Skool tiers — there's exactly one, and here's why

There is only one Skool tier

If you've been searching for 'Skool tiers' or 'Skool plans,' the search engine probably surfaced articles comparing Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise. Those articles are wrong — or at least outdated. As of 2026, Skool has exactly one paid tier:

$99/month per community. Monthly billing. 14-day free trial. All features included.

That's the whole pricing page. There is no Hobby plan, no Pro upgrade, no Enterprise contract publicly available. The same account that signs up today gets the full feature set — feed, classroom, calendar, leaderboard, members, chat, gamification, mobile apps, custom domain.

If you own multiple communities, each one is its own $99/mo subscription. Two communities = $198/mo. There's no agency or volume discount.

Some older blog posts reference a 'Hobby' or 'Pro' tier — those were either short-lived experiments or copy mistakes from comparison articles. The current public pricing is single-tier.

See the pricing inside Skool itself.

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Why Skool refuses to add tiers

Most SaaS companies tier their pricing because (1) it captures more willingness-to-pay and (2) it gates premium features for upsell. Skool doesn't do either, on purpose.

The argument from the company:

• Tiers create a 'second-class member' problem. If you're on the Hobby plan and your community can't host events because you didn't pay for Pro, members notice and you look cheap.
• Tiers create complexity Skool's small team would have to support — different bug reports, different feature behavior per tier, different sales conversations.
• A flat fee removes the negotiation. Every owner pays the same price; the platform doesn't have to play games.

The argument against:

• Brand-new owners with no audience get priced out at $99/mo for an experimental community.
• Large communities don't get any discount despite generating much more revenue.
• No upsell path means Skool can't capture more revenue from power users.

Whether the strategy is right is debatable. The pricing reality isn't.

What's on the $99 plan

Everything Skool ships:

• Community feed with posts, comments, likes, categories.
• Classroom (modules, lessons, video/text/downloads).
• Calendar with timezone-aware reminders.
• Leaderboard with daily/weekly/all-time views.
• Levels, points, gamification.
• Members directory.
• DMs / chat.
• Native iOS and Android apps.
• Stripe Connect for payments.
• Built-in affiliate program.
• Custom domain support.
• Basic analytics (MRR, member count, churn).
• Unlimited members and video bandwidth.

What's NOT included (because Skool doesn't ship it at all, not because of tier):

• DM automation, churn recovery, comment-to-lead pipelines.
• Member CRM — no notes, pipeline view, last-contact date.
• Inbox tools — slash commands, saved replies.
• Public API, Zapier integration, or community webhooks.
• Course quizzes, certificates, drip cohorts.

How Skool's single tier compares to platforms with tiers

Stacked against competitors:

• Circle: $89/mo (Basic), $199/mo (Professional), $399/mo (Business), Enterprise (custom). Lower tiers cap features and add transaction fees.
• Mighty Networks: $41–$179/mo; pay-per-use for video bandwidth above thresholds.
• Kajabi: $149/mo (Basic), $199/mo (Growth), $399/mo (Pro).
• Teachable: $39–$199/mo with transaction fees on lower tiers.
• GoHighLevel: $97–$497/mo; community module included from $297/mo.

For a creator with 100+ paying members, Skool's flat $99 is competitive and often cheapest after fees. For a creator with 10 paying members, Circle Basic or a free Discord is cheaper.

The rule: Skool's pricing is brutal at <50 paying members and a steal above 200.

The third-party layer that has actual tiers

Skool itself doesn't tier its pricing, but the automation layer most owners add does.

tools4skool is a Chrome extension + dashboard that piggybacks your existing skool.com session and adds the features Skool deliberately doesn't ship — Auto DM Sequences, Churn Saver, Comment Miner, Pipeline, CSV export, inbox tools.

Its tiers:

• Free — $0. 1 sequence, 20 DMs/day, 1 account. Forever.
• Starter — $29/mo. Multiple sequences, larger DM volume, image DMs.
• Pro — $59/mo. Multi-condition triggers, churn recovery, comment miner, pipeline.
• Agency — $149/mo. Multiple Skool accounts, white-label, priority support.

The practical math: Skool's $99 plus tools4skool Pro ($59) totals $158/mo for a community-owner stack with the automation actually included. That's still cheaper than Circle Pro ($199) without automation, or Kajabi Pro ($399). And the Kate Capelli case study — $59/mo subscription producing $4,000/mo additional revenue in two weeks — is the proof point most owners cite.