Metrics and data

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: July 1, 2026

 

Our revenue, what we bill

The money we billed through issued invoices, before taxes.

€0€44k€87k€131k€174k
201820192020202120222023202420252026
€0€11k€22k€33k€44k
201820192020202120222023202420252026

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

96

Active customers

Studios with a running subscription. Open source users are not counted here.

446

Active self-hosted setups

Teams running Kitsu on their own servers, independently from our cloud offering.

The team

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.

5people on the team
Net monthly salary
CEO €3,000
Chief Product Officer €3,000
Devops 4/5 time€4,800
Senior Software Engineer 4.5/5 time€4,850
Content Writer €3,000

Our cash balance

€0€83k€166k€249k€332k
201820192020202120222023202420252026
Infrastructure

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
Last month · infrastructure
€7,200/month
Provider
OVH public cloud
Scale
140 VMs · 30 TB

Our tools

The products and services we run on.

AccountingQontoAlanChargebeeStripePayfitFygrYouSign
DevelopmentGithubGitlabClaude
HostingNetlifyOVHHerokuMailgun
KnowledgeNotionCanny
MarketingGhostMailerliteInnocraft
ProjectsTrelloKitsuFastmailSlackDiscordNextcloud
SalesPipedriveNotionSlidesCalendly
SocialLinkedinInstagram
VideoYoutube

Our funding structure

How ownership is split between shareholders

72%
Frank Rousseau
CEO
24%
Gwénaëlle Dupré
Chief Product Officer
2%
Nicolas Ledez
Sysops
1%
Jean-Christophe Deperraz
Sales advisor
1%
Pierre Rousseau
Frank’s brother

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
Carbon report illustration