The 10 best Whop alternatives in 2026

1. 1.ByteSellOur pick

   The direct answer to an itemised fee stack: there is no stack. Nothing is charged on a transaction and nothing on the way out, because the money never arrives anywhere it would have to leave. Community access is granted when a payment clears and pulled when the subscription lapses, without a bot to run.

   Pros

   • No transaction fee, no billing fee, no screening fee and no charge to withdraw
   • Discord and Telegram gating is native, opening on payment and closing on lapse
   • Members pay your own Stripe, PayPal or wallet, so no balance exists to be reserved
   • Subscriptions, tiers, coupons and affiliates all run on the free plan

   Cons

   • The free plan caps storage at 500 MB and rejects a file larger than 50 MB
   • A custom domain and branding removal begin at $29 a month on Pro
   • Whop shows a listing to strangers; ByteSell has no marketplace, so members come from your own audience
   • You remain the merchant, so tax collection and remittance stay your responsibility

   Whop would take, in a year

   $1,200and ByteSell would take none of it

   On a $50 product selling 50 times a month, at 2.7% + $0.30 + 0.5% + $0.03 + $0.07, plus conditional fees. ByteSell is 0% on every plan including the free one, and the buyer pays your own Stripe, PayPal or wallet, so nothing is held in the middle.

   Free plan, no card, keep every cent of every sale.

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2. 2.SellApp

   Structurally the nearest thing here, since paid access to Discord, Telegram, Slack and WhatsApp is a first-party feature with recurring billing behind it, and buyers pay your own gateway rather than a platform balance. Its 3% is invoiced to you monthly in arrears, which is an unusual and rather transparent arrangement.

   Pros

   • Gated Discord, Telegram, Slack and WhatsApp access is first-party, recurring included
   • Funds land in your own connected gateway at the moment of sale
   • The 3% is invoiced once at the start of the next month rather than deducted per order
   • License key generation and automated delivery come with webhook fulfilment

   Cons

   • Three percent on every sale while you are on the free Standard plan
   • The 0% tier is the Advanced plan at $199.99 a month
   • SellApp states that any fees paid to it are non-refundable
   • Its terms allow account termination at any time, with or without cause

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3. 3.Payhip

   A plain storefront rather than a place anyone browses, which means the discovery half of Whop is simply gone. What replaces it is predictability: one percentage, no itemised transaction lines, no payout charge, and a free plan that carries the entire product with nothing gated behind a tier.

   Pros

   • A single transaction percentage, with no billing, screening or payout lines added
   • Nothing is gated by plan, so the free tier is the full product
   • US sales tax and EU VAT are both handled by Payhip rather than priced as an option
   • Sales settle into your own processor immediately, so no reserve can be placed

   Cons

   • Five percent per sale on the free plan and two percent on $29 Plus
   • Zero percent arrives only at $99 a month
   • No marketplace, so nobody browses their way to your listing
   • A seller can normally connect PayPal plus one other processor, despite thirteen being supported

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4. 4.Ko-fi

   Cheap to run a small community on, with memberships and monthly support beside a shop and nothing owed monthly at all. Money moves into your own PayPal or Stripe immediately with no minimum balance. Every membership payment gives up 5%, and Ko-fi is not in the room for refunds or disputes.

   Pros

   • There is no monthly charge on either of the free tiers
   • Payments transfer straight into your own PayPal or Stripe with no payout minimum
   • Memberships, monthly support and a shop run from one address
   • Supporter email addresses can be exported at any time

   Cons

   • Five percent on memberships, shop sales and commissions alike
   • New accounts default to Contributor, which charges 5% on one-off tips as well
   • Ko-fi states that it is not the merchant of record and takes no part in disputes
   • No custom domain is available, so the page stays on ko-fi.com

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5. 5.SellAuth

   Aimed squarely at the same digital goods trade Whop grew out of, with fraud blocking by VPN, Tor, country and ASN from $9.99 and a reseller panel on the $29.99 Scale plan. It charges nothing per sale on any of its three plans. Its ceiling is file size, since no plan delivers a file above 100 MB.

   Pros

   • Zero percent on all three plans, stated with no volume condition attached
   • Fraud blocking by VPN, Tor, country and ASN arrives on the $9.99 Business plan
   • A reseller panel is included on the $29.99 Scale plan
   • The free Base plan carries fifty products and two team members

   Cons

   • No plan delivers a file larger than 100 MB, and the free tier stops at 10 MB
   • The free plan allows two team members and a hundred downloadable files
   • Both paid plans print a monthly price beside the words one-time payment, unreconciled
   • No payout schedule is documented on the pricing page

6. 6.Podia

   The choice if the community is really a cohort, because lessons, a members’ area and email marketing come as one subscription rather than as separate purchases. Its trial runs a full month with no card. The $49 Mover plan still deducts 5% from every sale before it reaches your processor.

