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 and Discord today, Slack, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams 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 | 11 gateways in your own accounts, Stripe and PayPal to Polar, Mollie, Kelviq, Razorpay, Paystack, CeyPay and Telegram Stars | Tribute collects: cards from 190+ countries, TON, USDT and BTC through the Telegram wallet |
| Payouts | Your gateways pay you on their own schedule; Subscriby never holds your money | Twice monthly on the 10th and 25th, by bank, card or USDT; €100 minimum for cards |
| 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 | Percentage or fixed, capped in total and per subscriber, plan-restricted, scheduled; first payment only | Not documented in the creator wiki |
| Referral Program | Members earn free days or cash for friends who pay; on Growth or as an addon | Not documented in the creator wiki |
| Smart Links and Embeds | Tracked links per channel with clicks, checkouts, paid members and revenue; embeds for your site | Statistics in the creator dashboard; tracked links and embeds not documented in the wiki |
| Portal Designer | Presets, colours, fonts, layout, blocks, your words and a stylesheet for the portal page, on every plan | A Creator's Page with a photo, a bio, links and reviews; no colours or layout documented |
| AI Operator | Subscriby Copilot: answers from your data and does the routine work with your permissions | Not documented |
| Failed-Payment Recovery | A grace window you set, four notices, a cancellation screen with one offer, win-back sequences | No grace window, cancellation offers or win-back messages documented in the creator wiki |
| 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 | The fee sits inside the price; no ledger of fees per payment documented |
| Partner Program | 5% to 30% of every invoice a referred creator pays, for 12 months | 2% to 5% of the invited creator's sales for 12 months, paid after a 15-day hold |
| Access Codes | Included, no add-on fee | Not documented |
| Team Roles | 81 fine-grained permissions with custom roles (Growth Plan) | Not documented |
| Disaster Recovery Program | Lost bot, channel or account detected in seconds; members re-admitted to a new one automatically | Not available |
| API and Webhooks | 191 documented outbound events and a REST API across 40 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 240-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.
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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
- 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
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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. Tribute documents 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. Tribute's Creator's Page takes a photo, a bio, links and reviews, with no colours or layout documented.
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. Tribute 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. Tribute 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. Tribute shows statistics and 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. Tribute documents 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. Tribute pays 2% to 5% of an invited creator's sales for 12 months.
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. Tribute's fee sits inside the price and no ledger is 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. Tribute has nothing comparable.
Coupon codes and free trials without a card
Subscriby coupons are percentage or fixed, capped in total and per subscriber, with a minimum spend, a plan restriction and a scheduled window, authored from the dashboard, the bot, the API or MCP and reported per code; a free trial admits a member without a card. Tribute's creator wiki documents neither.
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, so 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, Polar, Mollie, Kelviq, 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 takes 10% at every size, the payment provider's fee included. Subscriby Free matches that with no monthly fee, then Starter moves to $39 a month plus 3% and Growth to $89 a month plus 1%, so at $5,000 a month Tribute keeps $500 while Subscriby Growth costs $139 all in.
Built on connectors
Subscriby runs on Telegram and Discord today with Slack, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams and more on the roadmap, and one plan can grant access on several platforms at once as one purchase, with the member admitted on each the moment they link the account. Tribute is Telegram only, by design, with the same shared bot in every creator's channel.
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. Tribute documents no access codes.
Teams and an integration surface
81 permissions with custom roles on Growth, a Zapier integration, an n8n community node and a 240-tool MCP server beside the REST API and 191 webhook events, so a team, a workflow or an agent runs the account with you. Tribute lists an API, webhooks and an SDK, and none of the rest.
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. Tribute offers no support inbox.
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 and Discord today, Slack is under development, and Slack, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams 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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