# Kill Bill

Open-source subscription billing and payments platform that a business runs on its own infrastructure and extends through plugins.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/killbill/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- home: https://killbill.io
- repository: https://github.com/killbill/killbill
- docs: https://docs.killbill.io
- pricing: https://killbill.io/pricing
- x: https://twitter.com/killbillio
- forum: https://groups.google.com/g/killbilling-users

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: The Billing Project, LLC
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2011
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: e-commerce
- hosting: java
- language: java
- runtime: jvm
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: mysql, mariadb, postgres
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: rest
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: docker

### License

- licenseModel: open-core
- license: Apache-2.0, Aviate commercial license, for the Aviate enterprise edition only

### Releases

- currentMajor: unknown
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-09-29

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 5835
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 48
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://killbill.io (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/killbill/killbill (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://docs.killbill.io (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://github.com/killbill/killbill (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/killbill/killbill/tree/killbill-0.0.5 (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/killbill/killbill (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/killbill/killbill (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://github.com/killbill/killbill (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://docs.killbill.io/latest/getting_started.html (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://killbill.io (read 2026-11-03)
- databases: https://docs.killbill.io/latest/getting_started.html (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://docs.killbill.io/latest/getting_started.html (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://docs.killbill.io/latest/getting_started.html (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://docs.killbill.io/latest/getting_started.html (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://docs.killbill.io/latest/getting_started.html (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://docs.killbill.io/latest/getting_started.html (read 2026-11-03)
- adminUi: https://docs.killbill.io/latest/getting_started.html (read 2026-11-03)
- headlessApi: https://github.com/killbill/killbill (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://killbill.io/pricing (read 2026-11-03)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/killbill/killbill/releases/tag/killbill-0.24.22 (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/killbill/killbill (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://github.com/killbill/killbill (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

Kill Bill is an open-source subscription billing and payments platform written in Java. It runs as a server with the Kaui administrative console for operators, and it exposes a REST API for applications. The [getting-started guide](https://docs.killbill.io/latest/getting_started.html) covers an install with the official Docker images and Docker Compose, a manual install on Apache Tomcat with MySQL, and a one-click installer for AWS.

The core team uses MySQL and also runs regression tests against MariaDB and PostgreSQL.

## Worth knowing

Aviate is the enterprise edition, sold under a commercial license. The [pricing page](https://killbill.io/pricing) says to choose Aviate for enterprise features and support.

The manual Tomcat install needs JDK 11.

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