RunSmart vs. Baremetrics: Which SaaS Financial Planning Platform Fits Your Needs?

RunSmart and Baremetrics both help SaaS founders understand subscription performance and plan for the future, but they approach the problem from different directions.

Baremetrics began as a subscription analytics platform and has expanded into subscription forecasting, customer intelligence, retention analysis, financial planning, and revenue recovery.

RunSmart combines Stripe subscription intelligence with QuickBooks Online financial data so founders can monitor what is happening in their subscription business, analyze completed historical performance, forecast what may happen next, and understand how those changes could affect the financial performance of the entire company.

Both platforms can provide SaaS metrics.

Both can forecast subscription performance.

Both can connect subscription information with broader financial planning.

Both provide scenario modeling.

And both provide MCP connectivity that allows compatible AI tools to work with authorized business data.

The differences become clearer when you look at how each platform approaches live subscription analytics, forecasting methodology, customer intelligence, financial planning, pricing, and the role subscription data plays in the broader financial model.

This comparison examines those differences for SaaS founders evaluating Baremetrics and RunSmart.

Note: RunSmart's MCP integration is coming soon and is not yet generally available. References to MCP capabilities in this article describe planned functionality that will be available in a future release.

RunSmart vs. Baremetrics at a Glance

The platforms overlap substantially, but they emphasize different problems.

Baremetrics goes deeper into customer-level subscription analytics, segmentation, retention, cancellation behavior, customer health, and failed-payment recovery.

RunSmart is designed to connect subscription performance directly to the company's broader financial picture and forward-looking financial model.

What Is RunSmart?

RunSmart by Projection Genie is a financial intelligence and forecasting platform designed to help founders understand historical business performance, monitor current subscription activity, anticipate future financial conditions, and evaluate how business decisions may affect the company before making them.

For SaaS companies, RunSmart combines two important sources of information.

QuickBooks Online provides financial intelligence, including:

• Revenue
• Operating expenses
• Payroll
• Profitability
• Cash
• Assets
• Liabilities
• Debt
• Cash flow

Stripe provides subscription intelligence, including:

• Customers
• Subscription products and plans
• MRR and ARR
• New MRR
• Reactivation MRR
• Expansion MRR
• Contraction MRR
• Churned MRR
• Customer growth
• Churn and retention
• Net Billings
• Recognized Revenue
• Cash Collected
• Deferred Revenue

Unlike standalone subscription analytics platforms, RunSmart requires QuickBooks Online. A SaaS company connects its QuickBooks financial data first and can then connect Stripe to bring subscription activity into the same financial environment.

RunSmart provides three connected views of the subscription business:

Historical: What happened in completed months?

Live: What is happening with subscriptions now?

Forecast: What may happen next?

Companies can use RunSmart for historical financial analysis, live Stripe subscription analytics, SaaS metrics, financial health analysis, budgeting, workforce planning, and other available capabilities without having 24 months of financial history.

At least 24 months of historical financial data is required for RunSmart's automated forecasting capabilities.

Once sufficient history is available, RunSmart analyzes historical behavior and automatically creates a starting forecast rather than requiring the founder to build an entire financial model manually.

The founder can then review the outlook, change assumptions, and evaluate different decisions.

RunSmart's capabilities include:

• Live current-month Stripe subscription analytics
• Historical subscription analytics and SaaS KPIs
• Interactive subscription performance charts
• Financial performance analysis
• Financial health analysis
• Budgeting and budget-versus-actual tracking
• Workforce planning
• Automated financial reporting
• Automated statistical forecasting
• Forecast model evaluation and selection
• Subscription forecasting
• Financial statement forecasting
• Cash flow and runway forecasting
• Scenario modeling
• MCP connectivity
• Portfolio-level financial intelligence

RunSmart is therefore not simply a financial forecasting platform that imports a subscription revenue total.

It analyzes the underlying Stripe subscription activity and connects that information to the broader financial performance of the company.

What Is Baremetrics?

Baremetrics is a SaaS analytics platform designed specifically around subscription businesses.

