PorchOps vs Baremetrics Recover
A dunning add-on to a subscription-analytics product.
Baremetrics is a subscription-analytics product (MRR, churn, and LTV dashboards). Recover is its dunning add-on: automated reminders, in-app banners and paywalls, and one-click card-update links.
| Baremetrics Recover | PorchOps | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price to run recovery | ~$204/mo (Launch $75 + Recover $129) | $47/mo |
| Recovery copy | Automated templated email | AI-drafted, approved by you |
| Scope | Analytics product + dunning add-on | Whole operator back office |
| Pricing | Public, self-serve | Public, self-serve |
What each one costs.
Recover is a +$129/mo add-on to a Baremetrics plan (Launch $75/mo, Growth $255/mo, Scale $1,152/mo). So the real floor to run dunning is about $204/mo (Launch plus Recover). Both are fully public and self-serve; Recover carries a recover-more-than-you-pay-or-next-month-free guarantee.
PorchOps is $47/mo (Growth), published, no sales call.
Baremetrics Recover pricing, checked 2026-08-28The model is the difference.
- Recover is an add-on to an analytics product you pay for first, so the floor to run dunning is roughly four times PorchOps Growth.
- Recover sends automated templated dunning; Lou drafts per-customer copy for your approval.
- Lou is a named agent, one of five (Lou, Frankie, Hank, Dale, Inky), not a single-purpose dunning feature. Recovery is the wedge, not the ceiling.
- Drafts by default: Lou writes context-aware, per-customer recovery copy that you approve before it sends. The dunning tools send templated merge-field email automatically, with no operator in the loop.
- Flat, published price. No sales call to find out what it costs.
When to pick them instead.
Pick Baremetrics if you primarily want subscription analytics and are happy to bolt recovery onto it, if you want a proven, guaranteed-ROI dunning add-on rather than an AI agent, or if you need billing platforms beyond Stripe (Recurly, Chargebee, Braintree) that PorchOps' Stripe-first wedge does not cover yet.
PorchOps is pre-launch and Stripe-first at launch, and we do not publish a recovery rate because we do not have a proven one yet. If you need a billing stack beyond Stripe today, or a track record of recovered dollars, that is a real reason to look elsewhere.