Baremetrics vs ChartMogul, and a third option.

The short version

Baremetrics and ChartMogul solve a similar problem — turn your payment data into subscription metrics — but with different centers of gravity. Baremetrics is broad and polished, with extras like failed-payment recovery and public metrics pages. ChartMogul goes deeper on the analytics themselves: cohort retention, lifetime value, and fine-grained MRR-movement segmentation.

On price, both scale with your MRR, but ChartMogul's free tier under roughly $10k MRR makes it the cheaper starting point for many early founders. Baremetrics tends to win on breadth and polish; ChartMogul on analytical depth and early-stage cost.

Baremetrics in one paragraph

Choose Baremetrics if you want a wide, well-designed analytics suite and value the extras: automated dunning to recover failed payments, forecasting, and shareable public metrics pages. It is a strong fit for a subscription business that wants one polished tool covering a lot of ground, and is comfortable paying more as MRR grows.

ChartMogul in one paragraph

Choose ChartMogul if analytics depth is the point — cohort retention, LTV, and MRR movements sliced by segment — and especially if you are under the free-tier threshold. It rewards teams that actually dig into the numbers to steer a single growing SaaS.

Where VerifiedMRR fits (the third option)

Both tools assume you are running one subscription business and want to analyze it deeply. If instead you run several products — a few SaaS tools, a plugin, an experiment or two — the deep-analytics shape can be overkill, and MRR-based pricing across a portfolio adds up.

VerifiedMRR is the lighter, private alternative for that case. It connects each product's payment account read-only, shows every product's net revenue, refunds, and trend side by side, and puts a Keep, Watch, or Kill label on each so you can decide where your time goes. It generates a source-backed month-end card to share, and it is a one-time $49.99 lifetime deal for the first 200 users rather than a subscription that grows with you.

It deliberately does not do cohorts, LTV, or dunning — if those matter, Baremetrics or ChartMogul is the better call. But for a private, at-a-glance portfolio view with a keep-or-kill decision built in, it is a simpler fit.

Which should you pick?

Pick Baremetrics for breadth and recovery on one subscription business. Pick ChartMogul for analytical depth, especially under the free tier. Pick VerifiedMRR if you are juggling several products and want a private portfolio view with a keep-or-kill call instead of a deep analytics suite — or run it alongside one of them for the portfolio view.