Skool Pricing in 2026: What You Really Pay

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Skool used to list one number: $99 a month. Not anymore. There are now two plans — Hobby at $9 / month and Pro at $99 / month — and the real difference between them isn't features. It's the transaction fee.

Either way, the sticker isn't the monthly run-rate for most teachers. The real cost depends on what you teach, how you teach it, and how much you sell. This post walks the math.

The Headline Numbers

Hobby is $9 / month with a 10% + 30¢ fee on every transaction. Pro is $99 / month with 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction up to $899, and 3.9% + 30¢ above $900. Both fees are all-in on Skool's own payment stack — card processing is included, so there's no separate Stripe bill stacked on top.

Yearly billing knocks off roughly two months (Pro works out to about $82 / month). There's a 14-day free trial, no free plan, and no per-seat or per-member fee. You can run as many communities as you can manage on a single account, although in practice most teachers run one.

For a creator who already has an audience and just needs a place to host them, that's straightforward pricing. The question is what's in scope and what's not.

What's Bundled

What you get for the subscription:

Community feed. Threads, replies, member directory. This is Skool's flagship feature and the reason most people sign up.
A courses tab. Pre-recorded lessons, sections, basic completion tracking.
A calendar view. Shows scheduled events that members RSVP to.
Gamification. Points, levels, leaderboard. Genuinely well-designed and one of the strongest retention features in the category.
A discoverability feed. The "Skool feed" effect — your community can show up to other Skool users browsing the platform.
A native mobile app. iOS and Android. Polished, fast, and a real differentiator vs. web-only platforms.
Built-in payments for community access (i.e. members paying to join your community).

That's a real list. If those features map to your business, you have your answer.

What's Not

What you'll need to add — separately, paying separately — once your business needs more:

Native live video. Skool does not host live video. Most communities run live calls on Zoom, embed the link in an event, and members click out to Zoom. That means a Zoom Pro subscription at roughly $15 / month.
Attendance tracking. No native attendance per session. If you teach, you'll be exporting Zoom attendee lists or eyeballing your screen.
Assignment submission and grading. No native flow. Most coaches use a Google Doc + comments thread.
Recordings tied to a course. Zoom records to Zoom Cloud (more storage cost) or local disk; manually upload to Skool's courses tab if you want them organized.
Multi-instructor permissions. Skool's role system is light — admin / moderator / member. Running a multi-instructor academy means manual workarounds.
Direct Stripe Connect payouts. Community payments run through Skool's own payment stack — that's where the all-in transaction fee applies — not through your own Stripe account.

The Real Math: Skool + Zoom vs Classentra Educator

Take a teacher running a paid community with weekly live classes, 80 active paying members at $30 / month each. Monthly gross = $2,400.

Skool Pro stack:

Skool Pro: $99 / month
Zoom Pro: ~$15 / month
Transaction fees: 2.9% + 30¢ all-in on each $30 charge ≈ $94 / month
Net out of pocket: ~$208 / month

Skool Hobby stack:

Skool Hobby: $9 / month
Zoom Pro: ~$15 / month
Transaction fees: 10% + 30¢ on each $30 charge = $264 / month
Net out of pocket: ~$288 / month

Classentra Educator stack:

Classentra Educator: $39 / month ($29 / mo billed yearly)
Live video: your own Zoom, Meet, or Teams account works on every plan (Zoom Pro ~$15 / month) — or drop Zoom entirely with the optional Native Video add-on (+$19 / month, LiveKit-powered in-app live classes)
Payments: one all-in fee of 7% + 30¢ per transaction via Stripe Connect direct payouts — card processing included, nothing added on top. That's $192 / month at this volume.
Net out of pocket: ~$246 / month

At this volume, Educator lands between Skool's two plans: about $40 a month less than Hobby, about $40 more than Pro. The crossovers are worth knowing. Against Hobby, Educator gets cheaper once you sell roughly $1,000 a month or more — that 10% fee eats the $30 subscription gap fast. Against Pro, Educator wins below roughly $1,500 a month in sales (its subscription is under half of Pro's $99); above that, Pro's lower fee takes over on raw dollars. And if you're just starting out, our Free plan is $0 with a 9% + 30¢ all-in fee — Skool has no free plan at all.

So price alone won't settle it at every volume. What does: attendance, assignments, recordings tied to the course, and direct Stripe Connect payouts — the teaching layer Skool leaves to Zoom and spreadsheets.

When Skool's Price Is Right

Pick Skool when:

Community is the product, not teaching.
Mobile-first member experience is non-negotiable.
Gamification (points, levels) is a real lever for your business.
You don't run live classes, or your live cadence is light enough that Zoom + manual filing is fine.
You want the Skool discoverability boost.
You're selling well past ~$1,500 a month and Pro's 2.9% + 30¢ fee matters more to you than the teaching features.

When It's Not

Pick something else when:

Live teaching is the core product, not an add-on.
You need attendance, grades, or assignments as part of the offer.
You're running a multi-instructor academy or B2B training.
You want one bill, not two or three.

If the math runs the other way for your numbers, the migration is straightforward — upload your Skool export to the built-in importer, your members get magic-link invites, and you keep your community alive on Skool while you cross over. Prefer not to touch it yourself? We will do it for you.