18 vendor pricing pages verified 2026-09-03
Newsletter platforms and creator platform prices, from the vendors' own pages
Every price on this site was fetched from the vendor's own pricing page and matched word for word before it was published, with the date we checked it. The entry plan is the lowest paid tier per month; the platform cut is the vendor's own percentage of what you sell on that plan, shown beside it because the cut decides the real cost once you have paying subscribers. No stars, no sponsored ranking, no estimates.
- median published entry plan, per month
- $40.5
- published entry-plan range across vendors
- $0 to $179
- vendors with a verified published price
- 18
- platform types covered
- 4
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- 18 vendor pricing pages verifiedevery figure matched verbatim to the vendor's page
- Quoted and dated, never estimatedlast verification pass 2026-09-03
- 4 platform types coveredeach with measured search demand behind it
Published platform prices, verified against each vendor's page
| Vendor | Entry plan | Next tier | Platform cut | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gumroad | $0/mo | 10 % cut | gumroad.com | September 2026 | |
| Substack | $0/mo | 10 % cut | substack.com | September 2026 | |
| Skool | $9/mo | $99/mo | 10 % cut | skool.com | September 2026 |
| MailerLite | $12/mo | $25/mo | mailerlite.com | September 2026 | |
| systeme.io | $17/mo | $47/mo | 0 % cut | systeme.io | September 2026 |
| Ghost | $18/mo billed yearly | $29/mo billed yearly | 0 % cut | ghost.org | September 2026 |
| LearnWorlds | $29/mo | 5 USD per enrollment | learnworlds.com | September 2026 | |
| Memberstack | $29/mo | $49/mo | 4 % cut | memberstack.com | September 2026 |
| Teachable | $39/mo | $89/mo | 7.5 % cut | teachable.com | September 2026 |
| Podia | $42/mo billed annually | $84/mo billed annually | 5 % cut | podia.com | September 2026 |
| Outseta | $47/mo | $87/mo | 2 % cut | outseta.com | September 2026 |
| beehiiv | $49/mo | $96/mo billed annually | 0 % cut | beehiiv.com | September 2026 |
| Memberful | $49/mo | 4.9 % cut | memberful.com | September 2026 | |
| Uscreen | $49/mo | $199/mo | 10 % cut | uscreen.tv | September 2026 |
| Mighty Networks | $79/mo | $179/mo | 2 % cut | mightynetworks.com | September 2026 |
| SamCart | $79/mo | $199/mo | 0 % cut | samcart.com | September 2026 |
| Circle | $89/mo | $199/mo | 2 % cut | circle.so | September 2026 |
| Kajabi | $179/mo | $249/mo | 0 % cut | kajabi.com | September 2026 |
| Kit | Pricing page could not be read (checked September 2026) | ||||
| Patreon | Pricing page could not be read (checked September 2026) | ||||
| Thinkific | Pricing page could not be read (checked September 2026) |
Ordered by published entry plan per month, so platforms that charge no subscription and take a cut instead sort first. These are the standing prices vendors print for their named plans; annual-billing discounts and promotions move what you pay on the day, so treat them as the list price rather than the checkout total. Card processing by Stripe or PayPal is charged on top of every platform's cut.
Pricing and launching what the platform sells
- How to price your online course Course pricing goes wrong in two directions.
- How to create a membership site A membership site sells the same thing every month: access.
- Paid newsletter A paid newsletter is a subscription to a writer.
- Sales funnel for an online course A course funnel is four stages: something free that earns an email address, a short sequence that earns trust, an offer with a reason to buy now, and a checkout that does not leak.
- Sentence expander A sentence expander takes a short line and returns a longer one.
- AI copywriting tools AI copywriting tools are sold to marketing teams and priced accordingly, which is why a creator looking for one so often finds a page quoting a number that has nothing to do with them.
- AI bio generator A bio generator writes the two or three sentences that sit under your name on a newsletter, a course page or a profile.
- Free AI video generator online Free is the most overloaded word in AI video.
- AI talking head video generator A talking head generator turns a script into a video of a person speaking it.
- AI sound generator Generated audio is the part of a creator's kit where the price on the pricing page is the least important number.
- Video idea generator A video idea generator returns a list of titles from a topic.
- AI tools for content creation Most roundups of AI tools rank things that do different jobs, which is why they are impossible to act on: a rewriter and an avatar video generator are not competitors and there is no honest ordering between them.
By platform type
- Newsletter platforms 8 vendors with evidenced products and verified prices
- Online course platforms 8 vendors with evidenced products and verified prices
- Membership site platforms 10 vendors with evidenced products and verified prices
- Community platforms 6 vendors with evidenced products and verified prices
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The median published entry plan per month in the creator platform market was $40.5 in September 2026, across 18 verified vendor pricing pages recorded in PaywallCompass Creator Platform Price Index.
Cite as: "PaywallCompass Creator Platform Price Index", updated 2026-09-03, https://paywallcompass.com/.