ninedot vs Baremetrics.
Baremetrics is subscription analytics for a SaaS: deep revenue metrics, recovery and forecasting. ninedot is a read-only view of every business you run: what each runs on, what each service costs, what it earns and whether it's up.
Side by side
| Feature | Baremetrics | ninedot |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | One SaaS or subscription business, from pre-revenue to $3.6M+ ARR | Builders running several small businesses side by side |
| Revenue from | Stripe, Braintree, Chargebee, Recurly, App Store, Google Play, Shopify Partners | Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Paddle, RevenueCat |
| Subscription analytics | 28+ metrics, trials, segmentation, cohorts, benchmarks | Monthly revenue, active subscriptions, trials and failing payments per business |
| Costs | Budget and expense tracking from QuickBooks or Xero, in Forecast | Verified where the provider reports it (Vercel and Cloudflare billing, Railway usage, OpenAI and Anthropic API spend, Stripe fees); plan prices elsewhere as estimates you confirm |
| Margin per business | Not per service | Revenue minus what each service costs, per business |
| Infrastructure, uptime, deploys | Not covered | What each business runs on, uptime checks every 5 minutes, failed deploys and services |
| Recovering failed payments | Payment Recovery add-on | Flags failing payments; doesn't recover them |
| Forecasting | Forecast: cash flow, hiring plans, scenarios, P&L | None |
| AI agents | MCP server (API key) and a Claude connector | MCP server (OAuth or agent key), read-only by default; Nine, a built-in agent |
| Pricing | Free under $180K ARR; paid plans scale with tracked ARR | Free for 1 business and 2 connected accounts. Pro is $19 a month, flat, for every business you run. |
When Baremetrics is the better fit
- You run one subscription business and want deep metrics: cohorts, segmentation, trial conversion and benchmarks against similar companies.
- Failed payments cost you real money and you want them recovered automatically (Payment Recovery).
- You want forecasts, hiring plans and a P&L built from your accounting software.
- You bill through Chargebee, Recurly, Braintree or the app stores.
When ninedot is the better fit
- You run several small businesses (apps, a channel, a store) and want each one's stack, costs, revenue and uptime on one screen.
- You want margin per business from what each service costs: Vercel billing, OpenAI and Anthropic API spend and payment fees read from the provider, plus costs you confirm for the rest.
- You sell through Lemon Squeezy, Polar or Paddle alongside Stripe.
- You want to ask an AI agent what each business costs and earns, with every figure labelled exact or measured.
Using both
They don't overlap much. Baremetrics goes deep on one business's subscription revenue; ninedot goes wide across every business's stack and costs. Both connect to Stripe read-only, so running them side by side changes nothing in your account.
How ninedot works out each figure: how revenue is calculated. What it connects: integrations. Sources for Baremetrics: Baremetrics pricing · Baremetrics integration guides · Baremetrics Forecast · Baremetrics MCP server.
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