Circle

Circle is an all-in-one community platform that lets creators, coaches, and brands build branded online communities with discussions, courses, events, live streams, memberships, and payments in one place. It is designed to be the modern home for a community, replacing scattered tools like Facebook Groups, Slack, and separate course platforms.

The platform provides Spaces for organizing discussions, live rooms and streams, courses, memberships, workflows and automations, payments, AI agents, and APIs, plus branded mobile apps. Its focus on giving communities their own branded space - not a corner of someone else's social network - makes it popular with creators and businesses building paid and free communities.

Circle offers three main annual plans - Professional at 89 dollars per month, Business at 199 dollars, and Enterprise at 419 dollars - plus a custom Circle Plus tier (quoted from around 360 dollars), with transaction fees of 2 percent, 1 percent, and 0.5 percent respectively on top of Stripe's fees, a 14-day free trial (no free plan), and a paid Email Hub add-on. Aimed at creators, coaches, and brands, it competes with Skool, Mighty Networks, Kajabi, Discourse, and Slack.