/accounts -H 'Accept: application/vnd.recurly.v2021-02-25' # versioned keyless call → 401 Bearer challengerecorded session — replayed, not liveVerified integrations
No integration evidence found in our corpus for this product yet — that means none was found, never that it doesn’t integrate.
By theme — the product's score on each story themeBy theme
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticnessevidence →
How well agents can access and operate the product
Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depthevidence →
How much of the product can run unattended
Billing agent access — stories about billing agent access in this arenaBilling agent accessevidence →
Stories about billing agent access in this arena
Billing math — stories about billing math in this arenaBilling mathevidence →
Stories about billing math in this arena
Dunning recovery — stories about dunning recovery in this arenaDunning recoveryevidence →
Stories about dunning recovery in this arena
Entitlements — stories about entitlements in this arenaEntitlementsevidence →
Stories about entitlements in this arena
Invoicing tax — stories about invoicing tax in this arenaInvoicing taxevidence →
Stories about invoicing tax in this arena
Migration portability — stories about migration portability in this arenaMigration portabilityevidence →
Stories about migration portability in this arena
Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpennessevidence →
Open source, data portability, and self-hosting stories
Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy postureevidence →
Data-handling and privacy stories
Revenue recognition — stories about revenue recognition in this arenaRevenue recognitionevidence →
Stories about revenue recognition in this arena
Subscription lifecycle — stories about subscription lifecycle in this arenaSubscription lifecycleevidence →
Stories about subscription lifecycle in this arena
Usage metering — stories about usage metering in this arenaUsage meteringevidence →
Stories about usage metering in this arena
Story verdicts — every judged story with its evidenceStory verdicts
What’s free: 0 free · 4 paid · 0 enterprise · 24 not stated in evidence
Follow the green: where the map greys out is where Recurly stops today. ✓ full · ~ partial · ! disputed · — none · n/a not applicable.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness
How well agents can access and operate the product
API surface
Drive the product through a documented public API
✓8/10
unlocks → Scoped API keys · Machine-readable spec · Versioning policy · API sandbox · Official CLI
Subscribe to events via webhooks
~3/10
Build against official SDKs
✓8/10
Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent
—0/10
Connect an agent via an official MCP server
~7/10
Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)
—0/10
Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy
—–
Test against a sandbox environment without touching production data
—–
Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples
—0/10
Docs for agents
Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs
✓9/10
Agentic features
Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product
—0/10
Operate the product with natural-language commands
~4/10
Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools
—0/10
Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product
—0/10
Set up automations that run autonomously in the background
~4/10
Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth
How much of the product can run unattended
Billing agent access — stories about billing agent access in this arenaBilling agent access
Stories about billing agent access in this arena
An agent can operate my billing — create a subscription, apply a credit, change a plan — through a programmatic surface with scoped permissions
~5/10
An agent can answer questions about my billing state — MRR, delinquent accounts, upcoming renewals, a customer's invoices — by querying the platform directly
~4/10
Billing math — stories about billing math in this arenaBilling math
Stories about billing math in this arena
Control billing anchors and cycles — calendar vs anniversary billing, alignment across a customer's subscriptions, custom invoice dates
~3/10
Mid-cycle upgrades and downgrades are prorated with documented, auditable math — credits, partial periods, and invoice line items that reconcile to the penny
~5/10
Dunning recovery — stories about dunning recovery in this arenaDunning recovery
Stories about dunning recovery in this arena
Expiring or replaced cards update themselves — network account updater, backup payment methods, and hosted update-payment pages
~5/10
Configure automated dunning sequences — branded emails, in-app banners, grace periods, and final-state rules like cancel vs unpaid
~5/10
Failed renewal payments are retried automatically on an ML- or schedule-optimized cadence that measurably recovers involuntary churn
~5/10
Entitlements — stories about entitlements in this arenaEntitlements
Stories about entitlements in this arena
Features and limits are modeled as entitlements attached to plans, and my application can check a customer's entitlements at runtime via API or SDK
✓6/10
Change pricing without breaking existing subscribers — versioned plans, grandfathering, and bulk migration tools for moving cohorts to new prices
—0/10
Invoicing tax — stories about invoicing tax in this arenaInvoicing tax
Stories about invoicing tax in this arena
The platform generates compliant invoices, credit notes, and receipts — sequential numbering, custom fields, memos — delivered to customers automatically
~5/10
Bill customers in their local currency with per-currency price points and consolidated reporting in my home currency
