Subscriby vs Patreon
Live communities, wherever they live, vs. content memberships
Prices checked on 28 September 2026
Patreon is designed around content: posts, videos, podcasts, exclusive files. Your patrons log into Patreon to consume what you publish. Subscriby is designed around community access: your members pay to be inside your private group or channel, wherever it lives (on Telegram and Discord today), where the value is the live conversation, real-time signals and direct interaction, not a static content library.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Subscriby | Patreon |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Telegram and Discord today, Slack, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams and more on the roadmap | Patreon site and app; Discord role integration |
| Primary Use Case | Telegram community access (live, real-time) | Content delivery to paying fans (posts, videos, podcasts) |
| Telegram Integration | Native bot — automated invites and removals | None — Telegram access must be managed manually |
| Platform Fee | 1–10% transaction fee only | 10% of all revenue for new creators (Aug 2025) plus 2.9% + $0.30 per payment |
| Fund Settlement | Direct to your account — never held | Patreon holds and pays out on schedule |
| Payment Gateways | 11 gateways | Stripe + Payoneer payouts only |
| Crypto Support | Bitcoin, ETH, USDT, USDC | No crypto support |
| Regional Coverage | Razorpay (India), Paystack (Africa), Mollie (Europe), CeyPay (Sri Lanka) | Limited outside US/EU — Stripe dependency |
| Telegram Stars | Native support | Not supported |
| Access Codes | Offline and gift subscription codes | Not available |
| 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 | Special Offers and free trials on tiers; Promo Codes are for your external store, not Patreon checkout |
| 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 | An embeddable button for your site; no tracked links with a funnel documented |
| Portal Designer | Presets, colours, fonts, layout, blocks, your words and a stylesheet for the portal page, on every plan | A cover photo, a profile photo, a brand colour and an About section on the page |
| 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 | Declined pledges are retried by Patreon; 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 | Fees come off each pledge; no ledger tying every fee to its payment and invoice documented |
| Partner Program | 5% to 30% of every invoice a referred creator pays, for 12 months | Not documented |
| API / Automation | REST API + MCP + Zapier + n8n | Patreon API (webhooks only, limited scope) |
What Patreon Does Well
- Patreon has creator discovery built in — fans browse Patreon to find and support creators. If someone is looking for a creator in your niche, you can be found there.
- Content-first features: Patreon excels at gating posts, videos, early access, and exclusive files behind membership tiers. If your value is what you publish, Patreon is purpose-built for it.
- Established trust with fans — many subscribers already have Patreon accounts and are comfortable paying through it, which lowers friction for them.
We believe in honest comparisons. If Patreon 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
- PatreonFree to start10% platform fee + 2.9%+$0.30 per payment— New creators as of August 2025
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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. Patreon 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. Patreon's page editor sets a cover photo, a profile photo, a brand colour and an About section.
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. Patreon retries declined pledges and 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. Patreon 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. Patreon offers a button for your site and no funnel per link.
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. Patreon 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. Patreon 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. Patreon shows fee totals 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. Patreon has nothing comparable.
A discount code your members actually type at checkout
Patreon's Special Offers and free trials live on tiers, and its Promo Code feature is built for your external store rather than Patreon's own checkout. A Subscriby coupon is redeemed at checkout on a plan that controls Telegram access, percentage or fixed, capped in total and per person, plan-restricted and scheduled: pay less, get admitted automatically.
Patreon has no Telegram integration
Paying patrons who belong in a private Telegram group mean copying invite links by hand and checking by hand who is still paying. Subscriby automates every step: a unique invite link the moment someone subscribes, removal the moment they cancel or expire, renewals tracked, and a bot that answers them under your name.
Fee comparison favors Subscriby as you scale
New Patreon creators pay 10% of all revenue plus 2.9% + $0.30 per payment, so at $3,000 a month more than $300 goes to Patreon before processor fees. Subscriby Starter at $39 plus 3% costs $129 on the same revenue and Growth at $89 plus 1% costs $119, and the fee falls as you grow.
Patreon holds your money
Patreon collects every pledge, pays out on its own monthly schedule and can hold funds back while a dispute is open. Subscriby never touches your revenue: payments go to your own Stripe, PayPal or crypto account the moment a subscriber pays, on the gateway's schedule, under your own compliance.
Regional gateways Patreon can't cover
Patreon relies on Stripe and Payoneer, which leaves India, Nigeria and much of Africa poorly served. Subscriby adds Razorpay for India, Paystack for Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and Kenya, Mollie for Europe, and CeyPay for Sri Lanka, each connected in your own account, so an audience in those markets pays the way it already does.
Crypto payments
Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC and Litecoin through CoinPayments, and stablecoins through CeyPay, settle into your own wallet with the member admitted the moment the chain confirms, which suits a crypto-native audience that would rather not hand a card to anyone. Patreon takes fiat only, through Stripe and Payoneer.
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. Patreon has no equivalent.
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 run private Telegram channels or groups where the community IS the product
- Anyone outside the US/EU who needs Razorpay, Paystack, or CeyPay
- Crypto signal providers, traders, or any community wanting crypto payments
- Creators who want revenue to settle directly to their account immediately
- Teams managing multiple Telegram communities
Stick with Patreon if you…
- Writers, podcasters, and video creators whose value is published content — posts, episodes, early access. Patreon's content delivery tools are built for exactly this, and Subscriby has no equivalent.
- Creators who rely on Patreon's discovery and recommendations to grow their audience.
- Anyone whose audience already has Patreon accounts and expects that payment flow.
Common Questions
- Can I use Subscriby alongside Patreon?
- Yes — many creators use Patreon for content delivery and Subscriby for their private Telegram community. They serve different functions and work well together.
- How much does Subscriby charge compared to Patreon?
- New Patreon creators pay 10% of all revenue plus payment processor fees. Subscriby charges 10% on the free plan (no monthly cost), 3% on Starter ($39/mo), and 1% on Growth ($89/mo). At $3,000/month revenue, Subscriby Starter saves around $170/month vs Patreon.
- Does Subscriby have creator discovery like Patreon?
- No. Subscriby has no marketplace or discovery feed. You drive your own traffic via your portal link — shared wherever your audience already is.
- Can subscribers pay in their local currency on Subscriby?
- Subscriby supports 172+ currencies. Regional gateways like Razorpay (India) and Paystack (Africa) also accept local payment methods that Stripe-based platforms cannot.
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