Simple pricing, built for creators.
Every tier includes audience facets, custom themes, and the tools to build an audience: portfolio, posts, free courses, a newsletter, and your own custom domain. Selling (memberships and paid content), discussions, events, and the API unlock on the higher tiers.
Get in early. No card now. We'll reach out when we open.
Starter
Build and grow an audience. Custom domain, portfolio, posts, free courses, newsletter. Upgrade to Studio when you're ready to sell.
- Branded site + bring your own domain
- Built for up to 10 posts
- Newsletter to 500 subscribers
- Unlimited free courses with progress tracking, drip + quizzes
- RSS feed
- Basic analytics (pageviews + referrers)
- 500 MB storage
- 50 AI credits / month
- Auto SSL, updates, and backups
- Installable branded app for members (PWA)
Studio
Side-income creators land here once payments start coming in monthly. More storage, more email volume, the full sales toolkit. Courses, downloads, coupons, bundles, order bumps. Move up when your audience needs community + memberships, or you're hitting the email cap.
- Everything in Starter, plus:
- Unlimited posts
- Newsletter to 3,000 subscribers + scheduled sends
- Unlimited courses (paid or free) with progress tracking
- Course drip + quizzes + completion certificates
- Paid courses, posts, custom content (3% platform fee, capped $99.00/mo)
- Stripe Connect payouts
- Tiered paywall + membership subscriptions
- Comments / threaded discussions
- Events with RSVPs + ICS export
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- 2 GB storage
- 10 hours of hosted course video (600 min)
- 200 AI credits / month
- No Facet branding
- Members-only podcast (private RSS feed)
Creator
Full-time creators choose this when their audience needs community + memberships and they're hitting the Studio email cap. The growth + retention layer: newsletter sequences, member tiers, drip unlocks, milestones, recurring revenue.
- Everything in Studio, plus:
- 0% platform fee on content sales (flat, no cap)
- Newsletter to 8,000 subscribers
- Unlimited newsletter lists
- API + MCP tools + webhooks
- 5 GB storage
- 50 hours of hosted course video (3,000 min)
- 500 AI credits / month
"Unlimited" sends and content are subject to fair use.
Need more than 50,000 subscribers? Contact us
What the price includes
A published fee ceiling
Studio pays 3% on content sales, capped at $99.00/mo. The cap is in writing. Creator pays 0%. No surprise tiers when you grow.
Your own Stripe, not ours
Payments run through your Stripe account via Connect. Your customers, payout schedule and transaction history remain yours, even if you leave.
Own your business and leave anytime
Imports preserve consent: contacts who unsubscribed on your old platform arrive unsubscribed here and are never re-mailable by accident.
Agent-operable backend
Your site speaks the open Model Context Protocol. On Creator, automate publishing, commerce and audience work from the AI tools you already use.
