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ProfitWell Metrics alternative: Honest MRR
Looking for a ProfitWell Metrics 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 ProfitWell Metrics taken from Paddle's website on October 4, 2026 and linked, so you can check it.
ProfitWell Metrics at a glance
- Part of Paddle, which acquired ProfitWell in 2022. paddle.com
- Free subscription analytics covering customer lifetime value, revenue per customer, cohorts and customer segments. paddle.com
- Included with Paddle Billing. paddle.com
Other ProfitWell Metrics 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
ChartMogul
A subscription analytics platform that unifies revenue analytics and customer data. chartmogul.com
Best for: 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
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.
ProfitWell Metrics vs Honest MRR, side by side
| Topic | ProfitWell Metrics | Honest MRR |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Completely free. A paid Metrics Plus plan adds faster data updates — 30–60 minutes instead of 3–6 hours — on request. paddle.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). |
| How you connect | Integrates with your payments stack in one click. paddle.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 | Paddle Billing, Stripe, Chargebee, Braintree, Maxio, Recharge, Recurly, Zuora and Uscreen. paddle.com | Stripe, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, RevenueCat, Superwall, Polar, Patreon, Whop and Qonversion (integrations). |
| Discounts in MRR | Always subtracts discounts and credits before calculating MRR. paddle.com | Counts each plan's price before coupons for Stripe, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy and Whop (the rule). |
| Failed-payment recovery | Paddle's Retain recovers failed payments and reduces cancellations, and works with your existing billing stack. paddle.com | None — Honest MRR only reads your data; it never contacts your customers or retries a payment. |
Switching from ProfitWell Metrics
- Nothing to export: connect the same billing account you use with ProfitWell Metrics, 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 ProfitWell Metrics.
- Expect some numbers to differ, for reasons you can check: ProfitWell Metrics 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
Nine billing providers, one MRR
Stripe, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, RevenueCat, Superwall, Polar, Patreon, Whop and Qonversion read into one ledger and one MRR, so a second billing provider joins the same numbers.
Rules you can read, discounts included
Every MRR rule is published, including the one that differs most: Honest MRR counts Stripe, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy and Whop plans at their price before coupons, so with active discounts its MRR reads higher than a figure that subtracts them.
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 ProfitWell Metrics is the better choice
- 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
- You want benchmarks from a very large peer set: Paddle says Metrics compares you against 30,000 subscription and SaaS companies. paddle.com
- You already bill through Paddle Billing, where Metrics — and the Retain dunning and cancellation toolkit — are included at no extra cost. paddle.com
- You bill through Chargebee, Braintree, Maxio, Recharge, Recurly or Zuora, which Honest MRR doesn't connect to. paddle.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 freeProfitWell Metrics is a trademark of its owner; Honest MRR is not affiliated with it. Facts about ProfitWell Metrics come from Paddle's 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.