Subscriby vs InviteMember
Both automate Telegram access. Only one is built on connectors.
Prices checked on 28 September 2026
InviteMember and Subscriby solve the same core problem: making subscribers pay before they join your private Telegram channel or group. Both have a Telegram bot, both support Telegram Stars, both have team access. The differences become clear when you need automation depth (webhook events, documented API access, or integrations with tools like Zapier and n8n), when you outgrow per-plan revenue caps, and when you want one set of plans across every platform your community uses: Subscriby is built on connectors, so each new platform arrives with the same plans, members and payments.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Subscriby | InviteMember |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Telegram and Discord today, Slack, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams and more on the roadmap | Telegram and Discord |
| Admin Interface | Full web dashboard: projects, subscribers, plans, payments, codes, coupons, inbox, teams | Web dashboard for users, payments and subscriptions, plus a hosted membership page |
| Revenue Caps | No caps — unlimited revenue at any plan | Every plan caps monthly sales ($1,000, $2,000, or $5,000/mo) |
| Webhook Events | 191 documented webhook events | No documented webhook system |
| REST API | Full REST API — 40 resource families, public docs | No publicly documented API |
| Zapier Integration | Zapier integration | Not available |
| n8n Integration | n8n community node | Not available |
| MCP Server | 240 tools for AI-agent control | Not available |
| Free Plan | $0/mo, 3 projects, 10% fee | No free plan — starts at $32.50/month billed annually |
| Bot and Portal Branding | Removed from the bot and the portal on Starter Plan ($39/mo) | Removed only on Innovator ($124.17/mo billed annually) |
| Trial Periods | Project-level and plan-level configuration | Trials without a card on every payment method; card trials on Stripe |
| Access Codes | Included at all plan levels | 150, 300 or 600 codes depending on plan |
| Time-Limited Passes | Scheduled access windows: bought on Wednesday, admitted Sunday, removed that night | Not available |
| Disaster Recovery Program | Lost bot, channel or account detected in seconds; members re-admitted to a new one automatically | Not available |
| Coupon Codes | Percentage or fixed, capped in total and per subscriber, plan-restricted, scheduled; first payment only | Native coupons, included on every tier |
| Referral Program | Members earn free days or cash for friends who pay; on Growth or as an addon | Built-in affiliates: a tracking link per member, first link wins, holding period yours; on Growth |
| Smart Links and Embeds | Tracked links per channel with clicks, checkouts, paid members and revenue; embeds for your site | Links that open a plan, run a command or redeem a code; no funnel or embed documented |
| Portal Designer | Presets, colours, fonts, layout, blocks, your words and a stylesheet for the portal page, on every plan | A hosted membership page with your link, text and images; its branding removed on Innovator only |
| AI Operator | Subscriby Copilot: answers from your data and does the routine work with your permissions | Not available |
| Failed-Payment Recovery | A grace window you set, four notices, a cancellation screen with one offer, win-back sequences | A grace period on PayPal only; cards follow Stripe's rules; no offers or win-backs documented |
| Checkout and Lead Follow-up | Sequences in your words for leads, stalled checkouts and ending trials; every checkout ledgered | Renewal reminders; no follow-ups for a lead, a stalled checkout or an ending trial |
| Fee Transparency | A Transaction Fees ledger: every fee tied to its payment, rate and invoice, exportable as CSV | A flat monthly price with no per-payment fee; no fee ledger documented |
| Partner Program | 5% to 30% of every invoice a referred creator pays, for 12 months | None: its affiliate program rewards a community's own members |
| Payment Gateways | 11 gateways | Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, Paystack, CoinPayments and Telegram Stars |
What InviteMember Does Well
- InviteMember is also Telegram-native — they understand the exact problem you're trying to solve, and the setup is straightforward for basic use cases.
- Their new flat-fee pricing model (since April 2025) means no per-transaction percentage eating into your revenue — just a fixed monthly cost.
- InviteMember supports Telegram Stars natively, and their team features include 4 pre-configured roles with 30+ individual permissions.
We believe in honest comparisons. If InviteMember is right for you, we'll say so.