Compare plans
| Feature | Starter | Studio | Creator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professional polish. Included from Starter and up | |||
| Bring your own domain + SSL | Included | Included | Included |
| Subdomain hosting (yourname.facetcloud.io) | Included | Included | Included |
| Portfolio, resume, links page, blog | Included | Included | Included |
| Custom themes + dark mode | Included | Included | Included |
| Auto updates & backups | Included | Included | Included |
| Facet branding removed | Not included | Included | Included |
| Posts | Up to 10 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| RSS feed | Included | Included | Included |
| Site-wide search | Included | Included | Included |
| Member notification center | Included | Included | Included |
| Basic analytics (pageviews, referrers) | Included | Included | Included |
| Advanced analytics dashboard | Not included | Included | Included |
| Audience facets | 5 | 5 | Unlimited |
| Storage | 500 MB | 2 GB | 5 GB |
| Hosted course video | Not included | 10h | 50h |
| Team roles (included, not per-seat) | Owner only | Owner + 3 | Owner + 10 |
| Sell your work. Studio and up | |||
| Courses | Unlimited free | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Progress tracking per student | Included | Included | Included |
| Course drip scheduling | Included | Included | Included |
| Quizzes: question banks, timers, retake cooldowns | Included | Included | Included |
| Assignments with file upload | Included | Included | Included |
| Completion certificates | Included | Included | Included |
| Cohorts & cohort-relative drip | Included | Included | Included |
| Learning analytics: funnels, drop-off, watch time | Included | Included | Included |
| Free lesson previews | Included | Included | Included |
| Platform fee on content sales | Not included | 3% (capped $99.00/mo) | 0% flat |
| Stripe Connect payouts | Not included | Included | Included |
| Paywalled posts, content, and courses | Not included | Included | Included |
| Tiered paywall + membership subscriptions | Not included | Included | Included |
| Custom scripts & integrations | Not included | Included | Included |
| Coaching packages + timezone-safe scheduler | Not included | Included | Included |
| Buy now, pay later (Klarna, Afterpay) | Not included | Included | Included |
| Apple Pay & Google Pay | Not included | Included | Included |
| Display currencies | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| Monthly, quarterly, yearly + lifetime billing | Included | Included | Included |
| Marketing funnels (published) | 1 | 5 | Unlimited |
| Private members podcast | Not included | Included | Included |
| Installable member app (PWA) | Included | Included | Included |
| Grow + retain. Creator | |||
| Email composer + templates | Included | Included | Included |
| Branching email sequences | Included | Included | Included |
| Newsletter subscribers | 500 | 3,000 | 8,000 |
| Newsletter lists | 1 | 3 | Unlimited |
| Newsletter sends per month | 5,000 | 12,000 | 32,000 |
| Scheduled email sends | Not included | Included | Included |
| A/B subject-line testing | Included | Included | Included |
| Comments on posts and lessons | Not included | Included | Included |
| Community spaces: feed, moderation, realtime | Not included | Included | Included |
| Gamification: points, levels, leaderboards, level-gated spaces | Not included | Included | Included |
| Events with RSVPs + ICS export | Not included | Included | Included |
| Email automations: visual builder, 6 recipes | Not included | Included | Included |
| Affiliate program | Not included | Included | Included |
| AI writing assist (credits / month) | 50 | 200 | 500 |
| Zapier-compatible webhooks | Not included | Not included | Included |
| API + MCP tools | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Own your business and leave anytime | |||
| Importers: Substack, Ghost, WordPress + 8 CSV presets | Included | Included | Included |
| Full export, so you can take everything with you | Included | Included | Included |
| Site languages | 18 | 18 | 18 |
| Webhooks | Not included | Not included | Included |
| MCP server for AI agents | Not included | Not included | Included |
Need more headroom than your tier's caps? Reach out and we'll add capacity. Pay-as-you-go overage is on the way, so you won't have to jump a whole tier.
What Facet takes, all-in
Assumes $2,000/mo gross content sales ($1,000 in courses plus $1,000 in subscriptions). Stripe processor fees (roughly 2.9% + $0.30 per charge) are paid directly to Stripe. Amounts shown in US dollars.
| Platform | Monthly plan | Content fee | Stripe fees | Total take | Take % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Facet Studio | $15 | $60 (3%, capped $99) | $70 | $145 | 7.25% |
| Facet Creator | $39 | $0 (0%) | $70 | $109 | 5.45% |
Stripe processor fees are paid directly to Stripe and are outside any platform's control.
Switching from another platform
- Do my paid subscribers have to re-enter their cards?
- Often no for active Stripe subscriptions. Stripe can copy customers and payment methods into your Connect account; we re-create the plans with the same billing rhythm so people keep paying without a new checkout. One-time shoppers and non-Stripe platforms may still need a fresh card. We have an operator runbook for the full path.
- Who owns the payment relationship?
- You do. Facet uses Stripe Connect so the creator owns the Stripe customer relationship. Leaving Facet later is clean because we do not hold your subscribers' cards hostage.
Want the engine? The open-source core is on GitHub. Hosted Facet Cloud adds the courses, content sales, AI assist, and managed infrastructure.