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Tenure vs Chargebee Retention. Row by row.
Chargebee Retention, formerly Brightback and now part of Chargebee Growth, personalises cancel pages with targeting and experiments, on Chargebee Billing, Stripe or Recurly. Tenure also acts before the cancel click, publishes its prices, and counts a save only when billing confirms it.
A filled dot means the product’s own public pages describe acting at that moment.
Side by side
Row by row, including where they lead.
| Tenure | Chargebee Retention | Stronger | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Tenure:$0 up to 100 active subscribers, $49 up to 1,000, $199 up to 10,000, published. Free for everyone during early access. | Chargebee Retention:Growth Starter is free for Chargebee Billing customers; otherwise custom pricing by active subscribers. | Different approach |
| When it acts | Tenure:Before the click (going quiet, milestones, trial endings, plan limits), at the click, and after (win-back). | Chargebee Retention:Cancel pages, with trial-conversion and win-back plays described under Chargebee Growth. AI churn scores flag subscribers likely to cancel. | Tenure |
| How an offer is chosen | Tenure:Per customer, from what they pay, how they use your app and what they say; one of your offers, or none. | Chargebee Retention:Offers targeted by segment, lifetime value, tenure and usage. | Different approach |
| Experiments | Tenure:How each offer did: shown, accepted, confirmed, lasted, cost. | Chargebee Retention:Randomized, rules-based or ML-based tests. | Chargebee Retention |
| Failed payments | Tenure:Left to your billing provider; offers wait while a payment retries. | Chargebee Retention:Part of Chargebee Billing, not Retention: ML-powered payment retries. | Different approach |
| Billing providers | Tenure:Stripe and Chargebee. | Chargebee Retention:Chargebee Billing, Stripe and Recurly. | Chargebee Retention |
| Cancel compliance | Tenure:One-step cancel on by default for every customer, and exits no page can hide. | Chargebee Retention:A one-click cancel experience can be set up, with surveys required, optional or hidden. | Tenure |
| Getting started | Tenure:On your own, on Stripe or Chargebee: your site address, a drafted plan, free to start. | Chargebee Retention:Sign up free on Chargebee Billing, or get a demo. | Different approach |
Choose Chargebee Retention if
- You’re on Chargebee Billing and want retention from the same vendor.
- You bill on Recurly.
- You want randomized or ML-based tests of your cancel pages.
Choose Tenure if
- You want to reach customers before they click cancel.
- You’re on Stripe and want a published price.
- You want saves counted from billing, with the count behind every figure.
- You’d rather install with your coding agent and approve what it proposes.
Chargebee Retention details from its own public pages, checked 5 October 2026: Chargebee Retention, Pricing (Growth), Chargebee Growth, Billing integrations, Click-to-cancel guide (Feb 2024). Products change; tell us if something here is out of date.
See the plan Tenure would draft for your app.
Give it your site address. It reads your pricing and your billing catalog, drafts your cancel flow, offers and emails in about a minute, and waits for you. Nothing reaches a customer until you switch it on.