Stop Renting
your community

Skool, Circle and Mighty Networks charge monthly, and most take a cut of your sales. With BeBuddy your community runs on WordPress: your domain, your members, your revenue.

Get BeBuddy Do the math

The problem

Renting gets expensive

Hosted platforms are quick to start. Then the monthly bill, the fees and the rules grow with your community.

Monthly fees forever

Hosted platforms charge every month for as long as your community exists, and prices tend to go up.

A cut of every sale

Transaction fees take a slice of every membership and course you sell, so the more you grow, the more you pay.

Not your community

Your members, content and domain live on someone else's platform, under their rules.

The solution

Own your community

BeBuddy runs on your own WordPress site for $69 a year. Everything you build stays yours, even if you stop renewing.

  • Your own domain
  • Export your data
  • 0% platform fees
  • No platform rules
  • Payments straight to you
  • Found by search engines

BeBuddy

Platform
$69/yr
Platform fee on sales
0%
Hosting
~$10–25/mo → $120–$300
First-year total, before card fees
$189–$369

Skool

Platform
$99/mo → $1,188
Platform fee on sales
2.9% + 30¢, card fees included
Hosting
Included
First-year total, before card fees
$1,188

Circle

Platform
$89/mo (annual) → $1,068
Platform fee on sales
2%
Hosting
Included
First-year total, before card fees
$1,068

Mighty Networks

Platform
$79/mo (annual) → $948
Platform fee on sales
2%
Hosting
Included
First-year total, before card fees
$948

Competitor prices as listed on their websites, October 2026, on annual billing where offered. Card processing fees (about 2.9% + 30¢ per sale) apply on every platform, including BeBuddy. Hosting estimate based on typical managed WordPress plans.

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Setup takes a little more than signing up for a hosted platform, but the setup wizard installs everything and imports a ready-made demo, so most people are live in an afternoon.

You can bring your member list. These platforms let admins export members as a CSV file, which you can import into WordPress with a free user-import plugin. Posts, courses and paid subscriptions don't transfer automatically, so plan to recreate your key content and invite members to join you on your new site.

No coding is required. If you can use a website builder, you can run BeBuddy.

WordPress hosting, usually $10–25 a month. You're responsible for updates and backups, like any website you own, and most managed WordPress hosts handle both for you.