Churn Rate Calculator
Calculate customer churn rate and revenue churn rate for your SaaS business. See annualized rates, average customer lifespan, and benchmark against your segment.
How It Works
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Enter Customer Data
Input customers at start of month and how many you lost
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Add Revenue Data
Enter your starting MRR and MRR lost to cancellations and downgrades
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See Your Churn Metrics
Get logo churn, revenue churn, annualized rates, and average customer lifespan with benchmarks
Customer Churn
How many customers did you lose?
Customers at Start of Month
Customers Lost
Revenue Churn
How much MRR did you lose?
MRR at Start of Month ($)
MRR Lost ($)
Churn Results
Your customer and revenue churn rates
Monthly Logo Churn
0.0%Monthly Revenue Churn
0.0%Annualized Logo Churn
0.0%Annualized Revenue Churn
0.0%Avg Customer Lifespan
—Churn Benchmarks
Monthly churn rates by segment
Your Logo Churn
Monthly customer churn0.0%
Enterprise SaaS
Typical: 0.5-1% monthly0.5-1%
Mid-Market SaaS
Typical: 1-2% monthly1-2%
SMB SaaS
Typical: 3-7% monthly3-7%
Understanding Churn Rate
The metric that reveals whether your SaaS business is building lasting value
What Is Churn Rate?
Churn rate measures the percentage of customers or revenue you lose over a given period. For SaaS companies, it is the single most important retention metric because it directly determines your growth ceiling. Even small differences in monthly churn compound dramatically over a year — a company with 3% monthly churn loses 31% of its customer base annually, while 5% monthly churn means losing 46%. No amount of new customer acquisition can overcome high churn at scale.
How to Calculate Churn Rate
There are two core churn formulas every SaaS company should track:
Logo Churn Rate = (Customers Lost / Customers at Start of Period) x 100
Revenue Churn Rate = (MRR Lost / MRR at Start of Period) x 100
Example: If you start the month with 500 customers and lose 15, your logo churn rate is (15 / 500) x 100 = 3.0%. If your starting MRR is $100,000 and you lose $4,000 to cancellations and downgrades, your revenue churn rate is ($4,000 / $100,000) x 100 = 4.0%.
To annualize monthly churn, use the compound formula: Annual Churn = 1 - (1 - Monthly Churn)^12. This accounts for compounding and gives a more accurate picture than simply multiplying by 12.
Logo Churn vs Revenue Churn
Logo churn counts the number of customers who cancel, while revenue churn measures the dollars lost. You need both because they often tell different stories:
High logo churn, low revenue churn: You are losing many small customers but retaining your high-value accounts. This is common in PLG companies with a free-to-paid funnel where small plans churn frequently.
Low logo churn, high revenue churn: Few customers leave, but the ones that do are your largest accounts — or existing customers are downgrading. This signals a problem with your enterprise or mid-market retention.
Tracking both gives you a complete picture. Logo churn shows product-market fit breadth, while revenue churn shows the financial impact and helps prioritize which customer segments need attention.
What Is a Good Churn Rate for SaaS?
Good churn rates vary significantly by customer segment:
Enterprise SaaS: 0.5-1% monthly (6-12% annually)
Long contracts, high switching costs, and dedicated customer success teams keep churn low. Enterprise customers are harder to acquire but much stickier.
Mid-Market SaaS: 1-2% monthly (12-22% annually)
A mix of annual and monthly contracts. Companies in this segment benefit from proactive customer success and strong onboarding to reduce early churn.
SMB SaaS: 3-7% monthly (31-59% annually)
Small businesses have higher failure rates, lower switching costs, and are more price-sensitive. SMB churn is inherently higher, which is why volume and efficient acquisition matter.
The key insight: your churn rate should be evaluated relative to your segment. A 3% monthly churn is excellent for SMB SaaS but alarming for an enterprise product.
How to Reduce Churn
Improve Onboarding
Time to value: Get users to the "aha moment" as fast as possible — most churn happens in the first 90 days
Guided setup: Use checklists, interactive tours, and milestone emails to drive activation
Invest in Customer Success
Health scoring: Track usage patterns and engagement to identify at-risk accounts before they cancel
Proactive outreach: Don't wait for cancellation requests — reach out when engagement drops
Strengthen the Product
Feature adoption: Analyze which features retained customers use that churned customers don't, then drive adoption
Integrations: The more embedded your product is in a customer's workflow, the higher the switching cost
Optimize Pricing
Value alignment: Ensure pricing scales with the value customers receive — misalignment is a top churn driver
Annual contracts: Offer discounts for annual commitments to reduce monthly churn and improve cash flow
Churn Rate and Customer Lifespan
Churn rate directly determines the average lifespan of a customer:
Average Customer Lifespan (months) = 1 / Monthly Churn Rate
For example, a 3% monthly churn rate implies an average customer lifespan of 1 / 0.03 = 33.3 months. Reducing churn from 5% to 3% extends the average lifespan from 20 months to 33 months — a 65% increase.
This feeds directly into Customer Lifetime Value (LTV):
LTV = ARPU x Average Customer Lifespan x Gross Margin
Every percentage point reduction in churn increases both lifespan and LTV. This is why retention improvements often have a larger impact on business value than acquisition improvements — they compound across your entire customer base.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Logo churn: Tracks the number of customers who cancel
- Revenue churn: Measures the dollar amount of MRR lost
Revenue Churn Rate = (MRR Lost / MRR at Start of Period) x 100
To annualize, use the compound formula:
Annual Churn = 1 - (1 - Monthly Churn)^12
This accounts for compounding and is more accurate than multiplying monthly churn by 12.
They often diverge: you might lose many small customers (high logo churn) while retaining high-value accounts (low revenue churn), or vice versa. Tracking both tells you whether you have a breadth problem or a value problem.
- Enterprise SaaS: 0.5-1% monthly (6-12% annually)
- Mid-market SaaS: 1-2% monthly (12-22% annually)
- SMB SaaS: 3-7% monthly (31-59% annually)
For example, 3% monthly churn means an average lifespan of 33.3 months, while 5% churn means only 20 months.
This directly impacts Customer Lifetime Value (LTV = ARPU x Lifespan x Gross Margin), so even small churn reductions significantly increase the value of every customer.
- Improve onboarding: Get users to the "aha moment" faster — most churn happens in the first 90 days
- Invest in customer success: Use health scores and proactive outreach to catch at-risk accounts early
- Strengthen the product: Drive adoption of sticky features and build integrations that increase switching costs
- Optimize pricing: Align pricing with value delivered and offer annual contracts to reduce monthly churn
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