Stripe Analytics vs Baremetrics: Full Feature Comparison

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What sets Baremetrics apart from Stripe Analytics

SaaS metrics depth

26+ pre-built, real-time metrics: full MRR movement breakdown (new, expansion, contraction, reactivation, churned), LTV, ARPU, quick ratio — no SQL required

Revenue overview, payment volume, and top-line MRR (Stripe Billing subscriptions only); no MRR movements, LTV, or ARPU

Buildable — if you write the SQL yourself

Churn breakdown

Voluntary, delinquent, and net revenue churn (offset by expansion)

Basic cancellation counts; no churn rate breakdown

Query-buildable with SQL proficiency

NRR, Cohort and retention analytics

Cohort retention tables you can segment and export

N/A

Buildable in SQL

Segmentation

Unlimited custom segments and dashboards — by plan, country, billing cadence, or custom attribute

N/A

Possible via SQL group-by; no saved dashboards

Multi-source normalization

Stripe + Apple App Store + Google Play + Braintree and more, unified into one MRR

Stripe-only

Financial forecasting

Forecast+ — connects QuickBooks/Xero for runway, burn rate, CAC, and scenario planning

N/A

Failed-payment recovery (dunning)

Recover — up to 7 fully branded emails, in-app banner, paywall, SMS — $129/mo add-on

Smart Retries (retry timing) + limited Stripe-branded failed-payment emails; email-only, no sequenced campaigns

N/A

Cancellation insights & save offers

Cancellation Insights add-on — your own cancel reasons, dedicated analytics, win-back emails, and Retention Offers that match the offer to the reason

Hosted portal can collect a fixed-list reason and show a generic retention coupon; no analytics dashboard, no reason-based offers, portal-only

Reason data queryable via SQL; no flows or offers

Setup

~30 minutes; 1-click Stripe connection

Zero — it's already in your dashboard

Requires SQL skill; varies

Support

Unlimited onboarding calls, ~2 min chat response, hands-on working sessions

Self-serve docs; ticketed support

Self-serve

Pricing

Starts at $49/mo (Launch, annual)

$0 — included with Stripe

Charge-volume based: $10–15/mo entry, up to $450/mo at 25K charges

SAAS METRICS

Your MRR Moved. Stripe can't tell you why.

Stripe's dashboard shows top-line MRR; anything deeper takes Sigma and someone to maintain the SQL.

Baremetrics gives you every SaaS metric pre-built in about 30 minutes with no analyst required.

MRR movement breakdown

Full waterfall — new, expansion, contraction, churned, and reactivation out of the box

Dashboard shows top-line MRR only; Sigma requires a custom query

Cohort retention (no SQL)

Customer and revenue retention tables, segmentable and exportable

Not in the dashboard; SQL-only via Sigma

Segmentation & saved dashboards

Stack multiple filters, save a dashboard per segment

No segmentation in the dashboard; Sigma queries aren't dashboards

Multi-source metrics

Stripe + Apple + Google + Braintree normalized into one MRR, with per-source comparison

Stripe data only — Sigma can't see outside Stripe

Metric accuracy

Re-processes Stripe data to correct proration, timezone, and trial-conversion edge cases; excludes test accounts and delinquents you flag

Known accuracy gaps around proration, timezones, and trial handling; no way to exclude test data

revenue recovery

Stripe retries the card. Recover brings the customer back.

Stripe Smart Retries is good at charge timing, so keep it on. But when a retry fails, Stripe sends one branded template email, while Recover adds the entire communication layer on top.

In May 2026 alone, Recover customers recovered over $1.2 million in failed payments.

Retry logic

Works alongside Smart Retries — we recommend keeping both on

ML-optimized retry timing (default: 8 tries over 2 weeks)

Recovery messaging

Up to 7 fully customizable emails — your sender name, subject, copy, logo, and colors

Stripe-branded templates with minimal copy control; no sequenced campaign

Multi-channel recovery

Email, SMS, in-app banner, and paywall in one configurable sequence

Email only

Pre-failure prevention

Card-expiry warnings (7 and 30 days out) and annual renewal reminders

Basic pre-expiry notification

Branded card capture

Branded billing widget — your logo and colors; customer updates card directly to Stripe

Hosted Stripe payment-update page

Recovery reporting

Recovery rate, per-email performance, and MRR recovered in one dashboard

No dedicated recovery reporting

Pricing

$129/mo flat add-on

Included with Stripe

Cancellation Insights

Stripe collects the reason. Baremetrics acts on it.

