Is Churn Solution or Stunning cheaper?

Churn Solution starts at $50 per month minimum on the pay-as-you-save plan (free trial). Stunning starts at Sliding scale by MRR; approximately $120 per month at around $40,000 MRR, with lower prices at smaller sizes (15 days trial).

Churn Solution vs Stunning

An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.

The short answer

Editorial assessment

Churn Solution compared with Stunning

Stunning does failed payment recovery only, on Stripe, priced on a sliding MRR scale, and does it with a long track record. Churn Solution adds cancel flows and win-backs for a comparable outlay at small sizes. If your churn is overwhelmingly declined cards, Stunning is the focused answer; if you have both problems, buying one tool for both is the better structure.

Choose Churn Solution if

Small subscription businesses between roughly $5,000 and $50,000 MRR that are losing customers to both cancellations and failed cards, run on Stripe, and want a complete retention stack without committing to a flat fee that would be a painful share of revenue.

Choose Stunning if

Stripe-billed SaaS and subscription companies from roughly $10,000 MRR upward that want the involuntary-churn problem solved properly and cheaply, particularly small teams who would otherwise be relying on Stripe's default retries and a single generic failure email.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Churn Solution	Stunning
Category	Retention	Retention
Starting price	$50 per month minimum on the pay-as-you-save plan (free trial)	Sliding scale by MRR; approximately $120 per month at around $40,000 MRR, with lower prices at smaller sizes (15 days trial)
Pricing model	Choice of a performance fee on retained revenue with a low monthly minimum, or a fixed monthly fee scaled to your MRR and quoted on request.	Sliding scale based on MRR, with every feature included on every plan. No feature tiers, no per-recovery fees, and no percentage of recovered revenue.
Free plan	No	No
Free trial	No standard free trial is published; the three-month money-back guarantee functions as the risk reversal instead	15 days, with the vendor stating it will extend the trial on request
Best for	Small subscription businesses between roughly $5,000 and $50,000 MRR that are losing customers to both cancellations and failed cards, run on Stripe, and want a complete retention stack without committing to a flat fee that would be a painful share of revenue.	Stripe-billed SaaS and subscription companies from roughly $10,000 MRR upward that want the involuntary-churn problem solved properly and cheaply, particularly small teams who would otherwise be relying on Stripe's default retries and a single generic failure email.
Setup time	A day or less for the Stripe path. Connect the processor, configure a flow, and swap your cancel button for the platform's call. The dunning side needs no front end change at all and can be live in an afternoon.	Minutes for the core product. Connect Stripe, choose from pre-written templates, and dunning is live. Adding your own branding, a custom domain for the update pages, and the in-app notification bar takes a little longer and is worth doing before you judge results.
Learning curve	Low on mechanics, moderate on strategy. Building flows is straightforward; deciding which offers to make to which segments, and how much margin you are willing to give away to hold a customer, is the part that needs judgement.	Very low. There are no tiers to reason about and no offers to design. The only real decisions are cadence and copy, and the templates ship with sensible defaults.
Platforms	Web application, In-product embedded flows, Email and SMS delivery, MCP server	Web app, Hosted payment update pages on a custom domain, In-app notification bar embed, Email and SMS delivery
Compliance	GDPR, Stripe verified partner	GDPR, PCI handled by Stripe; Stunning does not store raw card data
Founded	2022	2012
Headquarters	Not publicly disclosed	United States
Ownership	Privately held, no disclosed institutional funding	Independent and bootstrapped

Strengths and limitations

Churn Solution

Strengths

The $50 monthly minimum makes a full retention stack affordable for companies that every flat-fee vendor in this category effectively prices out.
Covers voluntary churn, involuntary churn, and win-backs in one install rather than requiring two or three vendors stitched together.
Reactivation campaigns matched to exit reasons are a genuine differentiator; most competitors stop caring the moment the cancellation completes.
A three-month money-back guarantee if savings do not exceed fees, which meaningfully de-risks a purchase for a company with no budget for a failed experiment.

