🆚 Circle.so vs. Hotmart

Type

Membership management software
E-commerce platform

About

Circle.so is a community-focused platform for creating and managing online spaces with discussions, events, and member-only content.

It provides topic-based spaces, threaded posts and comments, member profiles and directories, live events and streaming, course-style content with media uploads, and paid memberships with tiered access and subscriptions.

Hotmart is an all-in-one e-commerce platform for selling digital and physical products online, with a strong focus on e-learning and online course distribution.

It provides built-in payment processing in multiple currencies, subscription and membership management, tools for hosting and delivering video courses through its Hotmart Video Player service, and an affiliate marketplace connecting creators with promoters.

Headquarters

New York, United States
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Website

Pricing

Free version ❌Free 14-day trial
Professional
(unlimited members, courses, discussions)
$1,068/year
Business
(+Workflows, API, no Circle branding)
$2,388/year
Microtransaction Fee
(for sales below $15/€15/£15/10 BRL)
9.9% + $€£0.10/20% BRL
Transaction Fee
(for sales above $15/€15/£15/10 BRL)
9.9% + $€£0.50/1 BRL
Hotmart Video Player Activation Fee$1.49/€1.49/2.49 BRL per sale

Categories

Membership Management › Rank #18
Online Courses › Rank #9
Online Courses › Rank #6
Subscriptions › Rank #21
Subscriptions › Rank #17
E-Commerce › Rank #111

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Hotmart e-commerce platform is 1.2 times more popular than Circle.so.
Total websites

Market share

Online Courses
Subscriptions

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Hotmart is more popular in Brazil, Portugal, and Spain, while Circle.so is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
Brazil
United States
United Kingdom
Portugal
Spain
Netherlands
France
Mexico
Colombia
Poland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Hotmart is more popular among sites focused on education and reference, and health, while Circle.so is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, business, and marketing and merchandising sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Software/Hardware
Entertainment
Health
Real Estate
Finance/Banking
Major Global Religions

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#14,127
#38,499
#82,056
#101,949
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Name
Rank
#127,110
#229,879
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See also

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