RetentionLens vs Baremetrics: A Straight Comparison for Stripe SaaS
How RetentionLens and Baremetrics compare on focus, features, and pricing — and which one makes sense if your main job is to understand and reduce churn on Stripe.
Baremetrics is a well-known Stripe analytics dashboard with a strong reputation for clean metrics and dunning recovery. RetentionLens overlaps with the part most teams care about most — churn and retention — but stays deliberately narrow. Here is how they actually compare so you can decide based on the job to be done.
What Baremetrics does well
Baremetrics turns Stripe data into a polished dashboard of MRR, ARR, churn, LTV, and forecasting, and adds modules many teams value: Recover (failed-payment dunning), Cancellation Insights (survey customers at cancel time), and Trial Insights. If you want a broad metrics dashboard plus active revenue-recovery tooling in one place, that is its strength.
Pricing at a glance
Baremetrics pricing tiers (public list pricing, subject to change).
| Tier | Roughly | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Launch | from ~$129/mo | Core metrics dashboard for smaller MRR |
| Scale | up to ~$1,000+/mo as MRR grows | Full metrics, segmentation, forecasting |
| Add-ons | ~$129/mo each | Recover, Cancellation Insights, and similar modules |
The pattern to notice: the base plan scales with MRR, and several of the most-wanted features (notably dunning and cancellation surveys) are paid add-ons stacked on top. For a growing company that can add up quickly.
Where RetentionLens fits
RetentionLens connects to Stripe and focuses on the churn and retention story: who is leaving, where contraction is coming from, and how net revenue retention is trending — without a tiered ladder of paid add-ons to reach the retention view. It is not trying to be your full metrics suite or your dunning engine. It is trying to make the retention question fast and cheap to answer.
If you want failed-payment recovery and a broad forecasting dashboard in one product, Baremetrics is the more complete platform. If churn and retention are the reason you are logging in, RetentionLens gets you there with less surface area and a flatter price.
How to choose
- Choose Baremetrics if you want an all-in-one Stripe metrics dashboard plus active dunning and cancellation-survey tooling.
- Choose RetentionLens if your priority is understanding and reducing churn and contraction on Stripe, without paying for add-ons you will not use.
- Map the features you would actually use to each price tier before deciding — paid add-ons change the real monthly cost more than the headline plan does.
Sources
- Baremetrics — Stripe analytics and pricing — Baremetrics
- Baremetrics pricing breakdown — Findstack
- Baremetrics reviews and pricing — GetApp
See your own retention curves
Connect Stripe and RetentionLens turns your billing data into survival curves, cohort retention, and a voluntary-vs-involuntary churn split — in minutes.