Its subscription analytics provide visibility into metrics such as:

• MRR
• ARR
• Active customers
• New MRR
• Reactivation MRR
• Expansion MRR
• Contraction MRR
• Churn
• Retention
• LTV
• ARPU
• Trials
• Customer activity

Baremetrics also provides customer-level analytics, segmentation, cohorts, cancellation analysis, and failed-payment recovery.

Its Revenue Pulse capabilities add areas such as Customer Health Score, Revenue at Risk, Discount Impact, and a Daily Briefing designed to surface subscription activity that may deserve attention.

Baremetrics also extends into broader financial planning through Forecast+.

Forecast+ can use accounting information from QuickBooks Online or Xero to support broader financial forecasting and planning.

Baremetrics therefore extends considerably beyond a traditional SaaS metrics dashboard.

What Is the Biggest Difference Between RunSmart and Baremetrics?

The biggest difference is where each platform places the center of gravity.

Baremetrics starts with the subscription customer.

Its strongest capabilities revolve around customers, recurring revenue, churn, retention, segmentation, cancellations, payment recovery, and other aspects of the subscription lifecycle.

Financial planning extends those capabilities into the broader company model.

RunSmart starts with the financial business as a whole.

Its foundation is combining accounting and operating information, analyzing financial health, forecasting financial performance, and modeling how business decisions may affect future outcomes.

Stripe then brings detailed subscription intelligence directly into that broader financial environment.

A simplified way to think about the difference is:

Baremetrics: Subscription and customer intelligence → broader financial planning

RunSmart: Subscription + financial intelligence → integrated company-wide planning

Neither approach is inherently better for every SaaS company.

The right choice depends on the problems the founder is trying to solve.

How Do RunSmart and Baremetrics Handle Live Subscription Analytics?

Both platforms help SaaS founders understand what is happening with their subscription business before the current month closes.

RunSmart's Live Subscription Performance view keeps current-month subscription activity separate from completed historical months.

This allows founders to see current measures such as:

• MRR
• ARR
• Active Customers
• ARPA

alongside month-to-date activity such as:

• New MRR
• Reactivation MRR
• Expansion MRR
• Contraction MRR
• Churned MRR
• Net New MRR
• New customers
• Reactivated customers
• Churned customers

The current partial month is not presented as though it were a completed historical reporting period.

Instead, RunSmart separates the experience into:

Completed historical months → Live current activity → Forecast months

This allows founders to monitor what is happening now without allowing an incomplete month to distort historical trend comparisons.

Baremetrics also emphasizes current subscription analytics and provides dashboards for monitoring recurring revenue, customers, churn, retention, and subscription activity.

The more important difference is therefore not simply whether either platform can show current SaaS metrics.

It is what the founder can do with that information afterward.

RunSmart is designed to connect subscription performance with the company's broader financial outlook, including revenue, profitability, financial statements, cash flow, cash balances, and runway.

How Do RunSmart and Baremetrics Handle SaaS Metrics?

Both platforms provide core SaaS metrics.

RunSmart calculates subscription KPIs from Stripe data, including measures such as:

• Active Customers
• MRR
• ARR
• MRR Growth Rate
• Customer Growth Rate
• ARR Growth
• Customer Churn Rate
• Gross Revenue Retention
• Net Revenue Retention
• Net New MRR
• SaaS Quick Ratio
• ARPA
• LTV
• Burn Multiple
• Rule of 40

RunSmart also separates MRR movements into:

• New MRR
• Reactivation MRR
• Expansion MRR
• Contraction MRR
• Churned MRR

Baremetrics has deeper roots in SaaS analytics and provides more extensive customer-level subscription analysis.

Its strengths include areas such as:

• Customer segmentation
• Cohort analysis
• Customer histories
• Trial analysis
• Cancellation behavior
• Customer health
• Revenue at risk
• Discount analysis
• Failed-payment behavior

For companies primarily seeking deep subscription and customer analytics, Baremetrics has meaningful advantages.

For companies that want their SaaS metrics analyzed alongside broader company finances, RunSmart takes a different approach.

How Do RunSmart and Baremetrics Approach Subscription Forecasting?

Both platforms forecast subscription performance, but their approaches differ.

Baremetrics' Revenue Model begins with actual subscription data and projects the components that drive MRR.

