Churn is the silent killer of recurring revenue. A 5% monthly churn rate means you lose 46% of your customers every year. This calculator shows exactly how churn impacts your revenue over time.
Ending MRR = Starting MRR x (1 + growth rate - churn rate)^months
$2,000 starting MRR, 5% monthly churn, adding $500 new MRR per month, over 12 months.
Ending MRR: ~$4,200/month. Without churn, it would be $8,000. Churn cost you $3,800 in year one.
Churn compounds against you. At 5% monthly churn, you keep only 54% of customers after 12 months. Reducing churn from 5% to 3% can double your revenue over 2 years without acquiring a single new customer. Focus on retention before growth — it is the highest-ROI activity in SaaS.
Under 3% monthly is good. Under 5% is acceptable. Above 5% means your product or onboarding has problems. Above 10% is critical — fix retention before growth.
Improve onboarding (first 7 days determine retention), fix top 3 support complaints, add annual billing (reduces cancel opportunities), and proactively contact at-risk customers before they cancel.
Customer churn measures how many users leave. Revenue churn measures how much MRR you lose. If high-paying customers stay but low-paying ones leave, revenue churn can be lower than customer churn.
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