Community platform with courses and events built in, charging a small percentage of paid memberships.
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Membership businesses where the community is the product and courses support it.
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Circle
$129/mo est.
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$157/mo est.
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$99/mo est.
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$89/mo est.
Circle is a community platform that has grown into courses, events, live streams and paid memberships. Members are unlimited on every plan and the product is oriented around ongoing membership rather than one-off course sales.
It charges a small percentage of transactions, which falls as you move up its plans. It also publishes an MCP server, so it can be operated through an AI assistant, which is rare in this category.
Circle was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New York, United States.
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