10 Best Whop Alternatives of 2026

Stan Store ranks first because it removes the percentage cut that makes Whop expensive as sales grow. Its Creator plan costs $29 a month, or $300 a year, and Stan's own pricing guide says creators keep 100% of each sale apart from standard Stripe or PayPal processing. That plan already covers a mobile-friendly storefront, an unlimited course builder, calendar bookings, recurring subscriptions, lead magnets, community features and AutoDM replies on Instagram. Creator Pro at $99 a month adds discount codes, limited-quantity offers, upsells and order bumps, payment plans through Stan Payments, Afterpay and Klarna, affiliate management, email broadcasts and flows, and pixel tracking for Meta, Google, Pinterest and TikTok. The trade-off is scope: Stan is a storefront first, so it has no marketplace like Whop's and no deep community feed. For a creator earning a few thousand dollars a month from a bio link, the flat fee usually costs less than any revenue share.

Payhip suits the digital product side of Whop sellers better than almost anything else here. Every plan, including the free one, gets the same features and unlimited products and revenue; the plans only differ in how much Payhip keeps. The free plan takes 5% of each sale, Plus takes 2% and Pro takes nothing, so you can start at zero cost and move up once the fee outweighs the subscription. It sells downloads, online courses, coaching, memberships and physical products from a store builder with themes, and it includes email marketing. Payhip collects and remits EU and UK VAT and US and Canadian sales tax on digital sales, which saves a lot of admin for small sellers. Payments arrive in your PayPal or Stripe account right after each sale, with standard processor fees. The gap is community: Payhip has no built-in member feed or chat integration, so Discord-led sellers should look at LaunchPass. Its pricing page blocked our checker, so the price is marked pending.

Podia is the most complete course and community bundle among the lower-fee options. Every plan includes community, online courses, digital downloads, coaching, live and in-person events, a website and blog, a custom domain, landing pages, AI tools, sales tax across 230 countries, 20+ currencies and built-in checkout. Mover costs $42 a month on annual billing but charges a 5% transaction fee and caps you at 50 products and 100 email subscribers. Shaker at $84 drops Podia's fee to zero and adds affiliate marketing, upsells, PayPal, Zapier and 500 email subscribers, which makes it the plan most Whop sellers will want. Earthquaker at $150 removes product, video and space limits. Stripe or PayPal processing at about 2.9% plus 30 cents applies on top. Podia's community spaces live on its own site rather than in Discord, so it fits creators willing to move members to a new home. The team also migrates courses, downloads and subscribers.

Skool is the closest match to Whop for creators who value discovery. Its homepage is a directory of paid and free communities sorted by topic, from AI automation to fitness and trading, so a new group can pick up members without its own audience. Both plans include unlimited members, courses, videos and live calls, a custom URL and affiliates. The catch is the fee split: Hobby costs only $9 a month but keeps a 10% transaction fee, while Pro costs $99 a month and charges 2.9%. A community earning under about $1,300 a month is cheaper on Hobby; above that, Pro wins. Yearly billing gives 2 months free. Skool is deliberately simple, with one layout for every group, so there is little to configure and also little to customize. It publishes few integrations, and it is a hosted community rather than a way to charge for an existing Discord server.

Kajabi has the deepest feature set here and suits creators already earning enough that a percentage cut hurts. Basic, at $143 a month billed annually, covers courses, coaching, memberships, a website with a custom domain, a private community with access groups, unlimited emails, landing pages and funnels, and built-in checkout for 5 products and 2,500 contacts. Growth at $199 adds live cohort courses, advanced automations, an affiliate program, comment-to-DM, webhooks and removes Kajabi branding. Pro at $399 adds a branded app in the App Store, API access, unlimited products and 100,000 contacts. Kajabi Payments card rates are 2.9% plus 30 cents on Basic and drop to 2.7% on Pro for US entities, and using an outside processor costs 2% on Basic. All plans include the Kajabi Cofounder AI and an MCP connector. The price only makes sense once revenue is steady.

