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ChartMogul, or a plugin inside your own WordPress?

If you run a membership site on WordPress and bill through Stripe, you may not need a separate metrics service at all.

What ChartMogul is good at

ChartMogul is a hosted subscription-analytics product for SaaS companies. It covers MRR, churn, cohorts and segmentation, has a built-in CRM, connects to many billing systems, and gives your team its own logins.

Where it does not fit a WordPress membership site

It lives outside WordPress and does not know your WordPress users. It is built mainly for software companies and their teams, so a lot of it goes unused on a small membership site. Revenue that never touched Stripe can go in, but you load it yourself: through its import API, a CSV upload, Google Sheets, or by adding subscriptions one at a time.

ChartMogul has a free plan for businesses tracking up to $10K of MRR (about $120K a year). Paid plans are priced by the recurring revenue you track and, as of October 2026, start at $69 a month, or $57 a month billed annually. Check their pricing page for current figures. (checked 2026-10-19)

What SadAnalytics does instead

SadAnalytics is a WordPress plugin. The free plugin reads Stripe with a read-only key and shows MRR, churn, lifetime value, cohort retention and the reports that go with them inside wp-admin, with each customer matched to their WordPress user by email. It also spots recurring payments that Stripe never set up as subscriptions, such as WooCommerce renewals, and counts them in your MRR. SadAnalytics Pro, coming soon, will add the revenue Stripe never saw, Upcoming Payments, CSV export, and control over who can see SadAnalytics.

ChartMogul compared to SadAnalytics
ChartMogulSadAnalytics
Where it runsTheir appYour wp-admin
Matches customers to WordPress usersNoYes
Revenue outside StripeBy import or APISadAnalytics Pro (coming soon), in wp-admin
Cohort retentionYesYes, free
CSV exportYesSadAnalytics Pro (coming soon)
PriceSee their pricing pageFree; SadAnalytics Pro planned from $149 a year

Questions

Is SadAnalytics a full replacement for ChartMogul?

For the core numbers of a WordPress membership site on Stripe, yes. Segmentation, a CRM and a hosted team app are not what SadAnalytics does.

Can I run both?

Yes. SadAnalytics only reads Stripe, so it does not get in the way of anything else connected to your account.

See your real recurring revenue.

The free plugin is in review at WordPress.org. SadAnalytics Pro is coming soon. Want to know when it is out? Email [email protected].

SadAnalytics Pro: coming soon