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Benchmark · Security · Late Stage · Mid-Market ($25k-$100k ACV)

Average CAC for Late Stage Mid-Market Security Companies

CAC Payback Period · Security · Mid-MarketSourced

19 months

Best-in-class (top quartile): 13 months

Methodology note: This source segments CAC payback by industry × customer size, not by company stage. The same 19-month payback applies across all 5 stages for security × mid-market. For more on this site's methodology, see methodology.


Sources

First Page Sage segments CAC payback by industry × customer size only; the same payback applies across all 5 company stages within this segment. For stage-segmented data, see the SaaS Capital benchmark survey (segments by ARR band but is paywalled for cell-level numbers).

How we define this cut

Security · Late Stage · Mid-Market

Industry: SecurityCybersecurity: endpoint, network, cloud, identity, GRC, threat intel.
Stage: Late Stage$50M+ ARR or public, mature GTM, payback discipline.
ACV: Mid-Market ($25k-$100k ACV)Mid-market buyers, inside-sales motion, multi-stakeholder evaluation.