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Skool pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Skool (skool.com) is a community platform. Two flat monthly plans with unlimited members; the cheaper plan takes a higher transaction fee on member payments.. No free plan.

What Skool costs

  • 100 paid members: $50/mo (Hobby $9 + 10% all-in fee on $1,000 ($100) - $59 processing allowance = $50; Pro = $99 + max(0, $29 - $59) = $99)
  • 1,000 paid members: $99/mo (Pro $99 + 2.9% on $10,000 ($290) - $590 allowance, floored at 0 = $99; Hobby = $9 + $1,000 - $590 = $419)
  • 1,000 free members: $9/mo (No free plan; Hobby $9/mo hosts a free community with unlimited members)

Plan compared: Hobby. Monthly USD on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) to run a community of a given size, including the platform's own fees on member payments but not standard card processing; WordPress plugins are priced on their licence without hosting, and forum software sold both ways on the vendor's hosted plan. The headline is 100 members paying $10 a month; we also compare 1,000 paying members ($10,000 a month, 2 admins) and a free community of 1,000 members.

What Skool does

Core: Discussion community, Paid memberships & subscriptions (partly), Online course hosting (partly), Points & badges gamification (partly).

Important: Events and live rooms (partly), Member mobile apps, Creator discovery marketplace.

Also has: Real-time chat (partly), Member directory and profiles (partly), Email marketing broadcasts (partly), Public SEO forum (partly).

Skool price hikes

No price hikes on record for Skool.

Alternatives to Skool

Skool is the cheapest community platform we track at 100 members paying $10 a month. The others:

Skool alternatives: 3 community platforms compared, at every size.

Sources

Pricing page: skool.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices and fees from skool.com/pricing (yearly toggle says 2 months free; annual figures from PricingSaaS). Fees are treated as all-in, including processing. If Skool also charges a $0.30 fixed fee per charge, which the page does not show, starter rises to $80. PricingSaaS tracks no changes, and the WebSearch for a price increase could not run because the search budget was used up.