Circle alternative
Swazy costs less than Circle: Swazy Pro is $490 a year with the same 2% fee as Circle's Professional plan at $89 a month billed yearly ($1,068 a year), and email marketing, automations and running your community from ChatGPT or Claude come on every Swazy plan (checked October 20, 2026).
With Circle
With Swazy
| Per year | Cut of each sale | |
|---|---|---|
| Circle Professional | $1,068 ($89/month billed yearly) | 2% |
| Swazy Pro | $490 | 2% + card processing |
| Circle Business | $2,388 ($199/month billed yearly) | 1% |
| Swazy Studio | $990 | No platform fee + card processing |
| Swazy Starter | $190 | 4% + card processing |
Circle's pricing page shows yearly prices only. Card processing by Stripe applies on both; Swazy's standard payouts are free and weekly for new accounts.
Sources: Circle pricing, Circle migration, Circle help: importing members in bulk, Circle help: desktop vs mobile.
On Swazy a community is one feed with topics you name — “Wins”, “Recipes”, “Accountability” — plus a Classroom, an Events tab and a Members directory. Challenges you run get a private group for each round. There are no space types to choose between and no access groups to configure, and every community feature is on every plan.
What moves: your community's name, about, price and rules (Swazy rebuilds them from its link), your people from the member export, and your best posts — paste up to 10 and they become pinned posts from you.
What doesn't move: members' own posts, comments and direct messages; lesson videos hosted on the old platform (paste a YouTube, Vimeo, Loom or Google Drive link instead); and points and levels (members get a Founding member badge instead).
Yes. Swazy Pro ($49/month, $490 a year) costs less than Circle Professional ($89/month billed yearly, $1,068 a year) with the same 2% fee, Swazy Starter's monthly price ($19) is lower again with a 4% fee, and Swazy Studio ($99/month, no platform fee) costs less than Circle Business ($199/month billed yearly + 1%) (checked October 20, 2026).
Swazy uses topics inside one community feed, plus a private group for each challenge round and a General space for everyone who has bought from you. There are no space types to set up.
Yes. Paste your Circle community's link, upload the members export and invite your people with one tap each. Your community's name, about, price and rules are rebuilt from its link, your people come from the member export, and you can bring your best posts (paste up to 10). Members' posts, comments and direct messages don't move, nor do lesson videos hosted on the old platform (paste a YouTube, Vimeo, Loom or Google Drive link) or points and levels (members get a Founding member badge instead).
Yes. Add your own Zoom, Meet or YouTube Live link to an event. Members see it in their own time zone, get a reminder 15 minutes before, and can find the replay afterwards.
Yes. Circle has iOS and Android apps. Swazy has no member app to download: members join from your link and use the community in their browser, including inside Instagram and TikTok.