Pricing deep-dive · 2026

Clientdesk vs ChartMogul pricing (2026)

Clientdesk costs $39 once. ChartMogul charges $50-100+/mo. Here is exactly what that difference compounds into.

The price anchor

ClientdeskChartMogul
Monthly$0 — no subscription$50-100+/mo
Annual$0 after purchase$600
5-year total$39$3,000
10-year total$39$6,000

Subscription figures from the vendor's published pricing ($50-100+/mo, ~$600/yr); the Clientdesk column is the full price, paid once.

Break-even analysis

One month of ChartMogul more than covers Clientdesk, which then reads your Stripe data for free forever.

  • After 1 year: Clientdesk has cost you $39 total — ChartMogul / Baremetrics has cost $600.
  • After 3 years: Clientdesk is still $39 — the subscription is at $1,800.
  • After 5 years: Clientdesk is still $39 — the subscription is at $3,000.

What you get for $39 once

  • Revenue dashboard. MRR with trials excluded and yearly plans normalized, plus ARR, 30-day churn, LTV, ARPU and cash collected, with daily snapshots building trend history.
  • Stripe webhook ingestion. Point /webhooks/stripe at your account and customers, subscriptions and invoices cache locally, with optional signature verification and no Stripe SDK or API polling.
  • Customer portal. Per-customer tokenized portal links show plan, status, invoice history and usage bars, with strict isolation so a token only ever sees its own data.
  • Usage metering. Your backend POSTs /api/usage with an ingest key and customers see how much of their allowance they have used next to their bill.
  • Branded receipt emails. Optional SMTP sends payment-received and payment-failed notices in your name and color, and soft-fails so email problems never break webhooks.
  • No renewal, ever. The license does not expire and there is no per-seat meter — $39 is the whole price.

Pricing questions

Is it really free on GitHub?

Yes, Clientdesk is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/customer-portal-billing-mvp. The $39 buys the packaged Windows installer and 1-click setup; building from source is free.

Does Clientdesk touch my Stripe funds?

No. It only ingests webhook data from your own Stripe account into a local SQLite file, and it is 100% local with no telemetry.

Is this a subscription in disguise?

No. $39 once, no renewal, no per-customer or per-metric fees.

Clientdesk — $39, one time

Or get Clientdesk plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.