# Net Revenue Retention (NRR): The SaaS Metric That Predicts Growth

DevFeed: [Net Revenue Retention (NRR): The SaaS Metric That Predicts Growth](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/net-revenue-retention-nrr-the-saas-metric-that-predicts-growth-10099.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://dodopayments.com/blogs/net-revenue-retention-nrr/>)

Author: Ayush Agarwal

Published: 2026-04-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Dodo Payments Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dodo-payments-blog.md>)

Topics: [Software as a service](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/saas.md>), [Finance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/finance.md>)

Tags: [churn](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/churn.md>), [customer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/customer.md>), [growth](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/growth.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [pricing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pricing.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [retention](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retention.md>), [revenue](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/revenue.md>), [saas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/saas.md>), [saas-metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/saas-metrics.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains net revenue retention (NRR), including its formula, the effects of churn, contraction, and expansion, and how a 106% example indicates growth within an existing customer cohort.

## Source excerpt

Understand net revenue retention, how to calculate NRR, what drives it up or down, and why it is one of the clearest signals of SaaS quality.