Skool is simple and that is its strength. But simple also means no real-time chat, no email marketing, no automation, no AI, and transaction fees up to 10%. If you have outgrown simple, Tenant.so is the next step.
Skool's $9/month Hobby plan takes 10% of everything you earn. A community generating $5,000/month loses $500/month — $6,000/year — in platform fees. Even the $99/month Pro plan still charges 2.9%.
Skool has discussion posts but no live chat rooms. If your community needs real-time conversation, you are stuck bolting on Discord or Slack alongside Skool.
Skool has basic email notifications but no campaign builder, no segmentation, no scheduling. You need a separate tool like Mailchimp or ConvertKit to communicate with your members.
No workflows, no triggers, no conditional logic. Every onboarding step, every follow-up, every access grant is manual. As your community grows, this does not scale.
Every Skool community looks like every other Skool community. No themes, no custom branding, no white-label option. Your community lives inside Skool's brand, not yours.
No AI assistant, no content co-pilot, no automated moderation. In 2026, that is a gap that keeps widening as competitors invest heavily in AI tooling.
Data sourced from Skool's official pricing page as of April 2026.
| Feature | Tenant.so | Skool |
|---|---|---|
| Community Spaces | Feeds, chat, forums, private spaces | Group discussions, posts, videos, GIFs |
| Real-time Chat | Built-in chat rooms | No |
| Online Courses | Full LMS — video, quizzes, certificates, drip content | Course hosting (basic structure) |
| Email Marketing | Included — templates, segmentation, scheduling | Basic email only |
| Events | RSVP, calendar sync, reminders, attendance | Event scheduling |
| Live Streaming | Third-party integration (Zoom, YouTube, etc.) | No |
| Gamification | Points, streaks, leagues, badges, leaderboards, 9 levels | Basic points and leaderboard |
| AI Assistant | Jarvis — RAG-powered, trained on your course content | No |
| Automation | 14 triggers with conditional logic | No |
| Transaction Fees | 0% | 10% (Hobby) · 2.9% (Pro) |
| Access Control | Public/private spaces, group-level permissions, paywalled content | Public or paid group (single tier) |
| Customization | Themes, wrappers, custom reactions, upvoting subsystems | Limited — minimal branding options |
| Custom Domain | Included | Custom URL only |
| White Label | From day one | No |
| Affiliate Program | Built-in | Built-in |
| Third-party Integrations | Growing | No native integrations |
| Analytics & Reporting | GA4, Google Search Console, Chart.js throughout | Basic growth tracking |
| Custom Dashboards | Liveboards with custom widgets | No |
| Financial Calculators | 60+ built-in | No |
| Migration / Import | CSV and JSON import for members, courses, content | No export tools |
| License Key System | Built-in generation + management | No |
Every dollar your members pay goes to you. Skool takes 10% on the Hobby plan and 2.9% on Pro. A community doing $10K/month on Skool Hobby loses $12,000/year in fees.
Built-in chat rooms for live conversation. No need to run Discord or Slack alongside your community platform.
Campaign builder with templates, segmentation, and scheduling included. Communicate with your members without paying for a separate email tool.
14 triggers with conditional logic. Auto-enroll members, send triggered emails, grant access based on actions. Stop doing manually what software should handle.
Jarvis learns from your course material and answers member questions using your lessons. Your courses become interactive without extra work from you.
Themes, wrappers, custom reactions, upvoting subsystems, liveboards. Your community looks and feels like yours, not like every other Skool group.
Quizzes, certificates, drip content, progress tracking. Skool has basic course hosting. Tenant.so has a complete learning management system.
BRRRR analysis, mortgage calculators, net worth trackers, debt payoff tools. Built in, not bolted on.
We believe in honest comparisons. Here is where Skool has an edge.
Skool is deliberately simple. If you want a no-frills community with courses and nothing else, Skool gets you live in under 30 minutes.
Skool's Hobby plan is one of the cheapest entry points in the market. The 10% fee hurts at scale, but for communities just starting out it is low risk.
Skool has a public directory where members discover communities. With 38M+ monthly visits, the Skool ecosystem itself drives traffic to your group.
Themes, wrappers, liveboards, custom reactions, upvoting subsystems, granular gamification controls. Tenant.so is built for creators who want to go way beyond the Skool template.
Skool's 10% fee on the Hobby plan and 2.9% on Pro add up fast. At 0% transaction fees, Tenant.so lets you keep every dollar your members pay.
Auto-enrollment, drip sequences, conditional access grants, triggered emails. 14 automation triggers replace hours of manual work every week.
Quizzes, certificates, drip content, progress tracking, and an AI assistant that answers student questions from your lessons. Skool's course feature is basic by comparison.
60+ built-in financial calculators make Tenant.so a natural fit for communities focused on investing, real estate, or entrepreneurship.
Jarvis answers student questions based on your actual course content. It is a teaching tool that makes your courses more valuable, not a generic chatbot.
Request early access and build your community on a platform that scales with you — not one that takes a cut of everything you earn.
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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