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Last verified July 2026

ProfitWell alternatives, four years after Paddle

The short answer

ProfitWell Metrics is still free and still running, but Capterra reviewers describe a product that hasn't visibly changed since Paddle's May 2022 acquisition. Stripe-only teams tired of batch delays should trial Mowt ($79/month, realtime). Multi-billing teams fit ChartMogul (free under $120K ARR). Need dunning? Baremetrics.

The reasons people search this

Why teams move on from ProfitWell Metrics.

01

What actually changed since Paddle bought it: less than you'd hope

Paddle paid $200 million for ProfitWell in May 2022, and the deal made sense on paper: Paddle got Retain and Price Intelligently, and Metrics became a free funnel into Paddle's billing business. Four years on, the funnel part worked and the product part stalled.Metrics is still free, still connects to Stripe in minutes, and still runs. But Capterra reviewers describe an interface without significant updates in over five years, and the roadmap energy visibly goes to Paddle's paid billing platform, not to the free dashboard you'd be depending on. Nothing broke. Nothing improved either, and that's the trade you're accepting.

02

Data can take up to 90 minutes to show up

Per Paddle's own help docs, customers added or edited manually or through the API can take "up to an hour and a half" to reflect in your metrics. Capterra reviewers echo it in general terms: changes take hours to land on the dashboard. If you're watching a launch or a failed-payment spike, a 90-minute-old number isn't a live number.

03

Reporting is monthly-grained when you want weekly

Capterra reviewers report that scheduled reporting only comes in monthly granularity, with several asking for weekly views they can't get. For a founder running weekly growth reviews, that means exporting data and rebuilding the view by hand, which is exactly the spreadsheet work a metrics tool is supposed to kill.

04

The mobile apps exist, but the notifications don't always fire

ProfitWell ships native iOS and Android apps, with home screen widgets on iOS, and that's genuinely more than most rivals offer. The catch, per G2 and Capterra reviewers, is that payment-problem alerts don't reliably trigger. A push notification you can't trust is worse than none, because you stop checking.

05

The paid side has produced some ugly pricing surprises

Metrics is free, but the moment you touch Paddle's paid products the pricing turns negotiable, and one G2 reviewer reported a 10x price increase on their paid plan after a support ticket. That's a single attributed account, not a pattern we can prove, but it's the kind of story that makes teams want a vendor with a public price list.

What ProfitWell Metrics still does well

Be fair to ProfitWell: it's the only genuinely full-featured free option in this category, and "free forever" has held true through an acquisition, which is rarer than it should be. The Stripe connection sets up in about five minutes, the core dashboards cover MRR, churn, LTV and retention competently, and the benchmarking draws on data from 30,000+ subscription companies, which nobody else on this page can match at any price.

It also has both iOS and Android apps, something Baremetrics still can't say. G2 reviews are broadly positive, and for a pre-revenue startup that just wants a sanity-check dashboard, it remains a completely defensible choice.

At a glance

The ProfitWell Metrics alternatives, side by side.

Prices are published rates as of July 2026. They change; check each vendor before you commit.

Tool	Best for	Starting price	Free tier	Data freshness	Mobile apps
Mowt	Stripe-only SaaS, live data + mobile	$79/mo (to $15k MRR)	7-day trial, no card	Realtime (Stripe webhooks)	iOS & Android, full parity
Baremetrics	Broad metrics suite with dunning add-on	$75/mo (to $360K ARR)	Trial available	2-hour sync cycle	iOS only
ChartMogul	Multi-source billing, cohort depth	$59/mo (Starter, scales with ARR)	Free under $120K ARR	~10-min processing window	iOS & Android (Android limited)
Chartsy	Plain-English questions over Stripe/Paddle	Paid from ~$19/mo (Pro price unpublished)	Free, 10 prompts/month	Realtime claimed for Stripe; hourly for Paddle Classic	Web only
ProfitWell Metrics	Free dashboards, 30k-company benchmarks	Free	Everything free	Batch, up to ~90-min delay	iOS & Android (flaky notifications)

The field, in detail

Each alternative, honestly.

