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Baremetrics

The most action-oriented tool in the analytics category: metrics plus dunning, forecasting, and cancellation insight.

What it is

Baremetrics started where ChartMogul did — a Stripe dashboard — and diverged toward acting on subscription data rather than only describing it. Recover handles failed-payment dunning, Forecast+ does financial forecasting against accounting actuals, and Trial/Cancellation Insights explain funnel behaviour.

Key facts
Category Analytics layer + action layer
Licence Proprietary SaaS
Metrics 28+
Pricing (as of March 2026) From \(108/mo, scaling with MRR tracked (~\)358/mo at $100K MRR); Recover and Forecast+ priced separately
Free tier None
Billing sources Stripe, Braintree, Recurly, Chargebee, Apple App Store, Google Play, Shopify Partners, custom API
Accounting QuickBooks Online, Xero (for Forecast+ actuals)

Strengths

  • Most complete feature set: analytics + recovery + forecasting + insights
  • Revenue recovery has directly measurable ROI
  • Forecasting grounded in accounting actuals, not just trend extrapolation
  • Industry benchmarking for context

Limitations

  • Most expensive option in the category, especially with add-ons
  • No free tier — a barrier for early-stage companies
  • Segmentation is basic next to ChartMogul (pre-built segments, monthly cohorts)
  • Closed source — metric calculations are not auditable

Relevance to Tidemill

Baremetrics defines a boundary Tidemill deliberately does not cross. Revenue recovery and dunning are explicit non-goals — they are billing-engine territory and a different competency. Tidemill competes on the transparency and customisability of the metric layer underneath, not on the action layer above it.

The one place the two overlap conceptually is accounting integration: Baremetrics pulls QuickBooks/Xero actuals for forecasting, while Tidemill pulls QuickBooks Online for expense analytics. Same source, different purpose.

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