Splynx is the platform African ISPs most often weigh against a local system, and for good reasons: it is a mature, internationally proven ISP management suite with a decade of development behind it. Iterative Billing is built for a narrower mission, running African ISPs on African payment rails, and goes deeper on that mission than a global platform can. This comparison is factual: Splynx details below are as published on splynx.com in August 2026, its scope is reported as its own positioning rather than endorsed, and the structural pricing differences matter more than any single feature.
The two platforms at a glance
Splynx is an all-in-one ISP management platform, billing, CRM, network management, IPAM, monitoring, with a large integration ecosystem and both cloud and on-premise deployment. Its subscription is priced in US dollars and calculated on active subscribers, licensed in intervals of 100 with an entry-level licence covering up to 400 subscribers, plus a maintenance fee that includes cloud hosting. Several capabilities are priced as separate add-ons, TR-069/ACS device management is billed by device count in monthly tiers, OLT capacity beyond an included limit carries its own monthly fee, security add-ons are extra, and custom work is quoted hourly.
Iterative Billing is a cloud platform for African ISPs priced by usage from 1 October 2026: in Kenyan shillings for Kenyan operators, KSh 15 per active PPPoE or Static IP customer, never more than KSh 5,000 a month up to 500 customers and KSh 10,000 up to 1,000, and in US dollars everywhere else, $0.135 per active customer, never more than $45 a month up to 500 and $90 up to 1,000, with 2 percent of collected hotspot revenue capped at KSh 3,000 or $27. The platform carries unlimited MikroTik routers, unlimited hotspot sites, built-in RADIUS with CoA, Huawei GPON OLT automation, TR-069 WiFi management, SNMP monitoring, agentic AI operations, a hotspot advertising engine, white-labelling, and operator plus subscriber mobile apps. There are no per-module add-ons; the pricing page is the whole bill.
Pricing structure: intervals and add-ons vs one flat number
The honest comparison here is structural, because Splynx's total depends on which add-ons you need. On Splynx, your monthly cost is the subscriber licence (in USD, stepping in 100-subscriber intervals from an up-to-400 entry level) plus hosting and maintenance, plus TR-069/ACS tiers if you manage customer routers, plus OLT capacity beyond the included limit if you run GPON, plus any paid integrations, with custom development at an hourly rate. None of that is hidden, it is how serious international platforms price, but the meter runs in dollars against revenue you earn in shillings, and it runs faster as your network gets more capable.
On Iterative Billing, a 500-subscriber ISP pays KSh 5,000 a month in Kenya or $45 anywhere else, the cap, whether it manages five routers or fifty. For Kenyan operators the FX risk disappears entirely: costs and revenue both live in shillings, so a move against the dollar never rewrites the software budget. For operators elsewhere the difference is just as concrete: one flat, all-inclusive dollar figure instead of a licence stepping in intervals plus add-on meters, so the bill stays predictable even as the network gets more capable.
What Splynx offers, on the record
Splynx's published scope is a fact worth stating accurately rather than talking around: multi-vendor network management beyond MikroTik, CRM, inventory, scheduling and IPAM aimed at telco-style operations, a large integration ecosystem, and an on-premise option, that is who its product pages target, mostly outside Africa. What those pages do not offer is the African payment layer, and several capabilities its market takes as core, TR-069 device management, additional OLT capacity, security tooling, are metered as paid add-ons on its own pricing page. That is where the comparison turns.
Where Iterative Billing pulls ahead for African operators
- •Payments are the product, not an integration. M-Pesa Paybill, Till and STK Push through Daraja, Co-op Bank, KopoKopo, SasaPay (M-Pesa, Airtel Money and T-Kash in one), Pesapal (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania), Flutterwave (eight-plus markets), Paystack, MTN MoMo (Uganda, Ghana, Rwanda, Zambia, Cameroon) and WaafiPay (EVC Plus and ZAAD for Somalia, Djibouti, UAE), all native, all reconciling automatically, all activating subscribers in seconds. On a global platform, African rails are integration projects; here they are the default path.
