Break-even for a SaaS subscription
SaaS founders learn the exact subscriber count needed to turn profitable.
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Invoer
- Business Info
- Online SaaS platform selling monthly subscriptions at $49/mo, launched 3 months ago. Fixed costs are mostly salaries and tooling.
- Fixed Costs
- 15000
- Variable Cost Per Unit
- 4.50
- Price Per Unit
- 49.00
- Currency
- USD
- Analysis Period
- monthly
Uitvoer (fragment)
Break-Even Analysis (Monthly). Price per subscription $49.00; variable cost per subscriber $4.50 → contribution margin $44.50/unit (90.8%). Fixed costs $15,000/mo. Break-even = $15,000 ÷ $44.50 ≈ 338 active subscribers, or ~$16,538 in monthly revenue. Every subscriber beyond 338 adds $44.50 of profit. At your $49 price, even modest churn matters: maintaining 350+ paying users keeps you profitable. Reducing fixed costs by $2K lowers break-even to ~293 subscribers.