Skool Hobby — $9/month
- Members: Unlimited
- Courses: Unlimited
- Videos: Unlimited
- Live calls: Unlimited
- Custom URL: Included
- Affiliates: Included
- Transaction fee: 10%
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Skool pricing
2 published plans, read off skool.com/pricing on 6 August 2026, with everything Skool bills on top of them. Free to quote with attribution.
How much is Skool?
Hobby is $9/month. Pro is $99/month. Every figure read off skool.com/pricing on 6 August 2026. There is no free plan. The free trial is 14 days. The plan price is not the bill — see the fees question below.
Skool's plans and pricing tiers
| Plan | Monthly | Billed annually | What the tier is for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | $9 | not published | The cheap way in. Yearly billing gives 2 months free; no per-month annual figure is published. |
| Pro | $99 | not published | The same unlimited allowances — the plans differ almost entirely in the fee on your sales. |
What each tier actually allows
Skool Hobby — $9/month
Skool Pro — $99/month
What Skool bills on top of the subscription
- The transaction fee on every sale you make through the group — 10% on Hobby, 2.9% on Pro
- Changing your group's custom URL after the fact costs $100 per change, per their own checkout strings
On your own sales: 10% of your sales on Hobby; 2.9% on Pro. Skool processes member payments itself.
What Skool does well
- One flat price per group with genuinely unlimited members, courses, videos and live calls — there is no capacity ladder to climb.
- $9/mo is the cheapest paid entry in this whole set.
- Community engagement is the product — the feed, points, levels and leaderboards keep a group alive better than anything else here.
- Courses, calendar and community share one login and one feed, so members actually see the content.
- Built-in affiliates and paid memberships: charging for a community takes minutes, and the search volume around it says people love the result.
Where Skool is hardest on a small business owner
- The transaction fee is the real price: 10% on Hobby and 2.9% on Pro, on every sale, forever.
- No email broadcasts, no funnels, no landing pages, no automation — the marketing that fills the group happens somewhere else.
- Courses are simple video-and-text classrooms inside the group: no quizzes, no certificates, no drip-by-cohort tooling.
- Your group lives on skool.com inside Skool's own look — your brand is a logo and a cover image, not a website.
How this was gathered
Every figure on this page was read off skool.com/pricing on 6 August 2026. Nothing here comes from a review site, an affiliate roundup, a press release or memory, and there are no affiliate links on it. Where Skool publishes no figure for something, this page records that it is not published rather than modelling a plausible one. Prices are list prices in US dollars before any promotion, and exclude the extras listed further down, which depend on volume and on your own sales and therefore cannot be totalled for anybody in general. No rating, score or rank is published here — this page contains Skool's published prices and terms, and nothing that is an opinion except the section that says it is.
Questions people ask about Skool's price
How much is Skool per month?
The cheapest published monthly price is $9/month, on the Hobby plan, read off skool.com/pricing on 6 August 2026. Skool publishes no per-month figure for annual billing. That is the subscription only. 10% of your sales on Hobby; 2.9% on Pro. Skool processes member payments itself.
What are Skool's plans?
2 plans on skool.com/pricing as of 6 August 2026: Hobby — The cheap way in. Yearly billing gives 2 months free; no per-month annual figure is published. Members: Unlimited; Courses: Unlimited; Videos: Unlimited; Live calls: Unlimited; Custom URL: Included; Affiliates: Included; Transaction fee: 10%. Pro — The same unlimited allowances — the plans differ almost entirely in the fee on your sales. Members: Unlimited; Courses: Unlimited; Videos: Unlimited; Live calls: Unlimited; Custom URL: Included; Affiliates: Included; Transaction fee: 2.9%.
What are Skool's pricing tiers?
Hobby is $9/month. Pro is $99/month. The tiers differ on Members, Courses, Videos, Live calls, Custom URL, Affiliates. Read off skool.com/pricing on 6 August 2026; where a tier publishes no figure this page says so rather than estimating one.
Does Skool have a free plan or a free trial?
