TL;DR
Skool.com charges a flat $99 per month per group — about €92 at current exchange rates. That's the whole platform fee. No per-member surcharge, no separate course module, no extra video hosting bill. If you charge your members money, Skool also takes a transaction percentage on top — usually around 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction, the standard Stripe-style cut. That's it. There's a 14-day free trial when you create a group, then your card is charged. Compared to Circle, Mighty Networks, Kajabi, and Patreon, the headline number is competitive — but headline number isn't the whole story. The pieces Skool doesn't include — proper email automation, advanced DM workflows, churn recovery — you'll have to build elsewhere or use an extension like tools4skool.
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The actual Skool price, broken down
$99 a month, billed per group, is the whole story for the platform fee. If you run two groups, you pay twice — $198 a month. There's no annual discount on the public pricing page. The 14-day free trial doesn't require a card initially in some sign-up flows but you'll need one before you go live with a paid group. Currency: Skool bills in USD. If your card is in euros or another currency, your bank will apply its own conversion rate. €92 is a fair estimate at the time of writing but expect a few euros of variance month to month. There's no enterprise tier published — if you need custom invoicing or contracts, you'd have to ask Skool's team directly, but the public model is one tier, one price, no haggling.
Transaction fees on paid groups
If your group is free, you only pay the $99 platform fee. If you charge members, Skool processes payments through Stripe and takes a transaction cut. The headline rate is roughly 2.9% plus $0.30 per charge, which matches standard Stripe pricing. On a $50 monthly membership, that's about $1.75 per member per month. On a $500 monthly mastermind, it's about $14.80 per member. At 100 paying members, you're looking at $175–$1,480 a month in transaction fees on top of the $99 platform fee. That's not nothing, but it's normal for the market. Mighty Networks and Circle both charge similarly. Patreon takes a higher cut. Selling on your own Stripe with no community platform is cheaper but you'd lose the community + courses + payments-in-one bundle that's the actual point of paying for Skool.
Skool kosten vs. the alternatives
Quick context. Circle: starts around $89/month for the basic tier, climbs to $399/month for the higher tiers — close to Skool on the entry price but with a tier ladder. Mighty Networks: $39 to $179/month depending on tier. Kajabi: $149 to $399/month, with course-first features. Patreon: no platform fee but takes 8–12% on revenue. Discord + Stripe DIY: essentially free platform fee, full DIY pain. Skool's flat-price simplicity is the actual pitch — one number, no tier confusion. Where it loses is feature depth: Mighty has better events, Kajabi has better courses, Circle has better customisation. Skool wins on simplicity and on the gamification feature (points, levels, leaderboards) that drives daily engagement better than the alternatives.
What the $99 doesn't include
The platform fee covers the community feed, courses, members area, basic DMs, points/levels, and Stripe integration. It does not include serious email automation (Skool's email is barebones), behaviour-triggered DM sequences, churn recovery, advanced analytics, comment-based lead mining, scheduled posts beyond a trivial limit, or a CRM view. Most active Skool creators end up bolting on additional tools to handle these. tools4skool is a Chrome extension and dashboard that fills exactly these gaps — auto DM sequences with multi-condition triggers, a 60-second churn recovery DM, comment miner for warm leads, scheduled posts with a Post-Now button, slash commands in the inbox, and a Kanban CRM. Free plan covers one sequence and 20 DMs a day; paid plans start at $29 a month. So real total kosten for a serious operator is closer to $128/month all-in, plus transaction fees on paid memberships.
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