Stripe can collect a cancellation reason, but it just sits there.

Baremetrics Cancellation Insights turns each reason into action: a dashboard that shows why people leave, win-back emails, and a save offer matched to the reason and auto-applied to Stripe.

Cancellation reason analytics

Your own custom reasons, broken down with percentages in a dedicated dashboard

Customer portal collects a reason from 8 fixed options (not customizable); viewable per subscription only — no aggregate dashboard, filtering, or export

Save offers

Retention Offers — set a discount per cancellation reason; auto-applies to the Stripe subscription on accept

Portal can show one generic retention coupon at cancel — not reason-based, hosted-portal only

Win-back emails

Automated, personalized follow-ups triggered by cancel reason

Not available

Reasons by plan

See exactly where churn concentrates

Not available

Setup & pricing

Stripe-native drop-in widget; $129/mo add-on, Retention Offers included

Not applicable

BEING HONEST

Where Stripe might be all you need

You're pre-revenue or under $10K MRR

Stripe's dashboard is free and already in front of you. If you just need payment volume and basic subscription counts, start there.

You have an analyst who lives in SQL

Stripe Sigma gives technical teams full SQL access to every Stripe data object. Baremetrics has no SQL layer, so if custom queries are your workflow, Sigma is powerful.

You're piping data to a warehouse

Stripe Data Pipeline syncs straight to Snowflake, Redshift, and Databricks. Baremetrics has no native warehouse integrations, though you can export through the Open API.

You need fraud and payment optimization

Radar, adaptive acceptance, and card account updater are Stripe-native. Every dollar we report starts as a payment Stripe processed.

SUPPORT

The support model is part of the product

Hands-on working sessions where the team builds your segments, dashboards, and recovery flows with you, even during your trial, not just after you pay.

~2 min response

Real-person chat, Mon-Fri EST

Unlimited calls

No cap on onboarding sessions

Hand-on setup

We build dashboards with you live

Frequently Asked Questions

Stripe shows top-line MRR if you're using Stripe Billing, but there's no breakdown — no New, Expansion, Contraction, Churned, or Reactivation MRR. You can't segment by plan, country, or billing cadence, and you can't build cohort retention tables. Stripe's MRR also has known accuracy gaps around proration, timezones, and trial conversions. Baremetrics re-processes your Stripe data and gives you the full picture, pre-built, in about 30 minutes.

Sigma is powerful if you have an analyst who knows SQL — but you're building by hand what Baremetrics gives you out of the box, and your queries only see Stripe data. Sigma doesn't do financial forecasting, dunning, cancellation flows, or multi-source normalization, and if you ever switch billing providers, your queries come with nothing. It's a reporting layer, not a growth tool.

Smart Retries handles charge timing, and we recommend keeping it on alongside Recover. Stripe can also send basic failed-payment emails, but they're Stripe-branded templates with minimal customization, email-only, with no sequenced campaign, paywall, or SMS. Industry benchmarks put involuntary churn at 20–40% of total subscription churn — Stripe-partnered data pegs the SaaS average around 22% — so you want both layers: Stripe retrying the card, and Recover running a branded, multi-channel sequence that brings the customer back.

Yes. Baremetrics normalizes all your sources into one MRR number, lets you segment by source, and shows Apple MRR vs. Stripe MRR side by side. Stripe's dashboard and Sigma can't see outside Stripe at all.

Yes — connect as many Stripe accounts as you have from a single Baremetrics dashboard, with consolidated metrics and automatic multi-currency conversion. Recover's dunning sequences cover every connected account, and your Baremetrics plan covers all of them (unlike Sigma for Organizations, which must be paid per account). Note that full per-account breakdowns aren't available on every graph view — if strict per-account isolation is a hard requirement, talk to us first.

Not currently. If revenue recognition is critically important to your business, get in touch — we're happy to talk through your needs and see if Baremetrics is still a fit.

About 30 minutes. Connect your Stripe account with one click and Baremetrics ingests your historical data — your dashboards populate with your full revenue history, not just data from today forward. The team will get on a call and build your first segments with you.

Stripe Analytics vs. Baremetrics