Baremetrics

Best if you're leaving free specifically to get dunning

Baremetrics is the paid all-rounder: 28+ metrics, four billing integrations, and a Recover add-on that actually chases failed payments.

If the thing pushing you off ProfitWell is wanting revenue recovery in the same tool as your metrics, Baremetrics is the shortest path. The dashboard covers MRR, churn, LTV, trial insights and forecasting across Stripe, Braintree, Recurly and Chargebee, and G2 reviewers rate it 4.6/5 across 98 reviews with consistent praise for the UI.

Recover, the dunning add-on, handles the involuntary churn work ProfitWell only addresses through Paddle's separate paid Retain product.

You inherit a different set of compromises. Baremetrics' own help center documents a 2-hour sync cycle, so it's no more live than ProfitWell in practice. There's an iOS app but nothing on the Play Store as of June 2026. And it's owned by private equity too: Xenon Partners bought it for $4M in November 2020, and Hacker News commenters who moved on cite a slow visible roadmap since.

ChartMogul

Best free-to-paid glide path for multi-source billing

ChartMogul is the natural free replacement: $0 under $120K ARR, the deepest cohort analysis in the category, and 25+ billing integrations.

For teams that picked ProfitWell because it was free, ChartMogul's Launch tier is the closest like-for-like swap: free until you pass $120K ARR, with real cohort analysis and segmentation instead of a frozen dashboard.

It normalizes Stripe, Chargebee, Recurly, PayPal and a long tail of other sources into one MRR view, and Capterra reviewers rate it 4.7/5 across 44 reviews. Unlike ProfitWell, it's still independent: founded 2014, never acquired, so the roadmap serves the analytics product rather than a parent company's billing funnel.

It's not instant and it's not cheap forever. ChartMogul's help docs describe Stripe data as realtime with a 10-minute processing window, and once you cross $120K ARR the Starter tier runs from $59/month on annual billing to $699 at the top ARR band ($849 billed monthly), with some long-time customers on G2 describing repeated price rises. The Android app also trails iOS on features.

Chartsy

Best for asking your revenue questions in plain English

Chartsy skips preset dashboards entirely: you type "how did churn move after the March price change" and it charts the answer from Stripe or Paddle data.

Chartsy is the newest idea on this page. Instead of ProfitWell's fixed dashboard, it puts an AI chat interface over your Stripe, Paddle or BigCommerce data, computes MRR, ARR, churn and LTV from raw invoices, and answers ad-hoc questions without SQL.

It also exports clean PDF reports and PNG charts, which founders sending investor updates will appreciate. Notably, it supports Paddle billing, useful if the acquisition nudged you onto Paddle itself.

It's early. The free tier caps you at 10 prompts a month, paid plans are referenced from around $19/month but Pro pricing isn't published as of July 2026, sync is hourly for Paddle Classic and BigCommerce per its help docs, and there's essentially no independent review footprint on G2 or Capterra yet. Web only, no mobile apps.

Mowt

Best for Stripe-only teams done waiting on batch syncs

Our product

Mowt is our product, so read this entry with that in mind: it's built for exactly the reader who liked ProfitWell's simplicity but wants the numbers live and the phone app trustworthy.

Mowt listens to Stripe webhooks directly, so a new subscription, an upgrade or a failed payment appears on the dashboard in seconds rather than on the next 90-minute batch. Reports cover MRR, ARR, churn, LTV, ARPU, NRR, cohorts and forecasting, and the reporting granularity is whatever you want it to be, not monthly-only.

The native iOS and Android apps carry full feature parity with the web dashboard, and because events arrive over webhooks, the alert that a big customer's payment failed actually fires. Setup is one-click read-only Stripe OAuth with full history backfill in minutes; 500+ founders track over $1B in revenue on it, at 99.9% uptime.

The honest caveats: Mowt is Stripe-only, so if the Paddle acquisition tempted you onto Paddle billing, we can't help you. Dunning and churn-busting tools are coming soon, not shipped. And unlike ProfitWell, it isn't free, though $79/month buys you a vendor whose whole business is this product.

