Circle alternatives

Circle alternatives: six community platforms and what each costs

For community platforms like Circle, the six alternatives worth pricing are Mighty Networks, Skool, Heartbeat, Kajabi, Bettermode and Discourse. Circle Professional is the baseline: $89 a month, billed annually, with a 2% transaction fee and 20 spaces. Circle's pricing page shows annual-billing prices only, so no Circle monthly price or yearly total appears here.

Mighty Networks Launch is $79 a month, billed annually ($950 a year), as read on 4 October 2026. It has unlimited Spaces. A Space is one section of a Mighty Networks community with its own members, privacy setting and features, such as a course, a group or an event area.

Entry price, what it includes and one limit for each

Circle shows prices billed annually only, so Mighty Networks, Heartbeat, Kajabi and Bettermode are listed the same way. Skool Pro and Discourse Pro are monthly prices.

Mighty Networks as a Circle alternative: unlimited Spaces, no money-back guarantee

Pick Mighty Networks over Circle when a community runs more than 20 subgroups. Launch has unlimited Spaces at $79 a month, billed annually, where Circle Professional includes 20 spaces at $89 a month, billed annually, and sells 10 more for $20 a month. Launch also allows 3 Hosts (people with full admin access) and 10 moderators, against 3 admins and 10 moderators on Circle Professional. Both plans take a 2% transaction fee.

The limit is refunds. Mighty Networks gives no refunds for unused time, where Circle has a 30-day money-back guarantee. Zapier and the Admin API start on Scale, $179 a month, billed annually. Mighty Networks vs Circle compares the two plan by plan.

Which Circle alternative fits which community

• Mighty Networks for a community with more than 20 subgroups: Spaces are unlimited on Launch.
• Skool Pro for a paid community that wants card processing inside one fee: $99 a month, billed monthly, plus 2.9% and 30 cents a transaction. See Circle vs Skool and Skool alternatives.
• Heartbeat Build for a group of up to 350 members at $40 a month, billed annually; Mighty Networks vs Heartbeat sets the two side by side.
• Kajabi Basic for a seller of up to 5 products who also needs a website and 2,500 contacts.
• Circle itself for 20 spaces or fewer with a 30-day refund window.

Circle and Mighty Networks can both be tried for 14 days with no credit card; Mighty Networks' trial runs on the Growth Plan.