| Webhook madness | ✅ | Eliminated | ✅ | Eliminated |
| Hosting | ✅ | Self-hosted | ✅ | Cloud |
| Edge first performance | ✅ | Yes | ✅ | Yes |
| Low latency updates | ✅ | Yes | ✅ | Yes |
| Same core engine | ✅ | Yes | ✅ | Yes |
| Complete per-customer data isolation | ✅ | Yes | ✅ | Yes |
| Unified ingest mode | ✅ | | ✅ | |
| ↳ Dependable unified webhooks | ✅ | Yes | ✅ | Yes |
| ↳ Automatic retries to your endpoint | ✅ | Yes | ✅ | Yes |
| ↳ Rate limits | ⚠️ | Higher chances of hitting Stripe rate limits if exceeding ~$10-50K ARR | ✅ | Practically impossible even at $100M+ ARR, graceful fallbacks built in if ever needed |
| Instant access mode | ❌ | Cloud only | ✅ | Included |
| Deep sync mode | ❌ | Cloud only | ✅ | Included |
| Infra monitoring & maintenance | ⚠️ | You / your team is responsible | ✅ | Set it up once and never worry about syncing billing state again |
| Product focus | ⚠️ | Build for & debug billing webhooks | ✅ | Focus on your core product 🎯 |
| Zero downtime | ⚠️ | Webhooks need to be paused during version upgrades | ✅ | Zero downtime |
| API schema updates | ⚠️ | You need to manage updating Sanebase as soon as possible to ensure compatibility | ✅ | Never worry about API updates again |
| Data sovereignty | ✅ | Use your own cloud infra | ✅ | Bring your own cloud (Enterprise) |