Limitations

Twenty five percent of retained revenue gets expensive exactly when the tool works, and the definition of retained revenue is the single most important term in the contract.
The fixed-price alternative is quoted rather than published, so the transparent option is only the one that varies with your results.
Small vendor with no disclosed funding, limited public customer references, and none of the institutional weight of larger competitors.
Compliance posture is not published in the detail an enterprise security review would demand, which constrains who can buy it.

Stunning

Strengths

The deepest recovery channel mix at this price: Smart Retries, backup payment methods, email, SMS, in-app bars, pre-dunning, abandonment emails, and unpaid reactivation.
Every feature is included on every plan, so there is no tier gaming and no feature discovered to be locked after purchase.
Priced well below Churnkey and Churn Buster at comparable revenue, which makes it the realistic dunning choice for a small company.
Thirteen years of operation and a claimed $13 billion recovered, with the specific edge-case features that only come from that much time in one problem.

Limitations

Only three payment stacks: Stripe, Foxy, and Subbly. Stripe is effectively the only real integration, and if you are not on it the product is unavailable to you.
No cancel flow, no deflection offers, no pause or discount interception. Voluntary churn is entirely outside the product's scope.
No subscription analytics, health scoring, or playbooks, so it will always be one tool among several rather than a platform.
Pricing is a slider rather than a published table, so you have to visit the site and enter your MRR to learn your number.

Pricing compared

Churn Solution

Choice of a performance fee on retained revenue with a low monthly minimum, or a fixed monthly fee scaled to your MRR and quoted on request.

Pay As We Save25% of retained revenue, $50 minimum
Custom Fixed PricingQuoted, scaled to MRR

For a company under roughly $30,000 MRR this is among the most sensible economics in the category, because the fee scales with your size and the floor is $50 rather than $250. You get cancel flows, dunning, win-backs, and analytics that on paper match vendors charging five times more. What you are trading is vendor weight: a small team, no public funding history, and a compliance story built for small business rather than for procurement. The percentage becomes the weak point precisely when the product succeeds at scale, so treat the pay-as-you-save plan as the entry structure and plan to renegotiate to fixed pricing once the tool is provably working.

Stunning

Sliding scale based on MRR, with every feature included on every plan. No feature tiers, no per-recovery fees, and no percentage of recovered revenue.

Single plan, sliding scaleApproximately $120 at $40,000 MRR

This is the best price-to-capability ratio in the involuntary-churn half of this category. Around $120 a month at $40,000 MRR buys more recovery channels than Churnkey's $250 Starter plan does, and the every-feature-included structure means the price you see is the price of the whole product. What you are giving up is scope and modernity: no cancel flows, no analytics, no AI, no offers, and a processor list of exactly three. If you are on Stripe and your problem is failed payments, nothing here is worse than the more expensive options and several things are better. If your problem is people deliberately cancelling, Stunning does not address it at all and its low price is irrelevant to you.

Editorial verdict on each

Churn Solution

Innovation

Churn Solution is the answer to a question the rest of this category ignores: what does a company at $12,000 MRR do about churn when every credible vendor wants $250 a month before proving anything. A $50 floor, a fee tied to results, a three-month money-back guarantee, and a feature list covering cancel flows, dunning, and win-backs make it a rational first retention purchase for a small subscription business. Two cautions. Nail down how retained revenue is defined before you sign, because that clause is the whole deal, and plan to switch to fixed pricing once you pass roughly $30,000 MRR, at which point twenty five percent of a working tool's output costs more than a flat fee elsewhere. Small vendor, real product, sensible economics at the size it is aimed at.

Read the full Churn Solution profile

Stunning

Stunning is the correct first purchase for a Stripe-billed small business with a failed-payment problem. It costs roughly half what Churnkey's entry plan does, includes every feature at every price point, and works the recovery through more channels than anything else at this level: retries, backup cards, email, SMS, in-app banners, pre-dunning, abandonment follow-ups, and automatic reactivation of unpaid accounts. Fourteen years of doing one job shows in the details. The two boundaries are absolute rather than negotiable. It works on Stripe, Foxy, and Subbly and nothing else, and it does nothing whatsoever about customers who deliberately cancel. Accept both and it is the best value in this category; need either fixed and you are shopping elsewhere.

Read the full Stunning profile

Churn Solution profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Stunning last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.