🆚 Patreon vs. Skool

📈 Patreon is much more popular than Skool.
🌍 Patreon is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Patreon

Skool

Type

Donation tool

Membership management software

About

Patreon is a membership platform that allows creators to run a subscription-based service for their content and sell digital products directly to their most dedicated fans.

It lets creators set up multiple membership tiers or one-time purchases, publish exclusive posts, videos or audio, manage payments and payouts, host media, and offer community tools like chats and polls.

Skool is an all-in-one online community platform that enables creators, coaches, and educators to build private or public groups, deliver structured courses, and monetize expertise through memberships.

It provides discussion forums, course modules with video and resources, paid subscriptions and one-time purchases, event scheduling, and engagement gamification with points and leaderboards.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

El Segundo, California, United States

Website

patreon.com #47

skool.com #3,621

Pricing

Standard platform fee10%

Legacy platform feesPro8%
Premium12%

Payment processingUSD2.9%-3.9% + $0.30
EUR3.4% + €0.35
GBP3.4% + £0.35

Free version ❌

Hobby$9/month
Transaction fee10%

Pro$99/month
Transaction fee2.9%

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Patreon donation tool is 30 times more popular than Skool.

Total websites

Market share

Subscriptions

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Patreon is more popular than Skool in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Canada

France

Netherlands

Spain

Australia

Russia

Ukraine

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Donations category.
🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Donations category.
🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Donations category.
🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Donations category.
🥇 Most popular in Sweden in the Donations category.

🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Online Courses category.
⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Online Courses category.
🔥 11st most popular in Germany in the Membership Management category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Patreon is more popular than Skool in all market segments.

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Games

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Business

Software/Hardware

Sports

Humor/Comics

Internet Services

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#47

#701

#1,910

#2,196

Name

Rank

#73,195

#107,077

#111,797

#141,569

#141,787