Baremetrics vs Google Analytics
Pricing
Baremetrics: From $108/mo
Google Analytics: Free
Description
Baremetrics: Revenue and subscription analytics for SaaS
Google Analytics: Google's free web and app analytics for traffic sources, user journeys and conversions, linked to Google Ads and Search Console
Pros
- Real-time MRR, churn, LTV metrics
- Cancellation insights
- Benchmarks against other SaaS
- Free of charge, with one property able to cover both your website and your app
- Integrates with Google Ads and Google Search Console
- Machine-learning features estimate which customers are likely to take an action next
Cons
- Gets expensive as you scale
- Stripe/Recurly/Braintree only
- Ties data to cookies and user identifiers, unlike cookie-free tools such as Plausible and Fathom
- The free version keeps user-level and event-level data for explorations for 14 months at most
- Longer retention (26 to 50 months) needs Analytics 360, the paid enterprise version
Details
Baremetrics gives you all the subscription metrics you need (MRR, ARR, LTV, churn) pulled directly from your payment processor. Founded by Josh Pigford who famously made all their metrics public. Great for founders who want a clear picture of their SaaS health without spreadsheet gymnastics.
Google Analytics is Google’s own analytics service for websites and apps. You add a tag to your site or app and get reports on where visitors come from, what they do and which of them convert. It costs nothing.
It suits founders who run Google Ads or want the most detail without paying. The reports cover cross-platform journeys, attribution across channels and machine-learning forecasts.
Two limits are worth knowing. Data in explorations and funnel reports is kept for 2 or 14 months on the free version (standard reports are not affected), and the data is linked to cookies and identifiers. If you would rather not use cookies at all, look at Plausible or Fathom.
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