Circle
An all-in-one platform for building branded communities, hosting courses, and managing events.
- Also known as
- circle
Available worldwide
What is Circle?
Circle enables community builders to create a centralized space for their communities, courses, events, and live streams—all with custom branding and integrated payment systems. The platform provides tools for member engagement, content delivery, and monetization without requiring technical expertise.
Circle pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $89/month (Professional) with a 14-day free trial. Custom pricing for Circle Plus.
Professional
Get key community building features, all in one place
- Circle AI
- Unlimited members
- Courses
- Discussions
- Events
- Website Builder
- Live streams
- Live rooms
- Custom branding
- Reporting & analytics
- Searchable member directory
- Rich member profiles
- Paid memberships
- Gamification
- Custom domain
- Weekly community digest
- Migration services for payments
Business
Contact salesScale your community with workflows and customizations
- Everything in Professional
- Workflows
- Custom profile fields
- Circle MCP
- Headless Member API
- Admin API
- Branded email notifications
- Content co-pilot
- Automated transcriptions
- Activity scores
- Standard migration services
- Remove Circle branding
Circle Plus
Contact salesRun your business with AI Agents, hands-on expert strategy, and optional branded apps
- Everything in Business
- AI Agents & AI workflows
- Custom single sign-on (SSO)
- Highest limits (Live, Storage, Workflows)
- 10k Email Hub contacts included
- Sandbox community
- Priority technical support
- Priority platform migrations
- Dedicated Customer Success Manager
- Custom branded iOS and Android apps
- In-app purchases
- Fully managed branded apps
Add-ons
- Email Hub$10 per 1000 contacts
- Sender email customization$49/mo
- Integrately integration$40/mo
What Circle does
The capabilities that matter for community platforms, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Gamification badges and leaderboards
- ✓
- Native live video streaming
- ✓
- Native paywalls and paid subscriptions
- ✓
- Event calendar and rsvp management
- ✓
- Member directory and direct messaging dm
- ✓
- Custom domain cname and white labeling
- ✓
- Custom css and html theme editing
- ✓
- Salesforce hubspot CRM contact sync
- ✗
- Mobile app ios android deployment
- ✓
- SOC2 type ii
- -
- ISO 27001
- -
- Pricing model
- Monthly subscription tiered
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- Web
- Android
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (6)
Independently observed- Zapier
- Make
- Memberstack
- MemberSpace
- Memberful
- Integrately
Circle alternatives
Other community platforms we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Flarumlow · 20%
- NingBuild and manage custom social networks with flexible design and community toolslow · 26%
- BettermodeBuild branded customer communities without engineering overhead to drive engagement and measurable business outcomesmedium · 56%
- DiscourseA community platform enabling organizations to host and manage discussion-based communities with customizable features and integrated moderation tools.low · 42%
- Mighty NetworksCommunity platform with native mobile apps for courses, events, and membership monetizationmedium · 55%
Compare Circle
Side by side against other community platforms, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Circle, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 75 | 0.08 | 6.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 100 | 0.05 | 4.9 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 45 | 0.07 | 3.3 | ✓ |
| Price level | 25 | 0.05 | 1.3 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 24 | 0.04 | 1.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Pricing model: monthly_subscription_tiered · Deployment model: creator_cloud_saas · Native live video streaming: Yes · Custom css and html theme editing: Yes · Mobile app ios android deployment: Yes · Event calendar and rsvp management: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-25 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 6 | mediumsource · 2026-08-25 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-25 · 75% |