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Baremetrics vs Dagger

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Baremetrics

Business Intelligence

Subscription analytics for SaaS

From
$75/month
Free plan
No
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Dagger

Developer Tools

Programmable CI/CD engine that runs your pipeline as containers on any runner

From
Free
Free plan
Yes
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The short version

  • Dagger has a free plan, then $50/mo; Baremetrics starts at $75/mo.
  • Only Baremetrics lists revenue Metrics; only Dagger lists pipelines as code.
  • Where Baremetrics falls short: payment Recovery and Cancellation Insights are separate add-ons at $129 a month each.
  • Prices and features on this page were last checked on 13 November 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Baremetrics and Dagger actually diverge.

Attributes where Baremetrics and Dagger differ
AttributeBaremetricsDagger
Starting price$75/monthFree
Pricing modelSubscriptionPer month per team for Dagger Cloud
Free tierNoYes
PlatformsWeb, APILinux, macOS, Windows, Self-hosted
CategoryBusiness IntelligenceDeveloper Tools

Not yet recorded: founded for Dagger.

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Baremetrics

  • Revenue Metrics
  • Forecasting
  • Benchmarking
  • Cancellation Insights
  • Email Reports
  • Stripe
  • Braintree
  • Recurly

Only in Dagger

  • Pipelines as code
  • Local and CI parity
  • Content-addressed caching
  • Dagger Functions and modules
  • CI-provider agnostic
  • Dagger Cloud traces
  • GitHub Checks integration
  • Container-native execution

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Baremetrics

  • Subscription metrics and MRR reporting from Stripe and similar billing systemsnot Dagger
  • Churn and retention analysisnot Dagger
  • Failed payment recovery through the add-onnot Dagger
  • Cancellation surveys to understand why customers leavenot Dagger

Dagger

  • A platform team maintaining near-identical build YAML across forty repositories that wants one versioned module every repository calls insteadnot Baremetrics
  • An engineering organisation migrating off a CI provider that does not want to rewrite every pipeline as part of the migrationnot Baremetrics
  • A team whose engineers waste hours pushing commits to debug CI-only failures and needs to reproduce the exact run locallynot Baremetrics
  • A monorepo where most commits touch a small subset of services and cache-accurate step skipping cuts build minutes materiallynot Baremetrics

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Baremetrics

  • Priced on the revenue it measures, so the bill rises with your ARR rather than with usage: $75 a month up to $360K ARR, $255 to $3.6M and $1,152 above that
  • Payment Recovery and Cancellation Insights are separate add-ons at $129 a month each
  • The advertised prices assume annual billing with a discount of up to 35 percent
  • There is no free tier, only a trial

Dagger

  • Dagger is not a CI provider, so you keep paying for GitHub Actions or GitLab runners underneath it; the Dagger Cloud subscription is an addition to your CI bill, not a replacement for it
  • Writing pipelines in Go or TypeScript raises the barrier to entry: a release engineer who could edit a YAML step now needs to read code, and the people who can fix a broken build shrink to those comfortable with the SDK
  • The engine runs as a container on the runner and needs a persistent cache volume to deliver its main benefit, so ephemeral CI runners give you correctness without the speed, and provisioning durable cache storage is extra platform work
  • The Team plan caps at ten users and ten million events per month; an organisation of any size crosses that quickly and moves to Enterprise pricing that is not published, so cost at scale is unknowable up front
  • The module ecosystem is young and thinly maintained relative to the marketplace of a mature CI provider, so integrations that exist as a one-line Action often have to be written yourself as a Dagger function

Pricing, plan by plan

Baremetrics

$75/month
  • Launch$75/mo
    • Target $0-360K ARR
    • Single integration
    • Core analytics features
  • Growth$255/mo
    • Target $360K-$3.6M ARR
    • Two integrations
    • Advanced features
  • Scale$1,152/mo
    • Target $3.6M+ ARR
    • Unlimited integrations
    • Enterprise features

Dagger

Free
  • IndividualFree
    • One user
    • One million events per month
    • Workflow logs and function call traces
  • Team$50/mo
    • Up to ten users
    • Ten million events per month
    • Module insights and module catalogue
  • EnterpriseOn request
    • Custom user and event limits
    • SSO
    • Managed single-tenant deployment

Which should you pick?

Choose Baremetrics if

  • You need revenue metrics.
  • You work on Web, API.
  • You also want forecasting.
Baremetrics review

Choose Dagger if

  • You need pipelines as code.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on Linux, macOS, Windows, Self-hosted.
  • You also want local and ci parity.
Dagger review

Questions people ask

Is Baremetrics or Dagger better?
Neither clearly leads. Baremetrics starts at $75/month and Dagger at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Baremetrics or Dagger?
Dagger has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at $75/month for Baremetrics and Free for Dagger.
Does Baremetrics or Dagger run on more platforms?
Baremetrics runs on Web, API. Dagger runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, Self-hosted.
Can I use Dagger for free?
Yes. Dagger has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Baremetrics starts at $75/month.
What is Baremetrics best used for?
Baremetrics is most often used for subscription metrics and mrr reporting from stripe and similar billing systems, churn and retention analysis, failed payment recovery through the add-on, cancellation surveys to understand why customers leave. Of those, subscription metrics and mrr reporting from stripe and similar billing systems and churn and retention analysis are not what Dagger is typically brought in for.
What can Baremetrics do that Dagger cannot?
Baremetrics covers Revenue Metrics, Forecasting, Benchmarking, Cancellation Insights. Dagger covers Pipelines as code, Local and CI parity, Content-addressed caching, Dagger Functions and modules.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Baremetrics: How much does Baremetrics' Launch plan cost per month?

Baremetrics' Launch plan starts at $75 per month with annual billing, or $49 per month with annual prepayment (35% discount when paying yearly).

Source
Dagger: Does Dagger replace GitHub Actions?

No. Dagger runs inside GitHub Actions or any other CI. It replaces the YAML that describes your pipeline steps, not the trigger and runner layer.

Baremetrics: What is the difference between Baremetrics plans?

Launch includes one integration and core analytics; Growth ($255/month) adds a second integration and advanced dashboards; Scale ($1,152/month) includes unlimited integrations and enterprise features.

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Dagger: Is the engine open source?

Yes, the Dagger engine and SDKs are open source and free. Dagger Cloud, the observability product, is what costs money.

Baremetrics: What add-ons are available in Baremetrics?

Payment Recovery and Cancellation Insights are available as add-ons at $129 per month each to automate failed payment recovery and churn reduction.

Source
Dagger: What is an event in the pricing?

Dagger Cloud meters pipeline telemetry events. One million per month is free; the Team plan at 50 USD per month allows ten million.

Baremetrics: Is there a free trial for Baremetrics?

Yes, Baremetrics offers a free trial available for new users to test the platform before committing to a paid plan.

Source
Dagger: Can I run the same pipeline on my laptop?

Yes, that is the main reason teams adopt it. The dagger CLI executes the identical graph locally, so CI-only failures become reproducible.

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