Comparison
Thonest vs TrustMRR
Both prove your revenue is real by reading it from your payment processor instead of trusting what you type. The difference is what happens next: TrustMRR turns it into a listing that buyers browse, and Thonest turns it into a story your customers read.
What TrustMRR is
TrustMRR is a directory of startups with verified revenue, built around buying and selling them. Founders connect a payment provider, and their listing shows a verified MRR figure alongside an asking price and growth rate. Its free TrustCard badge puts that figure on your own site.
| TrustMRR | Thonest | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A directory and marketplace for buying and selling SaaS businesses | A verified revenue timeline you publish and embed on your own site |
| What the badge shows | Current MRR, 30-day growth, subscriber count, and which provider verified it | Your full revenue history, plus the launches, pricing changes and pivots behind it, each carrying the real numbers from 30, 90 and 180 days after |
| How far back it goes | Today's figure and recent growth | As far back as your payments go |
| Where the page lives | Your listing on their site, plus an embeddable badge | Your own page, and one line of code on your own domain |
| How revenue is verified | Read-only connection to your payment provider | Read-only connection to your payment provider |
| Payment providers | Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, RevenueCat, Superwall, Creem, Dodo Payments | Stripe, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy |
| Who it speaks to | Buyers and acquirers looking for a business to purchase | Customers, investors and candidates deciding whether to back you |
| Price | The badge is free | Free. $79/month only if you run more than one business |
When TrustMRR is the better choice
- You want to sell your company. TrustMRR is a marketplace with buyers on it and traffic of its own. Thonest is not, and will not pretend otherwise.
- Your revenue runs through RevenueCat, Polar, Superwall, Creem or Dodo Payments. We read Stripe, Paddle and Lemon Squeezy, and nothing else yet.
- You want inbound from being listed somewhere people already browse, rather than a page you send traffic to yourself.
When Thonest is the better choice
- You want proof that survives a second look. A current MRR figure says the business exists today. A timeline says it has been growing for three years, and shows what you did to get there.
- You want the proof on your own site, under your own domain, next to your own pricing — not a link out to somebody else's directory.
- You want to explain your numbers, not just show them. Every launch and price change arrives with the real figures from either side of it, so your reader sees what actually happened rather than taking your word for it.
- You would rather your prospects did not land on a marketplace for buying companies. A badge that links to an acquisition listing answers a question your buyer was not asking.
The short version
If the goal is selling the company, list it on TrustMRR. If the goal is winning customers who suspect you are too small to bet on, one number will not do it — they need the history, and that is what Thonest publishes.
See what a timeline looks like.
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