How Much Does Skool Cost? Pricing Explained (2026)

Skool costs $9/month on the Hobby plan or $99/month on the Pro plan, per community. Skool's pricing page lists the same feature bullets on both plans alongside unlimited members, so the headline difference is the transaction fee: 10% on Hobby versus 2.9% on Pro. Yearly billing gives you two months free on either plan. Verified on skool.com/pricing in August 2026; always confirm current pricing there.

That simplicity is deliberate. Most community platforms charge by member count or lock features behind escalating tiers. Skool's pitch is the opposite: pay once per community, get all of it.

This page answers what Skool charges an owner. If you want what a member pays to join somebody else's room, we measured every published price in Skool Discovery in Skool community cost, and what you should charge is covered in how to price a Skool community.

What do you get for $99/month?

The $99/month plan includes the entire platform, not a starter slice of it:

• Community feed: the discussion space, like a private forum
• Classroom: host unlimited courses, videos, PDFs, and resources
• Calendar: schedule live calls, events, and coaching sessions
• Gamification: points, levels, and leaderboards built in
• Unlimited members: the price doesn't change as you grow
• Payment processing: charge for membership directly inside Skool

Skool's pricing page lists an identical set of bullets on both plans, including a custom URL and affiliates. The help centre is less absolute: some features, including member affiliates and Skool Webinar, are documented there as Pro only. Confirm anything you are depending on inside your own admin settings rather than from the pricing bullets alone.

Is there a cheaper Skool plan?

Yes. The $9/month Hobby plan is aimed at people testing the waters before committing, and it is not a stripped-down version. The pricing page lists unlimited members, unlimited courses, unlimited videos, unlimited live calls, a custom URL and affiliates on Hobby, the same bullets as Pro, though Skool's help centre documents member affiliates and Skool Webinar as Pro-only features.

The trade-off is the transaction fee. Hobby charges 10% on money processed through Skool; Pro charges 2.9%. That makes Hobby cheaper until you process about $1,270 a month in member payments, and more expensive after it.

What is the transaction fee on each plan?

Skool charges 10% on the Hobby plan and 2.9% on the Pro plan on payments your members make through the platform. It is the largest difference between the two plans, and it is why the right plan usually depends on your revenue rather than your feature needs.

Two details the headline rates leave out, both from Skool's own Payments FAQ. Every transaction also carries a flat 30 cents. And the Pro rate is tiered rather than fixed: 2.9% plus 30c applies up to $899, while transactions of $900 and above are charged 3.9% plus 30c. If you sell a high-ticket offer, every sale lands in the higher band, so price against 3.9% rather than 2.9%. Hobby is a flat 10% plus 30c at any transaction size. The full working is in how much Skool takes.

At $500 a month in member payments, Hobby costs about $59 all-in and Pro about $114. At $5,000 a month, Hobby costs about $509 and Pro about $244. Full break-even table in our Skool Hobby vs Pro plan guide.

If your community is free, the transaction fee never applies and the Hobby plan is simply $9 a month.

How does Skool's price compare to the alternatives?

The honest answer: Skool is mid-priced but radically simpler. Circle, Kajabi, and Mighty Networks all use tiered pricing that climbs with features and contacts. Skool's flat $99 means your cost is predictable from day one to 10,000 members.

On entry price Skool undercuts all three by a wide margin. Circle's paid tiers start around $89 a month billed annually, Mighty Networks around $95 a month, and Kajabi around $143 a month billed annually, against Skool's $9. The comparison narrows at the top, where Circle and Mighty Networks charge platform fees near 2% and Kajabi Payments charges 2.9% plus 30c, so the fee gap matters less than the plan gap. The side-by-side breakdowns are in Skool vs Circle, Skool vs Kajabi and the full list of Skool alternatives.

What you give up is customization. Skool is opinionated and minimal by design. If you want a heavily branded, configurable platform, you'll feel the constraints. If you want to launch fast and not think about software, that constraint is the feature.

For a deeper fit check, see is Skool worth it for coaches.

Does Skool take a cut of your revenue?

Skool charges a transaction fee of 2.9% on Pro or 10% on Hobby, but it does not take an additional percentage override of your membership revenue the way some course platforms do. Your monthly plan fee is the platform cost; what your members pay you is yours, minus that transaction fee.

This is a meaningful difference at scale. A community doing $10,000/month on a percentage-based platform can lose far more to revenue share. On Skool Pro, the platform cost stays flat at $99 however much you earn, and the transaction fee stays a processing fee rather than a cut of your income, though the rate itself steps up to 3.9% on individual transactions of $900 or more. See the full fee comparison in how much does Skool take.

Is Skool worth $99/month?

For anyone monetizing a community, yes, the cost is trivial against even modest membership revenue. For someone with no members yet and no audience, the $9 hobby tier is the smarter place to start while you get your first members.

The platform cost is almost never the thing that decides whether a Skool community succeeds. Activity and retention decide that.

FAQ

How much does Skool cost per month?

Skool costs $9/month on the Hobby plan or $99/month on the Pro plan, per community. Both include all features and unlimited members. The difference is the transaction fee: 10% on Hobby, 2.9% on Pro. Yearly billing gives two months free. Always verify current pricing at skool.com/pricing.

What is the Skool transaction fee?

10% of member payments on the Hobby plan and 2.9% on the Pro plan. It applies only to money processed through Skool, so a free community pays nothing beyond the monthly plan fee.

Does Skool charge per member?

No. The $99/month plan includes unlimited members at no additional per-member cost. Your price is the same with 10 members or 10,000.

Is there a free version of Skool?

Skool doesn't offer a permanently free plan to run your own community, but the $9/month Hobby plan with a free trial makes testing nearly free. Many free Skool communities exist, like Goosify, that you can join at no cost, separate from the cost of running your own.

Does Skool take a percentage of my revenue?

Only the transaction fee: 2.9% on Pro or 10% on Hobby. There is no additional revenue-share override on top of that, unlike percentage-based course platforms.

Is Skool cheaper than Kajabi or Circle?

It depends on scale, but Skool's flat $99 is more predictable. Kajabi, Circle, and Mighty Networks use tiered pricing that rises with features and contact counts; Skool's price stays constant as you grow.

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Updated August 2026. Pricing and transaction fees verified against Skool's publicly listed plans; confirm current figures at skool.com/pricing before deciding.