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MemberPad vs Skool

Skool is built on one idea: a small number of features, done plainly, with gamification that genuinely drives daily attendance. MemberPad covers far more ground, including podcasts, live video and audio rooms, and costs nothing until a member pays you.

The short version

Choose Skool if

  • Daily attendance is the thing you care about most. Skool’s points, levels and rewards are the best executed version of that idea on this list, and unlocking courses at higher levels is named on its own features page rather than buried in a settings screen.2
  • You want fewer decisions, not more. Skool ships nine things and refuses to ship a tenth, and for a lot of communities that restraint is worth more than any feature MemberPad could add.2
  • Your members need to find things. Skool’s single search box covers posts, comments, course content and members, and MemberPad has no search across a community at all.2
  • You want members to start the conversations themselves. Anyone in a Skool group can post to it, and on MemberPad the feed belongs to you and your admins while members comment and react.2
  • You are earning above roughly $474 a month and you do not need what MemberPad adds. The $9 Hobby plan and its 10% fee undercut us from that point on.1

It is a tie on

  • Both give you real time posts, comments, polls, chat, member profiles, event calendars that remind people, and one login per person across communities.2
  • Both email your whole membership from inside the product, and both run an affiliate arrangement that pays people for bringing others in.2
  • Neither caps how many members you can have, and neither makes you assemble the community and the courses from two separate products.1

Choose MemberPad if

  • You want a podcast your members can actually listen to on a walk. Skool has no podcast hosting and no feed, and MemberPad issues each member their own private RSS.2
  • You want to broadcast, not to schedule a link. Skool’s calendar helps you schedule a livestream that happens somewhere else. MemberPad broadcasts, runs two way video rooms and runs audio rooms itself.2
  • Your teaching needs marking. Skool’s classroom tracks progress through lessons, and MemberPad adds graded quizzes, reviewed assignments and certificates on completion.2
  • You want the community on a desktop app and on every phone. Skool is web and mobile, and MemberPad adds self updating Windows and macOS applications.2

At a glance

One row per category. The full table, with every row and every source, is further down.

The eight categories at a glance. Every row here also appears in the full table below.
CapabilitySkoolMemberPad
Real time chatThe difference between a forum people check weekly and a room they sit in.YesChat with members, plus real time interactions on posts2YesLive rooms with typing and presence, free on every community5
Build courses inside the platformA course hosted somewhere else is a second login and a second bill.YesThe Classroom sits beside the community, not in another product2YesCourses, modules and lessons, with video uploaded here or linked from YouTube5
Private member only podcast feedA private feed puts your paid show in the app people already listen in.NoNo RSS, so a show stays outside Skool entirely2YesAn RSS feed unique to each member, authenticated per person5
Broadcast to an audienceOne to many video, where the audience watches rather than joins.DifferentThe calendar schedules a livestream that happens elsewhere2YesAny audience size, but the community needs one paid tier5
What the platform takesThe number that decides how much of every membership actually reaches you.Different10% on the $9 plan, 2.9% on the $99 plan1Different9% of what a member pays, and nothing at all before that4
Desktop appA window that stays open is very different from a tab that gets closed.NoNo desktop application is offered on either plan2YesWindows and macOS installers that update themselves6
On demand video libraryA back catalog people can browse is worth more than the same videos buried in a feed.DifferentVideo lives inside the Classroom rather than its own library2YesUploads or YouTube links, browsable, with progress, bookmarks and comments5
Start without paying anythingWhat you owe in the months before the community is earning anything at all.No$9 a month on Hobby, or $99 a month on Pro1YesNothing. There is no MemberPad subscription to buy4

What each one costs

Skool quotes a transaction fee that covers card processing, and MemberPad quotes one that sits on top of it. Comparing 2.9% against 9% as though they measured the same thing would flatter Skool by about three points, so every figure here folds processing into both sides.3

Against Skool Pro, the two cost the same at roughly $1,100 a month in member revenue. Under that, MemberPad is cheaper because there is no monthly bill to pay in a quiet month. Over it, Skool Pro pulls ahead and keeps going.1

The Hobby plan is the more interesting number and it goes against us. At $9 a month plus 10%, Skool Hobby is cheaper than MemberPad from about $474 a month upward, and stays cheaper. If price alone decides this and you do not need what MemberPad adds, that is the plan to weigh.1

Skool Hobby

$9/moplus 10% of each sale

  • Unlimited members, courses and videos
  • Unlimited live calls
  • Custom URL and affiliates

Skool Pro

$99/moplus 2.9% of each sale

  • The same features as Hobby, exactly
  • Only the transaction fee differs

MemberPad

$0/moplus 9% of each sale

  • No plans and no tiers
  • Uncapped members
  • No feature behind a higher plan

What each one takes on top

Where a percentage is shown above, that is Skool's own rate and it already covers card processing, so unlike ours there is nothing further to add to it. MemberPad takes 9% of what a member actually pays you, and card processing sits on top of ours as well, billed by Stripe on your own account. There is one plan, nothing is held back behind a higher one, and a month where nobody pays you costs nothing.

