Subscriby vs BotSubscription
Two Telegram subscription platforms compared honestly. One is built on connectors for what comes next.
Prices checked on 28 September 2026
BotSubscription, the 2026 relaunch of TGMembership, and Subscriby both do the same core job: automate paid access to private Telegram or Discord channels and groups. Both support Telegram Stars, both have webhook systems, API access, and solid payment gateway coverage. Where they differ is in automation depth, team structure, the tools they connect to (Zapier, n8n, and AI-agent workflows), and where they can go next: Subscriby is built on connectors, so the same plans reach new platforms as they ship.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Subscriby | BotSubscription |
|---|---|---|
| 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 with analytics, white-label options and a coupon system |
| Multi-Project Isolation | Each project fully isolated — its own bot, plans, subscribers, payment methods, coupons and team permissions | Priced per bot — one flat plan per bot, or a five-bot bundle |
| Telegram Stars | Native support | Supported |
| Team RBAC | 81 fine-grained permissions + custom roles (Growth Plan) | Team collaboration with access levels; no granular role definitions |
| Zapier Integration | Zapier integration | Not available |
| n8n Integration | n8n community node | Not available |
| MCP Server | 240 tools for AI-agent control | Not available |
| API Documentation | 40 resource families — fully public docs | Public API docs — resource scope not as comprehensive |
| Crypto Coverage | Bitcoin, ETH, USDT, USDC via CoinPayments + CeyPay | 200+ cryptocurrencies via NowPayments and BinancePay |
| Additional Gateways | Stripe, PayPal, Polar, Mollie, Kelviq, Razorpay, Paystack, Skrill, CeyPay | Stripe, PayPal, Paddle, Razorpay, Paystack, Revolut, Binance Pay, NowPayments |
| Access Codes | Included — no add-on fee | Included |
| 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 | Built-in coupon management for channel subscription plans, generated and managed inside the bot |
| Referral Program | Members earn free days or cash for friends who pay; on Growth or as an addon | A built-in affiliate module for members who bring in subscribers |
| Smart Links and Embeds | Tracked links per channel with clicks, checkouts, paid members and revenue; embeds for your site | Revenue and member analytics; tracked links per channel and a website embed not documented |
| Portal Designer | Presets, colours, fonts, layout, blocks, your words and a stylesheet for the portal page, on every plan | White-label options on the dashboard; no page designer 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 | A grace period of your own, cancellation offers and win-back messages are not 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 sliding percentage comes off each sale; no per-payment ledger documented |
| Partner Program | 5% to 30% of every invoice a referred creator pays, for 12 months | Not available |
| Pricing Model | USD flat monthly + % transaction fee | EUR sliding scale — rate drops as revenue grows (no monthly fee) |
| Free Tier | $0/mo, 3 projects, 10% fee | €0 platform fee on first €85 of revenue per billing cycle |
What BotSubscription Does Well
- BotSubscription supports 200+ cryptocurrencies via NowPayments and BinancePay — broader crypto coverage than Subscriby. If your community deals in less common coins, BotSubscription covers more of them.
- BotSubscription supports Telegram Stars natively — subscribers can pay directly inside Telegram without a card or external checkout.
- Paddle and Revolut are available as payment gateways — both unavailable in Subscriby.
- Built-in eGoods module for selling digital products (documents, photos, videos, files) alongside subscriptions — no separate tool needed. Plus a built-in affiliate module.
- Sliding-scale pricing means the platform fee drops automatically as your revenue grows — no need to manually upgrade a plan to get a lower rate.
We believe in honest comparisons. If BotSubscription 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€00% on the first €85 of revenue per billing cycle— No monthly fee ever
- €85–€200/mo€0/mo9% platform fee— After the free €85
- €200–€500/mo€0/mo7% to €300, then 6%— Rate drops as revenue grows
- €500–€1,200/mo€0/mo5% to €800, then 3%— Verified 29 September 2026
- €1,200–€5,000/mo€0/mo2% platform fee— 1% above €5,000/mo
Put your own numbers in: the fee calculator ranks BotSubscription, 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. BotSubscription 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. BotSubscription lists white-label options and 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. BotSubscription documents none of the three.
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. BotSubscription 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. BotSubscription shows revenue analytics and documents no tracked links or embed.
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. BotSubscription has 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. BotSubscription's sliding percentage comes off each sale with no ledger documented.