   Pros

   • A members’ area, courses and email marketing arrive on one subscription
   • The trial runs thirty days and asks for no card
   • Shaker at $99 and Earthquaker at $179 both take nothing per sale
   • Podia holds no funds, since payments run through the processor you connect

   Cons

   • The $49 Mover plan deducts 5% of every sale, annual billing included
   • That deduction happens before payout, so it never appears on a Podia invoice
   • PayPal is unavailable on Mover, only on the two plans above it
   • Mover includes a hundred email contacts, and ten thousand costs $70 more each month

   Podia fee calculatorPodia alternatives

7. 7.Stan Store

   A one-link store for a creator whose members come from social rather than from a marketplace. Recurring subscriptions and community are on the $29 plan and Stan takes no percentage of either. It cannot be embedded into a site you own, and there is no free tier to start on.

   Pros

   • Community and recurring subscriptions are both on the $29 Creator plan
   • Nothing taken per sale on either of the two plans
   • Payments settle to a connected Stripe or PayPal rather than a Stan balance
   • Yearly billing brings Creator to $25 a month

   Cons

   • No free plan exists, only a fourteen day trial
   • Discount codes, upsells, funnels and affiliates all sit behind the $99 tier
   • There is no way to embed the store into a website of your own
   • The default Stripe integration builds a Custom account managed by Stan

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8. 8.Beacons

   Another creator page with memberships behind it, and the pricing runs opposite to Whop’s: pay monthly and the percentage disappears. The detail that matters is where the tiers sit, because a recurring membership is not available below $30 a month and the plans under it keep 9%.

   Pros

   • A free plan is available to publish a page on before paying anything
   • Both Stripe and PayPal connect, with funds moving directly to them
   • The percentage falls to zero on the $30 Creator Plus plan
   • Unlimited email sends come with that same tier

   Cons

   • Memberships cannot be sold below the $30 Creator Plus plan
   • The free and $10 plans each take 9% of every sale
   • Removing Beacons branding needs the $30 plan as well
   • Bank payouts go out through PayPal on a seven to fourteen day cycle

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9. 9.Patreon

   The other platform here that arrives with an audience attached, which is what a Whop seller is really weighing. Patreon is the merchant, handles tax and disputes, and grants Discord roles automatically. It takes 10% of the standard plan, adds its own payment fee, and pays out once a month.

   Pros

   • Patreon carries an audience of its own, many with a card already saved
   • Discord roles are assigned on payment and removed when a pledge ends
   • Patreon is the merchant, so tax, refunds and disputes are its problem
   • There is no monthly subscription, since the plan is a percentage

   Cons

   • Ten percent of every payment on the only plan open to new creators
   • A Patreon payment fee of 2.9% plus thirty cents is charged on top of that
   • Your own Stripe or PayPal cannot be connected at all
   • Payouts initiate on the fifth of the month and then take one to five days to land

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10. 10.Gumroad

    A marketplace and a storefront in one, and it stands as merchant of record, so tax is settled for you rather than priced as a 2% option. Everything ordinary costs a tenth of the sale plus fifty cents, a marketplace sale costs 30%, and the balance waits seven days and a $100 floor.

    Pros

    • Its own marketplace can surface a product to buyers who were not looking
    • Merchant of record, so sales tax is calculated and remitted for you
    • There is no monthly plan to carry between launches
    • Memberships and one-off purchases both run from the same page

    Cons

    • Ten percent plus fifty cents on every ordinary sale, at any volume
    • A marketplace sale is charged 30% instead of the standard rate
    • Funds are held seven days before becoming payable
    • Nothing pays out until the balance reaches $100

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Every price above is computed from that platform's own published rates on its entry plan, which is the plan almost everyone is actually on. Where a charge applies only in certain cases, an international card or a payout, the row says so rather than adding it to the headline rate. To put your own prices through Whop's full stack, use the Whop fee calculator.

Compare	ByteSell	Whop
Your own branded storefront	Yes.Free storefront, your own domain from Pro	No.A listing on whop.com, not a site of your own
Platform fee on each sale	Yes.0% on every plan	No.2.7% + $0.30, before add-ons
Use your own Stripe or PayPal	Yes.Included	No.Whop processes and holds the funds
Your money is never held	Yes.Non-custodial	No.Reserves up to 100% for up to 180 days
You stay the merchant of record	Yes.You stay the seller	No.Whop is the seller of record
Accept crypto payments	Yes.To your own wallet	Partial.5% + $1 to pay out in crypto
Paid Discord and Telegram access	Yes.Included, auto-revoke on lapse	Partial.Yes, on the same per-transaction fees
Subscriptions and recurring billing	Yes.Included	Partial.Yes, on the same per-sale fees
Coupons and discounts	Yes.Included	Yes.
Upsells and order add-ons	Yes.Included	Partial.Through a third-party app
Full built-in analytics	Yes.Included	No.A basic dashboard only
Live chat with your buyers	Yes.Included	No.No seller support chat
PDF stamping and watermarking	Yes.Included	No.Not built in
Fraud and checkout controls	Yes.Included	Partial.Risk scores only, no blocking
Affiliate program	Yes.Free on every plan	Partial.Yes, with an affiliate fee on top
Fee to pay you out	Yes.None, the money is already yours	No.$2.50 ACH up to 5% + $1 for crypto
Fixed, predictable cost	Yes.Free, or a flat monthly price	No.A percentage that grows with you
Built-in marketplace of buyers	No.You bring and keep your own audience	Yes.A crowded one, where you compete with every other seller

Every Whop figure and limit is quoted from its own pages, linked in the fee breakdown above.