Good news for subscription merchants: this category is healthy. Over the 180 days ending July 2026, Bold Subscriptions and Recurly both ran at 100% with zero major incidents, and Recharge earned an A+ at 99.97% with a single 46-minute incident.
The numbers, side by side
| Metric (180 days ending July 2026) | Recharge | Bold Subscriptions | Recurly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uptime (major/critical incidents) | 99.97% | 100% | 100% |
| StatusBird reliability grade | A+ | A+ | A+ |
| Major or critical incidents | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total downtime | 46 minutes | 0 minutes | 0 minutes |
How these numbers are measured: StatusBird checks each service's status every 2 minutes, around the clock. Uptime counts major and critical incidents over the 180 days ending July 2026; brief degraded periods are excluded so chronically noisy status pages do not distort the comparison. Full details on the methodology page.
How reliable is Recharge?
One 46-minute incident in six months. Recharge powers checkout and recurring billing for a large share of Shopify subscription stores, so even short incidents are worth knowing about in real time: Recharge reliability page, and if it does break, what to do when Recharge goes down.
How reliable are Bold Subscriptions and Recurly?
Both clean in the window: zero major incidents. Histories on the Bold Subscriptions and Recurly reliability pages.
Why subscription uptime is different from checkout uptime
Subscription platforms fail in two distinct ways. A checkout-time failure loses new subscribers, which you notice quickly. A billing-run failure quietly delays or drops renewals, which you may not notice until revenue reports look wrong days later. That second mode is why monitoring matters even in a category this reliable: the cost of a missed billing-run incident compounds silently.
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