Membership & Community Platforms for Online courses & cohorts
Paid tiers, gated content, member communities and patron pages, with billing, dunning and access control built in. Every listing below pays for online courses & cohorts. Ranked by editor score with traffic minimums, payout terms, web rank and the niches each one accepts.
Updated September 2026 · 4 listings · web ranks refreshed daily
How to choose membership & community platforms for online courses & cohorts
All-in-one course platforms charge a monthly fee or a revenue share and give you hosting, payments, drip, quizzes and an affiliate programme; self-hosted plugins cost less but leave you running video hosting and checkout. Decide first whether you are selling one course or building a school, because migrating a student base is genuinely painful.
Circle 🧰 PlatformPaid
Community platform with paid memberships, courses, events and live streams, from $89 a month.
Memberful 🧰 PlatformFreemium
Membership billing that plugs into your own site, newsletter and Discord; Patreon's more customisable sibling.
Skool 🧰 PlatformPaid
Simple paid community platform with courses and gamification, $99 a month flat and 2.9% on payments.
Mighty Networks 🧰 PlatformPaid
Community and course platform with native apps and paid memberships, from $41 a month.
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