—–
Sales tax, VAT, and GST are calculated on every invoice — natively or through a first-class tax integration — with the right registrations and rates
—–
Migration portability — stories about migration portability in this arenaMigration portability
Stories about migration portability in this arena
Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness
Open source, data portability, and self-hosting stories
Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture
Data-handling and privacy stories
Revenue recognition — stories about revenue recognition in this arenaRevenue recognition
Stories about revenue recognition in this arena
I get MRR, churn, cohort retention, and LTV analytics computed from the billing source of truth, not a bolted-on BI export
—0/10
Invoices, payments, and recognition entries sync to my general ledger or ERP — QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite — so the close doesn't need CSV surgery
—0/10
Revenue is recognized on an ASC 606 / IFRS 15 basis — deferred revenue schedules and audit-ready recognition reports straight from billing data
—–
Subscription lifecycle — stories about subscription lifecycle in this arenaSubscription lifecycle
Stories about subscription lifecycle in this arena
Create, update, pause, and cancel subscriptions through a documented API — the full lifecycle without touching a dashboard
~6/10
Every subscription state change — renewal, upgrade, payment failure, cancellation — emits a webhook or event my systems can act on reliably
—0/10
My customers can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel themselves through a hosted portal or embeddable components, without a support ticket
~5/10
Run free trials, coupons, and promotion codes with automatic conversion to paid — including trial-end notifications required by card-network rules
—–
Usage metering — stories about usage metering in this arenaUsage metering
Stories about usage metering in this arena
Stream high-volume usage events — API calls, tokens, compute-seconds — into a metering pipeline with idempotent ingestion and backdating support
~3/10
Price with tiered, volume, graduated, per-unit, and hybrid subscription-plus-usage models — including credits, commitments, and overage — without custom code
~5/10
Customers and my team can see current-cycle usage and accrued cost in real time, with thresholds and alerts before an invoice surprises anyone
—0/10
Sorted by importance (agentic first) (high → low) · 53/53 stories · click a row’s chevron for the rationale and evidence
Drive the product through a documented public API G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 3 | full | 8/10 | Tprobed | |
Connect an agent via an official MCP server G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 3 | partial | 7/10 | Tprobed | |
Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product G Agentic features | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 3 | none | 0/10 | ||
Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 3 | none | 0/10 | ||
Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | full | 9/10 | Tprobed | |
Build against official SDKs G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | full | 8/10 | Tprobed | |
Operate the product with natural-language commands G Agentic features | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | partial | 4/10 | Tprobed | |
Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | partial | 4/10 | Cclaimed | |
Set up automations that run autonomously in the background G Agentic features | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | partialpaid | 4/10 | Cclaimed | |
Subscribe to events via webhooks G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | partial | 3/10 | Xcommunity | |
Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent) G Api quality | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples G Api quality | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product G Agentic features | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Use an official CLI G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy G Api quality | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Test against a sandbox environment without touching production data G Api quality | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 1 | none | untested | none yet | |
Create, update, pause, and cancel subscriptions through a documented API — the full lifecycle without touching a dashboard C Lifecycle api | developer | Subscription lifecycle — stories about subscription lifecycle in this arenaSubscription lifecycle | 3 | partial | 6/10 | Cclaimed | |
Features and limits are modeled as entitlements attached to plans, and my application can check a customer's entitlements at runtime via API or SDK C Entitlement checks | developer | Entitlements — stories about entitlements in this arenaEntitlements | 3 | full | 6/10 | Cclaimed | |
An agent can operate my billing — create a subscription, apply a credit, change a plan — through a programmatic surface with scoped permissions G Agent operations | ai-native user | Billing agent access — stories about billing agent access in this arenaBilling agent access | 3 | partial | 5/10 | Tprobed | |
Failed renewal payments are retried automatically on an ML- or schedule-optimized cadence that measurably recovers involuntary churn C Smart retries | finance lead | Dunning recovery — stories about dunning recovery in this arenaDunning recovery | 3 | partialpaid | 5/10 | Xcommunity | |
Mid-cycle upgrades and downgrades are prorated with documented, auditable math — credits, partial periods, and invoice line items that reconcile to the penny C Proration | finance lead | Billing math — stories about billing math in this arenaBilling math | 3 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
