COMPARISON

RecurMend vs Churnkey

Both recover failed Stripe payments. Churnkey bundles cancellation deflection and prices by churn volume; we stay recovery-only at a flat $79/mo with holdout lift measurement built in.

Which one fits

Both products recover failed Stripe payments. The right pick depends on scope, pricing predictability, and how much you care about lift measurement.

Pick RecurMend if

You want recovery focused, without cancellation deflection bundled in.
You want a predictable flat fee that doesn't scale with churn volume.
You care about holdout-group lift measurement from day one.
Your team is small and you want OAuth-in-2-minutes setup.

Pick Churnkey if

You want cancellation flows + payment recovery in one tool.
You'll run A/B tests on save offers and exit surveys.
Customer Timelines and rules-based retry logic matter to you.
Your churn volume is stable enough that tiered pricing is predictable.

Feature by feature

Verified May 2026 · churnkey.co

	RecurMend	Churnkey
Recovery emails	✓	✓
SMS recovery	Growth+	✓
Branded card-update page (custom domain)	✓	✓
Cancellation flow / save offers	—	✓
Exit surveys + feedback capture	—	✓
Customer Timelines	—	✓
A/B testing on flows	—	Core+
AI translations / Adaptive Offers / Account Agent	—	Intelligence
Holdout-group lift measurement	✓	—
Pricing model	Flat from $79/mo	Tiered ($250+/mo)
Annual price (starter tier)	$780/yr ($65/mo)	$3,000/yr ($250/mo)

The pricing math

Both products price differently. Here's what you'd pay at three SMB scale points.

<$5k/mo churn

RecurMend

$79/mo · Starter

Churnkey

$250/mo · Starter

$5k–$10k/mo churn

RecurMend

$79/mo · Starter

Churnkey

Custom · between tiers

$10k+/mo churn

RecurMend

$149/mo · Growth

Churnkey

Custom · Core+

The holdout-measured difference

Live lift chart on every dashboard. Control cohort gets no outreach; test cohort gets the full sequence. The gap is the recovery you actually drove.

RecurMend dashboard lift chart showing recovery rate per week, test cohort above control cohort

Scope, honestly

We're not trying to win every row. Some things Churnkey does that we deliberately don't — and vice versa.

What Churnkey does that we don't

Cancellation flows with save offers, exit surveys, and discount logic.
Customer Timelines — chronological per-customer activity view.
A/B testing on cancellation and recovery flows (Core tier+).
Adaptive Offers, Account Agent, and Feedback AI (Intelligence tier).
AI-powered translations for international save flows (Intelligence tier).

What we do that Churnkey doesn't

Holdout-group lift measurement built in — control vs test cohorts from day one.
Magic-link card update on your own domain (Scale tier).
Flat-fee pricing that doesn't change as your churn volume grows.
OAuth-in-2-minutes Stripe Connect setup — no engineering ticket.

Switching from Churnkey

Both tools connect to Stripe via OAuth — no data migration step.
Disconnect Churnkey's Stripe access, then connect RecurMend. The next failed payment flows through our sequence instead of theirs.
Customer data stays in Stripe. Neither tool stores card numbers.
Cancellation flows don't migrate because we don't run them. If you depend on Churnkey's save offers, keep that piece and route only the recovery layer through us.

Common questions

No, and we don't plan to. Cancellation deflection is a separate product category with its own design language (save offers, exit surveys, downgrade paths). We focus exclusively on the recovery-communication layer for failed payments — branded email + one-tap card update + holdout-measured lift. If save flows are critical to your business, Churnkey or a dedicated cancellation tool is the right pick alongside or instead of RecurMend.

Churnkey's Starter tier is $250/mo billed annually for teams with under $5k/mo churn volume; larger volumes move to Core or Intelligence tiers with custom pricing. RecurMend is flat: $79/mo (or $65 annual) regardless of your churn volume, with Growth ($149/mo) and Scale ($299/mo) tiers gated by feature scope, not volume. At typical SMB scale you'll pay ~3× less on RecurMend; at enterprise scale the gap widens because our pricing doesn't scale with you.

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Facts about Churnkey on this page verified 2026-05-11 against churnkey.co/pricing. We re-verify quarterly; if you spot anything outdated, email hello@recurmend.co.