The table
Every niche we have read enough listings in to be worth comparing, ordered by what the middle community in it charges per month. Read the priced column next to the price: in most of these niches, publishing a monthly price is a minority habit, and the median is computed only over the ones that do.
| Niche | Median price | Priced | Median members | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales and closing | $97 | 36 | 620 | 191 |
| Crypto and web3 | $97 | 21 | 647 | 155 |
| Trading and investing | $79.99 | 206 | 614 | 1,106 |
| Credit and business funding | $49.50 | 80 | 440 | 145 |
| Real estate investing | $49 | 55 | 605 | 267 |
| Sports betting and prediction | $46.66 | 34 | 713 | 280 |
| Ecommerce | $45.50 | 84 | 668 | 340 |
| Trades and local services | $39 | 41 | 513 | 125 |
| Business and entrepreneurship | $37 | 171 | 563 | 687 |
| Agency and client services | $37 | 132 | 556 | 484 |
| Career and jobs | $37 | 37 | 528 | 150 |
| Copywriting and freelancing | $35 | 15 | 692 | 52 |
| Skills and education | $29.04 | 60 | 580 | 134 |
| Clipping and content rewards | $29 | 14 | 837 | 370 |
| Software and tech | $29 | 100 | 595 | 353 |
| Reselling and flipping | $29 | 77 | 641 | 312 |
| Content and audience building | $27 | 343 | 548 | 1,308 |
| AI and automation | $27 | 216 | 595 | 672 |
| Fitness and health | $27 | 125 | 477 | 426 |
| Sports and athletics | $27 | 83 | 484 | 278 |
| Dating and relationships | $27 | 35 | 450 | 78 |
| Personal development | $22 | 120 | 444 | 393 |
| Spirituality and faith | $20 | 135 | 421 | 459 |
| Gaming | $20 | 15 | 873 | 57 |
| Health and wellbeing | $19 | 140 | 487 | 494 |
| Parenting and family | $17 | 24 | 412 | 113 |
| Music and audio | $14.50 | 46 | 509 | 175 |
| Crafts and making | $9 | 33 | 685 | 80 |
Price says little about size
Read the price column against the size column and they do not line up. Some of the most expensive niches have middle communities among the larger ones in the table, and some of the cheapest do too. Across the niches, what the middle community charges tells you very little about how many members it lists.
That is worth holding onto if you are trying to judge whether a price is reasonable. Within a niche, a community with a few hundred members charging a high monthly fee is not automatically overpriced, and a free one with tens of thousands is not automatically the better deal. They are different businesses, and comparing across them tells you less than comparing within one.
Free is a price, and in some niches it is the normal one
The middle price in the table is taken over the listings that publish a monthly price above zero, so free ones are left out of it. Read it with the priced column: where only a small share of a niche publishes a price, most of the rest are free or publish none. Clipping and content reward campaigns are the clearest case, because joining is free by design and the money moves the other way, from the campaign to the person posting.
Free communities in other niches may be doing something else: acting as the front door to a paid one, or selling something that is not the community itself. Either way, a price of nothing is information rather than an absence, and so is a low priced count.
What this table cannot tell you
- Which niche is a good idea. It shows what things cost and how big they are, and neither is a measure of whether anybody got what they paid for.
- Anything about the money behind a listing. Price times members is a ceiling that assumes every listed member pays full price every month, which never happens. It is not revenue, not earnings and not income.
- How the niches got here. Our readings begin when we started reading each community, so this is a picture of now rather than a trend, and we are not going to dress a short run of collection up as a history.
- Anything about niches with too few listings to compare. Where we have read fewer than fifty, the middle is too easily moved by one or two communities, so they are left out rather than shown with a shaky number.
The figures above are read from public listings, recorded with the date we read them, and recomputed at most an hour before you load this page. If one of them looks wrong to you, the listings behind it have their own pages, each with the date and source of every figure, and a corrections link.