Is Churnkey or RevenueCat cheaper?

Churnkey starts at $250 per month billed yearly (Starter) (free plan available). RevenueCat starts at $0 below $2,500 monthly tracked revenue, then 1% of monthly tracked revenue (free plan available).

Churnkey vs RevenueCat

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

RevenueCat compared with Churnkey

Churnkey runs cancel flows and payment retries on Stripe, Chargebee, Paddle, and similar web billing for a flat fee from $250 a month. RevenueCat's Customer Center does the cancel-flow half on mobile, where Churnkey has no reach at all. An app company with a web product too will end up with both, one per revenue rail.

Choose Churnkey if

Subscription SaaS companies past roughly $30,000 MRR that are losing meaningful revenue to both cancellations and failed cards, run on Stripe, Chargebee, Paddle, Braintree, or Maxio, and want one vendor and one install covering both problems rather than stitching a dunning tool to a cancel-flow tool.

Choose RevenueCat if

Any company earning subscription revenue through the App Store or Google Play, from a solo developer under the free threshold to a consumer app at meaningful scale, especially teams that need honest mobile churn numbers and an in-app cancellation flow rather than surrendering the moment to Apple's settings screen.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Churnkey	RevenueCat
Category	Retention	Retention
Starting price	$250 per month billed yearly (Starter) (free plan available)	$0 below $2,500 monthly tracked revenue, then 1% of monthly tracked revenue (free plan available)
Pricing model	Flat monthly subscription banded by how much revenue you lose to churn each month, not a percentage of recovered revenue and not per seat. Only the entry price is published.	Usage-based percentage of monthly tracked revenue, free below a threshold, with an optional standalone Growth Tools bundle and a negotiated enterprise tier.
Free plan	A free churn metrics product connects to your billing provider and reports churn without any paid subscription; cancel flows and payment recovery are not included.	Free while monthly tracked revenue stays at or below $2,500, with the full feature set included rather than a stripped-down version.
Free trial	14 days, no credit card required	Not applicable; the free threshold serves as the evaluation path
Best for	Subscription SaaS companies past roughly $30,000 MRR that are losing meaningful revenue to both cancellations and failed cards, run on Stripe, Chargebee, Paddle, Braintree, or Maxio, and want one vendor and one install covering both problems rather than stitching a dunning tool to a cancel-flow tool.	Any company earning subscription revenue through the App Store or Google Play, from a solo developer under the free threshold to a consumer app at meaningful scale, especially teams that need honest mobile churn numbers and an in-app cancellation flow rather than surrendering the moment to Apple's settings screen.
Setup time	The vendor claims 35 minutes and that is roughly honest for the cancel flow: connect the billing provider, configure a flow in the dashboard, and swap your cancel button for a Churnkey call using the React SDK or snippet. Payment recovery is faster because it needs no front-end work at all beyond optional in-app prompts.	One to three days of engineering for a straightforward app, longer if you are migrating existing subscribers from a homegrown receipt validation system. The dashboard-side configuration of paywalls and Customer Center takes hours, not days.
Learning curve	Low to operate, moderate to do well. Anyone can turn it on. Designing offers that save revenue without giving away margin is a genuine skill, and the default of offering a generous discount to everyone is the mistake most teams make in month one.	Moderate for engineers, who need to understand entitlements and offerings as concepts, and low for the growth and product people who then configure paywalls and offers without shipping code.
Platforms	Web app, JavaScript snippet, React SDK, Hosted cancel flows, Hosted card update pages, MCP server	iOS and StoreKit, Android and Google Play Billing, React Native, Flutter, Unity, Capacitor and Cordova, Web via Web Billing, Smart TV platforms
Compliance	SOC 2, GDPR, Click-to-cancel compliance automation on the Intelligence tier	SOC 2, GDPR
Founded	2020	2017
Headquarters	Nashville, Tennessee, United States	San Francisco, California, operating remote-first
Ownership	Venture-backed, lightly	Venture-backed

Strengths and limitations

Churnkey

Strengths

One vendor and one install covers both involuntary and voluntary churn, with the results reported separately so you can tell which half is actually working.
Flat pricing with no percentage of recovered revenue, which is meaningfully cheaper than revenue-share competitors once you are above roughly $50,000 MRR.
Cancel flows execute billing changes themselves, so adding a pause offer does not require your engineers to build pause logic in Stripe.
Published aggregate benchmarks from millions of cancellation sessions give you a realistic starting point for offer design instead of guessing.

