Pricing
Per account. All-in. No cliffs.
Processing included — nothing stacks on top.
Free
$0/mo
4.9% + 30¢ per transaction
- Unlimited members
- Full feed + gamification
- Classroom
- Events
- Native video
- Full data export
skool hobby takes 10% — twice ours, plus $9/mo.
- most creators
Pro
$49/mo
2.9% + 30¢ — flat, no $900 cliff
- Everything in Free
- Tiers & gated spaces
- Quizzes + certificates + drip
- Custom domain
- AI operations
- Zapier + webhooks
skool pro is $99 — per community, with the cliff.
Scale
$199/mo
2.4% + 30¢ volume pricing
- Everything in Pro
- Full white-label
- Branded member app
- Open API
- Priority payout SLA
- Concierge migration
white-label elsewhere starts at $399–$849/mo.
Verified against live pricing pages · July 7, 2026 · fee schedule public at /fees
The same math, on every platform
$50 average membership · one community · monthly billing
| Platform | at $1,000/mo | at $10,000/mo | at $100,000/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skool Hobby$9/mo per community + 10% + 30¢ | $115 | $1,069 | $10,609 |
| Skool Pro$99/mo per community + 2.9% + 30¢ · 3.9% over $900 | $134 | $449 | $3,599 |
| Circle Professional$129 + 2% platform + Stripe 2.9% + 30¢ (stacked) | $184 | $679 | $5,629 |
| Whop$0 + 2.7% + 30¢ processing (0% platform take) | $33 | $330 | $3,300 |
| community.io Free$0 + 4.9% + 30¢ all-in | $55 | $550 | $5,500 |
| community.io Pro$49 + 2.9% + 30¢ all-in — flat, no $900 cliff | $84 | $399 | $3,549 |
| community.io Scale$199 + 2.4% + 30¢ all-in (volume pricing) | $229 | $499 | $3,199 |
Whop is the rate floor of the category — we don’t claim to beat it. Whop's own fee pages disagree on tax remittance (0.5% vs 2%); our table uses the pure 2.7% + 30¢ formula and footnotes possible tax-remittance fees.
Verified against live pricing pages · July 7, 2026 · every formula published at /fees
Fee questions, answered
The fine print, in large print.
- What does “per account, not per community” mean?
- One subscription covers every community you run. On Skool, each community is its own subscription — $99/mo on Pro — so a free funnel group plus two paid tiers costs $297/mo before any transaction fees. Here it’s one $49/mo Pro subscription, however many communities you add.
- What does “all-in” mean?
- We are the merchant of record: the rate you see includes payment processing — nothing stacks on top. Stacked platforms advertise only the platform take: Circle Professional’s published formula is “$129 + 2% platform + Stripe 2.9% + 30¢ (stacked)”, which works out to 4.9% + 30¢ all-in once Stripe is counted.
- What is the $900 cliff?
- On Skool Pro, any transaction over $900 is charged 3.9% + 30¢ instead of 2.9% + 30¢ — and it isn’t shown on Skool’s public pricing page. On a $2,000 sale, Skool Pro takes $78.30; community.io Pro takes $58.30. Our 2.9% is flat at any transaction size.
- Do you beat Whop’s rate?
- No. Whop (“$0 + 2.7% + 30¢ processing (0% platform take)”) is the rate floor of this category, and anyone promising materially less than 2.7%–2.9% + 30¢ all-in is subsidizing or lying. What you pay for above the floor: the engagement engine, real course tools, tiers, and curation.
- Where do these numbers come from?
- Every formula is published and dated at /fees, with links to each competitor’s live pricing page. Verified against live pricing pages · July 7, 2026. Run the math at your own revenue with the Skool fee calculator at /skool-fees.
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The anti-lock-in pledge
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- No exit penalty
- Public payout SLA
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