i didn’t say that. but it’s among the most expensive.

As you go higher in revenue it goes down

I much prefer a company that takes a slightly higher percentage and provides a great service

than the @#$# at Paypal who will freeze your accounts for reasons like 'your earnings are growing too fast' or 'you compete with our fellow silicon valley company'

Price is what you pay, value is what you get. I’d happily pay more for my Stripe accounts. They make my life easy, and that has value.

it depends on what you value. most high volume businesses aren’t optimizing for developer happiness..they don’t want a business expense like payment processing taking 3% of every sale.

If you’re at high volume, you don’t pay Stripe retail rate.

sure - but smaller vol merchants with thin margins can also be sensitive to payment processing costs too

Is your point here that Stripe isn't the best solution for every merchant?

That's not surprising. But they seem to do what they do well, and have a lot of happy customers.

It's really not when you consider what else you have to do to accept payments from other providers. Do you research.