These include:

• New MRR
• Reactivation MRR
• Expansion MRR
• Contraction MRR
• Churned MRR

Baremetrics uses trailing averages of actual performance combined with user-defined growth assumptions and manual overrides to generate future projections.

It also supports Base, Upside, and Downside scenarios.

Baremetrics' separate Forecast tools can project MRR, customer count, and cash flow up to 12 months into the future.

RunSmart uses historical Stripe subscription behavior to automatically establish forecasts for subscription drivers and then allows users to modify assumptions such as:

• Pricing
• New customer growth
• Churn
• Expansion
• Contraction
• Collections

These changes can be modeled at the subscription product or plan level.

The resulting subscription forecast can then flow into RunSmart's broader financial forecast.

This allows a founder to move beyond:

What happens to MRR if churn changes?

and evaluate:

What could that change mean for future revenue, profitability, cash flow, financial health, and runway?

How Do RunSmart and Baremetrics Approach Broader Financial Forecasting?

Both RunSmart and Baremetrics Forecast+ support broader financial forecasting.

The difference is how the baseline forecast is established.

RunSmart: Automated Statistical Forecasting and Model Selection

RunSmart uses custom-built statistical forecasting algorithms to analyze historical financial behavior.

Different accounts may behave differently.

For example:

• Revenue may have a long-term growth trend.
• Payroll may move steadily over time.
• Marketing expenses may fluctuate.
• Certain costs may have seasonal patterns.
• Other accounts may remain relatively stable.

RunSmart evaluates multiple forecasting approaches rather than forcing every financial account through the same method.

It uses historical predictive testing to evaluate competing models and select the approach that performs best for the individual financial series, subject to forecastability and reliability safeguards.

The objective is to automatically establish a statistically supported baseline without requiring the founder to determine the forecasting method for every financial account.

Baremetrics Forecast+: Configurable Forecasting Approaches

Baremetrics Forecast+ provides forecasting methods that can be applied to different financial accounts.

Documented approaches include:

• Average
• Average + Growth
• Percentage of Revenue
• Manual forecasting

The specific approach can depend on the financial account being forecast.

These methods give management direct control over assumptions.

For example, one expense can be forecast using a historical average while another can be modeled as a percentage of revenue.

The distinction is therefore primarily one of workflow.

Baremetrics gives the user tools for configuring how the financial forecast should behave.

RunSmart is designed to perform more of the underlying baseline model evaluation automatically.

Why Does Forecasting Methodology Matter?

Consider a SaaS company whose revenue has generally increased over several years but also follows recurring seasonal patterns.

A simple historical average may overlook the long-term growth trajectory.

A fixed growth assumption may capture the upward direction but miss seasonal variation.

A forecasting method capable of identifying both trend and seasonality may provide a more useful baseline.

RunSmart is designed to evaluate these patterns automatically and compare how different statistical methods would have performed historically.

That does not mean a statistical forecast will always be correct.

Unexpected changes in competition, pricing, economic conditions, customer behavior, or company strategy can make any historical model less predictive.

The distinction is about how much of the initial forecasting analysis the software performs for the user.

Which Platform Supports Three-Statement Forecasting?

Both platforms can extend beyond subscription metrics into broader financial statement planning.

RunSmart forecasts:

• Profit & Loss
• Balance Sheet
• Cash Flow Statement

Baremetrics Forecast+ also supports broader financial planning using accounting information.

For founders that need financial planning in addition to SaaS analytics, both platforms therefore extend beyond simple MRR forecasting.

How Does RunSmart Connect Stripe Subscription Activity to the Financial Model?

Subscription metrics and accounting revenue do not always represent the same thing.

RunSmart separately tracks concepts including:

• MRR
• Net Billings
• Recognized Revenue
• Cash Collected
• Deferred Revenue
• Accounts Receivable

MRR represents normalized recurring subscription value.

Net Billings represents subscription amounts invoiced during the period, net of applicable credits.

Recognized Revenue reflects subscription revenue recognized over the applicable service period.

Cash Collected represents customer payments actually received.

These amounts often do not match during the same month.

For accrual-basis QuickBooks projects, RunSmart uses Recognized Revenue in the P&L forecast and incorporates applicable Deferred Revenue and Accounts Receivable effects into the broader financial model.

