Chargeblast pricing: three meters running at once
Chargeblast publishes more of its rate card than most of this category does. Three lines, three different units, all on one listing.
That is more transparency than several competitors manage. It is also why "what does Chargeblast cost" has no single answer, only a model.
A note on who is writing this. Redo publishes this blog and sells a competing chargebacks product, so I have a stake in how the comparison reads. Every Chargeblast figure below is quoted from its own Shopify App Store listing, checked July 20, 2026, and I have shown the arithmetic so you can check each step.
What Chargeblast publishes, checked July 20, 2026
The Shopify listing for "Chargeblast: Block Chargebacks" is free to install, then states three charges verbatim:
- "Alerts: plans starting at $19/mo"
- "Deflection: $14 per chargeback stopped"
- "Recovery: 15% fee, only on wins"
It adds that "All charges are billed in USD," and separates the products into deflection, pre-dispute alerts, and recovery. The listing is rated 4.8 across 37 reviews.
Two of those three lines are not fixed numbers. "Starting at $19/mo" is a floor for an unstated set of tiers, and the deflection fee is quoted per event without saying which network programs sit under deflection as opposed to alerts. Get both in writing.
The 15% recovery fee is the cleanest of the three, and it is genuinely below what competitors publish. Chargeflow lists 25% of recovered chargebacks and Disputifier lists 20% of won-back revenue, both on their own Shopify listings on the same date.
| Line | Published price | What it bills on |
|---|---|---|
| Alerts | Plans starting at $19/mo | Monthly, tiered above the floor |
| Deflection | $14 per chargeback stopped | Each deflected dispute |
| Recovery | 15% fee, only on wins | Recovered revenue |
| Refunded principal | Not a fee, but the largest number | Every deflection is a full refund of the order |
From the "Chargeblast: Block Chargebacks" Shopify listing, checked July 20, 2026.
Three meters running at the same time
The complication is not any one price. It is that the three run in parallel and respond to different things.
The monthly plan bills whether or not anything happens. A floor starting at $19 is small, but it implies tiers above it, and that is where the real number for a larger store will sit.
The deflection fee scales with your problem. At $14 per chargeback stopped, a store deflecting 25 disputes a month is at $350 on that line alone. Deflection working well and deflection getting expensive are the same outcome.
The recovery fee sounds safest and is not. 15% is charged on money you were always owed, and it grows with your dispute volume.
Then there is the cost that appears on no invoice: the refunded principal. Every deflection is a refund. On a $120 order you hand back $120 to avoid a chargeback fee that is typically $15 to $25.
That is often the right call for your ratio, and it is still by far the largest number in the calculation. I worked through that trade in what chargeback alerts cost after refunds and duplicate coverage.
Put numbers on it. These are my assumptions, not Chargeblast's, so change them to yours. Say you get 40 disputes a month, alerts reach you on 25 of them and you refund each one, the remaining 15 become chargebacks that you fight, and you recover $900 across the quarter on a $120 average order value.
The quarterly fees come to roughly $57 for the plan, $1,050 for 75 deflections at $14, and $135 in recovery share. Call it $1,242.
The refunded principal over the same quarter is 75 orders at $120, which is $9,000 of your own money. Against that you avoided 75 chargeback fees, somewhere between $1,125 and $1,875, and kept 75 disputes off your VAMP ratio.
Whether that trade is worth it depends on how close you are to your acquirer's action threshold. With real headroom you spent $9,000 plus fees to avoid about $1,500 in fees. Approaching the line, you bought the one thing representment cannot buy, because winning a chargeback does not fix your dispute ratio.
What to ask before you sign
Five questions turn a listing summary into a comparable quote.
- What are the alert plan tiers above $19 a month, and which tier does my dispute volume put me in?
- Which network programs sit under the deflection line, and which under alerts, and am I billed twice if a dispute triggers both?
- Is the $14 deflection fee charged on every alert received, or only on ones where the refund actually prevented a filed chargeback?
- Is the 15% calculated on the recovered transaction amount only, or does it include the recovered chargeback fee?
- Is there a minimum commitment, and what happens to the monthly plan if I stop using alerts?
Ask any vendor the same five, including us. A quote that survives question three is a quote you can model.
The comparison that changes the recovery line
The 15% recovery fee is the easiest line to price against, because there is a zero on the market.
Reclaim is our representment product and it is completely free: $0 to install, $0 success fee, and you keep 100% of what is recovered. On the worked quarter above, that is $135 back. Our deflection layer, Alerts, has no published price and is sold through a demo, so on the deflection line Chargeblast publishes more than we do. I would rather say that plainly than imply the whole suite is free, which it is not.
The honest part
Chargeblast's 37 reviews are not much of a sample, and the listing carries a few one-star reviews alongside its 4.8 average. Read those in full before you decide.
None of the figures above are a quote. A starting price is a floor, not a total, and directory sites that reprint one as "the price" are giving you a number that will not appear on your invoice. Published prices in this category also move without notice, so re-check the listing yourself on the day you decide. That applies to every price in the chargeback software that is actually free in 2026, including ours.
The figure to calculate first
Work out your cost per dispute kept off your ratio: fees plus refunded principal, divided by disputes deflected.
Then compare it against your realistic recovery per fought dispute. If deflection costs more per dispute than fighting does, you are not buying money back, you are buying ratio headroom. That may be exactly what you need, but you should know which one you are paying for before the first invoice.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Chargeblast cost?
Its Shopify listing publishes three lines: alert plans starting at $19 a month, $14 per chargeback deflected, and a 15% recovery fee charged only on wins (checked July 20, 2026). The 15% is below Chargeflow's 25% and Disputifier's 20%.
What is the catch in Chargeblast's pricing?
The three meters run in parallel, and the largest cost is on none of them. Every deflected dispute is a full refund of the order: on a $120 order you hand back $120 to avoid a chargeback fee that is typically $15 to $25. That refunded principal, not the published fees, is usually the biggest number in the calculation.
Is Chargeblast's 15% recovery fee a good deal?
It is the lowest published recovery rate in the category, but it is still charged on money you were already owed. Against a free representment product the comparison is 15 percent versus $0, so weigh whether the paid vendor recovers meaningfully more on your dispute mix.
Is there a free alternative to Chargeblast?
Redo's Reclaim runs representment for $0 with no success fee, so the recovery line goes to zero. Its deflection layer, like Chargeblast's, is a paid product, so compare the deflection lines separately rather than assuming the whole suite is free.