Best offer on record: Standard free tier: $0/mo base, pay-per-transaction pricing (perpetual, no card). 4 verified findings, checked 2026-10-22.
Offers
Standard free tier: $0/mo base, pay-per-transaction pricing (perpetual, no card) high confidence
Ecommerce features cost $0/mo — 'no monthly charges for ecommerce features'; only a per-transaction fee of 5% + 50¢ applies. Includes API access, license-key management, store builder, subscriptions, discounts, fraud AI, analytics; VAT/sales-tax collection and filing included because Lemon Squeezy is your merchant of record. Signing up is free with no card, no trial and no contract ('free to start — no trial, no contract, no risk'). This is the de-facto program for startups/solopreneurs: no funding cap, no age cap, perpetual.
Eligibility
Global (no region limit stated for signup). No credit card required to sign up; no .edu, no startup-age or funding cap. Payouts: bank wire or PayPal, twice monthly, 200+ countries supported. As of Jan 2026 the successor product Stripe Managed Payments supports merchants in 35+ countries, so effective availability may narrow by merchant country.
How to claim
Create an account at app.lemonsqueezy.com/register (no card), add a product, and you can sell immediately in test mode; real payments require your new store application to be approved (follow-up questions may be asked). No application form or approval is needed for the free tier itself.
Expiry
Perpetual. There is no trial period and nothing auto-expires; the $0/mo base is a permanent pricing model, not a promotion.
Gotchas
True per-transaction cost exceeds 5% + 50¢ in common cases: +1.5% on international (non-US) card transactions, +1.5% on PayPal transactions, +0.5% on subscription payments, +1% per payout to non-US Stripe banks, +$0.50 per US PayPal payout and 3% (capped $30) per non-US PayPal payout; +5% extra on recovered abandoned-cart payments, +3% merchant affiliate fee, +2% affiliate payouts. Email marketing beyond 500 subscribers costs money (pricing scales with subscriber count; only 'free up to 500' is published on the pricing page). Refunds/chargebacks may carry separate fees. Lemon Squeezy is merchant of record, so it withholds/reserves funds as it deems needed — check payout hold terms in-app. Some payment methods 'may be subject to additional fees'.
Buildspace program: 0% fees for 30 days (closest thing to a student/education offer) high confidence
Participants of Buildspace 'Nights & Weekends' and the buildspace school get 0% platform fees for 30 days on a new Lemon Squeezy store — 'After your first 30 days, we'll provide an all-inclusive pricing of 5% + 50¢ per transaction'. This is the only education-adjacent offer found on the official site; there is no .edu discount or separate student license (lemonsqueezy.com/education and /students are 404).
Eligibility
Must be a participant of a Buildspace course/Nights & Weekends event (learners, not companies — no funding cap, no corporate age limit; no .edu requirement stated). Global, subject to Lemon Squeezy approving the store. Solo builders eligible.
How to claim
Step 1 — create your Lemon Squeezy store (free, no card). Step 2 — go to lemonsqueezy.com/buildspace and enter your buildspace code. Step 3 — complete the form (requires your store URL from Store Settings). Step 4 — discount applied manually within 3 working days. Test mode is available immediately; real payments may require follow-up questions before approval.
Expiry
30 days of 0% fees, then standard 5% + 50¢ permanently. Offer itself has no stated sunset date as of 2026-10-22.
Gotchas
Applied manually — allow 3 working days, longer for new store approval; not a generic 'student discount' you can claim with a .edu address. 0% fee refers to the Lemon Squeezy platform fee only — underlying Stripe processing is bundled into that fee, but surcharge structure post-promo is as in the main fee schedule.
Migration offer: 0% fees for first 30 days, up to $10,000 in sales high confidence
Switchers from other platforms (page explicitly references Gumroad) get 0% fees for their first 30 days on Lemon Squeezy, 'up to $10,000 in sales'. Migration of existing store data is done manually by Lemon Squeezy so data moves correctly. Free to sign up, no card required ('You can sign up for Lemon Squeezy and take it for a test drive for free — no strings attached, no card required').
Eligibility
Any seller switching from another platform; no funding/age cap, no card required, no .edu. Global; store approval by Lemon Squeezy still applies. Open offer (not invite-only) with a claim form.
How to claim
Step 1 — set up your Lemon Squeezy store and follow their migration instructions. Step 2 — complete the form at lemonsqueezy.com/migration-offer. Migrations are processed manually: allow 2–4 working days for follow-up, after which the 0%-for-30-days offer is applied.
Expiry
0% fees apply for 30 days and only to the first $10,000 in sales; afterwards standard 5% + 50¢. No sunset date published as of 2026-10-22.
Gotchas
Manual processing means the promo may not start on day one; the $10,000 sales cap makes it effectively a small-business migration incentive, not a permanent discount. 'Free migration' + free signup still leaves the surcharge structure (international +1.5%, PayPal +1.5%, subscription +0.5%, payout fees) once the 30 days end.
Startup program (credits): NOT officially published — unconfirmed third-party listings only low confidence
There is no official Lemon Squeezy startup program or free-credits page. /startups returns 404, and no startup-program or credits link exists in the site's navigation. Third-party directories list one: startupflowai.com describes 'Lemon Squeezy (Stripe) startup credits' for pre-seed/seed, global, 'no referral', 'last verified 28 Sep 2026', but admits it has 'not confirmed a direct application page'; perkbook.co lists 'Lemon for Startups' as 'Program not yet confirmed / No active offer is currently published'. The only verifiable 'startup offer' is the perpetual free tier ($0/mo, no card) plus the two 0%-for-30-days promos above.
Eligibility
Unknown — no official criteria (stage caps, funding caps, country limits, or application form found on lemonsqueezy.com or stripe.com as of 2026-10-22).
How to claim
No claimable official program found. If a Stripe-side startup program exists post-acquisition, it would live under Stripe (stripe.com), not on Lemon Squeezy's site; nothing published on lemonsqueezy.com directs startups to one. Do not count on credits.
Expiry
N/A — no published offer to expire.
Gotchas
Treat all directory claims (StartupFlow AI, PerkBook, Drifting Desk) as unverified — none link an official application page. The safe, verifiable startup offer is the perpetual free tier + 0%-for-30-day promos (Buildspace, migration).
No free offer was sunset in 2025–2026; the $0/mo + 5%+50¢ model and both 0%-for-30-day promos (Buildspace, migration) were still live on the official site when fetched 2026-10-22. However, there is a material structural change to flag: Stripe completed its acquisition of Lemon Squeezy in July 2024 (entity now 'Sold through Link, LLC f/k/a Lemon Squeezy LLC'), and Lemon Squeezy's own 2026 update blog post (Jan 28, 2026, lemonsqueezy.com/blog/2026-update) states the team is building Stripe Managed Payments and that the entire Lemon Squeezy user base is expected to migrate to it, with a public (no-invite) sign-up 'very soon'. Consequences: (1) Merchant availability for Managed Payments is currently 35+ countries (vs 200+ payout countries today), so the effective footprint of any free offer may narrow by country over time; sellers outside Stripe-supported countries are being pointed to Stripe Atlas to incorporate a US entity. (2) Farr acknowledged 'slower support responses and less frequent product updates' during the transition, so expect promo pages (buildspace, migration) to lose maintenance. (3) No fee-schedule change, program sunset, or new discount was announced — 5% + 50¢ remains the published rate. Note on method: the shared session web-search budget was exhausted before finishing; verification was done by direct fetch of official Lemon Squeezy pages (pricing, buildspace, migration-offer, docs fees, 2026 blog, homepage) on 2026-10-22.