Renewly Research / 2026
The State of SaaS Renewals
What contract data tells us about how SaaS vendors structure renewals, and where buyers consistently get caught. Aggregated and anonymised across 51 contracts from 6 customer accounts. Early cohort data, refreshed hourly as the corpus grows.
Auto-renewal: the default state
Auto-renewal isn't a glitch. Vendors design contracts so inaction equals recurring revenue. The customer has to actively opt out, in writing, on the vendor's timeline. Most don't.
Notice windows
The auto-renewal clause uses a notice window: the period before expiry during which the customer must give written notice to opt out. Most teams track expiry dates. Almost nobody tracks notice windows.
Term-length distribution
Methodology
All numbers are aggregated across Renewly customer contracts where the relevant field has been extracted. Sample contracts (demo data) and contracts with missing fields are excluded from the relevant statistic. No individual contract, vendor, or customer is identified at any granularity. This is early-cohort data; the corpus is small and growing weekly.
Renewal-date coverage: 67%. Total-value coverage: 98%.
Last refreshed June 18, 2026. Refreshes hourly.