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What will your paid community earn, and what will it cost?

Two sliders: your revenue, the Subscriby plan that costs least, what you keep, and 13 tools ranked by their fee at your volume.

200
$20
You keep
$3,871
of $4,000 a month after Subscriby's fee
Platform fee
$129
Processing
$0
Payout
$0

Cheapest Subscriby plan

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  1. Free$0 + 10%$400
  2. Starter$39 + 3%$159
  3. Growth$89 + 1%$129

What 13 tools charge for the same month

Cheapest first · Prices checked on 28 September 2026

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Hides 4 of the 13 tools: the ones that take the payment themselves and pay you out of a balance they hold. Hides 1 of the 13 tools: the ones with a plan that caps the month's sales. Hides 7 of the 13 tools: the ones that advertise no public API and webhooks. Hides 8 of the 13 tools: the ones that serve a single platform. Hides 4 of the 13 tools: the ones with no plan free of a monthly price. Hides 12 of the 13 tools: the ones with no programme that re-admits your members when a bot, place or account is lost. Hides 12 of the 13 tools: the ones that cannot sell access to a scheduled window that opens and closes on its own.

All 13 tools, ranked by price alone.

RankToolTotal
  1. 5 The cheapest of the three plans at this volume. Subscriby charges nothing for processing or payouts and never holds your money: the gateway you connect takes the payment and pays you directly, and no plan caps your revenueSubscriby$129
  2. 10 Whop takes the payment itself: 3% of gated sales, Whop Payments processing of 2.7% + $0.30 a payment, and $2.50 for a next-day ACH payout from the balance it holdsWhopHolds funds Holds your money and pays out on its own terms$291+$162 (125.19% more)
  3. 13 Patreon takes the payment itself: 10% for creators who joined from August 2025, its payment processing of 2.9% + $0.30 a payment, and $0.25 for a direct-deposit payout from the balance it holdsPatreonHolds funds Holds your money and pays out on its own terms$576+$447 (346.71% more)
  4. 6 Month-to-month prices from Influencer to Legend; every plan but Legend caps the month's sales, and annual billing is cheaper. Your own gateway takes the payment, so InviteMember charges nothing for processing or payoutsInviteMember$149+$20 (15.50% more)
  5. 9 Every feature on the one plan; Enterprise is priced on request. Payments settle in your own Stripe account, so Memberful charges nothing for processing or payoutsMemberful$245+$116 (89.92% more)
  6. 2 Ko-fi Free charges 5% with no monthly price and Gold swaps it for $12 a month. Payments land in your own Stripe or PayPal account, so Ko-fi charges nothing for processing or payoutsKo-fi$12−$117 (90.70% less)
  7. 12 Buy Me a Coffee takes the payment itself: 5% of revenue, processing of 2.9% + $0.30 a payment plus 0.5% on subscription payments, and 0.5% of each payout from the balance it holdsBuy Me a CoffeeHolds funds Holds your money and pays out on its own terms$416+$287 (222.48% more)
  8. 4 Nothing on the first €85 a month, then each slice of revenue at its own bracket's rate, from 9% down to 1% above €5,000; the row names the rate it works out to. Your own gateway takes the payment, so BotSubscription charges nothing for processing or payoutsBotSubscription€ Priced in euros, shown at face value$112−$17 (12.91% less)
  9. 7 Premium is the plan that can charge members, Basic cannot. Payments settle in your own Stripe account, so LaunchPass charges nothing for processing or payoutsLaunchPass$169+$40 (31.01% more)
  10. 3 One group on Basic; three on Pro at €49.95 and unlimited on Elite at €99.95, all before VAT. Your own gateway takes the payment, so MetricGram charges nothing for processing or payoutsMetricGram€ Priced in euros, shown at face value$20−$109 (84.53% less)
  11. 8 No monthly tier; the money goes straight to your own Stripe account with each subscription, so MyMembers charges nothing for processing or payoutsMyMembers$200+$71 (55.04% more)
  12. 1 No platform fee; the Telegram payment provider you connect takes the payment under its own terms, so SimpleSub charges nothing for processing or payoutsSimpleSub$0−$129 (100.00% less)
  13. 11 Provider fees are included in the 10%, so nothing is added for processing. Tribute holds your earnings and pays out twice a month, on the 10th and 25th, with a €100 minimum for card payoutsTributeHolds funds Holds your money and pays out on its own terms$400+$271 (210.08% more)

What the cheaper rows leave out

Every tool above Subscriby at this volume, the platforms it serves, and the trade-off behind its lower figure.

  1. 2
    Ko-fi

    Gold · $12

    DiscordDiscord only

    Memberships are a side feature of a tip page, Discord access is a role sync, and Gold is billed monthly only.

    • API and webhooks
    • Disaster recovery
    • Time-limited passes
  2. 4
    BotSubscription

    2.8% effective

    TelegramDiscordTelegram and Discord

    Charged in revenue brackets, so the rate climbs as your month shrinks; its API covers less than Subscriby's, and there is no Zapier or n8n.

    • Disaster recovery
    • Time-limited passes
  3. 3
    MetricGram

    Basic · €19.95

    TelegramTelegram only

    Basic covers one group; three groups need Pro at €49.95 and more need Elite at €99.95, all before VAT.

    • API and webhooks
    • Free to start
    • Disaster recovery
    • Time-limited passes
  4. 1
    SimpleSub

    Free

    TelegramTelegram only

    Free, but members can only pay through Telegram's in-app payments, so who can pay you depends on their country, and there is no API or webhooks.