For cash-basis projects, Cash Collected drives subscription revenue in the P&L.

This allows Stripe subscription behavior to flow into the financial statements rather than remaining isolated within a SaaS analytics dashboard.

Which Platform Supports Scenario Planning?

Both platforms support scenario planning.

Baremetrics supports multiple scenarios within its subscription revenue modeling and financial planning capabilities.

RunSmart provides Base, Bull, Bear, and Custom subscription forecasts along with broader company financial scenarios.

RunSmart users can model changes involving:

• Subscriber growth
• Pricing
• Churn
• Expansion
• Contraction
• Collections
• Hiring
• Compensation
• Operating expenses
• Other financial assumptions

Those changes can flow through future:

• Revenue
• Expenses
• Profitability
• Cash flow
• Cash balances
• Financial health
• Runway

RunSmart automatically generates the starting financial forecast when sufficient historical information is available, after which the user can modify assumptions and test different outcomes.

Which Platform Supports Hiring and Workforce Planning?

Both RunSmart and Baremetrics' financial planning capabilities can support workforce-related planning.

RunSmart's Workforce Planner allows founders to model:

• Existing roles
• Future hires
• Compensation
• Payroll taxes
• Benefits
• Raises
• Start dates

Workforce costs can be mapped to the appropriate financial accounts, including operating expenses and cost of goods sold.

Those costs then flow into the financial forecast.

This allows founders to evaluate hiring decisions in the context of future profitability, cash flow, and runway.

How Do RunSmart and Baremetrics Handle Cash Runway?

Both platforms can help founders evaluate runway using forward-looking financial information.

That is important because a static runway calculation such as:

Current Cash ÷ Current Monthly Burn

assumes future burn remains unchanged.

In reality, future revenue, churn, hiring, expenses, financing, and other changes can alter monthly cash burn significantly.

A forward-looking financial model can therefore provide a more useful view.

RunSmart dynamically calculates future cash based on the broader financial forecast and selected scenario.

Changes to Stripe assumptions, hiring, spending, or other financial drivers can therefore alter projected runway.

Baremetrics Forecast+ also incorporates broader financial planning into cash and runway analysis.

How Do RunSmart and Baremetrics Handle Budgeting?

Both platforms provide budgeting and financial planning capabilities.

RunSmart allows a user to convert a forecast scenario into a budget and compare actual performance against that budget over time.

Budget-versus-actual analysis can extend across:

• Profit & Loss
• Balance Sheet
• Cash Flow

Baremetrics' financial planning capabilities also support budgeting and expense tracking.

What Does Baremetrics Provide That RunSmart Does Not Focus On?

Baremetrics provides several capabilities specifically designed around managing and understanding the subscription customer lifecycle.

These include:

• Extensive customer segmentation
• Detailed customer histories
• Cohort analysis
• Trial analysis
• Customer Health Scores
• Revenue at Risk
• Discount Impact
• Cancellation Insights
• Failed-payment recovery

Baremetrics Payment Recovery is specifically designed to help recover revenue from failed payments.

Cancellation Insights can collect feedback about why customers cancel and support follow-up workflows.

Revenue Pulse adds additional customer and revenue intelligence, including customer health and revenue-at-risk analysis.

These are meaningful advantages for companies that want specialized retention and revenue-operations tooling.

RunSmart is not designed to become a dunning, customer-success, or subscription CRM platform.

What Does RunSmart Provide That Baremetrics Does Not Focus On?

RunSmart places more emphasis on automatically connecting SaaS performance with broader company-wide financial intelligence.

Capabilities include:

• Automated statistical forecast model evaluation and selection
• Live Stripe subscription performance
• Historical SaaS KPI analysis
• Subscription forecasts
• Up to five-year financial forecasts
• Three-statement forecasting
• Financial Health Scorecard
• Emerging financial risk detection
• Scenario modeling
• Workforce planning
• Budget conversion and tracking
• Automated monthly reporting
• Multi-project Portfolio View
• Cross-company financial intelligence
• MCP access to financial forecasts, scenarios, SaaS performance, and financial health

RunSmart's Business Health Scorecard evaluates five areas of financial health:

• Profitability
• Liquidity
• Solvency
• Efficiency
• Capitalization

This helps founders evaluate the overall financial condition of the business alongside subscription performance.

