DevMargin vs Baremetrics

Baremetrics is subscription analytics for a company — one billing system, twenty-eight metrics, cohorts and segments, priced against your ARR. DevMargin is a cockpit for one person running several small products across whichever rails they happen to bill through. Same category on paper, different customer entirely.

Side by side

Baremetrics’ figures were taken from their own site on 13 August 2026. If something has gone out of date, it is an error rather than a tactic — tell us and it gets fixed.

	DevMargin	Baremetrics
Entry price	$0 free, then $9/mo	$75/mo (Launch, to $360k ARR)
Billing sources included	All 14, on every plan	One on Launch, two on Growth ($255/mo), unlimited on Scale ($1,152/mo)
Running costs and net margin	Yes, per project, on every plan	Budget and expense tracking — on Scale only
Mobile app store revenue	App Store Connect, Google Play, RevenueCat, Adapty	Not its territory
Agent access (MCP)	Hosted MCP server, read-only	No
Depth of metrics	MRR, subscribers, earned revenue, costs, net — and little else	28+ metrics, cohorts, segmentation, trial insights, benchmarks
Alerts and weekly digest	Email, Slack or Discord	Automated email reports; Slack from Growth up
Public page for your figures	Yes — per project and per figure, everything off until you turn it on	Yes — Open Startups, which they invented
Priced by	Nothing — one flat price	Your ARR, plus add-ons at $129/mo each

They do track expenses. It costs $1,152 a month.

We say elsewhere that nothing in this price bracket subtracts your running costs, and that is precisely worded rather than casually worded. Baremetrics’ Scale tier includes budget and expense tracking, so the honest sentence is that costs are a solved problem for a company with $3.6M ARR and a real finance function — and an unsolved one for the founder with six small products and a Vercel bill, which is who DevMargin was built for.

What Baremetrics does better

Nearly everything, if you are the customer they built it for

Depth. 28+ metrics against our handful. Cohorts, unlimited segmentation, trial insights, goal tracking, benchmarks against comparable companies — none of which DevMargin has or is trying to have.
Recovering money. Their Payment Recovery add-on chases failed charges and is sold with a return guarantee. We do not touch your billing at all: every key we hold is read-only by design, so this is a thing we can never do.
Working with a team. Custom dashboards, an Intercom integration, an analytics API, a dedicated support representative on Scale. (Slack used to belong on this list; we have it now, so it does not.)
They invented the public page. Open Startups made publishing your own revenue a normal thing for a software business to do, years before we shipped ours. Ours differs in what it withholds — you choose project by project and figure by figure, and each published number carries the rail and snapshot date it came from — but the idea is theirs and it would be poor form to pretend otherwise.

Which to pick

Choose Baremetrics if

You are one company with one billing system and real revenue, you need investor-grade depth — cohorts, segments, retention — and someone other than you reads the dashboard.

Choose DevMargin if

You are one person with several products, money arrives through several rails at once, and the question you actually have is which of them is in the black after its bills.

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Free for every rail and every project, with 30 days of history. No card, and every key is read-only.

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Baremetrics is a product by its own authors and is not affiliated with DevMargin. Its pricing and features were checked at baremetrics.com on 13 August 2026.