Subscriby vs Whop
Community subscriptions wherever they live vs. a multi-product marketplace
Prices checked on 28 September 2026
Whop is a marketplace built for creators who sell multiple things: Discord communities, courses, digital downloads, software subscriptions. If that's you, Whop's built-in audience of 2 million weekly visitors is a real advantage. Subscriby does one thing, paid communities, wherever they live: on Telegram and Discord today with more connectors on the way, and with payment gateways, billing cycles and access control built for how each platform works.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Subscriby | Whop |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Focus | Paid communities on Telegram and Discord, more connectors coming | Multi-platform marketplace (Discord, courses, downloads) |
| Platforms | Telegram and Discord today, Slack, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams and more on the roadmap | Discord servers, web-hosted courses, downloads and software |
| Telegram Stars | Native support — subscribers pay inside Telegram | Not supported |
| Regional Gateways | Razorpay (India), Paystack (Africa), Mollie (Europe), CeyPay (Sri Lanka) | Primarily US, UK, EU payment methods |
| Fund Settlement | Direct to your account — $0 payout fee | Held by Whop — payout fees up to $23 per withdrawal |
| Access Codes | Offline and gift subscriptions — included | 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 | Fixed or percentage, one-time or forever, usage limits, audience targeting such as churned customers |
| Referral Program | Members earn free days or cash for friends who pay; on Growth or as an addon | Built-in affiliates at a rate you set, 30% by default, custom deals and a 30-day cookie |
| Smart Links and Embeds | Tracked links per channel with clicks, checkouts, paid members and revenue; embeds for your site | Tracking links with clicks, conversions and revenue; an embeddable checkout for your own page |
| Portal Designer | Presets, colours, fonts, layout, blocks, your words and a stylesheet for the portal page, on every plan | Logo, headline, description and gallery on the store page; colours on the checkout only |
| 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 | Failed renewals follow the processor's retries; 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 | Abandoned-checkout and lead follow-up messages are not documented |
| Fee Transparency | A Transaction Fees ledger: every fee tied to its payment, rate and invoice, exportable as CSV | Fees come out of each sale; no ledger of fees per payment documented |
| Partner Program | 5% to 30% of every invoice a referred creator pays, for 12 months | 25% to 30% of Whop's gross profit on a referred business, for as long as it stays |
| Free Plan | $0/mo, 3 projects, 10% fee | No $0/mo plan — commission from first sale |
| MCP Server | 240 tools for AI-agent control | Not available |
| Built-in Discovery | Bring your own audience via portal link | 2M+ weekly marketplace visitors |
What Whop Does Well
- Whop has a built-in marketplace — creators get discovered by buyers browsing the platform, which can drive organic signups without any paid marketing.
- Better for mixed product lines: if you sell courses, digital downloads, Discord communities, and software access together, Whop manages all of it in one dashboard.
- Whop supports 100+ payment methods across 135+ currencies and has a strong developer API with the Standard Webhooks spec.
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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
- WhopNo monthly fee3% platform fee on gated sales + 2.7%+$0.30 processing— Plus payout fees on every withdrawal
Put your own numbers in: the fee calculator ranks Whop, 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. Whop 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. Whop's store page takes a logo, a headline and a description; colours reach the checkout only.
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. Whop's failed renewals follow the processor's retries, with none of the three documented.
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. Whop documents no follow-ups of this kind.
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. Whop takes its fee out of each sale and documents no ledger of them.
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. Whop has nothing comparable.
Telegram Stars — Whop has no integration
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. Whop has no Telegram Stars integration at all.
Regional gateways Whop doesn't offer
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. If a meaningful share of your audience lives in those markets, Whop's US, UK and EU methods leave them with no way to pay.
Your money goes directly to you — no payout fees
Subscriby never touches your revenue: every payment settles into your own Stripe account, PayPal account or crypto wallet the moment the member pays, on the gateway's own schedule, with nothing held back. Whop holds your earnings and charges $2.50 for next-day ACH, 4% + $1 for instant transfers or $23 for bank wires.
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. Whop has no equivalent.
MCP server for AI-native workflows
Subscriby ships a Model Context Protocol server with 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, issue access codes and run reports. Whop has no MCP server.
Free Plan with real utility
Three projects, $0 a month and a 10% transaction fee, with the bot, the portal, access codes, 11 gateways and the webhook events included, so you can run a real paid Telegram community before spending anything and move up only when the revenue justifies it. Whop takes a commission from your first sale.
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…
- Telegram-first creators who want native bot automation for invites, renewals, and removals
- Creators outside the US/EU who need Razorpay, Paystack, or CeyPay
- Communities that want to accept Telegram Stars payments
- Anyone who wants revenue to settle directly with zero payout fees
- Builders who want MCP server, Zapier, n8n, or REST API integration
- Creators who want to start free and upgrade as revenue grows
Stick with Whop if you…
- Creators with mixed product lines — courses, Discord communities, digital downloads, and software — who want a single marketplace to manage all of it.
- Creators who benefit from Whop's organic marketplace traffic. If buyers browse Whop to find new communities, that discovery advantage is real.
Common Questions
- Can I switch from Whop to Subscriby without losing my subscribers?
- Yes. You can run both platforms during a transition. Subscribers move to Subscriby when they renew and join through the new portal link. There's no bulk import tool, but the overlap period keeps active members from losing access.
- Does Subscriby support Discord communities like Whop?
- Yes. Subscriby runs on Telegram and Discord today, and a Discord server, its roles and its private channels are sold with one verified app and nothing to create; Slack, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams and more are on the public roadmap but not available yet.
- How does fund settlement differ between Subscriby and Whop?
- Subscriby never holds your revenue — payments go directly to your Stripe account, PayPal, or crypto wallet. Whop holds your earnings and charges fees to withdraw: $2.50 for next-day ACH, 4%+$1 for instant transfers. Over time, those payout fees add up.
- What happens when a subscriber's subscription expires on Subscriby?
- The bot automatically removes them from the Telegram channel or group when their subscription expires. No manual action needed. Grace periods and retry logic for failed payments are configurable.
- Does Subscriby have a marketplace like Whop?
- No. Subscriby has no discovery marketplace. You bring your audience through your portal link — shared in your Telegram bio, social profiles, email list, or wherever your audience already is.
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