LaunchPass is the most direct swap for Whop users who sell access to a Discord or Telegram group. It connects to a new or existing server, sells access to specific roles and channels, issues invites after checkout and removes the role or kicks the member when a subscription ends. Telegram groups and channels and up to 50 private Slack channels work the same way. Premium costs $29 a month plus a 3.5% transaction fee and includes one-time and recurring billing, free trials and coupons, multi-tier access, paid and free members in one community, an activity dashboard, an embeddable sign-up widget, affiliate integration and 24/7 live chat support. The free Basic plan only handles free members and automated invites. Payments run through Stripe, with cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay and a range of cryptocurrencies. LaunchPass does not sell courses or files, so pair it with a store if you need both.

Ko-fi is the cheapest way to start charging fans with no subscription at all. Its help center lists two options, both free to join: Ko-fi Free keeps one-time tips and crowdfunding goals at 0% and charges a flat 5% on monthly tips, memberships, commissions and shop sales, while Standard applies 5% to everything but adds supporter-only content, scheduled posts, custom page colors and more shop storage. Ko-fi Gold still exists for creators who want 0% service fees for a fixed monthly cost. Money lands directly in your own PayPal or Stripe account, where the processor's usual fees of around 3% plus 30 cents apply. Ko-fi works with Discord, Twitch, YouTube and other platforms and has stream alerts. It is lighter than Whop: there is no course builder and no marketplace, so it fits creators who sell memberships, art and small digital products rather than full programs.

Memberful keeps members, payments and branding on your own properties. Its single Standard plan costs $49 a month plus a 4.9% transaction fee, and you only pay once you go live and accept payments. Everything is included: an optimized checkout with Apple Pay and Google Pay, coupons, custom fields, 15 languages, global tax collection, gift and group plans, free and paid trials, growth reporting, a referral program, retention discounts, cancellation surveys, dynamic paywalls, a website and newsletter builder, and support for podcasts, newsletters, communities, courses and downloads. The Discord integration assigns roles by plan, sends invite links after checkout and removes members when a subscription expires. Money settles in your own Stripe account. The combined fee is higher than Stan, Podia Shaker or LaunchPass, so Memberful makes sense when owning the customer relationship on your site matters more than the last percentage point.

Patreon is the best-known membership home and the easiest to explain to fans, but it is not cheaper than Whop for most new creators. Pages published after August 4, 2025 pay a standard 10% platform fee, and payment processing (for example 2.9% plus 30 cents in USD), a 2.5% currency conversion fee where currencies differ and payout fees come on top. In return you get a hosted creator page, monthly and annual memberships, one-time digital product sales, video hosting of up to 100 hours a month once you have paying fans, chats, polls, comments, newsletters, member analytics, free trials and discounts, and podcast tools with Spotify integration. Patreon takes on chargebacks, disputes, fraud and most tax collection, so there is no Stripe setup. That makes it a good fit for podcasters and video creators who value convenience; creators focused on fees should look higher on this list.

Gumroad is the closest thing to Whop's marketplace model outside Whop, and that is both its appeal and its cost. There are no monthly charges: Gumroad takes 10% plus 50 cents on sales through your profile or direct links, and 30% when a new customer finds you through its Discover marketplace. Since January 1, 2025 it acts as merchant of record and handles sales tax collection and remittance worldwide, which removes a real burden for solo sellers. You can sell downloads, memberships, subscriptions and courses, offer pay-what-you-want pricing, generate license keys for software, sell multiple file versions and add lightweight DRM. Stores can live on Gumroad or a custom domain, with an embeddable checkout. Because the direct fee is higher than the processing rate Whop documents, Gumroad only saves money if you value its tax handling and Discover traffic. It is on this list as a no-subscription, marketplace-led alternative, not a low-fee one.