From about $474 a month, Skool Hobby costs less than MemberPad. Below that we are cheaper, mostly because there is no monthly bill to pay in a quiet month.

  • Hobby overtakes us at about $474 a month
  • Pro overtakes us at about $1,100 a month

Community

Skool is the best argument for leaving things out

Nine features, one login, one profile, one search box. The whole product is an argument that most community software fails by adding, and a great many Skool groups are livelier than communities running on far more capable platforms. That is not an accident and it deserves saying first.2

The gamification is the sharpest version of that idea. Points, levels you can rename, and courses that only open once a member reaches a level. It turns showing up into something with a shape, and it is the single feature most often named when somebody says they moved to Skool and engagement went up.2

MemberPad has closed this, and the shape is slightly different. There is a leaderboard over seven days, thirty days and all time, with your own rank pinned whether or not you made the top ten, plus points, levels, badges, daily visit streaks, a celebrations strip and courses that open at a level. Owners and admins are never ranked, because only they can post and points reward the reactions a post earns.

One honest difference remains. Ours is off until a creator switches it on, and the settings screen shows how many members earned points in the last thirty days before they do, because a board with four names on it reads as a dead room rather than a race. Skool simply has one from the first day, and if you want the mechanic running before the community is busy, that is the version you want.

Courses

One tracks that you watched it, the other checks that you learned it

The Skool Classroom is courses, pages, videos, resources, searchable transcripts and progress tracking, all sitting in the same place as the conversation. Searchable transcripts are genuinely good and MemberPad has no equivalent, so if members hunt for a half remembered thing you said in lesson nine, Skool finds it.2

What the Classroom does not do is assess. There is no quiz, nothing to hand in, and nothing issued at the end. Progress means a member marked a lesson complete, which for a lot of teaching is the right amount of ceremony and for some is not nearly enough.2

MemberPad treats a lesson as something a member can fail. Quizzes are graded and hold the next lesson shut until the score clears, assignments come back to you to approve or reject, and a certificate is generated on completion. If you are running anything that resembles a cohort or a credential, that gap is the comparison.

On when a lesson opens, MemberPad does both things. A course can open at a level, the way Skool does it, and a section or a single lesson can also open on a fixed date or a set number of days after that member started, which Skool has no version of. A quiz dated for next week holds everything behind it shut until next week.2

Podcasting

Skool has no answer here, and it is not pretending to

There is no podcast anywhere in Skool’s feature list, and that is consistent rather than an oversight. A product built on leaving things out is not going to add audio hosting, and nobody choosing Skool is choosing it for a show.2

The practical shape of that is a second product and a second bill. Your audio lives with a podcast host, your community lives in Skool, and the two never quite meet, which means the show cannot be part of what a paid membership buys.2

MemberPad hosts the audio and hands every member their own authenticated RSS feed, so a paid show appears in the podcast app they already use. If audio is any part of your plan, this is the difference that should decide it.

Live

Scheduling a livestream and running one are different products

Skool’s pricing page promises unlimited live calls and its calendar makes scheduling one easy, and both of those things are true. The part worth understanding is that Skool is scheduling the call rather than carrying it, so the video itself happens on whatever tool you already use.1

That is a defensible trade. Unlimited really is unlimited when somebody else is paying for the bandwidth, and most groups already have a video tool they like. It also means the recording is your problem, the attendance list is your problem, and members leave the community to attend.2

MemberPad runs the video itself, in three formats, with replays saved automatically to the library. The cost of that is a metered minute pool starting at about three hours of broadcasting a month and growing with your revenue, and a requirement that your community has at least one paid tier before you can go live at all.

