DevMargin vs ChartMogul

ChartMogul answers to a board: cohorts, retention curves, segmentation, metrics a due-diligence process will accept. DevMargin answers to you, on a Tuesday: which of these products is making money, and which is quietly costing more than it earns. We are not trying to become ChartMogul — that depth is a permanent non-goal here, not a roadmap item.

Side by side

ChartMogul’s figures were taken from their own site on 13 August 2026. Their paid tiers are priced on a range because the price scales with your ARR. If something has gone out of date, it is an error rather than a tactic — tell us and it gets fixed.

 DevMarginChartMogul
Free planEvery rail, unlimited accounts and projects, 30 days of historyGenerous — up to $10k MRR, but one billing source
Paid from$9/mo flat$59/mo, rising with your ARR
More than one billing sourceAll 14, on every planPro, from $99/mo, for five
Running costs and net marginYes, per projectNo — revenue only
Mobile app store revenueApp Store Connect, Google Play, RevenueCat, AdaptyNot its territory
Agent access (MCP)Hosted MCP server, read-onlyNo
Alerts and weekly digestEmail, Slack or DiscordSlack, from Starter up
Public page for your figuresYes — per project and per figure, everything off until you turn it onNot a built-in page; teams build their own on the ChartMogul API
Investor-grade metricsNo, and never — an explicit non-goalCohorts, segmentation, CRM sync, warehouse export

Their free tier is genuinely good

If you have one product, billing through Stripe, under $10k MRR, ChartMogul will give you far more analysis than we will, for nothing. The place that stops working is the second billing source: that is a Pro feature at $99 a month or more, and a founder with a Stripe account and an App Store account is already there. That is the whole gap this product was built in.

What ChartMogul does better

Everything that happens after the number

  • Analysis. Cohort retention, flexible segmentation, subscriber-level histories, the metrics a diligence process expects to see. DevMargin reports what the rails report and stops.
  • Plumbing. Two-way CRM sync, warehouse export, Slack, a real API, lead and trial data unified with billing data.
  • Team use. Shared dashboards, unlimited seats on Pro, onboarding by a named expert on Enterprise.

Which to pick

Choose ChartMogul if

One product, one billing system, and the questions are about retention, cohorts and what an investor will ask next quarter.

Choose DevMargin if

Several products, several rails, and the question is which of them still makes sense to keep once its bills are subtracted.

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