For accounting firms, advisors, and investors, RunSmart can also provide portfolio-level visibility across multiple businesses.

How Does MCP Compare Between RunSmart and Baremetrics?

Both RunSmart and Baremetrics support Model Context Protocol, but the information exposed through MCP reflects the underlying focus of each product.

Baremetrics MCP provides read access to subscription intelligence such as:

• MRR
• ARR
• Churn
• LTV
• Customers
• Subscriptions
• Plans
• Charges
• Retention cohorts
• Account events

This allows compatible AI tools to answer questions about subscription performance conversationally.

RunSmart's MCP is designed around the broader financial intelligence contained within RunSmart.

Depending on available permissions and data, this can include:

• SaaS metrics
• Historical financial performance
• Financial statements
• Financial forecasts
• Scenario results
• Scenario comparisons
• Financial health
• Risks
• Custom forecasts
• Portfolio-level information

The difference is not simply whether an MCP connection exists.

It is the breadth and type of underlying information available for the AI agent to analyze.

Which Platform Requires Less Financial Modeling Expertise?

Both products are designed to make financial planning more accessible.

Baremetrics provides configurable financial forecasting tools that allow users to establish assumptions and determine how accounts should be projected.

RunSmart automates more of the initial forecasting-method selection.

Once enough historical information is available, RunSmart analyzes financial behavior, evaluates forecasting approaches, and creates the starting forecast automatically.

This can reduce the amount of financial-modeling work required before the founder begins scenario analysis.

For founders who want direct control over the mechanics of the forecast, Baremetrics' configurable approach may be attractive.

For founders who prefer the software to perform more of the initial statistical analysis automatically, RunSmart takes a different approach.

How Much Do RunSmart and Baremetrics Cost?

Pricing is an important part of the comparison because Stripe subscription analytics are included across RunSmart's Standard, Premium, and Pro plans.

Founders do not need to purchase RunSmart Pro simply to access Stripe analytics.

RunSmart currently offers:

• Standard — $99/month: Live and historical Stripe subscription analytics combined with QuickBooks financial analysis and other non-forecasting tools.
• Premium — $299/month: Adds 12-month subscription and company-wide financial forecasting.
• Pro — $499/month: Adds five-year forecasting, MCP, deeper financial planning, collaboration, and capabilities for more complex businesses, advisors, and portfolio operators.

RunSmart's single-project pricing does not increase simply because the company's ARR grows.

Baremetrics uses ARR-based pricing and also offers bundled plans and a build-your-own option.

Its current public pricing page displays:

• Launch — starts at $75/month
• Growth — starts at $255/month
• Scale — starts at $1,152/month

The same Baremetrics pricing page also advertises annual discounts and configurable plans, so an individual company's exact price can depend on ARR, billing frequency, and the capabilities selected.

Example: SaaS Company Around $1.8 Million ARR

A SaaS company around $1.8 million ARR falls within Baremetrics' published Growth ARR range.

RunSmart pricing remains $99, $299, or $499 per month for a single project depending on the plan selected.

The plans are not direct feature-for-feature equivalents.

A SaaS founder whose primary needs are live and historical Stripe subscription analytics combined with QuickBooks financial analysis can use RunSmart Standard for $99 per month.

A founder who also wants subscription forecasting and broader company-wide forecasting can use RunSmart Premium for $299 per month.

RunSmart Pro extends the planning horizon to five years and adds more advanced financial planning, MCP, collaboration, and other capabilities.

Baremetrics Growth places more emphasis on dedicated SaaS analytics capabilities such as custom dashboards, segmentation, benchmarks, and customer/revenue intelligence.

Baremetrics Scale is designed around more advanced financial planning and scenario capabilities.

The more useful pricing question is therefore not simply which product has the lowest monthly price.

It is which combination of subscription analytics and financial planning capabilities the company actually needs.

For founders who already need both Stripe analytics and broader financial planning, RunSmart may reduce the need to purchase separate SaaS analytics and financial-planning tools.

RunSmart vs. Baremetrics: Detailed Feature Comparison

When Might Baremetrics Fit a SaaS Company's Needs?

