Parenting & Family · pricing
Circle pricing
Circle publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- $49/month
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Not on record
Circle plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $49/month | 3 | Entry tier |
| Professional | $89/month | 3 | +$40/month, 3 more features |
| Business | $199/month | 3 | +$110/month, 3 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Basic
$49/monthThe entry tier. It covers community, members, spaces.
Professional
$89/monthOver Basic, this tier adds:
- Courses
- Workflows
- Analytics
Business
$199/monthOver Professional, this tier adds:
- White Label
- API Access
- Custom Domain
What the product covers
The full Circle feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Spaces
- Events
- Courses
- Member Directory
- Live Streams
- Workflows
Integrations
- Zapier
- Stripe
- Slack
Platform
- Ios support
- Android support
- Web support
People bring Circle in for running a branded online community with discussion spaces, selling and delivering courses to an audience, hosting events and live streams for members, operating paid memberships with checkout and payments, shipping a branded ios and android community app. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Circle are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Parenting & Family
Across the 4 parenting & family tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $5/month. Circle starts at $49/month, which puts it above the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Circle (this page) | $49/month | subscription | - | |
| BusyKid | $4/month | - | - | vs Circle |
| Bark | $5/month | subscription | - | vs Circle |
| Artkive | Free, then $75/product | - | - | vs Circle |
| BabyCenter | Free | free | - | vs Circle |
| Brightwheel | Free | subscription | - | vs Circle |
| Apple Screen Time | Free | free | - | vs Circle |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Circle badges page.
Before you pay for Circle
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between $49/month and $199/month, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Circle against the tools that do have one before committing.
Circle runs on ios, android, web, and is published by Circle of New York, New York. The full record is on the Circle review, and the rest of the category is under best parenting & family tools.
Circle pricing questions
- How much does Circle cost?
- Circle publishes 3 tiers, from $49/month for Basic up to $199/month for Business. The cheapest paid tier is $49/month.
- Does Circle have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Circle is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Basic and Professional on Circle?
- Professional costs $89/month against $49/month, and adds courses, workflows, analytics.
- Is the Business plan on Circle worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is white label, api access, custom domain. It costs $199/month against $49/month for Basic. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Circle expensive for a parenting & family tool?
- It starts above the middle of its category. Across the 4 parenting & family tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $5/month; Circle starts at $49/month.
- Which parenting & family tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 parenting & family tools listed alongside Circle have a free tier: Artkive, BabyCenter, Brightwheel, Apple Screen Time, Baby Tracker - Newborn Log.
- What am I actually paying for with Circle?
- The record lists 12 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for running a branded online community with discussion spaces, selling and delivering courses to an audience, hosting events and live streams for members.
- Does Circle charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Circle prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Circle against before paying?
- The closest parenting & family tools in this directory are BusyKid, Bark, Artkive, BabyCenter. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Circle covering price, platforms and features.