Kill Bill
Subscription billing & payments platform. Have access to real-time analytics and financial reports.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 42% of tracked projects; popularity more than 69%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 5.8k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | killbill-0.24.21 · 12 Aug 2026 |
| Repo updated | 24 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Built with | Java, Docker |
Is Kill Bill actively maintained?
Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 187 commits, of which 79 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 26 commits a month.
The most recent tagged release, killbill-0.24.21, shipped about two months ago — a current, installable version exists today.
Kill Bill ranks #22 of 43 in Money, Budgeting & Management, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Kill Bill actually does
Kill Bill is an open-source subscription billing and payments platform designed to handle recurring financial transactions. It provides access to real-time analytics and financial reporting tools to help track revenue streams.
Best fit: Self-hosters and businesses looking for a customisable, code-driven engine to manage complex recurring billing cycles without relying entirely on proprietary SaaS providers.
Worth knowing: As an enterprise-grade financial platform written in Java, it carries a significant operational and configuration overhead compared to lighter-weight budgeting tools.
Deployment notes
Containerised deployments using Docker typically require persistent storage volumes for state retention, an external relational database, and a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination securely.
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