Price with tiered, volume, graduated, per-unit, and hybrid subscription-plus-usage models — including credits, commitments, and overage — without custom code G Pricing models | finance lead | Usage metering — stories about usage metering in this arenaUsage metering | 3 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events G | ai-native user | Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth | 3 | partialpaid | 4/10 | Xcommunity | |
Export all of my data in open formats and leave G | ai-native user | Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness | 3 | partial | 4/10 | Xcommunity | |
Migrate live subscriptions in from a spreadsheet or a competing platform — including PCI-compliant card data transfer — without customers noticing C Import | ops user | Migration portability — stories about migration portability in this arenaMigration portability | 3 | partial | 3/10 | Xcommunity | |
Stream high-volume usage events — API calls, tokens, compute-seconds — into a metering pipeline with idempotent ingestion and backdating support C Event ingestion | developer | Usage metering — stories about usage metering in this arenaUsage metering | 3 | partial | 3/10 | Cclaimed | |
Prevent my data from being used to train AI models G | ai-native user | Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture | 3 | n/a | untested | none yet | |
Revenue is recognized on an ASC 606 / IFRS 15 basis — deferred revenue schedules and audit-ready recognition reports straight from billing data G Revrec reports | finance lead | Revenue recognition — stories about revenue recognition in this arenaRevenue recognition | 3 | none | untested | none yet | |
Self-host the core product G | ai-native user | Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness | 3 | none | untested | none yet | |
Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI G | ai-native user | Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness | 2 | partial | 6/10 | Cclaimed | |
Configure automated dunning sequences — branded emails, in-app banners, grace periods, and final-state rules like cancel vs unpaid C Dunning comms | ops user | Dunning recovery — stories about dunning recovery in this arenaDunning recovery | 2 | partialpaid | 5/10 | Xcommunity | |
Expiring or replaced cards update themselves — network account updater, backup payment methods, and hosted update-payment pages C Card recovery | ops user | Dunning recovery — stories about dunning recovery in this arenaDunning recovery | 2 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
Export every subscription, invoice, and usage record — and port stored payment methods out to another provider — if I choose to leave G Export | finance lead | Migration portability — stories about migration portability in this arenaMigration portability | 2 | partial | 5/10 | Xcommunity | |
My customers can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel themselves through a hosted portal or embeddable components, without a support ticket C Self serve | founder | Subscription lifecycle — stories about subscription lifecycle in this arenaSubscription lifecycle | 2 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
Schedule recurring jobs or workflows G | ai-native user | Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth | 2 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
The platform generates compliant invoices, credit notes, and receipts — sequential numbering, custom fields, memos — delivered to customers automatically C Invoices | ops user | Invoicing tax — stories about invoicing tax in this arenaInvoicing tax | 2 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
An agent can answer questions about my billing state — MRR, delinquent accounts, upcoming renewals, a customer's invoices — by querying the platform directly G Agent queries | ai-native user | Billing agent access — stories about billing agent access in this arenaBilling agent access | 2 | partial | 4/10 | Tprobed | |
Control billing anchors and cycles — calendar vs anniversary billing, alignment across a customer's subscriptions, custom invoice dates G Billing cycles | ops user | Billing math — stories about billing math in this arenaBilling math | 2 | partial | 3/10 | Cclaimed | |
Perform bulk operations across many items at once G | ai-native user | Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth | 2 | partial | 3/10 | Cclaimed | |
Change pricing without breaking existing subscribers — versioned plans, grandfathering, and bulk migration tools for moving cohorts to new prices G Plan versioning | ops user | Entitlements — stories about entitlements in this arenaEntitlements | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Customers and my team can see current-cycle usage and accrued cost in real time, with thresholds and alerts before an invoice surprises anyone C Usage visibility | ops user | Usage metering — stories about usage metering in this arenaUsage metering | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Every subscription state change — renewal, upgrade, payment failure, cancellation — emits a webhook or event my systems can act on reliably C Lifecycle events | developer | Subscription lifecycle — stories about subscription lifecycle in this arenaSubscription lifecycle | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
