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SaaS Churn Rate Calculator
Calculate your monthly and annual churn rate for both customers and revenue - and see exactly what it costs your business over 12 months.
Total active customers at the beginning of the month.
Customers who cancelled or did not renew.
Total monthly recurring revenue at start of period.
Revenue lost from cancellations and downgrades. Exclude expansion revenue.
What is SaaS churn rate?
Churn rate measures how quickly a SaaS business loses customers or revenue over a given period. It is one of the most important metrics in SaaS because it directly determines whether a business can grow - a company spending heavily on acquisition but losing customers just as fast will never build durable revenue.
There are two distinct churn metrics every SaaS founder should track:
Customer Churn Rate = (Customers Lost / Customers at Start) x 100
Revenue Churn Rate = (MRR Lost / MRR at Start) x 100
The two can diverge significantly. If your biggest customers are churning, your revenue churn will be much higher than your customer churn - which is the more dangerous scenario. Tracking both gives you a clearer picture of what is actually happening in the business.
3.8%
Average annual churn rate for B2B SaaS in 2025.
Monthly, that is around 0.3%. Enterprise SaaS sits around 1% monthly. SMB-focused SaaS typically sees 3-7% monthly. Where you land depends heavily on who you sell to.
2025 churn rate benchmarks by segment
Churn rates vary significantly by company size, market segment, and pricing. Use these benchmarks to understand where your number sits in context.
| Segment | Monthly churn | Annual equivalent | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise SaaS (>$1k ARPU) | ~1% | ~11% | Strong |
| Mid-market SaaS | 1-2% | 11-21% | Acceptable |
| SMB SaaS (general) | 3-5% | 30-46% | High |
| Marketing and sales tools | 4.8-8.1% | 44-64% | Very High |
| Low-cost products (<$25 ARPU) | ~6.1% | ~53% | Very High |
| Usage-based pricing | ~2.1% | ~22% | Acceptable |
One nuance worth knowing: usage-based pricing reduces churn by 46% compared to flat-rate models. If you are seeing high churn and currently charging a flat monthly fee, your pricing model may be part of the problem.
How to reduce SaaS churn
Churn is a symptom. The cause is almost always one of three things: customers are not reaching value fast enough, the product is not sticky enough, or the wrong customers are being acquired in the first place.
- Shorten time-to-value in onboarding
Most churn happens in the first 30-90 days. If new customers do not experience the core value of your product quickly, they will cancel before forming a habit. Map your activation path and cut every unnecessary step.
- Fix your ICP before fixing retention
If you are acquiring customers who are not a true fit for your product, no amount of onboarding improvement will fix churn. Analyse your churned customers - are they from a specific segment, size, or acquisition channel? Stop acquiring them.
- Build early warning signals into the product
Customers rarely cancel without giving signals first - declining usage, skipped logins, support tickets. Build monitoring for these signals so you can intervene before churn happens, not after.
- Talk to churned customers within 48 hours
Most teams send a cancellation survey and move on. The most valuable churn insight comes from a short call within 48 hours of cancellation - when the reason is still fresh and the customer may still be recoverable.
- Increase switching costs through integrations
Customers who have connected your product to their other tools, workflows, and data are significantly harder to churn. Prioritise integrations and data portability features that embed your product into your customers' stack.
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