Alternatives / Baremetrics
The Baremetrics alternative that acts on the numbers
Baremetrics is the original Stripe analytics tool, and it earned that position: beautiful MRR dashboards, cohort analysis, open benchmarks, and a decade of trust in the indie SaaS community. If you want to see your subscription metrics, it’s excellent.
But here’s the question Baremetrics can’t answer for you: a dashboard tells you churn happened — what happens next? Their Recover add-on handles failed payments (reported from ~$204/month, third-party sources), and Cancellation Insights collects exit feedback. Seeing clearly, though, isn’t the same as acting. ChurnGuard exists in the gap between “your dashboard says a customer is at risk” and “someone did something about it.”
Last updated: August 2026
Side-by-side comparison
Competitor facts from third-party reports, as of August 2026.
| Baremetrics | ChurnGuard | |
|---|---|---|
| Core product | Subscription analytics & dashboards | Automated churn prevention playbooks |
| Churn response | Recover (dunning add-on, reported ~$204/mo floor) + Cancellation Insights (exit surveys) | Included in every plan: retention emails, 3-step dunning, win-back campaigns |
| What happens when a customer is at risk | It appears on your dashboard | A save play fires automatically — before cancellation |
| Pricing | Published, scales with MRR | Published: $79 / $149 / $299 per month — everything included |
| Who operates it | You, checking the dashboard | Nobody — it runs itself |
| Best for | Founders who want metrics clarity | Founders who want churn handled, not just measured |
Choose Baremetrics if…
- –Your primary need is financial metrics and reporting — MRR movements, cohorts, benchmarking — and you have a separate plan (or person) for acting on churn signals.
Choose ChurnGuard if…
- –You want the response built in. ChurnGuard watches the same Stripe signals, but instead of charting them, it acts: at-risk customers get retention emails, failed payments get a 3-step recovery sequence, cancellations get win-back campaigns. Automatically.
Honest take
Plenty of teams run both: Baremetrics for investor-grade metrics, ChurnGuard for automated saves. If you can only pick one, ask yourself which problem you actually have — “I don’t know my numbers” or “I know them and customers still slip away.”
Frequently asked questions
Does ChurnGuard replace Baremetrics' dashboards?
No — and we don't try to. ChurnGuard shows you at-risk customers and dollars recovered, not investor reporting. It replaces the manual work of responding to churn signals, not your metrics stack.
I already use Baremetrics Recover for dunning. Why switch?
Maybe you shouldn't — if failed payments are your only churn leak and Recover covers it, that's a fine setup. ChurnGuard makes sense when you also want pre-cancellation retention and win-backs included: Recover alone is reported to start around $204/month (August 2026, third-party sources); ChurnGuard's full playbook set starts at $79/month.
Can I use ChurnGuard alongside Baremetrics?
Yes — both connect read-only to Stripe with no conflict. Analytics from Baremetrics, automated action from ChurnGuard.
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