Pricing
- Free$0/mo10% per transaction— 3 projects, no revenue cap
- Starter$39/mo3% per transaction— 10 projects, 12 billed annually, white-labelled bots and portal, no revenue cap
- Growth$89/mo1% per transaction— 20 projects, 25 billed annually, white-labelled bots and portal, Teams, no revenue cap
- Leader$32.50/moFixed monthly fee (no per-transaction %)— Billed annually ($390/yr), $39 month to month. Capped at $1,000/mo in sales, 3 projects, 150 access codes
- Visionary$65.83/moFixed monthly fee (no per-transaction %)— Billed annually ($790/yr), $79 month to month. Capped at $2,000/mo in sales, 5 projects, 300 access codes
- Innovator$124.17/moFixed monthly fee (no per-transaction %)— Billed annually ($1,490/yr), $149 month to month. Capped at $5,000/mo in sales, 5 projects, 600 access codes, branding removed
Put your own numbers in: the fee calculator ranks InviteMember, Subscriby and 11 more tools for your month.
Open the fee calculatorWhere Subscriby Wins
Disaster Recovery Program — peace of mind when access is lost overnight
A lost channel, bot or account is detected in seconds, you are alerted, and every paying member is re-admitted to a new one automatically, with standby bots and failover on Growth. Fair use: for creators who lost access through no fault of their own; self-service once per 90 days, then our support team reviews the account, and a confirmed violation of the platform's or Subscriby's terms closes it.
Subscriby Copilot — an AI operator that does the routine work
Ask about your members and money: the Copilot answers from your own data, does the routine work with your permissions, asks before anything it cannot undo, answers members from what you taught it and writes you every Monday. Free turns on every plan. InviteMember has no AI operator.
Portal Designer — a member page in your brand, on every plan
The portal page members buy and sign in on takes your design: presets with light and dark palettes, self-hosted fonts, the layout and the plan cards, content blocks, your own wording in every language, your pixels and a stylesheet, previewed live and published when you say, on every plan, with a demo to try first. InviteMember's membership page takes your text and images, its branding removed on Innovator only.
Revenue Recovery — a grace window, one offer, win-back sequences
A failed renewal keeps the member's access for a grace window you set, with notices carrying the way to pay again; a member who cancels is asked why and made one offer; one who left hears from you on the days you chose. InviteMember has a PayPal-only grace period and documents neither offers nor win-backs.
Lead nurture and checkout recovery
A lead who never bought, a stalled checkout and a trial about to end each enter a sequence in your words, with the way to the plan and a coupon on every step and a Stop for the member; the ones that come back are counted. InviteMember sends renewal reminders and documents no other follow-ups.
Smart Links that say which channel pays
A tracked address per channel with clicks, leads, checkouts, paid members and lifetime revenue, a bot link and a QR code per link, campaign tags kept, and a button or your plan cards to embed on your own site, on every plan. InviteMember's links open a plan or a command, with no funnel per link.
Partner Program — creators bring creators
Bring other creators to Subscriby and earn from 5% up to 30% of every invoice they pay for twelve months, the rate climbing with your promotion work, settled as Subscriby Credit on your own invoices or paid in cash once a month. InviteMember rewards a community's own members, nothing for the people who bring creators.
Time-limited passes — scheduled access windows
Sell access to a window you schedule rather than an open-ended membership: a customer buys the Sunday pass on Wednesday, is admitted on Sunday morning and removed that night with no manual invites, however many people bought, and a pass series sells a whole season as one purchase. InviteMember has nothing comparable.
Coupons you can author from anywhere, and measure afterwards
Both products ship native coupon codes, so this is a question of reach. Subscriby codes are authored from the dashboard, the Telegram bot, the REST API and MCP, carry total and per-subscriber caps, a minimum spend, a plan restriction and a scheduled window, and report redemptions, discount given and revenue taken per code.
One dashboard that runs several communities
Both products have a web dashboard, so the difference is what it manages. A Subscriby project is a fully isolated unit, its own bot, plans, subscribers, payment methods, coupons, access codes, support inbox and team permissions, and one account runs many of them side by side with per-project analytics and a full activity log.