Money

Two plans, and one of them is cheaper than us

This is the section where the honest answer is uncomfortable, so here it is plainly. Skool Hobby costs $9 a month and takes 10% of what a member pays, and because that 10% already covers card processing while our 9% does not, Skool Hobby is cheaper than MemberPad from about $474 a month of member revenue upward.1

Skool Pro is a different shape. At $99 a month plus 2.9% it is expensive while you are small and cheap once you are not, crossing over with MemberPad at around $1,100 a month. Below that we cost less, above it Pro does.1

What the fee comparison leaves out is what each fee is buying. Skool is one price for one membership to one group. MemberPad supports several tiers, one time purchases, digital products, coupons and trials, which matters if your offer is more complicated than a single door with a single price on it.

Access

Same phones, and one extra screen

Both put a genuine app on iPhone and Android, and in both cases it is a shared app carrying every community a person belongs to rather than one branded to you. For most audiences that is completely fine and nobody has ever left over it.2

MemberPad also ships Windows and macOS desktop applications that update themselves. Whether that earns its place depends on your members: a community people dip into between meetings does not need it, and one people keep open while they work is a different thing on a desktop app than in a browser tab.

Skool has one edge here that is easy to overlook. Every Skool group lives in the same app, so a member who already belongs to one is a single tap from yours with nothing to install, while somebody joining a MemberPad community has to download something first.

Content

Where the simple product starts to feel narrow

Skool’s post composer is good and covers photos, videos, GIFs, polls and mentions, and any member can start a post with it, where on MemberPad only you and your admins post to the feed and members reply. The single search box across posts, comments, course content and members is also better than anything MemberPad offers, which has no search across a community.2

Past that, everything has to be a post or a lesson. There is no file library, no photo album, no video library separate from the Classroom, no notebook, and no shop. MemberPad has all of them as named sections, which is more to learn and more places for things to live.

That narrowness is the product working as intended rather than a gap, and it is worth sitting with before treating it as one. Every place a thing can live is another place a member has to look, and a group of two hundred people is often better served by one feed than by nine sections.

Value

Pick the shape of the product, not the length of the list

A longer feature list is not automatically the better buy, and anyone comparing these two should be suspicious of a page from us that pretends otherwise. Skool works because it is small, and a lot of communities do better inside a product that refuses to grow than inside one that keeps offering more.2

The case for MemberPad is specific rather than general. It is for creators whose work already spans a podcast, live sessions, a course that needs marking, and things to sell that are not one membership, and who would rather not pay a platform in the months when none of it earns.

If your community is a place people talk and learn and nothing more, Skool does that with fewer moving parts, and above about $474 a month its Hobby plan costs you less than we do and keeps costing less as you grow. That sentence is uncomfortable to publish and it is the most useful one on this page.1

Everything we checked

Every row carries a note rather than a tick, and every claim about Skool links to the page it came from.

