Subscriby vs MyMembers
Two Telegram subscription bots; different gateway depth, different fee shapes, different ceilings
Prices checked on 28 September 2026
MyMembers and Subscriby solve the same problem — paid Telegram access — and both have a path with no monthly platform fee. MyMembers's pitch is simple: 5% commission, £0 platform cost, 3-minute setup, Stripe-only. Subscriby goes deeper: 11 payment gateways including Telegram Stars, regional providers, and crypto, plus a public REST API, Zapier and n8n integrations, and an MCP server. Pick MyMembers if Stripe is enough and a flat 5% fits your numbers. Pick Subscriby if you want gateway depth, integrations, a lower fee at scale, or a platform built on connectors, so the same plans reach new platforms as they ship.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Subscriby | MyMembers |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Focus | Paid communities on Telegram and Discord, more connectors coming | Telegram subscription bot |
| Platforms | Telegram and Discord today, Slack, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams and more on the roadmap | Telegram only |
| Telegram Stars | Native support | Not listed |
| Payment Gateways | 11 gateways | Stripe only |
| Regional Gateways | Razorpay (India), Paystack (Africa), Mollie (Europe), CeyPay (Sri Lanka) | Not available |
| Crypto Support | BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC via CoinPayments + CeyPay | Not available |
| Pricing Model | $0 Free + 10%, $39 Starter + 3%, $89 Growth + 1% | £0 platform fee + 5% commission, no monthly tier |
| Tiered Memberships | Multi-resource per plan | Tiered memberships available |
| Trial Periods | Plan-level and cardless trials | Free trials and discounted first-month offers |
| Access Codes | Single-use, batch, gift codes — included on all plans | Not listed |
| 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 | Coupons on Stripe checkout, often by URL parameter, plus a retention discount at cancellation |
| 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 | Not available |
| Failed-Payment Recovery | A grace window you set, four notices, a cancellation screen with one offer, win-back sequences | Stripe's retries plus a retention discount at cancellation; no grace window 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 | 5% comes off each payment; no fee ledger documented |
| Partner Program | 5% to 30% of every invoice a referred creator pays, for 12 months | Not documented |
| REST API / Webhooks | 40 resources, 191 events — fully public | Not advertised |
| Zapier / n8n / MCP | Zapier integration, n8n node, 240-tool MCP server | Not listed |
| Multi-Project Isolation | Each project isolated — separate plans, subscribers, payments, teams | Multi-channel listed; isolation between separate businesses not advertised |
| 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 |
What MyMembers Does Well
- A simple flat 5% commission with no monthly fee is easy to model when Stripe is your only payment route.
- MyMembers's site claims £160/month savings versus competitors charging 15% + £110 in monthly platform costs — credible at low-to-mid revenue.
- MyMembers advertises a 3-minute setup with no coding — a strong onboarding experience for non-technical creators.
- Money goes directly to your Stripe account with each subscription — no payout schedule or holding period.
- Free trials and discounted first-month offers come built in, making conversion funnels straightforward to set up.
We believe in honest comparisons. If MyMembers 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
- Free Tier£0/mo5% commission (Stripe processing on top)— Stripe-only, no monthly tier — site does not specify if 5% includes Stripe fees
Put your own numbers in: the fee calculator ranks MyMembers, 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. MyMembers 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. MyMembers 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. MyMembers offers a retention discount at cancellation and documents neither a grace window 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. MyMembers 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. MyMembers 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. MyMembers 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. MyMembers documents no partner program.
A Transaction Fees ledger, line by line
Every fee Subscriby charges is one line with the payment it came from, whether it was taken at source or metered onto your invoice, and the invoice that billed it; filter a month by project, channel and kind and export it as a CSV. MyMembers takes 5% off each payment and documents no ledger.
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. MyMembers has nothing comparable.
