diff --git a/ghost/payments/lib/payments.js b/ghost/payments/lib/payments.js
index e6c40f1021..b24df82a02 100644
--- a/ghost/payments/lib/payments.js
+++ b/ghost/payments/lib/payments.js
@@ -214,8 +214,9 @@ class PaymentsService {
             stripe_product_id: product.id,
             currency,
             interval: cadence,
-            amount
-        }).query().select('stripe_price_id');
+            amount,
+            active: true
+        }).query().select('id', 'stripe_price_id');
 
         for (const row of rows) {
             try {
@@ -224,9 +225,15 @@ class PaymentsService {
                     return {
                         id: price.id
                     };
+                } else {
+                    // Update the database model to prevent future Stripe fetches when it is not needed
+                    await this.StripePriceModel.edit({
+                        active: !!price.active
+                    }, {id: row.id});
                 }
             } catch (err) {
-                logging.warn(err);
+                logging.error(`Failed to lookup Stripe Price ${row.stripe_price_id}`);
+                logging.error(err);
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/ghost/stripe/lib/StripeAPI.js b/ghost/stripe/lib/StripeAPI.js
index 7a09083402..b5ae3be4ed 100644
--- a/ghost/stripe/lib/StripeAPI.js
+++ b/ghost/stripe/lib/StripeAPI.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 const {VersionMismatchError} = require('@tryghost/errors');
-const debug = require('@tryghost/debug');
+const debug = require('@tryghost/debug')('stripe');
 const Stripe = require('stripe').Stripe;
 const LeakyBucket = require('leaky-bucket');
 const EXPECTED_API_EFFICIENCY = 0.95;