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. BotSubscription has nothing comparable.
Coupon codes a capped campaign can trust
Both platforms manage coupons in the bot. What Subscriby adds is an honest quota: a use is held while a checkout is in flight and returned when it is abandoned, so a code capped at 100 never loses places to people who wandered off, plus a per-subscriber cap, a minimum spend, a scheduled window and per-code reporting.
One dashboard, many isolated projects
A Subscriby project is a fully isolated unit, its own bot, plans, subscribers, payment methods, coupons, access codes, inbox and team permissions, and one account runs many of them side by side with per-project analytics and a full activity log. BotSubscription prices per bot, one flat plan each or a five-bot bundle.
An extension surface built for people who plug things in
What matters is what the platform exposes: 191 documented webhook events, a public REST API across 40 resource families, a Zapier integration, an n8n community node and a 240-tool MCP server. If your operation runs on automation rather than on one dashboard, that surface is the difference, and BotSubscription's API covers less of it.
Formal team RBAC with 81 permissions
BotSubscription lets you add staff with different access levels, without granular role definitions. Subscriby Growth includes 81 fine-grained permissions with custom roles, so a community manager, a billing admin and a support agent each see exactly what their role allows, and every action lands in the activity log with its actor.
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 flow of your own can run from the same events. BotSubscription has neither.
MCP server for AI-native workflows
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. BotSubscription has no MCP server.
USD pricing — predictable costs
BotSubscription prices in euros on a sliding scale, so if you earn in dollars your platform cost moves with the exchange rate and with every bracket your revenue crosses. Subscriby prices everything in US dollars with a fixed monthly fee per plan and one transaction rate, so the month's cost is known before it starts.
Fixed monthly cost at scale
BotSubscription never charges a monthly fee but always charges a percentage. At €5,000 a month its brackets add up to about €132, a 2.6% effective rate, with only the revenue above €5,000 charged 1%, while Subscriby Growth at $89 plus 1% is $139 all in: the gap is narrow, but a fixed fee is easier to budget.
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 or Discord 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
- Anyone who values a modern, fast product on a current stack over a long-running legacy platform
- Agencies and teams needing formal role-based access control with separate permissions per user
- Builders using Zapier, n8n, or AI agents (MCP) in their workflow
- USD-earning creators who prefer predictable fixed monthly costs
- Creators who want a fully public, well-documented REST API with 40 resource families
Stick with BotSubscription if you…
- Creators who need broad cryptocurrency coverage beyond Bitcoin/ETH/USDT — BotSubscription's 200+ coin support via NowPayments and BinancePay is wider.
- Creators who want Paddle or Revolut as a payment gateway — neither is available in Subscriby.
- Anyone who wants a built-in eGoods module (digital product delivery) alongside community subscriptions, without paying for a separate tool.
- Creators who prefer a no-monthly-fee model where the platform rate automatically decreases as their revenue grows.
Common Questions
- Does BotSubscription support Telegram Stars?
- Yes — BotSubscription supports Telegram Stars natively. Both Subscriby and BotSubscription support Telegram Stars payments. The key differences between the platforms are in automation integrations (Zapier, n8n, MCP), team RBAC, and pricing structure.
- How does the webhook system compare?
- Both platforms have webhook systems with HMAC signature verification. Subscriby fires 191 documented webhook events covering every subscription lifecycle state, with public documentation for each event payload.
- Does BotSubscription have Zapier or n8n integration?
- No. BotSubscription has no Zapier app or n8n node. Subscriby has both, plus an MCP server for AI-agent integration.
- Which has better crypto payment support?
- BotSubscription has broader crypto coverage — 200+ cryptocurrencies via NowPayments and BinancePay. Subscriby supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, USDT, and USDC via CoinPayments, plus stablecoins via CeyPay. If you need less common coins, BotSubscription covers more. For the major coins, both work.
- How does BotSubscription pricing work compared to Subscriby?
- BotSubscription charges no monthly subscription — instead, a sliding platform fee on revenue: 9% up to €200 a month, 7% to €300, 6% to €500, 5% to €800, 3% to €1,200, 2% to €5,000 and 1% above that. The first €85 of revenue per billing cycle is free. Subscriby charges a fixed monthly fee ($39 or $89) plus a flat transaction rate (3% or 1%). BotSubscription's model is lower cost at low revenue; Subscriby's flat fee is more predictable at higher volumes.
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