Last verified: July 2026. Prices change — every figure below links to the provider's own pricing page where one exists.
Storecove is the name most developers hit first when a customer asks for "Peppol support". It's a solid product with an unusual property for a developer tool: it doesn't publish prices. The official site offers a free 30-day sandbox and a demo call; third-party estimates of real-world contracts range from roughly €52/month for a small government-sending plan to €495+/month for access-point tiers, and the number you'll actually pay comes out of a sales conversation. If that made you close the tab and search for alternatives, this page is for you.
But first, a distinction most "alternatives" lists skip — and the reason many teams pick the wrong tool.
Two different jobs: the document and the delivery
"E-invoicing" is two separate engineering problems.
Document engineering is producing and checking the invoice itself: building EN 16931-conformant XML (Peppol BIS 3.0, XRechnung, Factur-X), getting the VAT breakdown and rounding rules exactly right, and validating against the 190-odd business rules before anything leaves your system.
Network delivery is transporting that document: registering your customer on the Peppol network, sending through a certified access point, handling acknowledgments.
Storecove bundles both. That's convenient — and it's also why you may be overpaying: if your mandate is Germany (XRechnung is typically delivered by plain e-mail, no Peppol required) or your platform only needs to generate and validate compliant documents, you're paying network-tier prices for a document-layer problem. Match the tool to the job:
If you need Peppol delivery
e-invoice.be — pay-per-invoice Peppol sending: from €0.25/invoice (Pro) down to €0.18 at volume, no monthly fee, though note the €350 minimum credit purchase and that sending and receiving are billed separately. Excellent developer experience: OpenAPI 3.1, SDKs in five languages, sandbox before KYC.
Recommand — fully public pricing: free up to 25 documents/month, then €29/mo for 200 up to €349/mo for 5,000. Watch the meter: incoming and outgoing documents both count.
peppol.sh — from €0.10–0.20 per sent invoice, no monthly minimum, non-expiring credits, sandbox-first. The youngest of the three; developer-native positioning.
At 100 invoices/month you'd pay roughly €25 at e-invoice.be, €29 at Recommand, €10–20 at peppol.sh — versus an estimated €99–495/month entry point at Storecove. At 10,000/month the picture narrows and Storecove's enterprise bundling starts making sense.
If you need document generation and validation
This is the layer where we live, so read the next paragraphs knowing that — we'll keep the numbers honest.
faktur/wire (that's us) — JSON in, validated Peppol BIS 3.0 / XRechnung / Factur-X XML out, with every EN 16931 and BR-DE rule checked before the document is released and errors that name the exact field to fix. Pure pay-per-use: validation from €0.02, conversion ~€0.05/invoice on the €49 pack, credits never expire, no subscription, free validator without signup. What we don't do today: Peppol transport — pair us with any access point above if you need delivery.
thelawin.dev — JSON to PDF/A-3 with embedded XML across 9 formats, €0.049/call pay-per-use or small subscriptions, free validation. Closest to us in pricing philosophy.
invoice-api.xhub.io — XRechnung/ZUGFeRD generation with KoSIT Schematron validation, subscription-based (€18/mo for 2,000 calls), Peppol gateway announced for Q3 2026.
Mustangproject — the open-source Java baseline for ZUGFeRD/XRechnung. Free, mature, and the right answer if you run JVM infrastructure and want to own the problem. Budget real engineering time: the library gives you tooling, not a service — no hosted API, no rule-update SLA, and the maintenance is yours forever.
If you're an enterprise with many networks
ecosio, Pagero, EDICOM and Basware all do the full compliance-suite job across dozens of jurisdictions — and all price by sales conversation. If you have an EDI team and procurement department, that's your shortlist; comparing them is a different article.
The honest summary
Storecove isn't overpriced for what it is — a multi-network compliance layer with 30+ frameworks. It's overpriced for teams that don't need that. Before you book the demo call, answer one question: do you need the network, the document, or both? Delivery-only needs are served from €0.10–0.25 per invoice with published pricing. Document-only needs are served from €0.02–0.05 per invoice with no subscription at all. And if you need both, composing two transparent pay-per-use services is still usually cheaper below ~5,000 invoices/month than one opaque bundle.
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