How much do Skool communities actually make?

Name: LaunchSpy
Author: LaunchSpy

COMMUNITY REVENUE · ESTIMATE

Public member count1,240

Minus the free tier≈ 380 paying

Monthly price$49

Gross monthly floor$18,620

Gross, not profit. The platform takes a fee, ads cost money, refunds happen · and the community is often the cheapest thing that creator sells.

Members times price gives you a floor · everything interesting is in what it hides

The free method, step by step

01Open the community page. Member count and price are usually both visible without joining.
02Multiply members by monthly price. That is your gross monthly floor.
03Deduct free members. Many communities run a free tier next to the paid one, and the public count often includes both.
04Check whether the price shown is monthly or annual. An annual price presented per month roughly halves what you should assume about churn.
05Look at the activity feed. A community with 900 members and three posts a week is churning hard, whatever the headline number says.
06Check whether Skool is the whole business or the back end of something bigger. Many creators use it to deliver a course sold elsewhere, so the community price is not the offer price.
07Look for their ads. A community growing on paid traffic behaves very differently from one growing on organic.

This gives you gross, not profit. Skool takes a platform fee, ads cost money, and refunds happen.

One community at a time, by hand, and the number is stale as soon as you write it down.
No trend. Members today tells you nothing about whether that is up from 400 or down from 2,000.
No context. Whether 600 members is good depends entirely on the niche, and you cannot see the niche from one page.
It misses the rest of the business. The community is often the cheapest thing they sell.
You still have to find the communities worth looking at, and Skool has no discovery built for that.

Skool creators indexed alongside everything else they sell, on every other platform
Their ads, so you can tell paid growth from organic growth
Niche and country context, so a member count means something
Activity signals · who started scaling in the last 30 days
The funnel in front of the community, not just the join page

Is the member count on a Skool page accurate?

It is accurate as a count, but it usually mixes free and paid members. Treat it as an upper bound on paying members, not a revenue figure.

Does Skool publish revenue?

No. Any revenue number you see for a community is an estimate built from members and price. Anyone presenting it as fact is overselling it.

What is a healthy size for a paid community?

It depends entirely on price. A hundred members at $99 is a better business than a thousand at $9, and far easier to keep alive.

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