Choose Churnkey when
- You have RevOps headcount and want managed cancel flows, retries, and payment walls.
- You are past ~$1M ARR where a $250+/mo retention suite pays for itself.
Churnkey is a full retention platform — cancel flows, precision retries, payment walls, session recordings — built for funded teams with RevOps ownership, priced accordingly. If you mostly need failed-payment recovery without handing a vendor deep billing access, you are the founder MRRdue was built for.
Churnkey: roughly $250–$700+/mo depending on volume. MRRdue: $29–$49/mo flat. Competitive details verified July 2026 — always confirm current pricing on their site.
| Feature | Churnkey | MRRdue |
|---|---|---|
| Stripe access required | Write access (retries, billing edits, or broad OAuth scopes) | Read-only restricted key — verified with a write-probe at connect |
| Who emails your customers | They send from their infrastructure | You send — templates, mailto/Gmail, draft-to-inbox, or your own endpoint via signed handoff |
| Cancel-flow interception | Yes — in-app cancel flows with offers | No — MRRdue flags scheduled cancellations and at-risk customers so you reach out personally |
| Precision retries / payment walls | Yes | Never — read-only by architecture |
| Price at indie scale | ~$3,000+/year entry | $290–$490/year on annual billing |
| Setup | SDK/JS integration + OAuth | Paste one read-only restricted key; first sync in minutes |
| REST API / agent access | Enterprise integrations | Read-only recovery API on Growth; MCP server coming soon |
Partially. MRRdue scores retention risk (scheduled cancellations, delinquency, failing invoices) and alerts you early — but it does not intercept in-app cancellations with offers the way Churnkey's cancel flows do. For involuntary churn (failed payments), MRRdue covers the workflow end to end, read-only.
Different scope and different architecture. MRRdue doesn't operate sending infrastructure, retry engines, or in-app SDKs on your behalf — it observes, scores, and arms you. That focus is what makes both the price and the read-only promise possible.
Explore the demo with sample data, then connect a read-only restricted key. Your 14-day trial starts only after a successful connection — no card required.