Skio Pricing Explained (2026): What You Actually Pay Now Recharge Owns It

Skio's pricing page has one number most merchants notice: $499 a month. The number that decides your bill is the one underneath it, 1.25% plus 20 cents on every order that contains a subscription product.

This is what Skio costs in November 2026, worked through at six revenue levels, what changed this year, and how it compares now that Recharge owns it. For the acquisition itself, see what the Recharge and Skio deal means for merchants.

Skio's plans

Skio publishes one plan and sells a second through its sales team.

One plan has an upside. Nothing is gated behind a higher tier, so build-a-box, gifting, cancel flows and API access all come with Scale. The downside is the floor. A store with 40 subscribers pays the same $499 platform fee as one with 4,000.

There's no free plan. Skio's pricing page doesn't say whether a free trial is available, and its App Store listing doesn't show one.

How Skio's transaction fee works

Skio's billing guide has three details that change the real number. The fee is charged on the whole order total, including shipping and tax, after discounts, so a $50 box with $10 shipping is charged on $60. If any subscription product is in the cart, the fee applies to the entire order, including one-time add-ons bought alongside it. Orders with only one-time products carry no fee.

That makes the percentage bigger than it looks for brands with heavy shipping costs or big add-on baskets, which is common in fresh and frozen food subscriptions.

What does Skio cost at your revenue?

All examples assume a $50 order total, including shipping and tax, and one order per subscriber per month.

At $100K a month the bill is $499 for the platform, $1,250 in percentage fees and $400 in per-order fees. The platform fee is the smallest part of it.

Below about $30K a month it flips and the $499 floor does the damage. At $10K a month Skio takes 6.6% of subscription revenue, before you've paid for payment processing.

Annual or monthly billing?

Paying annually saves $100 a month, or $1,200 a year. It also commits you to Skio for twelve months while Recharge decides what the product becomes. Monthly billing costs more and keeps the exit open.

What changed in 2026

The transaction fee went up. Skio's Shopify App Store listing showed 1% + 20¢ as recently as May 2026. Its pricing page and listing now show 1.25% + 20¢. We couldn't find an announcement. At $100K a month that quarter point is $250 a month, or $3,000 a year.

Recharge owns Skio. Recharge bought Skio in April 2026. Skio says both platforms keep running and shipping features, and that the plan is to combine the products over roughly the next twelve months, with the final path still undecided.

Skio's price now matches Recharge's. On 2 November 2026 Recharge changed its own pricing. Its Scale plan is $499 a month plus 1.25% + 20¢ on a 12-month term, the same numbers as Skio's annual plan. Its Starter plan is $149 + 1.50% + 20¢. More in Recharge pricing explained.

Below about $140K a month in subscription revenue, Skio now costs more than Recharge's own Starter plan. The old reason to pick Skio over Recharge on price no longer holds.

How Skio compares on cost

Skio costs exactly the same as Recharge Scale at every revenue level we modelled, and only Recharge Starter costs more, by $25 a month at $150K. The flat-fee apps are far cheaper on price alone, and the percentage apps are the ones bundling the most retention tooling. Every app's features and fees side by side are in our comparison of the best Shopify subscription apps.

Is Skio worth it?

Skio earned its reputation. It's rated 5.0 from 248 reviews on the Shopify App Store, its passwordless login and portal are among the best in the category, and putting every feature on one plan is simpler than most apps manage.

The question is whether that's worth about $8,000 a year at $10K a month in subscription revenue, or $26,000 a year at $100K, and whether you want that commitment while the product's future inside Recharge is still being decided. For brands under $1-2M a year in subscription revenue, the $499 floor is the hard part.

Where Gro fits

Full disclosure: Gro is ours. It's a Shopify subscription platform built around the delivery rather than the billing date, so customers skip and reschedule a specific box instead of a charge. That's the model behind delivery-first subscriptions, and it matters most for fresh, frozen and other delivery-sensitive products.

Pricing is 0.9% of subscription revenue with a $249 a month minimum and no per-order fee, free under 10 active subscriptions, with build-a-box and every other feature on every plan. At $100K a month that's $900 against $2,149 on Skio. We're new and in private beta, so our review count is small, but we're independent and migration from Skio is free and done for you. The full feature comparison is on Gro vs Skio.