Our numbers, in full transparency
We are part of the Open Company movement. Transparency helps build trust with our clients, our team and our community, so this page shares the main metrics of our company, focused mainly on the accounting side.
Last update: September 1, 2026
Our revenue, what we bill
The money we billed through issued invoices, before taxes.
Our monthly recurring revenue
We mainly sell yearly subscriptions. This chart spreads them over 12 months to show the recurring revenue we can count on each month, regardless of when a subscription starts.
How many use Kitsu
Active customers
Studios with a running subscription. Open source users are not counted here.
Active self-hosted setups
Teams running Kitsu on their own servers, independently from our cloud offering.
Instances by team size
Self-hosted, all time
Largest instance: 1402 · Active users: 25515
Self-hosted, updated in the last 6 months
Largest instance: 530 · Active users: 13535
Cloud customers, schools apart
Largest instance: 1000 · Active users: 5035
Self-hosted updated in the last 6 months plus cloud customers
Active users: 18570
Our Salaries
We pay salaries at market level, as the French "net" amount before taxes. Part-time is welcome: the fraction next to a role shows how much of a full week it covers.
Our cash balance
Our servers
Everything runs on the OVH public cloud, billed monthly and scaling with what we use. Teams that self-host run on their own servers, not on this bill.
Discover our infrastructure- Provider
- OVH public cloud
- Scale
- 200 VMs · 70 TB
Our tools
The products and services we run on.
Our funding structure
- June 2026CNC grant 5 end€64,000
- May 2026CII/CIR grant - 2026€82,000
- December 2025BPI Loan€75,000
- December 2025CNC grant 4 end€4,000
- September 2025CII/CIR grant - 2025€81,000
- September 2025CII/CIR grant - 2024€67,000
- August 2025CNC grant 3 end€6,000
- June 2024CII/CIR grant - 2023€87,000
How ownership is split between shareholders
Why we share our numbers
To stay aligned with our mission
Sharing our numbers keeps us honest about the decisions we make and the company we want to build.
To challenge ourselves
Public metrics are a strong incentive to keep improving and to hold ourselves accountable.
To show it is possible
A small, self-funded software company can be sustainable and open about how it works.
Discover our 2024 carbon report
Transparency is not only about money. We also measure and share the environmental footprint of our activity. The 2024 report breaks down our main emission sources, where we can still improve, and the concrete actions we are taking to reduce our footprint.
Read the report
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