Baremetrics may be particularly attractive for SaaS companies whose primary challenge is deeply understanding and managing the subscription customer lifecycle.

That may include companies that prioritize:

• Detailed customer segmentation
• Cohort analysis
• Trial conversion analysis
• Customer-level subscription histories
• Customer health scoring
• Revenue-at-risk analysis
• Discount effectiveness
• Cancellation feedback
• Failed-payment recovery
• Multiple billing integrations
• Xero support

Baremetrics is particularly compelling when subscription analytics, retention, and revenue operations are central requirements.

When Might RunSmart Fit a SaaS Company's Needs?

RunSmart is designed for SaaS founders who want subscription analytics connected directly to broader financial intelligence.

A founder may want to:

• Monitor MRR and customers during the current month
• Analyze completed historical SaaS performance
• Forecast future MRR and subscription activity
• Model pricing and churn changes
• Forecast revenue and expenses
• Evaluate profitability
• Understand future cash flow
• Monitor runway
• Model hiring decisions
• Track budgets
• Evaluate financial health
• Identify emerging financial risks

RunSmart brings those workflows together.

A founder can move from:

What happened?

to:

What is happening now?

to:

What may happen next?

without separating subscription performance from the company's broader financial outlook.

For SaaS businesses using Stripe and QuickBooks Online, this can reduce the need to maintain separate subscription analytics and financial-planning platforms.

RunSmart vs. Baremetrics: Which Should SaaS Founders Choose?

Baremetrics and RunSmart overlap more than a simple “SaaS analytics versus financial forecasting” comparison might suggest.

Baremetrics has expanded considerably beyond subscription dashboards.

It provides sophisticated SaaS analytics, customer intelligence, subscription forecasting, retention capabilities, financial planning, and MCP access.

For companies that want deep customer segmentation, cohort analysis, cancellation intelligence, revenue recovery, and customer-level retention tooling, Baremetrics has significant strengths.

RunSmart takes a broader company-finance approach.

It combines live Stripe subscription activity, completed historical SaaS metrics, QuickBooks financial analysis, automated statistical forecasting, financial statements, scenario modeling, financial health analysis, workforce planning, budgeting, and runway forecasting.

Its value proposition is not simply that it calculates MRR and also creates financial forecasts.

It is that subscription performance becomes part of the broader financial model.

A change in subscribers, pricing, churn, expansion, or contraction can be evaluated in terms of its potential effect on:

• MRR
• Revenue
• Cash collections
• Profitability
• Cash flow
• Cash balances
• Financial health
• Runway

Pricing also changes the comparison.

Because Stripe subscription analytics are available across RunSmart plans, founders can use RunSmart Standard at $99 per month for live and historical subscription and financial analysis.

Premium adds 12-month subscription and company-wide forecasting at $299 per month.

Pro provides five-year forecasting and more advanced planning capabilities at $499 per month.

For founders primarily seeking deep retention and revenue-operations capabilities, Baremetrics may still be the stronger fit.

For founders who want subscription intelligence connected directly to broader financial analysis and forecasting, RunSmart may reduce the need to purchase and maintain separate SaaS analytics and financial-planning tools.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a good Baremetrics alternative for SaaS founders?

RunSmart by Projection Genie is an alternative for SaaS founders who want Stripe subscription analytics combined with QuickBooks financial analysis, forecasting, scenario modeling, budgeting, workforce planning, and financial health analysis.

RunSmart differs from Baremetrics by placing greater emphasis on connecting subscription performance with the broader financial outlook of the company.

Does RunSmart provide live SaaS subscription analytics?

Yes.

RunSmart provides a Live Subscription Performance view showing current Stripe subscription information such as MRR, ARR, Active Customers, and ARPA together with current-month subscription movements including New MRR, Reactivation MRR, Expansion MRR, Contraction MRR, Churned MRR, and Net New MRR.

Live current-month activity is kept separate from completed historical months so an incomplete month is not treated as a finalized reporting period.

Does RunSmart calculate MRR, ARR, churn, and retention?

Yes.

RunSmart calculates SaaS metrics from Stripe data, including MRR, ARR, Active Customers, customer growth, churn, GRR, NRR, Net New MRR, SaaS Quick Ratio, ARPA, LTV, Burn Multiple, and Rule of 40.

