Subscriby vs MetricGram
Subscription platform for communities wherever they live vs. group-engagement and AI tooling
Prices checked on 28 September 2026
MetricGram and Subscriby overlap on one feature — paid Telegram access via Stripe — but the rest of the products are different shapes. MetricGram is positioned as a group-management suite with gamification, AI chatbots trained on custom data, scheduled messages, and daily AI summaries. Subscriby is positioned as a subscription platform for communities wherever they live: 11 payment gateways, a public REST API, Zapier and n8n integrations, an MCP server, and connectors that take the same plans beyond Telegram as they ship. If engagement and AI tooling are your priority, MetricGram has more there. If your priority is monetization with broad payment coverage and a developer surface, Subscriby goes deeper.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Subscriby | MetricGram |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Focus | Subscription billing + access control | Group management + analytics + AI tooling |
| Platforms | Telegram and Discord today, Slack, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams and more on the roadmap | Telegram only |
| Pricing Model | $0 Free + 10%, $39 Starter + 3%, $89 Growth + 1% | €19.95 Basic, €49.95 Pro, €99.95 Elite — no transaction fee listed beyond Stripe |
| 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 | No native coupon manager — whatever tier pricing you configure in Stripe |
| Referral Program | Members earn free days or cash for friends who pay; on Growth or as an addon | Not documented |
| Smart Links and Embeds | Tracked links per channel with clicks, checkouts, paid members and revenue; embeds for your site | Tracked links per channel and a website embed are not documented |
| Portal Designer | Presets, colours, fonts, layout, blocks, your words and a stylesheet for the portal page, on every plan | Not documented |
| AI Operator | Subscriby Copilot: answers from your data and does the routine work with your permissions | A trainable chatbot that talks to members; an operator that runs the account is not advertised |
| Failed-Payment Recovery | A grace window you set, four notices, a cancellation screen with one offer, win-back sequences | Failed renewals follow Stripe's retries; no grace window, offers or win-backs documented |
| Checkout and Lead Follow-up | Sequences in your words for leads, stalled checkouts and ending trials; every checkout ledgered | Follow-ups for a lead, a stalled checkout or an ending trial are not documented |
| Fee Transparency | A Transaction Fees ledger: every fee tied to its payment, rate and invoice, exportable as CSV | A flat monthly price with no platform fee per payment; only Stripe's own fees apply |
| Partner Program | 5% to 30% of every invoice a referred creator pays, for 12 months | Not documented |
| Group Limits | Unlimited resources per project from Starter onward | 1 group on Basic, 3 on Pro, unlimited on Elite |
| Telegram Stars | Native support | Not listed |
| Payment Gateways | 11 gateways | Stripe Connect only |
| Regional Gateways | Razorpay, Paystack, Mollie, CeyPay | Not available |
| Currency | USD pricing | EUR pricing |
| AI Chatbot | Not part of the platform | Trainable AI chatbot (OpenAI) — 1 / 3 / unlimited bots by tier |
| Gamification | Not part of the platform | Points, rewards, and leaderboards |
| REST API / Webhooks | 40 resources, 191 events — fully public | Scoped API tokens; webhook catalogue not advertised |
| Zapier / n8n / MCP | Zapier integration, n8n node, 240-tool MCP server | MCP server for AI agents; no Zapier app or n8n node listed |
| Multi-Project Isolation | Each project isolated — separate plans, subscribers, payments, teams | Not advertised; group caps are per-account, not per-project |
| Team RBAC | 81 fine-grained permissions on Growth (community manager, billing admin, support) | Not advertised |
| Activity Log | Full audit trail — every action logged with actor and timestamp | Not advertised |
| Free Path | Forever-free plan ($0/mo) — card on file required for transaction fees | 14-day free trial of paid plans, no credit card required |
What MetricGram Does Well
- MetricGram includes gamification with points, rewards, and leaderboards — a real engagement layer that Subscriby does not try to replicate.
- Trainable AI chatbots on custom data (OpenAI) plus daily AI summary reports of group activity. If AI tooling matters in your operations, MetricGram is built for it.
- MetricGram also ships an MCP server, letting AI agents query approved Telegram context and run its documented actions. It is one of the very few products in this category besides Subscriby to offer one at all.
- Built-in scheduled messages, automatic replies, and welcome messages — features Subscriby leaves outside its scope.
- MetricGram advertises a 4.9/5 Trustpilot rating from communities using the platform.
We believe in honest comparisons. If MetricGram 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
- Basic€19.95/mo (excl. VAT)Stripe processing on top— 1 group, 1 AI chatbot, 10 auto-replies, 10 scheduled messages
- Pro€49.95/mo (excl. VAT)Stripe processing on top— 3 groups, 3 AI chatbots, 50 auto-replies, unlimited scheduled messages
- Elite€99.95/mo (excl. VAT)Stripe processing on top— Unlimited groups, AI chatbots, auto-replies, scheduled messages — annual saves 17%
Put your own numbers in: the fee calculator ranks MetricGram, 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. MetricGram's AI is a chatbot for members; nothing runs the account for you.
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. MetricGram documents no page designer.
