Subscriby vs Tribute
A membership platform on your own bot against a hosted service on a shared one. Both sell paid access on Telegram; they differ in who holds the keys.
Prices checked on 28 September 2026
Tribute sells paid channel and group access, donations, digital products and physical goods entirely inside Telegram: you add the Tribute bot as an administrator, members pay by card or in TON, USDT and BTC, and Tribute pays you out twice a month in euros or USDT after a flat 10% commission. Subscriby runs on your own white-labelled bot with your own payment gateway accounts, charges a monthly fee plus 1% to 10%, and adds passes, coupons, access codes, team roles, a support inbox, disaster recovery and an integration surface. Both do the core job well; the choice is between convenience with a shared bot and ownership with your own.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Subscriby | Tribute |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Telegram today, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp and more on the roadmap | Telegram only |
| Your Own Bot | Every project runs your own bot under your name and branding | The shared Tribute bot is added as an administrator of your channel or group |
| Pricing Model | USD flat monthly + 10%, 3% or 1% transaction fee by tier; no caps | No monthly fee; a flat 10% commission on every payment, payment provider fees included |
| Payment Gateways | 8 gateways in your own accounts: Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, Paystack, Skrill, CoinPayments, CeyPay, plus Telegram Stars | Tribute collects: Visa and Mastercard from 190+ countries, TON, USDT and BTC through the Telegram in-app wallet |
| Payouts | Your gateways pay you on their own schedule; Subscriby never holds your money | Twice a month, on the 10th and 25th, to a bank account or card in euros (or rubles) or in USDT; €100 minimum for card payouts |
| Telegram Stars | Native support | Not listed; TON, USDT and BTC through the Telegram in-app wallet instead |
| What You Can Sell | Recurring and one-time memberships, time-limited passes and pass series to channels, groups and servers | Subscriptions, one-time access, donations, digital products and physical goods |
| Price Limits | None | Subscriptions from €1 to €3,000 a month; digital products up to €1,000 |
| Coupon Codes | Coupon codes with caps, minimum spend, plan restriction and a scheduled window; free trials without a card | Not documented in the creator wiki |
| Access Codes | Included, no add-on fee | Not documented |
| Team Roles | 60 fine-grained permissions with custom roles (Growth plan) | Not documented |
| Disaster Recovery Program | A lost account, bot or channel is detected in seconds and you move to a new one while every paying member is re-admitted automatically; standby bots, a live mirror and automatic failover on Growth | Not available |
| API and Webhooks | 145 documented outbound events and a REST API across 30 resource families | An API key per creator, signed webhooks for payment events and an SDK |
| Zapier, n8n and MCP | Zapier integration, an n8n community node and a 161-tool MCP server | None listed |
| Member Support Inbox | Two-way support threads from the bot into a shared inbox, answered under your own name | Not offered |
| Dashboard | Full web dashboard: projects, subscribers, plans, payments, codes, coupons, inbox, teams | Creator dashboard inside Telegram with statistics |
| Free Tier | $0/mo, 3 projects, 10% fee, no time limit | No monthly fee on any volume; 10% on every payment |
What Tribute Does Well
- Zero setup: no bot to create, no gateway account to open. You add the Tribute bot to your channel and can take a payment the same hour.
- Tribute collects and pays out, so a creator who cannot open a Stripe or PayPal account still gets paid, by card in euros or in USDT.
- TON, USDT and BTC through the Telegram in-app wallet, inside the app, with no external checkout.
- Donations, digital products and physical goods beside subscriptions, from one bot.
- A flat 10% with the payment provider fee included, so there is one number to remember and nothing to pay in a slow month.
We believe in honest comparisons. If Tribute 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, no revenue cap
- Growth$89/mo1% per transaction— 20 projects, 25 billed annually, white-labelled bots, Teams, no revenue cap
- Every creator€0/mo10% of every payment, provider fees included— No monthly fee, no setup fee
- Payouts€0Bank fees may apply on withdrawal— Twice a month; €100 minimum for card payouts
Where Subscriby Wins
Your bot, your name, your member list
A Tribute member joins through a bot that carries Tribute's name and lives inside Tribute's account. On Subscriby the bot is yours: your name, your branding, your welcome message, and a member list that belongs to your project and travels with it. If you ever leave, nothing has to be rebuilt from someone else's bot.
