Comparison · last checked 30 August 2026

Churntide vs Baremetrics

Baremetrics is a subscription analytics product first. Its retention features are add-ons: Cancellation Insights ($129/mo) for the cancel flow and Recover ($129/mo) for failed payments, on top of a Launch plan at $75/mo. That's $204/mo minimum for a cancel flow and $333/mo for the full set, with no annual discount on the add-ons.

Churntide is retention only — no MRR dashboards — and includes cancel flow, recovery and win-back from $29/mo. If you want one product for metrics and retention, Baremetrics is a sensible bundle. If you already have your metrics elsewhere, you're paying for a dashboard to get to the cancel flow.

Side by side

Feature	Baremetrics	Churntide
Entry price & billing	Launch $75/mo (analytics) + Recover $129/mo + Cancellation Insights $129/mo = $333/mo for the full set. $204/mo minimum for a cancel flow.	$29/mo Starter · $79 Growth · $199 Scale. Annual = 2 months free.
Pricing model	Analytics base plan plus per-feature add-ons. No annual discount on the add-ons.	Flat plans by cancel sessions (500 / 3,000 / unlimited). Soft quota — we never block a save.
Self-serve or sales	Self-serve.	Self-serve. No sales call at any tier.
Free trial	Not verified on their public pages.	14 days at Growth level, no card.
Billing systems	Stripe, Braintree, Chargebee, Recurly, App Store, Google Play, Shopify.	Stripe and Paddle auto-apply outcomes via a restricted key. Anything else through the REST API and webhooks (you apply the outcome).
Cancel flow	Yes — the Cancellation Insights add-on ($129/mo).	Yes, every plan. Hosted page or embed.
Failed-payment recovery	Yes — the Recover add-on ($129/mo), with a guarantee: recover more than your cost or next month is free.	Yes, every plan: retries, dunning emails, in-app banner.
Win-back emails	Not verified on their public pages.	Yes, every plan.
A/B testing	Not verified on their public pages.	Yes, on Growth and above.
Offer targeting by reason / plan / MRR	Not verified on their public pages.	Yes — by cancel reason, plan and MRR range.
Pause offers	Not verified on their public pages.	Yes. Pause, discount, downgrade or talk-to-us.
Test / preview mode	Not verified on their public pages.	Yes — preview mode records no sessions.
White-label	Not verified on their public pages.	Remove branding on Scale.
API & webhooks	Not verified on their public pages.	REST API + signed webhooks, every plan.
Best for	Teams who want MRR analytics and benchmarks in the same product as their cancel flow, and mobile apps billing through the App Store or Google Play.	SaaS under roughly $50k MRR that wants cancel flow, recovery and win-back on one flat bill.

Baremetrics facts come from their public pricing and documentation pages as of 30 August 2026. "Not verified" means we couldn't confirm it there — check with them before you decide. Spotted something wrong? Tell us and we'll fix it.

Where Baremetrics wins

The analytics product. Baremetrics is a good MRR, churn and cohort dashboard, and that's the reason to buy it. Churntide has no equivalent — we show you save rates and MRR saved, not your whole business.
Benchmarks. Their published benchmark data lets you compare your churn and growth against peers. We're a month old and have nothing comparable.
App Store and Google Play. If you bill through mobile app stores, Baremetrics handles it and we don't. Shopify, Chargebee, Recurly and Braintree too.
The Recover guarantee. "Recover more than your cost or next month free" is a fair deal, and it's specific to failed payments where our guarantee is about saves.

Where Churntide wins

Price for retention alone. A cancel flow costs $204/mo on Baremetrics and $29/mo on Churntide. Cancel flow plus recovery is $333/mo there and still $29 here.
Win-back included. Reactivation emails for customers who did cancel ship on every Churntide plan. We couldn't verify an equivalent on Baremetrics' public pages.
Targeting and offer types. Offers by reason, plan and MRR range; pause, discount, downgrade or talk-to-us; A/B testing on Growth. We couldn't verify how far Cancellation Insights goes on any of these, so check before you decide.
Auto-apply on Paddle as well as Stripe, a preview mode that records no sessions, and a 60-day one-save-or-free guarantee.
Honest weaknesses: no analytics product, launched August 2026, no logos, no AI offer selection, no Chargebee/Recurly/Shopify/app-store support, no SOC 2.

Pricing maths: a SaaS at $4k MRR

Say ~80 customers at ~$50/mo, losing 6 a month. At a 25% save rate the cancel flow saves 1.5 customers a month; at ~8 extra months each, that's roughly $600/mo recovered in expectation.

On Baremetrics you'd need Launch + Cancellation Insights = $204/mo for the flow: $600 − $204 = $396/mo net. Add Recover for failed payments and it's $333/mo: $267/mo net, before counting anything Recover brings back. On Churntide Starter, cancel flow and recovery together are $29: $571/mo net.

Failed payments change the picture for both. If 20–40% of your churn is involuntary, 1–2 of those 6 monthly losses are cards, not decisions, and recovering half of them is worth another $200–400/mo. Baremetrics' Recover guarantee means you at least won't lose money on that add-on; Churntide includes it in the $29.

The real question is whether you'd buy Baremetrics for the metrics anyway. If yes, the add-ons are a $258/mo decision on top of a product you already want. If no, you're paying $75/mo for a dashboard to reach the cancel flow.

Plug in your own numbers with the churn calculator.

Questions people ask

Does Churntide show MRR and churn analytics like Baremetrics?

No. Churntide reports on the retention loop — sessions, reasons, offers, save rate, MRR saved, payments recovered. For company-wide MRR, cohorts and forecasting you'd still use Baremetrics, ChartMogul, ProfitWell or Stripe's own reports.

Can I use Baremetrics for analytics and Churntide for the cancel flow?

Yes — they don't conflict. Baremetrics Launch at $75/mo plus Churntide Starter at $29/mo is $104/mo, against $204/mo for Launch plus Cancellation Insights.

Does Churntide support the App Store or Google Play?

No. Churntide auto-applies on Stripe and Paddle and works with other systems via API, but has no app-store billing integration. Baremetrics does.

Try Churntide free for 14 days

Growth-level trial, no card. Cancel flow, failed-payment recovery and win-back from $29/mo after that — and if you don't save a single customer in your first 60 days, that period is free.

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