I get MRR, churn, cohort retention, and LTV analytics computed from the billing source of truth, not a bolted-on BI export G Analytics | founder | Revenue recognition — stories about revenue recognition in this arenaRevenue recognition | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Invoices, payments, and recognition entries sync to my general ledger or ERP — QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite — so the close doesn't need CSV surgery C Gl sync | finance lead | Revenue recognition — stories about revenue recognition in this arenaRevenue recognition | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Bill customers in their local currency with per-currency price points and consolidated reporting in my home currency G Multi currency | finance lead | Invoicing tax — stories about invoicing tax in this arenaInvoicing tax | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Choose where my data is stored (region/residency) G | ai-native user | Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Control data retention and deletion G | ai-native user | Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Opt out of telemetry and usage tracking G | ai-native user | Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture | 2 | n/a | untested | none yet | |
Read the product's source under an open license G | ai-native user | Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Run free trials, coupons, and promotion codes with automatic conversion to paid — including trial-end notifications required by card-network rules C Trials promos | ops user | Subscription lifecycle — stories about subscription lifecycle in this arenaSubscription lifecycle | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Sales tax, VAT, and GST are calculated on every invoice — natively or through a first-class tax integration — with the right registrations and rates C Tax | finance lead | Invoicing tax — stories about invoicing tax in this arenaInvoicing tax | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Version, review, and roll back my automations G | ai-native user | Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth | 1 | none | untested | none yet |
Opportunities — the stories that would move this product's scores, from its own judged verdictsOpportunitiestop 8 of 47 stories with headroom
What would move Recurly’s scores — derived from its own judged verdicts, biggest headroom first. Each line quotes what the judge found missing; shipping it (or evidencing it publicly) is the fix.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productDelegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product
nonemoves Built-in AIimpact 45
Recurly is a subscription billing platform; evidence shows an MCP server for connecting AI dev tools to documentation/API knowledge, but nothing indicates a built-in AI assistant within the product that users can delegate tasks to.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productPlug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools
nonemoves agent-readyimpact 45
Evidence only shows Recurly publishing its own MCP server (Compass) so external AI tools can query Recurly's docs/API — this is Recurly acting as an MCP server provider, not as a client that can plug in and use other MCP servers' tools.
Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesSelf-host the core product
nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30
The axis applies to this product kind (peer products hold positive or none verdicts on this story), so lack of evidence for an applicable capability is "none", never "na".
Revenue recognition — stories about revenue recognition in this arenaRevenue is recognized on an ASC 606 / IFRS 15 basis — deferred revenue schedules and audit-ready recognition reports straight from billing data
nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30
Evidence covers subscriptions, invoicing, dunning, entitlements, and data import/export for general compliance, but nothing addresses ASC 606/IFRS 15 deferred revenue schedules or audit-ready recognition reporting specifically.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productGet AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product
nonemoves Built-in AIimpact 30
No evidence Recurly generates AI-driven insights or suggestions from a merchant's own subscription/billing data; the only AI-related feature (Compass MCP) merely connects AI dev tools to documentation/API knowledge, not to account data analytics.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productUse an official CLI
nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30
No evidence of an official Recurly CLI; documentation instead references client libraries (Ruby, Node.js, Python, etc.), mobile SDKs, and an MCP server for AI tools, but nothing about a command-line interface.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productIssue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent
nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30
No evidence of scoped or least-privilege API key/credential issuance for agents; the MCP server (recurly-docs-12, recurly-probe-2) only connects AI tools to documentation, not scoped API credentials, and no API key management or permission-scoping docs are present.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productExplore an interactive API reference with runnable examples
nonemoves API qualityimpact 30
Missing: interactive API console, runnable code examples, in-browser execution/testing of API calls.
Showing the top 8 of 47 — every none/partial verdict in the story verdicts table is headroom.
Think a verdict is wrong? Every verdicts-table row has a Flag link — see the methodology.
Coverage map — which docs area, API section, or community source covers which judged storiesCoverage map4 surfaces · 28 covered stories
Where the cited evidence behind each covered verdict came from — the same citations the verdicts table shows, no extra judging.
