Yea it's unfortunate that we lose so much to Stripe and definitely it's something to be weary of when creating your prices. That said, Stripe does provide an excellent service. However, I never put all my eggs in one basket. You will notice that our system doesn't use any of Stripe's fancy features. The fine print will show that they'll take extra cuts for each and every thing. We built everything from scratch and only use Stripe for the final payment processing. That way, if we ever decide to switch, it would be quick and painless ;)

It's too bad how one of the interesting promises of crypto currencies was to facilitate micropayments. That clearly hasn't been delivered in any sensible form yet.

You can use crypto to pay eg. notable VPN providers, or to make all sorts of donations, but one of the issues facing crypto for a service like this is that you can't automate monthly payments (at least, not in a standardized and broadly compatible way). You always need to pay a regular invoice, pre-pay for a long period, or (in the best case) regularly top off a custodial wallet that cooperates with registered services and protégés on your behalf (eg. via some standardized smart-contract that hasn't been widely adopted yet). Stripe can just store your info and bill you monthly, but no one hands over their crypo wallet seed in the same way.

Have you considered Paddle, they offer custom pricing if you sell products under $10

Well, the Pay-As-You-Go pricing has a base fee that's way over Stripe's price and the percentage is greater too. I'm curious how low they can reach but they'll need to be almost half their normal price to make any sense.

For 1.50 it's going to cost 57.5 cents, which is 38%.

I had no idea about this. Thanks for the heads up!