Circle is a community platform where creators and businesses host discussions, courses, live events and paid memberships under their own brand. Members get a personalized feed, rich posts, messaging, a directory and gamification, while owners manage access groups, branded checkout and reporting. Circle AI adds agents, summaries and workflows that take over repetitive community tasks. Plans start at $89 a month for Professional on annual billing, with Business at $199 and Scale at $419, and a 14-day free trial that needs no credit card.
Circle suits podcasters, coaches, authors, course creators, membership businesses and company community teams that want one home for their audience instead of a stack of separate apps. Solo creators can launch on Professional with unlimited members, courses, events and a custom domain. Teams that need automation, APIs or branding removal step up to Business, and organizations with large moderator teams, single sign-on or AI agents choose Scale. Brands that want a custom app in the App Store and Google Play look at Circle Plus, which comes with dedicated onboarding and strategy support from a Circle expert.
Typical workflows include running a paid mastermind with live events and a members directory, selling a cohort course with lessons, discussion spaces and certificates of access, and building a customer community with gamified engagement. A creator can send email broadcasts from Email Hub, collect leads with forms, and link directly to posts, events and courses. Others use its site builder to publish a landing page that grants instant access after purchase, or migrate an existing community and payments from another provider. Developers connect Circle through its APIs, webhooks and MCP to sync member data with other business systems.