Skool and MemberPad compared. Every claim about Skool is sourced, and was last checked on 2026-11-07.
CapabilitySkoolMemberPad
Community Whether people actually talk to each other, and what brings them back tomorrow.
Separate spaces for separate topicsOne undifferentiated feed is where a growing community starts to feel noisy.PartialPost categories inside one feed rather than separate spaces2YesChat rooms grouped into sections, beside one community feed5
Real time chatThe difference between a forum people check weekly and a room they sit in.YesChat with members, plus real time interactions on posts2YesLive rooms with typing and presence, free on every community5
Direct messages between membersMembers who can reach each other privately stay for each other, not only for you.YesChat with members directly, with no tier requirement2PartialOne to one or groups of up to 10, but starting one needs a paid tier5
Member profilesA face and a history is what turns an account into a person other members recognize.YesOne profile that follows you across every Skool group2YesPublic profiles with follows, blocks and private member notes5
Moderation toolsWhoever helps you run the place needs powers that stop short of your own.PartialModeration exists but Skool publishes no detail on roles2YesPick each moderator's powers: moderate messages, time out, ban5
Points, levels or a leaderboardVisible progress is one of the few things that reliably brings people back daily.YesPoints, levels and rewards, with courses unlocked at higher levels2YesPoints, levels, streaks, badges, celebrations, and a leaderboard the creator switches on5
Courses Whether you can teach something and check that it landed, not just publish videos.
Build courses inside the platformA course hosted somewhere else is a second login and a second bill.YesThe Classroom sits beside the community, not in another product2YesCourses, modules and lessons, with video uploaded here or linked from YouTube5
Course video hosted for youEmbedding from YouTube means your paid lessons live on someone else’s player.YesVideos with searchable transcripts, and unlimited on both plans1YesHosted and streamed by us, uploads capped at 1080p5
Quizzes and graded assessmentsChecking that someone learned it is the difference between a course and a playlist.NoProgress tracking only. No graded assessment of any kind2YesGraded quizzes that hold the next lesson shut until passed5
Assignments you reviewWork handed in and marked up is what cohort programs are built on.NoNothing for a member to hand in and a creator to mark2YesAssignments a creator reviews, approves or sends back5
Certificates on completionA certificate is the thing a member posts, which is free marketing for you.NoCompletion is tracked but nothing is issued for it2YesGenerated on completion, in the community accent color5
Release lessons on a scheduleDrip keeps a cohort together and stops a member finishing in a weekend and leaving.DifferentCourses unlock at a gamification level rather than on a date2YesOn a fixed date, or a number of days after each member starts5
Courses that unlock by taking partEarning your way into the next course is a reason to show up that a paywall never gives anybody.YesCourses open at a level, and it is the center of the product2YesA course can open at a level, showing the climb rather than a paywall5
Podcasting Whether a paid show reaches members in the app they already listen in.
Host podcast audioPodcast hosting is otherwise a separate product and a separate monthly bill.NoNo podcast product is named anywhere on the feature list2YesAudio hosted here, organized into shows and episodes5
Private member only podcast feedA private feed puts your paid show in the app people already listen in.NoNo RSS, so a show stays outside Skool entirely2YesAn RSS feed unique to each member, authenticated per person5
Plays in normal podcast appsAudio that only plays on the website is not really a podcast.NoAudio has to live with a separate podcast host2PartialOne tap subscribe covers Apple Podcasts and Overcast only5
Lock a show to a paid tierAudio is one of the easiest things to charge for, if the platform lets you.NoNothing here to lock, since audio is hosted elsewhere2YesA whole show can be held to a paid tier5
Live experiences What you can run live, and whether the platform runs it or points at something else.
Broadcast to an audienceOne to many video, where the audience watches rather than joins.DifferentThe calendar schedules a livestream that happens elsewhere2YesAny audience size, but the community needs one paid tier5
Two way video roomsOffice hours, coaching calls and cohort sessions all need faces on both sides.DifferentGroup calls run on an outside tool, scheduled from the calendar2YesTwo way rooms, and again a paid tier is required5
Audio only roomsFar lower effort to show up to than video, so far more people do.NoNo audio only room format is offered at all2YesAudio only rooms with a stage, paid tier required5
Replays saved automaticallyMost of a live session’s value is watched by people who missed it.PartialA recording can be posted, but nothing is saved automatically2YesSaved automatically and publishable to the video library5
How live time is meteredEvery platform meters live somehow, and the shape of the limit decides what you can run.DifferentUnlimited live calls, because Skool is not carrying the video1DifferentA monthly minute pool that grows with your own revenue4
Monetization How money gets from a member to you, and how much of it survives the trip.
Recurring paid membershipsRecurring revenue is the reason most creators move onto a platform at all.YesA single paid membership price for the whole group1YesMonthly and yearly tiers, charged on your own Stripe account4
One time purchasesNot everything should be a subscription, and not every buyer wants one.PartialBuilt around one recurring price rather than separate purchases1YesAny piece of content can be sold once instead of gated5
Digital products and downloadsA template pack or a preset is often the first thing a member ever buys.PartialResources attach to classroom lessons rather than selling alone2YesDownloads or external links, sold from a shop tab5
Sell physical merch you shipA shirt, a record or a print is something a fan will buy long before a membership.NoNone of its nine named features sells a physical product2YesVariants, stock and shipping rates. You ship within the US, and buyers need no account5
Coupons and promo codesA launch or a seasonal offer needs a code you can hand out and expire.PartialNot named on the pricing or the feature page1YesPercent or amount, once, repeating or forever, scoped per tier5
Free trials on a paid tierA trial is the cheapest way to show someone what is behind the wall.PartialSkool trials its own product; member trials are not named1YesUp to 365 days, with the card taken up front5
Affiliate program for membersMembers who earn for referring are the cheapest growth channel there is.DifferentAuto affiliate pays you 40% of a member’s own Skool subscription2YesMembers earn a commission on referrals at a rate you set5
What the platform takesThe number that decides how much of every membership actually reaches you.Different10% on the $9 plan, 2.9% on the $99 plan1Different9% of what a member pays, and nothing at all before that4
Access Every screen a member might open it on, and whether it feels native there.
Web appWhere most members will actually read, and the only surface search engines see.YesThe web app is where Skool mostly lives2YesA full web app, server rendered for speed and search6
iPhone appPush notifications and a home screen icon are what make a community a habit.YesA shared Skool app carrying every group you belong to2YesPublished on the App Store as a native app6
Android appHalf the phones in most audiences, and often the majority outside the US.YesThe same shared app on Android phones2YesPublished on Google Play as a native app6
Desktop appA window that stays open is very different from a tab that gets closed.NoNo desktop application is offered on either plan2YesWindows and macOS installers that update themselves6
Your own domainThe address decides whether the community reads as yours or as rented.PartialA custom URL is included, short of a full custom domain1YesYour own domain on any community, with no upgrade5
Content What else can live alongside the conversation without a second product.
Posts with mediaThe everyday surface. Whatever is awkward to post here will simply not get posted.YesPosts with photos, videos, GIFs, polls, mentions and likes2YesCreators and admins post text, sixteen images, video and polls, and members comment and react5
On demand video libraryA back catalog people can browse is worth more than the same videos buried in a feed.DifferentVideo lives inside the Classroom rather than its own library2YesUploads or YouTube links, browsable, with progress, bookmarks and comments5
Events and a calendarAnything recurring needs a place members can see it coming.YesA calendar in local timezones that emails reminders2YesRepeating events with timezones, RSVPs, a waitlist, and reminders to everyone going5
File libraryTemplates, worksheets and swipe files are what members quietly value most.PartialResources hang off lessons rather than forming a library2YesA file library, 50 MB a file, folders one level deep5
PollsThe lowest effort thing a quiet member will ever do, and often their first.YesPolls are part of the standard post composer2YesIn posts and in chat rooms, results hidden until you vote5
A public page that sells the communityThe page a stranger lands on decides whether they ever become a member.PartialA group page on skool.com, with no builder behind it1YesA public page by default, a block builder, and a link in bio page5
Value What the whole arrangement costs you, including the parts that are not the fee.
Start without paying anythingWhat you owe in the months before the community is earning anything at all.No$9 a month on Hobby, or $99 a month on Pro1YesNothing. There is no MemberPad subscription to buy4
Members without a capA member cap turns your own growth into a bill you did not plan for.YesUnlimited members, courses and videos on both plans1YesMembers, communities, posts, courses and tiers are all uncapped4
Email your membersEmail is the only channel you keep if the platform ever goes away.YesBroadcast a post to every member with one click2Partial5,000 sends a month to start, growing with your revenue4
API and webhooksThe difference between a platform you can build around and one you cannot.NoNo public API or webhooks are published by Skool2YesA documented public API and outbound webhooks5
Remove the platform brandingWhether the product reads as entirely yours, or visibly built on someone else.NoGroups live on skool.com and carry the Skool name1NoA Powered by MemberPad link always sits on the public page5

