How the figures are produced

Each community’s price and member count are read from public pages: the platform’s own directory and each community’s own listing, Whop sellers’ public storefronts and Whop’s public product API, and, for follower counts, the creator’s public channel. We do not log in, we do not access member-only content, and we do not use any private or purchased data.

At least once a week, and many listings are read more often. Each reading is stored separately rather than overwriting the last one. That is what allows us to show how a price or a membership changed over time instead of only what is true today.

Where a size figure appears, it is monthly price × members. Both inputs are published by the community itself, and we show the multiplication openly so you can check it. Where a listing bills yearly, quarterly or weekly, its price is first converted to a monthly rate: a yearly price divided by 12, a quarterly one by 3, and a weekly one multiplied by 52 and divided by 12. A price that is not in US dollars gets no ceiling.

This is not revenue, earnings or income. It assumes every listed member pays the headline price, which is never the case in practice, and it does not account for free members, trials, discounts, churn, refunds, platform fees or tax. Treat it as the ceiling it is: the most a community could bill under assumptions that never hold in practice.

Where a community charges a one-off price rather than a subscription, no monthly ceiling is calculated, because a single purchase has no monthly recurring value. Where no price is published at all, the price is recorded as unknown. Unknown is never treated as free.

Some products are free, and free products can be large. A seller might run a free Discord with several thousand members alongside a paid community with a couple of hundred. Multiplying the wrong one would overstate a real business by an enormous margin, so the rule is simple: a member count is only ever multiplied by the price shown against that same product. A free product’s ceiling is zero, and its members are described as an audience rather than as customers.

Where a platform publishes only one storefront-wide total that mixes free and paid members together, that total is recorded as a measure of reach and no price is ever applied to it. It appears on seller pages under its own name and it is never labelled as a customer count.

Where a product offers several price tiers, the ceiling uses the rate the listing leads with: the first recurring price shown on the page, or, where we read the platform’s public API, the plan the seller has marked as the default. It is not the most expensive tier. A community whose members are spread across several tiers will have some paying more than this figure assumes and some paying less.

A member count is the total the listing itself publishes. Neither platform separates, on a public page, the members who are paying from those on a free trial, on a complimentary place, or on a free plan inside the same product. So the count that is multiplied is everyone the listing says is there, which is the largest number it could be. That is the main reason the result is a ceiling and not an estimate.

A listing is shown once it publishes at least 100 members. On Whop, a seller’s largest product can appear with fewer, though never fewer than 50, where the seller has at least 100 members across their storefront and products, at least 25 reviews, a following of at least 10,000, or another published sign of an active business. Every listing shown has also been placed in a niche, publishes reviews, or has published a price across two separate weeks of reading. It needs a written description, a reading in the last 75 days and a listing page that still loads. A Skool community with no posts is left out, Whop listings with the same name and member count appear once, and some listings are withheld by editorial decision.

Coverage differs by platform, and each ranking says which situation it is in rather than leaving you to guess.

On Skool, the platform publishes browsable directory pages, so coverage is broad and is measured every week against what those pages actually returned. Skool caps what a directory query will show, and that cap is a display limit rather than a count of how many communities exist, so it is never presented as one.

On Whop, there is no complete public index of products. Coverage grows one seller at a time, starting from the newest-arrivals feed that Whop publishes itself and then reading each seller’s own public storefront. A Whop ranking is therefore a ranking of what is tracked here, not of the platform, and every Whop page says so on the page.

Every ranked page on this site is ordered by a single figure the business publishes about itself, almost always its member count. The order is computed from that figure and nothing else. There is no editorial judgement in it, the score shown on some listing pages plays no part in it, and there is no field anywhere in this system for a manual position.

Where two businesses publish the same figure, the tie is broken by their url, which is unique. That detail matters more than it looks: an order that can still tie is not a determined order, and the same page could otherwise rank two competitors differently on two visits for no reason a reader could check. Every ordering here runs to a unique tie-break, so the same data always produces the same page.

Placement is not for sale. Nobody can buy a position on any page here, improve one, or have a listing removed for a fee. Some links out of this site may earn a commission, which is set out on the affiliate disclosure page, and it has no bearing on what is listed or in what order.

Some platforms display rounded member counts rather than exact ones. Where a figure is an approximation, it is shown with a tilde, like ~1,200. An approximate figure is never presented as a precise one.

Nothing here is an endorsement or a recommendation of any community or the people who run one. Rankings and scores are calculated from published figures and say nothing about quality, conduct, or whether anyone should join. A community near the top of a leaderboard has a large published number beside its name and that is the entire claim.

Nothing here is financial, investment, or consumer advice. We do not join, test or judge the quality of these communities. Where a page is called a review, it reviews the published numbers only.

It is not a ranking of how much money anyone makes, and it does not claim to cover every community on any platform. Coverage is measured and stated rather than assumed. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Skool, Whop, or any community listed. Everything published here is taken from pages those communities and platforms publish themselves.

Public listings go stale and can be wrong. If you run a community listed here and the figures are inaccurate, send the real ones and we will correct the page and record that the change was made. You can submit a correction or email checkthecourse@gmail.com. Corrections from the owner of a community are prioritised.