Circle Review (2026)
The sticker is only the entry: Circle keeps a commission on every sale on top of Stripe's processing fees, and email marketing is a separate add-on — so a monetized community's real bill runs meaningfully past the plan price. Model it at your actual sales volume before choosing a tier.
creators and brands running a paid community — courses, memberships, events and discussions in one branded home, with a built-in payments stack and even branded mobile apps.
you only need a casual chat space (Discord-style) or your margins are thin on high sales volume — the platform commission plus processing fees stack against you.
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Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 5 Sep 2026
On top of the subscription Circle takes a commission on every sale you make through the platform (roughly 2% on Professional, 1% on Business, 0.5% on Plus) plus standard Stripe/PayPal processing, and the Email Hub is a paid add-on around $99/mo for 10,000 contacts. 14-day free trial, but no always-free option.
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What should I weigh before buying Growth & Revenue software?
It depends on whether you have the bottleneck it solves. Small teams get the most out of this category when one clear problem is already costing real hours or revenue; buying ahead of that just adds cost and another login. Price it against the hours or lost deals it removes, not against its feature list, and start on the smallest plan that covers the job.
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- Buyer reviews on G2, Trustpilot and community-platform comparisons, read August 2026.
- Circle’s own published pricing page.
- A dated screenshot of that pricing page, kept on this site as the receipt.
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