Coupon codes on more than just Stripe
MyMembers applies coupons on its Stripe checkout. Subscriby carries a discount across ten providers on one-time plans and passes, Stripe, PayPal, Polar, Mollie, Kelviq, Skrill, Paystack, CoinPayments, CeyPay and Telegram Stars, and on recurring plans through Stripe, Polar, Mollie and Kelviq, tells the buyer honestly when a method cannot carry one rather than charging full price, and is authored from the dashboard, the bot, the API or MCP.
Telegram Stars — MyMembers 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. MyMembers'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. MyMembers is Stripe only, so an audience that cannot pay through Stripe has no way to pay you through it at all.
Regional gateways for non-UK/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, each connected in your own account and paying you directly. MyMembers routes everything through Stripe, so an audience in those markets has no reliable way to pay you through it.
Crypto checkout for crypto-native audiences
CoinPayments and CeyPay let your subscribers pay with Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC and stablecoins across several chains, settling into your own wallet with the member admitted the moment the chain confirms, which suits an audience that would rather not hand a card to anyone. MyMembers has no crypto support.
Access codes for offline and gift subscriptions
Generate single-use or batch codes that subscribers redeem without a card, for gifting, in-person sales, sponsors and markets where cards are uncommon; each code is tied to a plan, expires when you say, and reaches you as a CSV or as one message per code. MyMembers's site lists no access codes.
Public REST API, 191 webhook events, Zapier, n8n, MCP
Subscriby has a documented public REST API across 40 resource families, 191 webhook events, a Zapier integration, an n8n community node and an MCP server with 240 tools, so a system, a workflow or an agent of your own runs the account with you. MyMembers advertises none of these.
Lower fee at scale
MyMembers charges a flat 5% commission on every payment at every size. Subscriby Free matches a flat fee at 10% with no monthly cost, then Starter at $39 a month charges 3% and Growth at $89 a month charges 1%, so above roughly $2,000 to $3,000 a month of revenue Subscriby's tiered pricing comes out ahead.
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 isolation between clients and a full activity log with actor and timestamp. MyMembers lists multi-channel support and 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…
- Creators outside US/UK/EU needing Razorpay, Paystack, or CeyPay
- Communities whose audience pays in crypto
- Anyone wanting to accept Telegram Stars
- Builders who want Zapier, n8n, REST API, or MCP
- High-revenue creators where Growth's 1% beats a flat 5% commission
- Creators who need access codes for offline or gift subscriptions
- Agencies managing multiple client communities needing project isolation, team RBAC, and an audit trail
Stick with MyMembers if you…
- Creators with low revenue, Stripe-only audiences, and no need for API or integrations — MyMembers's flat 5% with no monthly fee fits that case well.
- Anyone who wants the absolute fastest non-technical setup with no plan tier decisions.
Common Questions
- When does Subscriby become cheaper than MyMembers?
- MyMembers charges a flat 5% commission. Subscriby Starter is $39/mo + 3%, and Growth is $89/mo + 1%. Above roughly $2,000–$3,000 in monthly revenue, the lower transaction fee on Subscriby plans more than covers the monthly cost.
- Can my Indian or Nigerian audience pay through Subscriby?
- Yes. Razorpay covers India with UPI, local cards, and 85+ currencies. Paystack covers Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. MyMembers is Stripe-only and does not list these regional gateways.
- Can my crypto-native audience pay through Subscriby?
- Yes. CoinPayments handles BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC, LTC, and many more across multiple chains. CeyPay adds further stablecoin coverage. MyMembers does not list crypto support.
- Does Subscriby have access codes for gift subscriptions?
- Yes. Generate single-use or batch access codes that subscribers redeem without a card — useful for gifting, in-person sales, or promo campaigns. Access codes are included on all Subscriby plans. MyMembers does not list this feature.
- Does either platform have a public REST API?
- Subscriby has a public REST API with 40 resource families, 191 webhook events, a Zapier integration, an n8n community node, and an MCP server. MyMembers doesn't advertise an API or integration surface on its site.
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