We're also younger with a smaller review footprint than the incumbents; the right way to judge us is to run the 7-day trial against your Stripe dashboard and check the numbers agree.

The other side

When ProfitWell Metrics is actually the better choice.

Keep ProfitWell if your budget for analytics is genuinely zero, and free with quirks beats paid without them. It also wins outright on benchmarking: comparing your churn and growth against 30,000+ subscription companies is a real, unique feature that no paid rival here replicates, though our free SaaS benchmarks page answers the same 'is my churn normal' question with public data.

And if you review metrics monthly rather than daily, the 90-minute sync and monthly reporting granularity cost you nothing. A pre-revenue founder checking MRR once a week has no reason to pay anyone yet, us included.

Before you switch

Migration notes.

ProfitWell is free, so this is the rare migration with no deadline. Connect the new tool alongside it, run both for two weeks, and only stop opening ProfitWell when you trust the replacement.
Expect the MRR numbers to differ slightly between tools. Each vendor normalizes annual prepays, discounts, proration and refunds differently; check definitions against our MRR calculation guide before declaring either number wrong.
If any alerting or Slack workflow hangs off ProfitWell notifications, rebuild it on the new tool first. Reviewers already report ProfitWell pushes misfiring, so this is the piece most likely to fail silently.
If you were eyeing Paddle Retain for failed payments, decide on dunning before you move: Baremetrics ships Recover today at $129/month, while Mowt's dunning tools are coming soon rather than available.
Export any historical annotations or saved reports before you stop logging in. Revenue history rebuilds from Stripe automatically in every tool here, but your notes don't.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is ProfitWell still free after the Paddle acquisition?

Yes. ProfitWell Metrics has stayed completely free since Paddle acquired it for $200 million in May 2022. Paddle keeps it free as a funnel into its paid billing and retention products. The free tier includes MRR, churn, LTV, retention and benchmarking with no paywall.

Is ProfitWell Metrics still maintained in 2026?

It runs and connects reliably, but Capterra reviewers describe an interface without significant updates in over five years. Maintained is accurate; developed is not. Paddle's visible investment goes to its billing platform, so expect the free dashboard to stay roughly as it is today.

Is ProfitWell real-time?

No. Per Paddle's help docs, manually added or API-edited customer data can take up to 90 minutes to appear in metrics, and reviewers report dashboard changes taking hours. Webhook-based tools like Mowt reflect Stripe events in seconds, which is what realtime actually means.

What is the best free ProfitWell alternative?

ChartMogul, which is free under $120K ARR and adds cohort analysis ProfitWell lacks, on a product that's still actively developed by an independent company. Chartsy has a free tier too, capped at 10 AI prompts per month. Above $120K ARR, everything comparable costs money.

What is the best paid ProfitWell alternative for Stripe?

For Stripe-only SaaS, Mowt at $79/month: realtime webhook data, full-parity iOS and Android apps, and reliable alerts, though it's Stripe-only and its dunning tools are still coming soon. If you need dunning shipped today, Baremetrics with the $129/month Recover add-on covers it.

Does ProfitWell have mobile apps?

Yes, native iOS and Android apps with home screen widgets on iOS, which is more mobile coverage than Baremetrics offers. The recurring complaint from G2 and Capterra reviewers is unreliable push notifications: payment-problem alerts don't always trigger, so treat the apps as read-only dashboards rather than an alerting system.

What happened to ProfitWell Retain and Price Intelligently?

Both became paid Paddle products after the 2022 acquisition, with negotiated rather than listed pricing. One G2 reviewer reported a 10x price increase on their paid plan after a support ticket. If you want failed-payment recovery with a public price, Baremetrics Recover runs $129/month (July 2026).

Can I run Mowt alongside ProfitWell before deciding?

Yes, and you should. Both use read-only Stripe connections, so they can't interfere with each other or your billing. Since ProfitWell costs nothing, keep it running through Mowt's 7-day trial, compare both against the Stripe dashboard, and keep whichever number you trust. Our churn calculator helps sanity-check either.

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Last verified July 2026. Competitor prices and features are their published rates at that date and will change; we re-check this page quarterly. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we'll fix it.

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