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Run the numbers

You already pay for this.
You just don't have it.

Four subscriptions, a week a month of finance time, and the decisions made late because the number arrived late. Put your own figures in.

What knowing your numbers costs today

Three costs. Only one of them shows up on an invoice.

The subscriptions
Metrics in one tool, the plan in a second, the sales forecast in a third, dashboards on top. Each one is good at its slice.
The catch
Every one of them renews. None of them adds up to one number.
The assembly
Your finance lead spends the first week of every month exporting, pasting and reconciling until the figures agree with each other.
The catch
You hired them to analyse the business. A quarter of their year goes on building the file instead.
The late call
A deal closes below your floor because nobody saw it while it was still open. A segment starts churning in January and reaches the board pack in April.
The catch
Nothing bills you for these two. They cost more than the software does.
You pay already. Money every month, hours every week — and the number still arrives too late to do anything about it.
Your numbers

Put your own figures in. The arithmetic is yours to check.

Two things you can count are on this page: what you'd stop paying, and the time you'd get back. They are kept apart, and neither is stacked into the other.

Your annual recurring revenue
$10M
$1M$3M$10M$30M$100M
Finance and analyst people on the numbers
2people
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What you pay for today

Tick what you run. These are categories, not products — the tools we took the prices from are named below, at the low end of what each one charges a company your size.

Your savings on software alone
$106,000a year
$130,000 you pay today − $24,000 Beacon. Software only — the time below is counted separately.
What you pay today$130,000/yr
Beacon, everything included$24,000/yr
Metrics $20,000 Planning $30,000 Forecasting $55,000 Dashboards $25,000
Time saved
120 days

A year of finance time back on the analysis. One week in four, per person, goes on assembly today.

Worth about $62,600 in paid hours at $120,000 fully loaded — not added to the figure above.

Software rates are the low end of published list and median contract prices in each category, scaled to your size. Time assumes one week a month per person on assembling and reconciling numbers. Beacon's figure is the published price, billed monthly.

The assumptions

Here are the tools, and the prices we used.

Every tool named here is good at what it does — that is why companies buy them. The problem was never quality. It is that none of them can see the other four. We took the low end of what each one charges, because a calculator that flatters itself is worth nothing to you.

Category
The tools we priced
At $10M ARR
Metrics
ChartMogul, Baremetrics, Maxio.ChartMogul's enterprise tier starts at $19,900/yr from $10M ARR.
$20,000/yr
Planning
Jirav, Mosaic, Abacum, Drivetrain, Pigment.Median contracts run $24,000 (Mosaic) to $74,000 (Pigment). We used the SMB floor.
$30,000/yr
Forecasting
Gong, Clari, Aviso.Median contracts of $55,000, $75,000 and $74,000 a year. We used the lowest.
$55,000/yr
Dashboards
Sigma, Looker, Metabase.Sigma's median is $66,540/yr; small deployments start near $20,000. We used the bottom of that band.
$25,000/yr
Warehouse
Snowflake or BigQuery, Fivetran, dbt.Fivetran's median alone is $45,900/yr. We priced the whole layer below that.
$24,000/yr
Beacon
All five, on one foundation, plus the steering none of them do.
$24,000/yr

Not a discount

One price sized to your revenue. It does not go up per seat, per dashboard or per person you invite.

Readers are free

Board members, investors and advisors never pay and are never counted. Nothing in the table above works that way.

Free plan at every size

If you only want recurring revenue intelligence, Beacon is free. The table above is the paid comparison.

The static version of this comparison, without the sliders, is on what Beacon replaces. Prices are published list and median contract figures as of July 2026.

The other side of it

Everything above is what you stop spending. This is what you start making.

Beacon moves three numbers: churn, expansion, and new business. Here is what one point on each is worth on your own revenue.

+1 point

Reduce churn

Churn shows up a quarter after it starts. Beacon names the accounts turning now, while there is still a renewal to save.

+1 point

Increase expansion

The signals sit in usage and billing. Beacon surfaces them before the renewal date, and shows what your pricing changes actually did.

+1 point

Win more deals

Beacon shows which segments actually pay back, so sales works the deals that close and the agents chase the rest.

If Beacon moved each one by a single point

Three points on the growth rate, compounding for three years, on the revenue you entered above.

Your growth today
Your ARR in 3 years, without Beacon
$17.3M
Your ARR in 3 years, with Beacon
$18.6M
The difference in year three
$1.3M
Added up across all three years, that is $2.4M of revenue you would not otherwise have booked. Beacon over the same period costs about $71,000 — revenue against cost, not profit against cost, but the gap is not a close one. An illustration on your own figures, not a promise.

None of it counts the capacity you get back, the bottlenecks you stop hitting, or the meeting where three people stop bringing three versions of ARR. You will know within a month of connecting billing which of these are true for you.

Check it on your own data

Every number on this page becomes yours the moment you connect billing.

Free at any size, no card. Connect billing and the comparison above stops being an estimate.