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Chuhching vs Skool
Skool is $99/mo for an unlimited community with courses and gamification, plus a 2.9% transaction fee. It's excellent at exactly that one thing. Chuhching runs the community as one module inside a business that also has the CRM, email, booking and payments around it.
What is Skool?
Skool is a community platform: a discussion feed, courses, events, a leaderboard and gamification, and native payments for paid groups. It is deliberately simple — one product, almost no configuration, and a design that keeps members posting. As of August 2026 the Pro plan is $99/mo with unlimited members, unlimited courses and unlimited admins at a 2.9% transaction fee, and a Hobby plan is $9/mo with one admin and a 10% transaction fee.
You create a group, set it free or paid, upload courses, and members join and post. Payments run through Skool and it takes a percentage. The gamification loop — points, levels, unlocks — is the core retention mechanic and it works. What Skool deliberately doesn't do is everything around the community: there's no CRM, no email sequences to non-members, no booking, no landing page builder, no outreach.
Model: Community + courses
Skool vs Chuhching at a glance
Pricing and features last verified: August 2026. Verify current Skool pricing on their site.
| Skool | Chuhching | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $99/mo Pro, $9/mo Hobby (verified Aug 2026) | Free tier includes 1 community; paid from $59/mo |
| Transaction fee | 2.9% Pro, 10% Hobby | No platform transaction fee on our side |
| Community experience | Best in class — gamification, simplicity | Solid, but not Skool's engagement loop |
| CRM & pipeline | None | Built in, free tier |
| Email to non-members | None | Sequences and campaigns included |
| Agent access | Closed | 109 tools over open MCP |
Where Skool is strong
- +Genuinely the best-in-class simple community experience — the gamification loop drives real engagement
- +Unlimited members, courses and videos on both plans, so growth doesn't raise your bill
- +Almost zero setup and almost nothing to configure, which is why non-technical creators ship on it fast
- +Native payments for paid groups with no separate billing stack to wire up
Where it can fall short
- –No CRM and no pipeline — members are members, not contacts you can segment and work
- –No email marketing to people outside the group, so your top of funnel lives in another tool
- –2.9% of every transaction on Pro, 10% on Hobby (verified August 2026), on top of payment processing
- –Closed platform — no MCP or agent rail, so your AI can't operate it
How Chuhching is different
The question isn't which is the better community, it's whether the community is your whole business or one part of it. Skool is a community product. Chuhching is a business OS where community is one module sitting next to CRM, email sequences, booking, forms, payments, landing pages, courses and a get-booked engine — and all of it is operable by your own AI agent over MCP with 109 tools. If you run a paid community, you almost certainly also run email, a funnel and a sales conversation. On Skool those live in three other subscriptions. Here they're the same workspace and the same contact record.
Pick Skool if…
Stay on Skool if a community and courses is the entire business and you want the simplest possible thing that works. Skool's engagement loop is better than ours and its simplicity is a feature, not a limitation — there is real value in a product with nothing to configure. If you're happy paying 2.9% and running email somewhere else, Skool is a good deal at $99/mo and switching would cost you engagement you'd have to earn back.
Pick Chuhching if…
Switch if the community is one part of a business rather than all of it — if you're already paying for Skool plus an email tool plus a CRM plus a booking link, and none of them share a contact record. You get one workspace, one contact, no transaction cut on our side, a free tier that includes a community, and an AI agent that can run the whole thing.
Frequently asked questions
Is Chuhching a Skool alternative?
It's a superset with a different centre of gravity. You get communities, courses and payments like Skool, plus the CRM, email sequences, booking and landing pages Skool doesn't have. What you don't get is Skool's specific gamification and engagement loop, which is the best in the category. If pure community engagement is the priority, Skool wins that comparison.
What does Skool cost in 2026?
As of August 2026, Pro is $99/mo with unlimited members, courses and admins and a 2.9% transaction fee, and Hobby is $9/mo with one admin and a 10% transaction fee. Both include unlimited members and courses. Verify on Skool's pricing page before deciding.
Can I move my Skool community over?
You can export your member list and import it as contacts, then rebuild the space and courses. Posts and course progress don't transfer, so most people run both in parallel for a cycle and move the community once the new space is populated rather than switching cold.
Do you take a cut of community payments?
No platform transaction fee on our side — you connect your own Stripe account and standard Stripe processing applies. Skool takes 2.9% on Pro and 10% on Hobby on top of processing (verified August 2026), which is the number worth running against your actual monthly volume.
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