Choosing a Payment Orchestration Vendor: Three Architectural Positions and the Cost of Leaving
Once you have decided to adopt an orchestration layer, the real divergence is not in feature tables but in how three vendors answer the same three questions: who holds the credentials, who owns operational visibility, and who carries the runtime burden. Spreedly sells vault sovereignty, Primer sells first-class payment operations, and Gr4vy sells treating PSPs as stateless resources. Pick the wrong position and you buy infrastructure you must maintain for another three years.