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Circle vs Payhip

	Circle	Payhip
What it says it does	Build a home for your community, events, and courses — all under your own brand.	We make it easy for you to sell anything online anywhere: digital downloads, online courses, memberships, coaching and physical products from one store you can build without code.
Pricing	Professional $89/mo (2% transaction fee); Business $199/mo (1% fee); Scale $419/mo; Circle Plus custom; prices billed annually; 14-day free trial, no card required (official)	Free plan $0/mo + 5% transaction fee; Plus $29/mo + 2%; Pro $99/mo with no transaction fee. All plans include every feature; PayPal/Stripe fees still apply (official)
Website	https://circle.so/	https://payhip.com/

Which to use

Circle wins when you want a polished, branded home for a paid community with courses and events. Payhip wins when you want to start selling for $0 a month and only pay a fee when you make sales.

Choose Circle if you want a branded community with courses, events and paid memberships in one place.
Choose Payhip if you sell digital downloads, courses, memberships or coaching and want a store with tax handling and no monthly fee to start.

This is an editorial fit note from each vendor's public site and docs, not a sponsored ranking and not a price quote. Descriptions in the table come from those sites. Confirm current prices there. How we review tools.

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