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.
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MRRdue vs Churnkey
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/mo flat. Competitive details verified July 2026, always confirm current pricing on their site.
Side by side
| Feature | Churnkey | MRRdue |
|---|---|---|
| Billing 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/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 and a native MCP server for ChatGPT/Claude/Cursor, on the $29/mo plan |
Choose MRRdue when
- You are bootstrapped and want the recovery workflow, not the enterprise suite.
- You want zero write access, zero SDK, zero vendor emails to your customers.
- You want to start this afternoon with a restricted key and a ranked queue.
Common questions
Is MRRdue a Churnkey alternative for voluntary churn too?
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.
Why is MRRdue so much cheaper?
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.
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