Moving from Skool to MemberPad

  1. Turn the leaderboard on, and say what happens to old ranks

    MemberPad has a board but ships it off, so switch it on deliberately rather than discovering it later. Everyone starts at zero on the day you move, which is the real migration risk in a group that runs on ranking, and it is worth telling members before they notice.

  2. Take your member list and your Classroom out

    Export the members first, then work through the Classroom lesson by lesson. Videos re upload, and while you are in there it is worth adding the quizzes and assignments Skool has no place for.

  3. Rebuild post categories as rooms and sections

    Skool categories inside one feed usually become MemberPad chat rooms grouped into sections, plus the community feed. Most groups end up with fewer rooms than they had categories, which is worth doing on purpose.

  4. Set your tiers and your trial before anyone arrives

    Skool is one price for one group, so this is where you decide whether to stay that way or use several tiers. Get it settled first, because moving members between tiers afterwards is more work than setting it up once.

  5. Move the calendar last, and let members answer once

    Events do not import. Recreate them on MemberPad near the end of the move, where they repeat, carry timezones and remind everyone who says they are going, so members answer on the new calendar once rather than twice.

What does not come across

Points and levels do not come across. Whatever ranking your members have earned in Skool is gone the day you leave, and in a group where that ranking is the reason people post, telling them about it beforehand matters more than any feature you gain.2

MemberPad imports your Skool member export and emails everyone a one tap invitation to join, so the move is no longer everybody signing up again unaided. Paid subscriptions are the exception that no platform can carry, because payment methods never transfer, so each paying member re subscribes on the new plan.

