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ChartMogul alternative: Honest MRR
Looking for a ChartMogul alternative? Honest MRR is subscription analytics for indie founders and small SaaS teams: monthly recurring revenue (MRR), churn, lifetime value (LTV) and cohorts computed from a ledger of your billing provider's own records. Here is how the two compare — with every fact about ChartMogul taken from its own website on October 4, 2026 and linked, so you can check it.
ChartMogul at a glance
- A subscription analytics platform that unifies revenue analytics and customer data — metrics, benchmarks, forecasts and workflows. chartmogul.com
- Independent and profitable for more than 11 years, with a team of around 60 people, and used by over 3,000 SaaS companies, per its company page. chartmogul.com
Other ChartMogul alternatives
Weighing more than two tools? Here is how the others describe themselves, and who each suits best — in their own words, linked.
Baremetrics
Subscription analytics and dashboards, headlined on its homepage as built for Stripe. baremetrics.com
Best for: You bill through Braintree, Chargebee or Recurly — Baremetrics connects to them natively; Honest MRR doesn't connect to any of the three. baremetrics.com
ProfitWell Metrics by Paddle
Accurate, accessible revenue reporting for subscription and SaaS companies — completely free. paddle.com
Best for: You want subscription metrics completely free — ProfitWell Metrics charges nothing, while Honest MRR's Starter is free up to $2k MRR and shows an upgrade reminder past it. paddle.com
Stripe Billing analytics by Stripe
In the Stripe Dashboard, Billing analytics charts MRR, churn, lifetime value and retention by cohort for your Stripe subscriptions, with drill-downs and a CSV log of every MRR change. docs.stripe.com
Best for: a business that bills only through Stripe — it is already in the Stripe Dashboard, with nothing to connect.
ChartMogul vs Honest MRR, side by side
| Topic | ChartMogul | Honest MRR |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free up to $10K MRR, then priced by the ARR it tracks: Starter from $69 a month and Pro from $119 a month (billed monthly), Enterprise from $19,900 a year. chartmogul.com | Starter free up to $2k MRR — past that, reports keep working and show an upgrade reminder. Pro $49 a month, Business $149 a month (pricing). |
| Trial | 14-day trial, no credit card required. chartmogul.com | 14-day Pro trial, no credit card. |
| How you connect | You add Stripe as a source, choose production, sandbox or test data, and approve the connection in Stripe. chartmogul.com | You paste the most limited key your provider offers — read-only wherever one exists; for Stripe, a restricted key with six Read permissions. |
| Billing sources | Stripe, Chargebee, Paddle, Recurly, Braintree, PayPal, Zuora, GoCardless, App Store Connect, Google Play and more. chartmogul.com | Stripe, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, RevenueCat, Superwall, Polar, Patreon, Whop and Qonversion (integrations). |
| App stores | Imports App Store Connect and Google Play billing data. chartmogul.com | RevenueCat, Superwall or Qonversion subscriptions, counted as proceeds after the store's cut. Your App Store Connect and Google Play reports are compared with the store cash those providers report — RevenueCat's API lists no subscription renewals, so for RevenueCat the comparison shows that gap. |
| Your history | Imports all existing subscription billing data when you add Stripe as a source. help.chartmogul.com | Every subscription imports when you connect, dated from when it started — no files to export. Months before you connect show each one at its current price. |
| Discounts in MRR | MRR is offset by discounts. help.chartmogul.com | Counts each plan's price before coupons for Stripe, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy and Whop (the rule). |
| Investor reporting | Investor-grade SaaS metrics, the charts your board wants, and shareable report snapshots. chartmogul.com | Monthly statements you save as a PDF, expiring share links, and an opt-in public metrics page with a live MRR badge. |
| API and exports | REST APIs, an MCP server and CSV downloads, plus data-warehouse destinations on Pro and Enterprise. chartmogul.com | A JSON API (docs) whose keys are read-only unless created with “Allow imports”, CSV exports of the main reports, and a full export of your organization's data. |
| Customer view | A built-in CRM, with expansion, contraction and churn at the individual account level. chartmogul.com | A page per customer with its MRR movements and invoices, each movement open to its ledger entry. |
| Security | SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant. chartmogul.com | Keys encrypted with AES-256-GCM, row-level tenant isolation, and a tamper-evident hash chain over every record received (security). |
Switching from ChartMogul
- Nothing to export: connect the same billing account you use with ChartMogul, and Honest MRR imports every subscription straight from the provider, each dated from when it started.
- Run both side by side while you compare — Honest MRR only reads your data, so nothing changes in your billing account or in ChartMogul.
- Expect some numbers to differ, for reasons you can check: ChartMogul subtracts discounts from MRR, while Honest MRR counts plan prices before coupons for Stripe, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy and Whop; app-store revenue counts proceeds after Apple's or Google's cut, merchant-of-record tax is removed, trials count only once they convert, past-due subscriptions stay in MRR until they cancel, and months before you connected show each subscription at its current price (every rule).
- A first sync takes minutes for most accounts; RevenueCat is read customer by customer, so a few thousand take about 45 minutes.
What Honest MRR does differently
Reporting only, no CRM to keep current
Honest MRR reads your billing data and reports on it. It never contacts your customers, retries a payment or changes a subscription.
Costs next to revenue
Connect Google Ads, Meta or TikTok for customer acquisition cost, payback and LTV:CAC, and enter your operating costs for burn and runway, in the same app as your MRR.
An audit trail an investor can follow
Every MRR movement opens to its ledger entry, the webhook event when one recorded it, and the provider's current record, and every version of a billing record we receive is fingerprinted in a tamper-evident hash chain (how the hash chain works).
Ready for investor questions
Monthly statements you save as a PDF, share links that expire after 7, 30 or 90 days, and an opt-in public metrics page with a live MRR badge.
When ChartMogul is the better choice
- You're under $10K MRR and want analytics free: ChartMogul's free plan covers up to $10K MRR, while Honest MRR's Starter is free up to $2k MRR and shows an upgrade reminder past it. chartmogul.com
- You need the widest range of billing systems: ChartMogul lists Chargebee, Recurly, Braintree, PayPal, Zuora and others that Honest MRR doesn't connect to. chartmogul.com
- Your sales and success teams want a CRM next to the revenue data — ChartMogul includes one at no extra cost. chartmogul.com
- Procurement asks for certifications: ChartMogul states it is SOC 2 Type II certified. chartmogul.com
- You want data-warehouse exports (S3, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift and others), which ChartMogul offers on its Pro and Enterprise plans. chartmogul.com
Try Honest MRR on your own data
Free up to $2k MRR (a soft limit), with a 14-day Pro trial and no credit card.
Start freeChartMogul is a trademark of its owner; Honest MRR is not affiliated with it. Facts about ChartMogul come from its public website as of October 4, 2026, linked beside each one — prices and features change, so check there for current details. Spotted something out of date? Email us and we'll correct it.