Membership platforms 30 tools listed

Tools to run paid communities and recurring memberships. We list 30 membership platforms; 12 of them have a free plan.

Entry prices for paid plans run from $8.29 a month (Easy Digital Downloads) to $599 (Disciple), across 23 tools that publish prices. Units differ (per user, per account, flat), so compare the plan tables.

Full ranking of membership platforms Free membership platforms

Tools listed: 30
With a free plan: 12
Ranked: 23

Data checked Oct 14, 2026 against the vendors' own pages. How we verify

Memberships and subscriptionsRanking

Top ranked

From the membership platforms scorecard: Tutor LMS (99/100), Fourthwall (99/100) and Flodesk (98/100).

Rank 1
Tutor LMS
99/100
Based on 6 of 7 criteria
Rank 2
Fourthwall
99/100
Based on 4 of 7 criteria
Rank 3
Flodesk
98/100
Based on 5 of 7 criteria

Full ranking of membership platforms

All membership platforms

A to Z, with entry prices and free plans as each vendor publishes them.

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All membership platforms
Tool	From, billed monthly	From, billed yearly	Free plan	Integrations	Public API
Abstract27	Not offered	$15.83/mo	No	–	–
Circle	Not offered	$89/mo	No	–	Yes
Disciple	Not offered	$599/mo	No	100	Yes
Donorbox	$150/mo	Not offered	Yes, 5 users	–	Yes
Easy Digital Downloads	Not offered	$8.29/mo	Yes	100	Yes
Flodesk	Free	Free	Yes	–	Yes
Fourthwall	$15/mo	Not offered	Yes, 5 storage gb	–	–
Ghost	Not offered	$18/mo	No	8,000	Yes
Givebutter	$29/mo	Not offered	Yes, unlimited users	1,000	–
Heartbeat	$49/mo	$40/mo	No	–	Yes
Heights Platform	$29/mo	$19/mo	No	–	Yes
Insidr	Free	Free	Yes	–	–
Kartra	$59/mo	$52/mo	No	–	Yes
LearnWorlds	$29/mo	$24/mo	No	50	Yes
Lemon Squeezy	Free	Free	Yes, 500 subscribers	–	Yes
LifterLMS	Not offered	$16.58/mo	Yes, unlimited members	–	Yes
Marketsy.ai	Not offered	Not offered	No	–	Yes
Memberful	$49/mo	Not offered	No	–	Yes
MemberPress	Not offered	$16.63/mo	No	–	Yes
Mighty Networks	$79/mo	Not offered	No	2,000	Yes
Paddle	Contact sales	Contact sales	No	–	Yes
paidtier	$49/mo	Not offered	Yes, 10 transaction fee percent	–	–
Podfan	$12/mo	Not offered	Yes	–	–
SamCart	$79/mo	Not offered	No	–	Yes
SendOwl	$39/mo	$32.50/mo	No	–	Yes
Supercast	Contact sales	Contact sales	No	–	Yes
Teachable	$39/mo	$29/mo	No	–	Yes
Tutor LMS	Not offered	$16.58/mo	Yes, unlimited members	–	–
Wally	Free	Free	Yes	–	Yes
Wild Apricot	$66/mo	$59.40/mo	No	1,600	Yes

– = not published by the vendor, or not verified yet.

How we rank

Every one of these membership platforms is scored on the same 7 weighted criteria (scorecard v1), from the vendor's published data. 23 of the 30 listed have enough verified data to be ranked; a tool with under 60% of the weight covered is listed but not ranked. Nobody gets custom weights, including our own products.

Every criterion and score Methodology

Heaviest criteria

Entry price · Core25%
Price per month of the cheapest paid plan, against the prices of other membership platforms on the same billing basis (monthly-billed prices against monthly, annual-billed against annual).
Free plan or trial · Core15%
Whether you can use the tool before paying: a free plan, or failing that a free trial, as shown on the vendor's pricing page.
Verified features · Core15%
How many of the 4 features we track for this category the vendor's own pages verifiably show (analytics, team access, templates, ai assistant). This counts verified features only: a tool that documents less scores lower here, and only here.
Fee on sales · Category15%
The percentage of each sale the platform keeps, as the vendor states it (the cheapest paid plan that states a fee).
Pricing transparency · Core10%
How much of the pricing is public: the share of plans with a published price ("contact sales" counts against), and whether there are at least 3 published tiers.