Every major community and course platform compared feature-by-feature against Tenant.so. See where each competitor wins, where they charge you more, and which is the right fit for how you actually run your community.
Full comparisons of pricing, features, platform transaction fees, and where each platform wins.
Established community platform. 0.5–2% platform transaction fees + $99/mo Email Hub add-on.
Native live streaming, algorithmic feed, mature ecosystem
Simple community + course platform. Charges 2.9–10% platform transaction fees.
Ease of use, gamification, popular with course creators
Course-first platform with sales funnels. $69–$199+/mo with contact and product caps.
Visual website builder, marketing automation, established info-product ecosystem
Course platform. 5% platform transaction fees on Basic tier plus payment processing.
Mature course checkout, affiliate marketplace
Community platform with branded mobile apps (Mighty Pro). $41–$180/mo plus fees on lower tiers.
Native mobile experience, Mighty Pro branded white-label apps
Course platform. Advertises 0% fees but adds a 1–5% Stripe surcharge on lower tiers.
Mature course tools, larger user base
Best-in-class chat platform. Free, but no built-in monetization, courses, or paywalls.
Real-time chat UX, network effects, voice and video
Community platform for casual and hobbyist groups. 1.25–5% platform transaction fees.
Clean UX for lightweight communities
Six criteria that separate the platforms — pick the ones that matter most for how you run your community.
If you monetize your community, platform transaction fees compound fast. Tenant.so is 0% platform transaction fees. Circle takes 0.5–2%. Skool takes 2.9–10%. On $10K/month in revenue, that is a $600–$12,000/year difference before you consider add-ons.
Course-first platforms (Kajabi, Teachable, Thinkific) put video content in front. Community-first platforms (Circle, Skool, Mighty Networks) put discussion in front. Tenant.so does both natively with 8 space types — Feed, Chat, Course, Events, Calculator, Dashboard, Investment, and Liveboard.
Circle charges $99/month extra for Email Hub. Kajabi bundles email but caps contacts. Tenant.so includes email marketing with 14-trigger automation at every tier — no add-on, no contact caps.
Mighty Pro offers branded white-label iOS and Android apps (custom pricing). Circle Plus does too. Tenant.so has a mobile app but branded native apps are on the roadmap. If a launch-day branded app is non-negotiable, that narrows the field.
Circle has native live streaming built in. Tenant.so integrates with Zoom, YouTube, and StreamYard — native streaming is on the roadmap. If live is your primary delivery format, this matters more than the platform-fee difference.
Tenant.so uniquely ships 60+ financial calculators, Investment and Dividend portfolio trackers, Cascade Intelligence liveboards with 10 market data sources (FRED, Polymarket, Unusual Whales, Yahoo Finance, CoinGecko, FMP), and a license key system for selling software. No other community platform has these out of the box.
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“We were paying for Circle at $129/month, ConvertKit at $79/month, Zapier at $49/month, and a separate course host. That is over $3,000 a year before transaction fees. When Circle announced another price increase and started charging extra for media storage, we decided to build the platform we actually wanted. Tenant.so is what happens when you stop stitching tools together and build the whole thing from scratch.”
Jameson Brandon
Founder & Lead Developer, Terminal Blank