The best Memberstack alternatives, and when to stay put

Prices verified June 2, 2026. Memberstack Basic is $29 a month with a 4% transaction fee, Professional is $49 with 2%, Business is $99 with 0.9%, and Established is $499 with 0%. Stripe processing is on top. The tiers cross over at predictable points: Professional beats Basic above about $1,000 a month in sales, Business beats Professional above about $4,500, and Established only beats Business above about $44,000.

At $1,000 a month, Basic and Professional both come to $69 before processing. At $5,000, Basic is $229, Professional $149 and Business $144. At $20,000, Professional is $449, Business $279 and Established $499. Math example, not a customer outcome.

Those fees are reasonable. People look elsewhere for a different reason: Memberstack gates pages, but the course player, progress tracking, discussion threads, event RSVPs and member directory are things you assemble from other tools or build in Webflow. Each one is another integration, another login risk and another evening of maintenance.

Circle is the move if the thing you kept trying to build was a community. Professional is $89 a month with a 2% transaction fee, Business is $199 with 1%, and Plus is custom with 0.5%, with no monthly cap on the fee. Its strengths are a polished member experience, spaces for organizing topics or cohorts, events and live streams, and mature admin tooling. Quizzes are basic and there is no native verifiable certificate, so course-heavy programs may still need a second tool.

Mighty Networks suits Memberstack users whose members want a dedicated place to go, especially on mobile. Launch is $79 a month with 2%, Scale is $179 with 1%, Growth runs $354 to $425 with 0.5%, and Mighty Pro is custom, with no monthly cap. Its real strength is a branded mobile app and a sense of place that a gated Webflow page rarely creates. You give up design control over your marketing site inside the community itself.

If your Memberstack pages are lessons in disguise, Thinkific is a mature LMS. Basic is $49 a month with one community, Start is $99 with one community and ten spaces, Grow is $199, Expand is $499, and Plus is custom. There is no transaction fee with Thinkific Payments; using your own Stripe adds a surcharge of 0.5% to 5% by tier. Quizzes, certificates and drip are built in. Community, live events and gamification are its weaker side.

Teachable is a course-selling platform with a lighter setup. Starter is $29 a month with a 7.5% transaction fee, Builder is $69, Growth is $139, and Advanced is $309, with 0% platform fee on Builder and up. Plans are billed annually, there is no free plan, and Stripe's 2.9% plus $0.30 always applies. Starter is cheaper than Builder only below about $533 a month in sales. It suits creators who want a storefront and a course player and do not need much community.

Kajabi replaces more than Memberstack. Basic is $179 a month with five products and 2,500 contacts, Growth is $249 and Pro is $499; the old $89 Kickstarter plan is no longer sold. Kajabi Payments charges 2.7% to 2.9% plus $0.30, and a third-party payment add-on fee of 0.5% to 5% applies by tier. Its strength is the marketing suite: email, funnels and pages. Community is lighter. It makes sense if you would otherwise pay for an email tool and a page builder alongside Memberstack.

If you want to keep building your own site and simply swap the layer, tools such as Memberful, Outseta and MemberSpace sit in the same category as Memberstack. Each has a different mix of site builders it supports and billing features it includes, so compare them on your own stack and check current pricing on their sites. Switching layer to layer is the smallest change, and it also solves the least: you will still be assembling the course, community and events pieces yourself.

Memberstack is the right tool when the website is the product. Designers and agencies who build in Webflow, founders who need gated content inside a carefully designed marketing site, and directories or resource libraries that only need logins and payments are all well served. Its fees step down sensibly as you grow, and no hosted platform will give you the same design control.

Use this checklist. Stay on Memberstack if you can answer yes to all three: my members mainly read or download gated pages; I enjoy maintaining the site; I am not stitching together more than two extra tools for courses, discussion or events. If you answered no to any of them, a hosted platform will probably save you more in hours than it costs in fees.

HiveLearn is for the Memberstack user who keeps building the same missing pieces. Courses, community, events and payments in one place: a full LMS with quizzes in six question types, drip lessons and verifiable certificates; a feed with threaded discussions, direct messages and a members directory; events with RSVPs, paid tickets, QR check-in and reminders; points, levels and leaderboards; and Stripe Connect payouts to your own Stripe account. Your Webflow site can stay as the marketing front door and link in. There is a public REST API at hivelearn.app/api-docs if you want to connect the two.

Starter is $0 a month with a 6% revenue share, so there is no monthly fee until you monetize. Growth is $39 a month with 4%, rev share capped at $2,000/month; Pro is $99 with 2%, capped at $3,000/month; Scale is $249 with 1%, capped at $4,000/month; Enterprise is $499 with 0.25%, capped at $5,000/month. Stripe processing (2.9% + $0.30) is charged on top. Growth, Pro and Scale come with a 14-day free trial, no credit card. If design control over every member page matters most, Memberstack remains the better fit.