    • API and webhooks
    • Disaster recovery
    • Time-limited passes
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Subscriby

Growth

$89 + 1%

$129 for this month

Platforms

Telegram TelegramDiscord Discord · In DevelopmentDiscourse Discourse · PlannedGhost Ghost · PlannedGitHub GitHub · PlannedGoogle Drive Google Drive · PlannedGuilded Guilded · PlannedMicrosoft Teams Microsoft Teams · PlannedReddit Reddit · PlannedSlack Slack · PlannedWhatsApp WhatsApp · PlannedZoom Zoom · Planned
  • Telegram, fully supported today
  • Discord in development
  • 10 more on the roadmap

What you get for it

  • Exclusive Time-Limited Passes and Pass Series
  • Disaster Recovery when a connection is banned
  • A mature, full-featured creator dashboard
  • Native Android and iOS creator apps on the way
  • REST API, webhooks, Zapier, n8n and MCP
  • Never holds your money, no revenue cap
  • Bootstrapped, with no investors to answer to
  • Never sells your data or your members' data
  • A public roadmap shaped by creators' requests

At 200 members paying $20 a month, your community makes $4,000. With Subscriby you keep 96.8% of it; the average tool here would leave you 94.8%.

Subscriby
$80 below the average
5 of 13 by price alone
Average
$209
Across 13 tools
Cheapest
SimpleSub
$0 a month
Most expensive
Patreon
$576 a month

How the platforms that hold your money pay out

These 4 tools take the payment themselves and pay you out of a balance they keep, each on its own schedule, with its own minimums and withdrawal fees. The red lock marks them on the chart.

WhopPays out from your Whop balance when you withdraw: $2.50 by next-day ACH, 4% + $1 by instant bank deposit, 5% + $1 to crypto or Venmo, $23 by wire; funds land in two to three daysPatreonPays out from your creator balance: $0.25 by direct deposit, plus 1.55% currency conversion outside the US; 1% up to $20 by PayPal with a $10 minimum; $1 to Payoneer with a $25 minimum. Funds can be withheld in a disputeBuy Me a CoffeePays out from its own balance every Wednesday once you reach $10, to your bank through Stripe Express in three to five days or to PayPal in one to two, at 0.5% of the payoutTributePays out on the 10th and 25th to a bank account or card in euros or rubles, or in USDT, with a €100 minimum for card payouts and 100 USDT for crypto
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How the plan is picked

The one that costs least once its monthly price and transaction fee are added together, read from the live plans. No plan caps your revenue.

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About processing fees

Counted only where the platform takes the payment and charges it, at the rate it publishes or inside its percentage. The fee of a gateway you connect yourself, as on Subscriby, is not the platform's and is left out.

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How the chart ranks

By each platform's own charge for the month: its fee, the processing it charges itself and its published payout fee, read from the vendors' pricing pages on 28 September 2026. Euro prices are shown at face value.

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Share your figures

The sliders stay in the address as you move them, so the link you copy opens on the same numbers, and the chart is re-ranked live as they move.

Common Questions

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Which plan does the calculator pick?
The one that costs least at that revenue once the monthly price and the transaction fee are added together: 10% of revenue on Free with no monthly price, $39 plus 3% on Starter, $89 plus 1% on Growth. No plan caps your revenue.
Which processing fees are counted?
Only the ones a platform charges itself: where it takes the payment and deducts processing at a rate it publishes, or folds it into its percentage. Subscriby charges nothing for processing. Your members pay through the gateway you connected, whether Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, Paystack, Skrill, CoinPayments, CeyPay or Telegram Stars, and that gateway's fee is between you and it, the same with every tool that lets you bring your own, so it is not counted for any of them.
Which platforms hold your money?
Whop, Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee and Tribute take the payment themselves and pay you out of a balance they keep, each on its own schedule and with its own withdrawal fees, which the calculator lists. Every other tool here, Subscriby included, lets the gateway you connect pay you directly.
Does Subscriby earn anything on top of these fees?
No. The monthly price and the transaction fee are the whole of what Subscriby charges. Payment processing goes to the gateway you connected, which pays you directly; Subscriby never holds your money.
Why is Subscriby not always first?
Because it is not always cheapest. A flat monthly plan with no percentage beats a percentage at high revenue inside its cap, and a tool with no monthly price beats one with a price when revenue is low. The ranking is by the figure, not by who built it; what each figure buys is on the comparison page behind every row.
Where do the rival prices come from?
From each vendor's own pricing page, read on 28 September 2026 and recorded on the comparison page of the same tool, where the row's note names the plan the figure belongs to. Tell us if one has moved.
What is left out?
Taxes on the subscription, your own gateway's fee, currency conversion, payout minimums and add-ons, which no vendor publishes as a platform fee. A tool whose top plan caps monthly sales is marked as unavailable above that cap rather than priced.
Why is Subscriby missing from the other tools' comparison charts?
Because a comparison chart is an advert with columns, and nobody adds a younger rival that undercuts them. Most of those charts were drawn before Subscriby existed; the rest compare against the tools their authors were certain to beat. This page does the opposite: it prices every tool we could find, ranks them above us when they are cheaper, and spells out what each one leaves out.
Can I compare only the tools that match Subscriby?
Yes. The chips above the chart hide the tools that lack what you switch on: direct payouts, unlimited sales, an API and webhooks, more than one platform, a free plan, disaster recovery, time-limited passes. Nothing is on by default, so the chart keeps ranking every tool by price alone, the line under the chips says how many tools remain and why, and the explainer under the chart names what each cheaper tool lacks.

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