An open source SaaS company just published its actual revenue

Ente, a privacy focused open source photo storage company, published its full financials this week: 780,996 dollars in annual revenue, 12,018 paying customers, and 290,703 registered accounts, as of January 2026.

What they actually shared

This is not a funding announcement or a growth chart with the axes removed. Ente's page lays out real revenue and customer counts, the kind of numbers most SaaS companies, indie or funded, keep private indefinitely. For an open source company whose entire pitch is trust and transparency around user data, opening the books is the same principle applied to the business itself.

What the numbers actually say

780,996 dollars in annual revenue against 12,018 paying customers works out to roughly 65 dollars a year per paying customer, against a much larger base of 290,703 registered accounts, meaning paid conversion sits close to 4 percent. None of these numbers are huge by venture standards. That is the point: they are a real, checkable picture of what a small, focused, open source software business actually generates, not a story about eventual scale.

Why a build studio cares

We build and ship small software products for a living, and real numbers from a real operator are worth more to us than another generic post about SaaS growth tactics, because they are checkable and specific: a real conversion rate, a real revenue per customer figure, from a company that actually publishes its source code too.

Next step: read Ente's own writeup for the full financial breakdown. If you are building a small software business and want to talk through what the actual numbers should look like at your stage, write to us at hello@gattyworks.com.