Limitations

Entry pricing of $250 a month billed yearly excludes most companies under $20,000 MRR, which is a large share of the small businesses this tool would otherwise help.
Core and Intelligence prices are not published, so you cannot budget without talking to someone or starting a trial.
The interesting 2026 AI features all sit on quote-gated tiers, meaning the genuinely self-serve product is the more conventional one.
Billing provider support is SaaS-shaped: Stripe, Braintree, Chargebee, Paddle, and Maxio. Ecommerce subscription stacks like Recharge, Skio, and Loop are not covered.

RevenueCat

Strengths

It is the only serious way to see churn, retention cohorts, and trial conversion on App Store and Google Play revenue, which the entire rest of this category is blind to.
Customer Center is a genuine churn prevention feature, not analytics dressed up as one, and it moves cancellation from Apple's settings screen into a surface you control.
The free threshold at $2,500 monthly tracked revenue includes the full product, so small apps get enterprise-grade subscription infrastructure for nothing.
Remote paywalls and experiments decouple monetisation changes from app store review cycles, which is a substantial operational win in its own right.

Limitations

One percent of tracked revenue scales without limit until you negotiate, and at meaningful revenue it becomes one of your larger software line items.
It does not and cannot retry failed payments. Apple and Google own billing retries, so involuntary churn is largely outside your control on mobile, whatever tool you buy.
Irrelevant to pure web SaaS. If your revenue is all Stripe invoices, you are looking at the wrong product.
No customer success layer: no account health across a book of business, no CSM playbooks, no renewal ownership. It is consumer subscription tooling.

Pricing compared

Churnkey

Flat monthly subscription banded by how much revenue you lose to churn each month, not a percentage of recovered revenue and not per seat. Only the entry price is published.

Starter$250
CoreNot published
IntelligenceQuote
EnterpriseQuote

Churnkey is priced for companies that already have a churn problem worth paying to fix. If you are losing $5,000 a month, $250 buys a plausible 20 to 40 percent reduction and the math is easy. If you are losing $800 a month, no configuration of this product returns its cost and you should be using Stripe's free smart retries and a hand-rolled survey instead. The flat fee is the correct long-run structure and becomes a serious advantage over revenue-share competitors once you scale, but the unpublished Core pricing and the yearly-billed entry point mean the true cost of entry is a $3,000 annual commitment, and that is a real decision rather than a trial.

RevenueCat

Usage-based percentage of monthly tracked revenue, free below a threshold, with an optional standalone Growth Tools bundle and a negotiated enterprise tier.

Pro$0 up to $2,500 MTR, then 1% of MTR
Growth Tools1% of MTR on conversions from the tools used
EnterpriseCustom

Below about $25,000 in monthly tracked revenue this is close to unarguable. You are getting subscription infrastructure that would take a competent engineer a month to build badly and forever to maintain, plus analytics you cannot get anywhere else, plus a real cancel-flow layer, for a few hundred dollars or nothing at all. The value question sharpens with scale: at $200,000 tracked revenue you are paying $2,000 a month, and that is the point where teams start pricing an in-house rebuild or negotiating enterprise terms. The honest framing is that RevenueCat is priced as infrastructure that grows with you, and the correct time to renegotiate is before the percentage starts to sting rather than after.

Editorial verdict on each

Churnkey

Category Leader

Churnkey is the most complete answer in this category for a SaaS company on Stripe or Chargebee that has both problems: cards failing and customers cancelling. Doing both in one install, with the results reported separately, is genuinely more useful than assembling a dunning tool and a cancel-flow tool, and the flat fee ages well as you grow while revenue-share competitors get more expensive. The two real objections are price and transparency. A $250 minimum billed yearly puts it out of reach for the smallest companies, who should use free smart retries first, and the unpublished Core and Intelligence pricing is a bad look for a vendor that otherwise sells itself. Buy it once you are losing enough revenue that a few hundred dollars a month is obviously cheap, which for most companies means somewhere north of $30,000 MRR.

Read the full Churnkey profile

RevenueCat

Momentum

If any part of your subscription revenue comes from the App Store or Google Play, RevenueCat is not really optional. It is the only practical way to see mobile churn honestly, the SDK saves a month of engineering and a lifetime of maintenance, and Customer Center is a real cancel-flow intervention rather than a dashboard pretending to be one. The free threshold means a small app pays nothing while it finds out whether it has a business. The thing to be deliberate about is the percentage: model what one percent of tracked revenue costs you at three times your current size, because that is the number that eventually sends teams to the negotiating table or to a build-versus-buy review. Buy it for mobile, do not buy it for web-only SaaS, and never expect it to solve failed payments, because on store billing that lever belongs to Apple.

Read the full RevenueCat profile

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