No permanently free plan. The published free trial is 14 days. No money-back window is published. Checked 6 August 2026.
What fees does Skool charge on top of the plan?
Their own pages, read on 6 August 2026, listed: The transaction fee on every sale you make through the group — 10% on Hobby, 2.9% on Pro; Changing your group's custom URL after the fact costs $100 per change, per their own checkout strings. On fees taken from your sales: 10% of your sales on Hobby; 2.9% on Pro. Skool processes member payments itself. The entry tier's own card puts that at 10%.
How much does Skool cost?
Read off skool.com/pricing on 6 August 2026: Hobby is $9/month. Pro is $99/month. There is no free plan. The free trial is 14 days.
Does Skool charge fees on top of the subscription?
Yes — on 6 August 2026 their own pages listed: The transaction fee on every sale you make through the group — 10% on Hobby, 2.9% on Pro; Changing your group's custom URL after the fact costs $100 per change, per their own checkout strings. On transaction fees specifically: 10% of your sales on Hobby; 2.9% on Pro. Skool processes member payments itself.
What does Skool do well?
One flat price per group with genuinely unlimited members, courses, videos and live calls — there is no capacity ladder to climb. $9/mo is the cheapest paid entry in this whole set. Community engagement is the product — the feed, points, levels and leaderboards keep a group alive better than anything else here. Courses, calendar and community share one login and one feed, so members actually see the content. Built-in affiliates and paid memberships: charging for a community takes minutes, and the search volume around it says people love the result. That is from their own pricing and product pages, read on 6 August 2026.
Where does Skool fall short for a small business owner?
The transaction fee is the real price: 10% on Hobby and 2.9% on Pro, on every sale, forever. No email broadcasts, no funnels, no landing pages, no automation — the marketing that fills the group happens somewhere else. Courses are simple video-and-text classrooms inside the group: no quizzes, no certificates, no drip-by-cohort tooling. Your group lives on skool.com inside Skool's own look — your brand is a logo and a cover image, not a website. That is our reading of their published plans and limits as of 6 August 2026 — check skool.com/pricing before you decide anything on it.
What's a cheaper alternative to Skool?
Skool's lowest published tier is $9/month, read off skool.com/pricing on 6 August 2026. Of the 11 platforms priced on this site, these publish a lower entry tier: Systeme.io at $0/month. Systeme.io publishes a permanently free plan. Read that carefully before switching on price alone: the entry tier is not the bill. Skool's own pages list these on top of the plan: The transaction fee on every sale you make through the group — 10% on Hobby, 2.9% on Pro; Changing your group's custom URL after the fact costs $100 per change, per their own checkout strings. On transaction fees: 10% of your sales on Hobby; 2.9% on Pro. Skool processes member payments itself. Several of the cheaper options above charge a percentage of your sales or per-message usage instead, and every one of those is listed per vendor, in their own words, at /data/platform-pricing — all of it read on 6 August 2026. The alternative this page is about is KBD Systems, which is priced at /pricing; the difference it is arguing is not the monthly figure but what you still have to do yourself after you have paid it.
Is Skool worth it?
That depends on who is going to run it, and their own pages make it answerable. Skool is a community platform where courses, posts, events and gamification live inside one group, at one flat price per group, sold to community builders and creators selling paid memberships and courses inside a group. What it genuinely does better: One flat price per group with genuinely unlimited members, courses, videos and live calls — there is no capacity ladder to climb. $9/mo is the cheapest paid entry in this whole set. Where it is hardest on a small business owner running it alone: The transaction fee is the real price: 10% on Hobby and 2.9% on Pro, on every sale, forever. No email broadcasts, no funnels, no landing pages, no automation — the marketing that fills the group happens somewhere else. Its lowest published tier is $9/month. There is a 14-day free trial, so this is testable before it is decided. That is our reading of their published plans, limits and product pages as of 6 August 2026, not a rating — we publish no scores, and you should check skool.com/pricing yourself before deciding anything on the strength of ours.
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