Recurly subscriptions docs26 stories
- Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs
- Connect an agent via an official MCP server
- Drive the product through a documented public API
- Build against official SDKs
- Set up automations that run autonomously in the background
- Operate the product with natural-language commands
- Perform bulk operations across many items at once
- Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events
- Schedule recurring jobs or workflows
- An agent can operate my billing — create a subscription, apply a credit, change a plan — through a programmatic surface with scoped permissions
- An agent can answer questions about my billing state — MRR, delinquent accounts, upcoming renewals, a customer's invoices — by querying the platform directly
- Control billing anchors and cycles — calendar vs anniversary billing, alignment across a customer's subscriptions, custom invoice dates
- Mid-cycle upgrades and downgrades are prorated with documented, auditable math — credits, partial periods, and invoice line items that reconcile to the penny
- Expiring or replaced cards update themselves — network account updater, backup payment methods, and hosted update-payment pages
- Configure automated dunning sequences — branded emails, in-app banners, grace periods, and final-state rules like cancel vs unpaid
- Failed renewal payments are retried automatically on an ML- or schedule-optimized cadence that measurably recovers involuntary churn
- Features and limits are modeled as entitlements attached to plans, and my application can check a customer's entitlements at runtime via API or SDK
- The platform generates compliant invoices, credit notes, and receipts — sequential numbering, custom fields, memos — delivered to customers automatically
- Export every subscription, invoice, and usage record — and port stored payment methods out to another provider — if I choose to leave
- Migrate live subscriptions in from a spreadsheet or a competing platform — including PCI-compliant card data transfer — without customers noticing
- Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI
- Export all of my data in open formats and leave
- Create, update, pause, and cancel subscriptions through a documented API — the full lifecycle without touching a dashboard
- My customers can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel themselves through a hosted portal or embeddable components, without a support ticket
- Stream high-volume usage events — API calls, tokens, compute-seconds — into a metering pipeline with idempotent ingestion and backdating support
- Price with tiered, volume, graduated, per-unit, and hybrid subscription-plus-usage models — including credits, commitments, and overage — without custom code
Developers docs9 stories
- Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation
- Drive the product through a documented public API
- Build against official SDKs
- Perform bulk operations across many items at once
- An agent can operate my billing — create a subscription, apply a credit, change a plan — through a programmatic surface with scoped permissions
- An agent can answer questions about my billing state — MRR, delinquent accounts, upcoming renewals, a customer's invoices — by querying the platform directly
- Features and limits are modeled as entitlements attached to plans, and my application can check a customer's entitlements at runtime via API or SDK
- Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI
- Create, update, pause, and cancel subscriptions through a documented API — the full lifecycle without touching a dashboard
Hacker News7 stories
- Subscribe to events via webhooks
- Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events
- Configure automated dunning sequences — branded emails, in-app banners, grace periods, and final-state rules like cancel vs unpaid
- Failed renewal payments are retried automatically on an ML- or schedule-optimized cadence that measurably recovers involuntary churn
- Export every subscription, invoice, and usage record — and port stored payment methods out to another provider — if I choose to leave
- Migrate live subscriptions in from a spreadsheet or a competing platform — including PCI-compliant card data transfer — without customers noticing
- Export all of my data in open formats and leave
Probe proofs — replayable recordings from the probe harnessProbe proofs
Replayable recordings from our probe harness — see the Prove-It protocol to submit one.
$curl -si https://v3.recurly.com/accounts -H 'Accept: application/vnd.recurly.v2021-02-25' # versioned keyless call → 401 Bearer challengereproduced$ curl -si https://v3.recurly.com/accounts -H 'Accept: application/vnd.recurly.v2021-02-25' # versioned [redacted]less call → 401 Bearer challenge
HTTP/2 401
www-authenticate: Bearer realm="partner-api"
{"error":{"type":"unauthorized","message":"You must provide a valid Authorization header"}}
$curl -si -X POST https://mcp.recurly.com/mcp -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '<jsonrpc initialize>' # the Compass public MCP server Recurly documentsreproduced$ curl -si -X POST https://mcp.recurly.com/mcp -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '<jsonrpc initialize>' # the Compass public MCP server Recurly documents HTTP/2 401 www-authenticate: Bearer resource_metadata="https://mcp.recurly.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource"
$curl -sL https://recurly.com/llms.txt | head -3reproduced$ curl -sL https://recurly.com/llms.txt | head -3 # Recurly > Recurly is the subscription management and recurring billing platform trusted by 2,000+ subscription businesses, handling the full subscription lifecycle — plans, billing, dunning, revenue recognition, retention, and analytics — across SaaS, media, ecommerce, and consumer subscription verticals.
Claims vs evidence — vendor claims reconciled against independent verdictsClaims vs evidence
4 of 11 testable claims verified · 0 contradicted → integrity 36/100
15 distinct capability claims found in Recurly’s own claimed-docs/GitHub materials, reconciled against our judge’s independent verdicts.
