Skool alternative
Swazy Starter and Pro cost less per month than Skool Pro — $19 and $49 against $99 — and Swazy Starter takes a smaller cut than Skool Hobby (4% plus card processing against 10% + 30¢). Your community lives on your own swazy.bio page next to everything else you sell, and an AI writes the challenges and courses it runs on (checked October 20, 2026).
With Skool
With Swazy
| Monthly | Cut of each sale | |
|---|---|---|
| Skool Hobby | $9 | 10% + 30¢ |
| Skool Pro | $99 | 2.9% + 30¢ (3.9% + 30¢ over $900) |
| Swazy Starter | $19 | 4% + card processing |
| Swazy Pro | $49 | 2% + card processing |
| Swazy Studio | $99 | No platform fee + card processing |
Skool processes payments through its own merchant account and lists no separate card-processing fee; Swazy passes Stripe's card processing through at cost. Swazy Studio's monthly price is the same as Skool Pro's.
Sources: Skool pricing, Skool subscriptions FAQ (fees).
Swazy has the loop that makes a group sticky: a member earns a point for every reaction their posts and comments get, Levels 1–9 show on their avatar, a Leaderboard shows who's leading, and a Classroom item can unlock at a level — or after a number of days in the community. You can rename the levels, switch points off, and give the community your own look.
Your community is one card on a link in bio that also sells your challenges, courses, guides and 1:1 calls. Email marketing, memberships, payment plans, discount codes and calls are on every Swazy plan, and sales are charged on your own connected Stripe account.
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).
On monthly price, yes: Swazy Starter and Pro are $19 and $49 a month against $99 for Skool Pro. Against Skool Hobby, Swazy Starter takes 4% plus card processing where Hobby takes 10% + 30¢ (checked October 20, 2026).
Yes. A member earns one point for every reaction their posts and comments get from other members. Levels 1–9 show on their avatar, there is a Leaderboard for the week, the month and all time, and Classroom items can unlock at a level. You can rename the levels or turn points off.
Link your group's about page, upload the members export (Skool lets you export your member list as a CSV), and invite. Paying members are free until their next renewal date — estimated from their join date and price, plus a week — then keep their spot in one tap. 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).
On Swazy, yours: you set up a Stripe account for your own business in the app, sales are charged on it, and Stripe pays you out (weekly by default). Skool's subscriptions FAQ says you cannot use an existing Stripe account: payments are processed on Skool's own merchant account, and Skool creates a new Stripe Express account for you.