What is Circle?
All-in-one platform for paid online communities with courses, live events, payments and branded apps.
Who is Circle best for?
Circle is best for creators and coaches who run a paid community with courses and live events under their own brand.
Paid communities
Discussions, chat, a member directory, gamification and checkout sit in one branded space with unlimited members on every plan.
Course creators
Courses live next to the community, so students learn, ask questions and meet in the same place.
Live events and streams
Live streams take 100 attendees on Professional and 500 on Scale, with live rooms for smaller group calls.
Brands that want their own app
Circle Plus publishes your community as a branded iOS and Android app with its own push notifications.
How much does Circle cost?
Circle has no free plan, only a 14-day free trial; billed yearly, Professional costs $89 a month, Business $199 and Scale $419, and Circle Plus is priced by sales.
- Community, courses, events and payments
- Unlimited members, 3 admins, 20 spaces
- 2% transaction fee on sales
- Workflows, APIs and branded emails
- Removes Circle branding
- 1% transaction fee on sales
- AI agents and unlimited workflows
- 5,000 Circle AI credits a month
- Webhooks and custom SSO
The pricing page lists yearly rates only; Circle does not publish its monthly rates there. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial with no card. Circle Plus, with your own branded iOS and Android apps and a 0.5% transaction fee, is priced by sales. Email Hub costs extra, $99 a month for 10,000 contacts, and extra AI credits cost $10 per 1,000. Full pricing on circle.so. We checked these prices on .
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How do I connect Circle to my AI agent?
Circle MCP is Circle's official MCP server. Add it to your agent once, then ask it to run your Circle community, from members and posts to revenue.
Connects your agent to your Circle community data, so you can look up members, publish posts, track revenue and adjust automated workflows.
$ claude mcp add --transport http circle https://app.circle.so/api/mcp
Claude Code connects to Circle over the web.
Run /mcp and sign in to Circle in the browser.
Then ask your agent
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- On the web
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Questions about Circle
What is Circle?
All-in-one platform for paid online communities with courses, live events, payments and branded apps.
Who is Circle for?
Circle is best for creators and coaches who run a paid community with courses and live events under their own brand.
Is Circle free?
You can try Circle free before paying; paid plans start at $89 per month, billed yearly.
How much does Circle cost?
Circle's paid plans are Professional at $89 per month, billed yearly, Business at $199 per month, billed yearly and Scale at $419 per month, billed yearly.
Does Circle have an MCP server?
Yes. Circle MCP is Circle's official MCP server, so agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and GitHub Copilot can run your Circle community, from members and posts to revenue. Circle runs it on the web and you sign in with your Circle account.
Where can I try Circle?
On its official website, circle.so.
Does Circle charge transaction fees?
Yes. On top of the plan price, Circle takes 2% of sales on Professional, 1% on Business and Scale, and 0.5% on Circle Plus.
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