Ci Circle
All-in-one community platform bundling discussion spaces, courses, live events, and paid memberships under your brand.
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Circle is a subscription SaaS for creators and businesses running paid communities. Plans run $89-$419/month with transaction fees of 2% (Professional), 1% (Business), or 0.5% (Circle Plus) on top of Stripe. It supports tiered memberships, one-off course sales, live events, DMs, and branded mobile apps on higher tiers.
Our take
Circle is the enterprise-grade community platform — $89-199/mo + 1-2% transaction on paid memberships. Professional ($89) is the sweet spot for most creators: paid memberships, courses, events, live streams, and solid moderation tools. Best for: creators running a paid community who want something more serious than a Discord server but less DIY than self-hosting. The Circle Plus tier even ships branded mobile apps. Skip if: you're Skool-curious and don't need the corporate polish — Skool's UX is friendlier for creator-led communities at lower volumes.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Modern UX with spaces, live rooms, and courses built in
- Custom domain and white-labeled branding
- Full member-data and email ownership
Cons
- No free plan; entry tier is $89/month
- Transaction fees stack on top of the monthly subscription
- Full mobile app branding gated to highest tiers
Full breakdown
- Platform fee
- $89/mo + 2% · monthly subscription plus transaction fee
- Payout speed
- weekly
- Minimum payout
- Stripe default
- Countries supported
- Wherever Stripe operates
- Email list export
- Full access
- Custom domain
- Yes (custom domain supported)
- Community features
- Full-featured: spaces, chat, DMs, live rooms, events