RunSmart also separately tracks New MRR, Reactivation MRR, Expansion MRR, Contraction MRR, and Churned MRR.

How is RunSmart's forecasting different from Baremetrics?

RunSmart uses custom-built statistical forecasting algorithms designed to analyze historical financial patterns, evaluate multiple forecasting methods, and automatically select an appropriate model for individual financial series.

Baremetrics Forecast+ provides configurable approaches such as averages, average plus growth, percentage-of-revenue relationships, and manual forecasting.

Baremetrics therefore gives users more direct control over the forecasting method, while RunSmart performs more of the baseline statistical-model evaluation automatically.

Does Baremetrics forecast MRR and customers?

Yes.

Baremetrics provides subscription forecasting for MRR, customer count, and cash flow.

Its Revenue Model also forecasts MRR movements such as New MRR, Reactivation MRR, Expansion MRR, Contraction MRR, and Churned MRR using actual Baremetrics data, trailing averages, growth assumptions, and scenario settings.

Can RunSmart forecast revenue, expenses, cash flow, and balance sheets?

Yes.

For businesses with sufficient historical financial data, RunSmart automatically generates integrated forecasts for the Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement.

RunSmart requires at least 24 months of historical financial data for automated forecasting.

Businesses with less history can still use available historical analysis, live subscription analytics, SaaS KPIs, financial health analysis, budgeting, and other non-forecasting capabilities depending on their plan.

Can RunSmart model how churn, pricing, hiring, and spending affect the future?

Yes.

RunSmart allows founders to model changes involving subscription and financial assumptions such as:

• Pricing
• Subscriber growth
• Churn
• Expansion
• Contraction
• Hiring
• Compensation
• Operating expenses

These assumptions can affect projected revenue, profitability, cash flow, cash balances, financial health, and runway.

Does RunSmart support recognized revenue and deferred revenue from Stripe?

Yes.

RunSmart distinguishes between MRR, Net Billings, Recognized Revenue, Cash Collected, Deferred Revenue, and Accounts Receivable.

For accrual-basis projects, subscription revenue is recognized over the applicable service period and flows into the P&L forecast, while applicable Deferred Revenue and Accounts Receivable are reflected in the broader financial model.

For cash-basis projects, Cash Collected drives the subscription revenue used in the P&L.

Does Baremetrics offer capabilities RunSmart does not?

Yes.

Baremetrics offers specialized subscription and revenue-operations capabilities that RunSmart does not currently focus on, including detailed segmentation and cohorts, Cancellation Insights, failed-payment recovery, Customer Health Scores, Revenue at Risk, and Discount Impact.

Companies that prioritize those capabilities may prefer Baremetrics.

How much does RunSmart cost compared with Baremetrics?

RunSmart Standard costs $99 per month, Premium costs $299 per month, and Pro costs $499 per month for a single project.

Stripe subscription analytics are included across RunSmart plans.

Baremetrics uses ARR-based pricing and offers bundled plans and configurable modules.

Its current public monthly plan cards display Launch starting at $75, Growth starting at $255, and Scale starting at $1,152.

Because Baremetrics pricing can vary with ARR, billing frequency, and configuration, companies should confirm their exact price before comparing plans.

Does RunSmart support MCP?

Yes.

RunSmart's MCP integration allows compatible AI tools to access authorized financial and subscription intelligence from RunSmart.

Depending on the available data and permissions, this can include SaaS metrics, historical financial performance, forecasts, financial health, scenarios, and portfolio-level information.

Baremetrics also provides an MCP server focused on SaaS metrics, customers, subscriptions, plans, cohorts, charges, and related subscription information.

Which platform is better for founders without a CFO or FP&A team?

Both platforms are designed to make financial information more accessible to SaaS operators.

Baremetrics can be particularly useful for founders who want a deep understanding of subscription customers, churn, retention, segmentation, and revenue operations.

RunSmart may be particularly useful for founders who want the software to automatically perform more of the underlying financial forecasting and connect subscription decisions to profitability, cash flow, runway, financial health, and the financial statements.

The better fit depends on whether the founder's primary challenge is managing the subscription customer lifecycle or understanding and planning the financial future of the entire company.

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