No revenue caps
Every InviteMember plan hard-caps your monthly sales: $1,000 a month on Leader, $2,000 on Visionary, $5,000 on Innovator, and passing the ceiling pushes you to the next tier whatever you actually need. Subscriby has no such limit on any plan, the free one included, and the fee falls as the revenue grows.
Public REST API and 191 webhook events
Every subscription lifecycle moment, created, renewed, cancelled, expired, past due or refunded, fires one of 191 documented webhook events, and a public REST API across 40 resource families queries subscribers, manages plans, issues access codes and triggers actions. InviteMember documents neither a webhook system nor a public API.
Zapier and n8n integrations
A Zapier integration and an n8n community node fire on Subscriby's own events and carry its operations as triggers and actions, so a new member can land in your CRM, your email list or your spreadsheet without a line of code, and a sequence of your own can run from the same events. InviteMember has neither.
MCP server for AI-native control
The Subscriby Model Context Protocol server exposes 240 tools, each declared read-only, additive or destructive and the destructive ones held behind an explicit human confirmation, so Claude, ChatGPT or an agent of your own can read your members, manage access and run reports. InviteMember has no MCP server.
Free Plan to start
$0 a month for three projects with a 10% transaction fee and no cap on what you can earn, with the bot, the portal, access codes and the webhook events included from day one. InviteMember has no free tier: the entry plan is $32.50 a month billed annually, and it stops you at $1,000 a month in sales.
Bot and portal branding removed at Starter tier
On the Starter Plan at $39 a month, Subscriby's branding leaves every bot interaction, your portal page and its social card, so your subscribers see your name, your welcome message and your brand rather than ours, from the first message to the renewal reminder. InviteMember removes its branding only on Innovator, at $124.17 a month billed annually.
Two-way member support inside the bot
A member who messages your bot reaches you instead of an error: the thread lands in a shared inbox with their plan, join date and payment history, with assignment, notes and saved replies, and your answer arrives in Telegram under your own name, so they know a person read it.
Choose Subscriby if you…
- Creators who want a full web admin dashboard instead of managing everything inside Telegram bot chats
- Creators who need webhook automation to connect subscriptions with external tools
- Anyone building on the API — custom dashboards, automations, or third-party integrations
- Builders using Zapier, n8n, or AI agents (MCP) in their workflow
- Communities with monthly revenue above InviteMember's plan caps
- Creators who want to start free ($0/mo) before committing to a monthly cost
Stick with InviteMember if you…
- Creators who want the absolute simplest Telegram subscription setup and don't need API access, webhooks, or third-party integrations. If InviteMember's flat fee fits your revenue and you don't need automation depth, the simplicity is a genuine advantage.
Common Questions
- Does InviteMember support Telegram Stars?
- Yes — InviteMember added full Telegram Stars support in 2025. Both InviteMember and Subscriby support Telegram Stars natively. The key differences are in automation depth, API access, and revenue caps, not Telegram Stars support.
- Which has better API access — Subscriby or InviteMember?
- Subscriby has a full publicly documented REST API with 40 resource families, plus Zapier and n8n integrations and an MCP server. InviteMember has no publicly documented API.
- What are InviteMember's revenue caps?
- Every InviteMember plan limits how much you can sell through it in a month — $1,000 on Leader, $2,000 on Visionary, $5,000 on Innovator. Subscriby has no revenue cap at any tier, so a good month costs you nothing extra and you are never forced up a tier by your own growth.
- How does branding work on each platform?
- InviteMember removes its branding only on the Innovator plan ($124.17/mo billed annually, $149 month to month). Subscriby removes its branding from the bot and the portal on the Starter Plan ($39/mo) and above.
- Can I manage multiple Telegram communities with a team?
- Both platforms have team features. InviteMember has 4 roles with 30+ permissions. Subscriby Growth ($89/mo) has 81 fine-grained permissions and custom roles. For agencies managing multiple clients, Subscriby Growth's team structure is more flexible.
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