# Tebex review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Webstores and payments for game servers and studios Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Tebex sells in-game items, subscriptions and passes for game servers and studios through webstores, in-game stores and a headless API. It acts as the merchant of record, which means it handles payments, sales tax, fraud and chargebacks. Server owners can open an account on a free plan with a flat per-transaction fee. - **Category:** Selling Digital Products - **Made by:** Tebex - **Website:** https://www.tebex.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you pay for Plus, because the 5% fee still applies on top of £12.49. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Tebex has a free plan, and paid plans start at £12.49 per month, plus a 5% fee on every transaction. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Starter plan: no monthly subscription, with a flat 5% fee on all transactions, unlimited packages and fraud and chargeback protection. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | £0 | No monthly subscription and a flat 5% fee on all transactions. Unlimited packages, global payment processing, sales, coupons and gift cards, team accounts and statistics. | | Plus | £12.49 per month | Starter plus a webstore HTML and CSS editor, abandoned basket recovery, purchase follow-ups, a custom domain and free SSL. The 5% fee still applies. | Read from https://www.tebex.io/server on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Tebex before buying. ## Key features - **In-game and web stores:** Sells items, subscriptions, season passes and DLC through a themed webstore or an in-game store connected to the server. - **Headless API:** Lets a studio keep its own storefront while Tebex runs packages, subscriptions, coupons and creator codes in the background. - **Merchant of record:** Tebex says it takes responsibility for payments, taxes, compliance and disputes on every transaction. - **Sales tax handling:** Calculates, collects and remits local and global sales tax automatically, according to the vendor. - **Payment methods and payouts:** Lists 130+ payment methods, with payouts to a bank account or PayPal. - **Subscriptions and recovery:** Handles billing cycles, renewals and plan changes, with abandoned basket recovery and purchase follow-ups on the Plus plan. ## Good for - Minecraft, FiveM, Rust and other game server owners selling ranks and items - Studios that want a merchant of record to carry tax and chargeback risk - Communities that want to monetize a Discord server ## Worth knowing - Prices on the server page are in pounds sterling, and a 5% fee applies to every transaction on both plans. - The server pricing page lists named games such as Minecraft, ARK, Rust and Garry's Mod; Tebex also has a separate studio offering with no published prices. - A custom domain, HTML and CSS editor and abandoned basket recovery need the paid Plus plan. - Runs in a browser and inside games through the in-game store; no desktop or mobile apps are listed. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Tebex runs webstores and payments for game servers, and handles sales tax as merchant of record. A 5% fee comes off every transaction on both plans, so the £12.49 Plus plan only adds a custom domain and store editing. - **Value for money: C.** Plus is £12.49 a month, in the middle of the category, and the 5% fee is charged on top of it. Starter has no monthly fee. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Starter has no monthly fee, unlimited packages and fraud and chargeback cover, for a flat 5% of every sale. - **Features: B.** Webstore and in-game store, headless API, merchant of record, sales tax, subscriptions and basket recovery. Basket recovery and the editor are Plus, but nothing in the listing is missing from the job. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and it is a web app where the work is setting up the store and its packages, so it sits at C. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web plus an in-game store, with a headless API and six listed integrations. No desktop or phone apps. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Tebex's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among tools for selling digital products - Tebex's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 35 of the 50 other tools for selling digital products we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on features (B, above 29 of 50) and worst on ease of use (C, above 1). - Its paid plans start at about $16.74 a month, against a middle price of $16.74 for the category: 11 of the 22 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 2 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/digital-products ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Tebex you would be making selling as the merchant of record, so sales tax and VAT are handled everywhere. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 35 of the 50 other tools for selling digital products we grade. It costs $200.82 a year. - You could make: Digital downloads: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Selling as the merchant of record, so sales tax and VAT are handled everywhere. - You could not: Checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. - You could not: It plugs into other products, PayPal, Discord and Steam among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with PayPal, Discord, Steam, Minecraft, FiveM, Rust **Tags:** Merchant of record, Online store, Digital downloads, Public API ## Alternatives - [Paddle](https://toolgpa.com/tools/paddle): Merchant of record billing for SaaS and software. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/paddle-vs-tebex) - [Lemon Squeezy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lemon-squeezy): Merchant of record checkout for software, subscriptions and downloads. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lemon-squeezy-vs-tebex) - [FastSpring](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fastspring): Merchant of record checkout and billing for software and digital goods. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fastspring-vs-tebex) - [Sell.app](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sell-app): Digital product storefronts billed as a percentage of sales. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/sell-app-vs-tebex) - [Shoppy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shoppy): Digital goods storefront with crypto and PayPal checkout. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/shoppy-vs-tebex) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.tebex.io/server - https://www.tebex.io Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/tebex Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).