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Verified
7
Unverified
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Contradicted
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Undersold
Verified (6)
“Provides tools to proactively catch and resolve involuntary churn causes like expired cards or failed payments”
Configure automated dunning sequences — branded emails, in-app banners, grace periods, and final-state rules like cancel vs unpaidpartialproof ↗
“Imported data can populate accounts, support analytics, and maintain compliance records”
Migrate live subscriptions in from a spreadsheet or a competing platform — including PCI-compliant card data transfer — without customers noticingpartialproof ↗
“Recurly Compass MCP server connects AI development tools directly to Recurly's docs and API knowledge”
“Official client libraries provided for Ruby, Node.js, Python, .NET, Java, PHP, and Go”
“Native mobile SDKs let developers integrate recurring payments into existing Android or iOS apps”
“Customer data can be imported to populate accounts and records in Recurly”
Migrate live subscriptions in from a spreadsheet or a competing platform — including PCI-compliant card data transfer — without customers noticingpartialproof ↗
Unverified (8)
“Full control over subscription changes: upgrade/downgrade plans, adjust quantity/price, add or remove add-ons”
Create, update, pause, and cancel subscriptions through a documented API — the full lifecycle without touching a dashboardpartialproof ↗
“When only quantity/price changes (not the plan), only the price difference is billed immediately”
Mid-cycle upgrades and downgrades are prorated with documented, auditable math — credits, partial periods, and invoice line items that reconcile to the pennypartialproof ↗
“Usage-based billing charges customers at end of cycle based on actual consumption”
Price with tiered, volume, graduated, per-unit, and hybrid subscription-plus-usage models — including credits, commitments, and overage — without custom codepartialproof ↗
“Measured units standardize usage tracking for consistent reporting across add-ons and plans”
Stream high-volume usage events — API calls, tokens, compute-seconds — into a metering pipeline with idempotent ingestion and backdating supportpartialproof ↗
“Customers can set a backup payment method so service continues if the primary payment fails”
Expiring or replaced cards update themselves — network account updater, backup payment methods, and hosted update-payment pagespartialproof ↗
“Entitlements can be applied across web, mobile, and app stores and checked in real time via API”
Features and limits are modeled as entitlements attached to plans, and my application can check a customer's entitlements at runtime via API or SDKfullproof ↗
“Credits are issued as their own distinct credit invoices, separate from charge invoices”
The platform generates compliant invoices, credit notes, and receipts — sequential numbering, custom fields, memos — delivered to customers automaticallypartialproof ↗
“Invoice details (notes, due dates, PO numbers, terms) can be edited after issuance”
The platform generates compliant invoices, credit notes, and receipts — sequential numbering, custom fields, memos — delivered to customers automaticallypartialproof ↗
Undersold (17)
Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docsfullproof ↗
Run the product headlessly / in CI for automationpartialproof ↗
Drive the product through a documented public APIfullproof ↗
Set up automations that run autonomously in the backgroundpartialproof ↗
Operate the product with natural-language commandspartialproof ↗
Perform bulk operations across many items at oncepartialproof ↗
Define rules that trigger actions automatically on eventspartialproof ↗
An agent can operate my billing — create a subscription, apply a credit, change a plan — through a programmatic surface with scoped permissionspartialproof ↗
An agent can answer questions about my billing state — MRR, delinquent accounts, upcoming renewals, a customer's invoices — by querying the platform directlypartialproof ↗
Control billing anchors and cycles — calendar vs anniversary billing, alignment across a customer's subscriptions, custom invoice datespartialproof ↗
Failed renewal payments are retried automatically on an ML- or schedule-optimized cadence that measurably recovers involuntary churnpartialproof ↗
Export every subscription, invoice, and usage record — and port stored payment methods out to another provider — if I choose to leavepartialproof ↗
Do everything through the API that I can do in the UIpartialproof ↗
Export all of my data in open formats and leavepartialproof ↗
My customers can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel themselves through a hosted portal or embeddable components, without a support ticketpartialproof ↗
Claims outside our story set (1)
Real capability claims found in Recurly’s own materials, but no story in this arena’s taxonomy covers them yet — that’s feedback on the taxonomy, not a mark against the product.
“Higher-tier plans can create up to 50 targeted marketing campaigns for customer segments”
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Business model
Starter is $249/mo plus 0.9% of billing volume (first $40K of billings included); All-Access is under 1% of volume with a $1M billing-volume minimum; RevRec from $850/mo.
pricing ↗Score trend
How this product’s scores have moved as evidence and verdicts are re-derived — a point per change, not per day.
Try Experimental
Run it in the microterminal →Recorded agent sessions — and a live MCP handshake where the vendor ships one.
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