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Foxhound vs Paddle Retain

Formerly ProfitWell Retain; failed-payment dunning and retry orchestration, now part of Paddle.

Dimension	Foxhound	Paddle Retain
Pricing model	20% of Foxhound-attributed recoveries only. Baseline recoveries Stripe would have gotten anyway are free. Nothing billed until a recovery has matured 30 days.	Included at no additional charge for merchants on Paddle Billing. Historically (as ProfitWell Retain) it was sold standalone on a percentage-of-recovered-revenue basis, but Paddle's current public materials position it as a Paddle Billing feature, not a separately purchasable product, so a standalone price isn't verifiable today.
What it does	Runs directly against your own Stripe account: silent retries, dunning emails, card-update page, disputes, and intelligence in one product.	Involuntary-churn recovery: failed-payment dunning, retry orchestration, and account-update emails, most naturally suited to merchants already on Paddle's billing platform.
Merchant-of-record requirement	None. Foxhound connects read-only (and later read-write for recovery actions) to your existing Stripe account; you remain the merchant of record.	Most value is realized on Paddle's own platform, where Paddle is the merchant of record rather than the business using its own direct Stripe account.
Disputes	Evidence drafted automatically, human-approved, 20% of wins capped at $500.	Not the product's primary focus.

Where Foxhound is behind

Foxhound is a newer, less proven product than an offering descended from ProfitWell's long operating history.
If a business is already committed to Paddle as its merchant of record, the bundled option may already be effectively free for that specific use case.

See Foxhound's pricing in full

20% of Foxhound-attributed recoveries, capped disputes, a free Intelligence tier. No fee until a recovery has matured 30 days.