- •The advanced stack is part of the platform. Built-in RADIUS with CoA, Huawei OLT automation (ONU auto-authorization, WAN provisioning, watchdogs), TR-069 management of customer WiFi routers, and SNMP monitoring are all part of Iterative Billing, capabilities that map to separately priced add-ons at Splynx.
- •Agentic AI operations. The platform monitors connections, troubleshoots at customer-router and MikroTik network level, reboots routers remotely and walks subscribers through secure WiFi credential resets, autonomously. Operators on the platform report recovering 8 to 9 of every 10 customers who would previously have churned after unresolved faults.
- •Hotspot economics. Unlimited hotspot sites, a hotspot charge capped at $27 a month (KSh 3,000 in Kenya), and a self-service advertising engine where local businesses pay for portal ad slots, operators in busy locations report it can double a site's earnings.
- •Apps on both sides. The operator app on iPhone and Android runs the whole ISP; subscribers, PPPoE, hotspot and static IP, get the Internet Billing self-care app on Google Play.
- •Local finance depth. KES-native billing with a 16-currency engine (TZS, UGX, NGN, GHS, ZAR, USD and more), double-entry ledgers, wallets and statements, and KRA eTIMS-aligned invoicing, the compliance layer African accountants actually ask about.
- •White-label to the domain. ISPs run the operation from their own domains under their own brand.
Which should you choose?
Splynx's published positioning targets the very large, multi-vendor, telco-style ISP, tens of thousands of subscribers, several access technologies, a staffed NOC, on-premise requirements, largely outside Africa. If that is your operation, it is the incumbent you would be measuring everything against anyway, and this page is not written for you.
Choose Iterative Billing if you are an African ISP or WISP built on MikroTik and mobile money, from a first hotspot to thousands of PPPoE and fibre subscribers, and you want the OLT, TR-069, RADIUS and AI stack included in one flat KES price instead of assembled from USD add-ons. If you are comparing against Kenyan platforms too, we keep the same date-stamped comparisons for Jasiyo and Internetily.
The fair test costs nothing: apply at https://billing.iterativebilling.com/register, and once approved run the 3-day trial against a Splynx trial on the same router and the same paybill, and keep whichever your team reaches for. Splynx details are from splynx.com as of August 2026 and may change; our alternatives page covers how switching and migration work.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Iterative Billing cheaper than Splynx?
- The structures differ. Splynx prices in US dollars by active-subscriber intervals of 100 (entry licence up to 400 subscribers) plus hosting and maintenance, with TR-069/ACS device tiers, extra OLT capacity and some integrations priced as add-ons, per splynx.com in August 2026. Iterative Billing charges KSh 15 per active customer, capped at KSh 5,000 a month up to 500 subscribers and KSh 10,000 up to 1,000 in Kenya, or $0.135 capped at $45 and $90 elsewhere, with unlimited routers and hotspot sites and RADIUS, OLT automation, TR-069 and AI operations on the platform; Kenyan operators are billed in shillings with no USD exposure, and operators elsewhere are billed in USD from their own table.
- When is Splynx the better choice than Iterative Billing?
- Splynx's published positioning targets large, telco-style operations: tens of thousands of subscribers, multi-vendor networks beyond MikroTik, deep CRM, inventory and IPAM requirements, on-premise deployment, largely outside Africa. That is its market, and at that scale it is the incumbent every platform gets measured against. For African operators built on MikroTik and mobile money, the published pricing structures and native payment rails favour Iterative Billing at every size this page's readers are likely to be.
- How do the two platforms compare on M-Pesa and African mobile money?
- This is the sharpest difference. Iterative Billing ships M-Pesa Paybill, Till and STK Push natively alongside Co-op Bank, KopoKopo, SasaPay, Pesapal, Flutterwave, Paystack, MTN MoMo and WaafiPay, with automatic reconciliation and instant activation as the default path. On a global platform such as Splynx, African payment rails are typically handled through integrations that you configure and maintain, workable, but not the product's centre of gravity.