Your gateways, your money, no intermediary
Subscriby never touches your revenue. Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, Paystack, Skrill, CoinPayments or CeyPay pay you on their own schedule, in your own currency, under your own compliance. Tribute collects everything, takes 10%, and pays out on the 10th and 25th with a €100 minimum for card payouts.
1% instead of 10% as you grow
Tribute is 10% at every size. Subscriby Free matches that with no monthly fee, then Starter moves to $39 + 3% and Growth to $89 + 1%. At $5,000 a month Tribute keeps $500; Subscriby Growth costs $139.
Built on connectors
Subscriby runs on Telegram today with Discord under development and Discord, Slack, WhatsApp and more on the roadmap. Tribute is Telegram only, by design.
Disaster Recovery Program — peace of mind when access is lost overnight
Nobody else recovers you when a channel, a bot or an account becomes unreachable overnight. If the platform restricts your account, your bot or a channel, Subscriby detects it in seconds when a sale or a join fails and keeps probing every bot and channel around the clock, alerts you by email and Telegram, and lets you move to a new account, bot or chat from the dashboard while every paying member is re-admitted automatically — your plans, subscriptions and payments untouched. On Growth, a standby bot, standby channels with a live mirror of every post and automatic failover make the switch one click, or no clicks at all. Fair use: this is a temporary bridge for creators who lost access through no fault of their own and for whom even a short downtime is a real concern. Each kind of recovery is self-service once per 90 days; beyond that our support team reviews the account first, and a confirmed violation of the platform's or Subscriby's terms closes it.
Scheduled passes, coupons, access codes and trials
Sell a Sunday pass on Wednesday and let access open and close on its own; bundle a slate of dates into a pass series; run capped coupon campaigns; admit sponsors and partners with access codes; offer a free trial without a card. Tribute documents none of these for channel access.
Teams, inbox and an integration surface
60 permissions with custom roles on Growth, a two-way member support inbox behind the bot, 145 outbound webhook events, a REST API across 30 resource families, Zapier, n8n and a 161-tool MCP server.
Choose Subscriby if you…
- Creators who want the bot, the member list and the gateway accounts to be theirs
- Communities earning enough that 10% of everything is the biggest line on the bill
- Creators selling events, seasons and slates through scheduled passes and pass series
- Agencies and teams that need roles, a shared inbox and per-project isolation
- Builders who want Zapier, n8n or an MCP server beside the API
- Communities that will live on more than one platform as connectors ship
Stick with Tribute if you…
- Creators who cannot or do not want to open a Stripe, PayPal or regional gateway account and need someone to collect and pay out.
- Audiences that pay in TON or USDT through the Telegram in-app wallet, or creators paid out in rubles.
- Anyone selling donations, digital downloads or physical goods beside channel access from one bot.
- Creators who want to take a first payment within the hour with nothing to configure.
Common Questions
How do Tribute and Subscriby charge?
Tribute takes a flat 10% of every payment with the payment provider's fee included and charges no monthly fee. Subscriby Free also has no monthly fee at 10%; Starter is $39 a month plus 3% and Growth $89 plus 1%, with your gateway's own fee on top. Below about $400 a month Tribute and Subscriby Free cost the same; above it Subscriby's tiers pull ahead.
Do I need my own bot on Tribute?
No, and that is the trade. Tribute adds its shared bot as an administrator of your channel or group, so there is nothing to create; on Subscriby you create your own bot in a minute and it carries your name, your branding and your member list.
Does Tribute work on Discord or other platforms?
No. Tribute runs on Telegram only. Subscriby runs on Telegram today, Discord is under development, and Discord, Slack, WhatsApp and more are on the roadmap through the connector marketplace.
How does getting paid differ?
Tribute collects every payment and pays creators twice a month, on the 10th and 25th, to a bank account or card in euros or in USDT, with a €100 minimum for card payouts. Subscriby never holds your money: each gateway you connect pays you directly on its own schedule.
Can Tribute members pay with cards outside the Telegram in-app wallet?
Yes. Tribute accepts Visa and Mastercard from more than 190 countries as well as TON, USDT and BTC. Subscriby accepts cards through Stripe, Razorpay, Paystack, Skrill and CeyPay, PayPal, crypto through CoinPayments, and Telegram Stars.
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