Searchable transcripts have no equivalent on MemberPad. If your members find things by searching what you said in a video, that habit stops working and you should plan to write more of it down.2

Questions people actually ask

Is MemberPad cheaper than Skool?

It depends on the plan and the revenue. Against Skool Pro at $99 a month, MemberPad is cheaper below roughly $1,100 a month in member revenue. Against Skool Hobby at $9 a month plus 10%, MemberPad is only cheaper below about $474 a month, because Skool’s percentage already covers card processing and ours does not.

Does MemberPad have a leaderboard like Skool?

Yes. Seven day, thirty day and all time boards, the top ten with medals, and your own rank pinned below whether or not you made it. Owners and admins are left out on purpose, since only they can post and points reward the reactions a post collects. The one difference from Skool is that ours stays off until you switch it on, so a board nobody is on yet never greets a new member.

Can I host a podcast on Skool?

No. Skool names no podcast product on its feature page, so audio has to live with a separate podcast host and cannot be part of what a Skool membership buys. MemberPad hosts podcast audio and gives every member a private authenticated RSS feed that works in their normal podcast app.

Does Skool have live streaming built in?

Not exactly. Skool advertises unlimited live calls, and what its calendar actually does is schedule a livestream or a call that happens on another tool. MemberPad carries the video itself with broadcasts, two way rooms and audio rooms, and saves replays, in exchange for a metered monthly minute allowance.

What is the best Skool alternative for courses?

If the problem with Skool is that its Classroom cannot assess anyone, MemberPad is the closer fit, because it adds graded quizzes, assignments a creator reviews and certificates on completion. If the problem is that Skool releases a course by level and never by a date, MemberPad does both, and Kajabi and Teachable are worth weighing for the dated release alone.

Can I use my own domain with Skool?

Skool includes a custom URL on both plans, which is not quite the same thing as pointing your own domain at the community. MemberPad does not gate custom domains at all, so any community can sit on its own address from the first day without paying for an upgrade to get there.

Which one is simpler to run?

Skool, clearly and by design. It ships nine features and refuses a tenth, which means less to configure, less to explain to members and fewer decisions for you. MemberPad covers much more ground, and the cost of that ground is more surface area to learn and more places for content to live.

Is Skool worth $99 a month?

For a group that is engaged and earning, yes, and the 2.9% fee on the Pro plan is one of the lowest here. Under about $1,100 a month in member revenue you would pay less on MemberPad, and under about $474 the $9 Hobby plan beats us both, so the answer really does turn on your revenue.

Does Skool have an API?

No public API or webhooks appear anywhere on Skool's own feature page, which is consistent with a product built around doing nine things and refusing a tenth. MemberPad publishes a documented API and outbound webhooks, so anything you want to automate or connect to another system has somewhere to connect to.

What is the best Skool alternative with live video built in?

MemberPad is the closest fit if you want the platform to carry the video rather than schedule a link to it, since it runs broadcasts, two way rooms and audio rooms and saves replays. Mighty Networks is worth weighing too, and publishes its live hours and viewer caps openly, which almost nobody else does.

How this was checked

Every figure about another platform on these pages came from that platform’s own published pricing, feature or documentation pages, and each one is listed with the date it was read. Where a company does not publish an answer, the page says that rather than guessing at one.

Nothing here is based on testing a competitor’s product hands on, and no page claims otherwise. Claims about MemberPad are checked against the code that ships rather than against our own marketing, which is why several of them are unflattering.

Fee comparisons put both sides on the same footing. Some platforms quote a percentage that already covers card processing and some quote one that sits on top of it, and treating those two numbers as the same thing is the most common way a comparison like this misleads.

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Who published it

This comparison was written and published by MemberPad, so read it knowing we make one of the two products in it. We have tried to earn your trust the only way that works, which is by being specific about what the other platform does better and where ours falls short.

Competitor pricing and features change. If you find something here that is out of date or wrong, the sources and the date we checked them are listed on every page so you can see exactly what we were looking at, and we would rather hear about it than have it sit here.

Drew AumanFounder, MemberPad

Sources

  1. 1PricingSkool · skool.com · checked 2026-11-07
  2. 2FeaturesSkool · skool.com · checked 2026-11-07
  3. 3PricingStripe · stripe.com · checked 2026-11-07
  4. 4PricingMemberPad · memberpad.com · checked 2026-11-07
  5. 5FeaturesMemberPad · memberpad.com · checked 2026-11-07
  6. 6AppsMemberPad · memberpad.com · checked 2026-11-07

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