Circle vs Twist Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Professional
- Circle AI
- Unlimited members
- Courses
- Discussions
- Events
- Website Builder
- Live streams
- Live rooms
- Custom branding
- Reporting & analytics
- Searchable member directory
- Rich member profiles
- Paid memberships
- Gamification
- Custom domain
- Weekly community digest
- Migration services for payments
Business
Popular- Workflows
- Custom profile fields
- Circle MCP
- Headless Member API
- Admin API
- Branded email notifications
- Content co-pilot
- Automated transcriptions
- Activity scores
- Standard migration services
- Remove Circle branding
Circle Plus
- AI Agents & AI workflows
- Custom single sign-on (SSO)
- Highest limits (Live, Storage, Workflows)
- 10k Email Hub contacts included
- Lower transaction fees
- Sandbox community
Free plan
- Access up to 1 month of comments and messages
- Up to 5 integrations
- Up to 5 GB file storage
- Standard support
- Up to 500 internal member accounts
- Up to 500 external guest accounts
Unlimited
- Access full history of comments and messages
- Unlimited integrations
- Unlimited file storage
- Priority support
- Unlimited internal member accounts
- Unlimited external guest accounts
Circle vs Twist FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Twist is the cheaper option, starting at $6/mo vs $89/mo for Circle.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Twist has a free plan. Circle doesn't — though they do offer a free trial.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. Circle uses hybrid pricing, while Twist goes with per-seat. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Circle: At $89-199/mo before the custom enterprise tier, Circle sits mid-to-upper market compared to scrappier community tools but undercuts full-blown LMS or membership platforms bundled with marketing suites. They're chasing serious creators and businesses who've outgrown Discord/Slack hacks but aren't ready for a bloated enterprise stack. Twist: At $6/seat/year, Twist undercuts Slack (starts ~$7.25/seat) and sits well below Microsoft Teams bundled into M365 — they're clearly pitching to async-first, remote teams who think Slack is too noisy and too expensive. It's a value play with a philosophy attached.
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