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. MetricGram's failed renewals follow Stripe's retries, with none of the three documented.
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. MetricGram documents no follow-ups of this kind.
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. MetricGram documents no tracked links or embed.
Referral Program — members bring members
Every member gets a code and a link; a friend who pays earns them free membership days or a cash commission you set, held behind your refund window, with approvals, payouts per currency and a reward for the friend as well. On Growth or as an addon. MetricGram has no member referral program.
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. MetricGram documents no partner program.
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. MetricGram has nothing comparable.
Coupon codes, and analytics that measure them
MetricGram has no native coupon manager, so you are left with whatever tier pricing you configured in Stripe. Subscriby issues codes you cap, restrict to plans and schedule, then reports what each one did: redemptions, discount given, revenue taken and the average depth of discount, counting settled payments only.
Telegram Stars — MetricGram does not list support
Telegram Stars is Telegram's own payment method: subscribers pay inside the app without a card or an external checkout, and Subscriby supports it natively on every plan beside the card and crypto gateways, so a member who never leaves Telegram can still pay you. MetricGram's site does not list Telegram Stars support.
11 payment gateways vs Stripe-only
Subscriby supports Stripe, PayPal, Polar, Mollie, Kelviq, Razorpay, Paystack, Skrill, CoinPayments, CeyPay and Telegram Stars, each connected in your own account and paying you directly on its own schedule. MetricGram is Stripe Connect only, so a meaningful slice of an audience that pays another way has no way to pay you through it.
Regional gateways for non-EU audiences
Razorpay covers India and 85+ currencies, Paystack covers Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and Kenya, Mollie covers Europe with iDEAL, SEPA Direct Debit and Bancontact, and CeyPay covers Sri Lanka. MetricGram prices in euros and routes every payment through Stripe Connect, convenient in Europe and far less so elsewhere, with none of those regional gateways available.
Public REST API and 191 webhook events
Subscriby has a documented public REST API across 40 resource families and 191 webhook events covering every subscription lifecycle moment, so a system of your own reacts the moment something happens. MetricGram issues scoped API tokens and advertises no webhook catalogue, so building on top of it is opaque.
Zapier and n8n integrations, and a deeper MCP server
MetricGram also offers an MCP server, so this is a question of depth, not of who has one. Subscriby exposes 240 tools across projects, plans, members, subscriptions, payments, codes, coupons and analytics, the destructive ones behind a human confirmation, beside a Zapier integration and an n8n node that MetricGram does not list.
Free Plan vs 14-day trial
Subscriby Free is $0 a month with a flat 10% transaction fee, three projects and no time limit, so a real paid Telegram community runs before you commit to a paid plan and moves up when the revenue justifies it. MetricGram offers a 14-day free trial of its paid plans, after which a paid plan is required.
Multi-project isolation, team RBAC, and audit trail
Agencies running paid communities for several clients need isolation between businesses, role-based team access and an audit log. Subscriby Growth includes 81 fine-grained permissions, project-level data isolation and a full activity log with actor and timestamp. MetricGram caps groups by tier and advertises none of the three.
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…
- Telegram creators who want broad payment coverage including Telegram Stars and regional gateways
- Communities outside Europe where Stripe Connect is not the most convenient route
- Builders who need Zapier, n8n, REST API, or MCP integration
- Creators who want crypto checkout via CoinPayments or CeyPay
- Anyone who prefers an always-free plan over a 14-day trial
- Agencies managing multiple client communities needing project isolation, team RBAC, and an audit trail
Stick with MetricGram if you…
- Group operators who specifically want gamification, AI chatbots trained on custom data, or daily AI activity summaries — Subscriby does not compete on those.
- Communities for whom scheduled messages, welcome flows, and auto-replies are the core need rather than payment depth.
Common Questions
- Does Subscriby have AI chatbots and gamification like MetricGram?
- No. Subscriby focuses on subscription billing, access control, and developer integrations — not engagement tooling. If gamification, AI chatbots, or daily AI summaries are your priority, MetricGram is the better fit.
- Why does MetricGram only support Stripe?
- MetricGram's site only lists Stripe Connect for payments. Subscriby adds PayPal, Polar, Mollie, Kelviq, Razorpay, Paystack, Skrill, CoinPayments, CeyPay, and Telegram Stars on top of Stripe.
- Can I run more than one Telegram group on Subscriby without paying more?
- On Subscriby, the Starter Plan ($39/mo) covers 10 projects (12 billed annually), each with unlimited resources. MetricGram's Basic tier (€19.95/mo) is limited to 1 group; you need Pro (€49.95) for 3 groups or Elite (€99.95) for unlimited.
- Is MetricGram cheaper for a single group?
- It depends on revenue. MetricGram Basic at €19.95/mo with a single group beats Subscriby Starter at $39/mo on monthly fee, but MetricGram's site does not list a transaction fee while Subscriby charges a flat 3% on Starter. At low revenue, MetricGram is cheaper. At higher revenue with multiple groups, Subscriby evens out.
- Does either platform offer a free plan?
- Subscriby has an always-free $0/mo plan with a 10% transaction fee. MetricGram has a 14-day free trial of paid plans but no permanent free tier.
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