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Summary
Circle is an all-in-one platform designed for building, managing, and scaling online communities. It provides tools for creating branded websites, hosting discussions, courses, and events, managing payments, and leveraging AI for automation and engagement. The platform aims to consolidate various community-related functions into a single, integrated solution.
Feature Matches11/13
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Must Have
4 of 5
Rich Text Editor
Membership & Monetization
Reader Engagement Metrics
Community Feedback Tools
Distribution & Recommendation Engine
Other
7 of 8
Publication Management
User Profiles & Following
Tags & Topics
Email Newsletter Integration
Mobile App Access
Social Sharing & Embedding
Search & Discovery
Audio Story Playback
PricingTiered
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Professional
$89.00 monthly
- Courses
- Discussions
- Events
- Website Builder
- Live streams & rooms
- Custom branding
- Reporting & analytics
- Searchable member directory
- Rich member profiles
- Paid memberships
- Gamification
- Custom domain
- Weekly community digest
- Payment migration services
- Private spaces
- Bulk import/export
- In-app notifications
- Basic moderation
- Direct messaging
- Group chat
- Scheduled posts
- Advanced reporting
- Zapier integration
- Embed widgets
- White-labeled community
- Automated moderation
- Color themes
- Affiliate/conversion tracking code
- 3 admins
- 10 moderators
- 20 spaces
- 2% transaction fees
- 100GB attachment storage
- 20 automations
- 20 scheduled workflows
- 20 bulk actions per month
- 100 live stream attendees
- 30 live room participants
- 30 hosts
- 20 live hours
- 50 live recording storage
Business
$199.00 monthly
Popular- Everything in Professional
- Workflows
- Custom profile fields
- Headless Member API
- Admin API
- Branded email notifications
- Content co-pilot
- Automated transcriptions
- Activity scores
- Integrately integration
- API access
- Community AI (Content co-pilot, Automated transcriptions, Activity scores)
- Annual plan includes Course migration services
- 5 admins
- 15 moderators
- 30 spaces
- 1% transaction fees
- 250GB attachment storage
- Unlimited automations
- Unlimited scheduled workflows
- Unlimited bulk actions
- 5,000 AI workflow credits/month
- 200 live stream attendees
- 40 live room participants
- 40 hosts
- 30 live hours
- 75 live recording storage
- 5,000 Admin API requests/month
- 100 MAU Headless API requests
Enterprise
$419.00 monthly
- Everything in Business
- AI Agents
- AI workflows
- Unlimited workflows
- Custom single sign-on (SSO)
- Priority support
- Advanced analytics
- Lower transaction fees
- Sandbox community
- 10 admins & 100 moderators
- AI moderation
- Analytics filtering
- Community AI (AI Agents, Chat agents, Knowledge engine, AI inbox)
- Annual plan includes Concierge onboarding
- Quarterly business reviews
- Dedicated customer success manager
- 10 admins
- 100 moderators
- 100 spaces
- 0.5% transaction fees
- 1TB attachment storage
- Unlimited automations
- Unlimited scheduled workflows
- Unlimited bulk actions
- 15,000 AI workflow credits/month
- 1,000 live stream attendees
- 50 live room participants
- 50 hosts
- 40 live hours
- 100 live recording storage
- 30,000 Admin API requests/month
- 500 MAU Headless API requests
Plus Branded App
Custom
- Everything in Enterprise
- Your own iOS and Android apps
- Prioritized migration services
- Dedicated launch team
- Access to Circle’s design studio
- Branded push notifications
- Offer in-app purchases
- Higher limits across the board
- 20 admins
- 200 moderators
- 500 spaces
- 0.5% transaction fees
- 2TB attachment storage
- Unlimited automations
- Unlimited scheduled workflows
- Unlimited bulk actions
- 15,000 AI workflow credits/month
- 2,000 live stream attendees
- 150 live room participants
- 75 hosts
- 100 live hours
- 300 live recording storage
- 250,000 Admin API requests/month
- 5,000 MAU Headless API requests
Rationale
Circle is a comprehensive community platform that allows users to build and manage online communities, courses, and events under their own brand. It offers features for discussions, live streams, payments, and email marketing, aligning with several 'other' features of the concept. While it doesn't explicitly mention a 'distribution-and-recommendation-engine' in the same way Medium does, it does have 'search-and-discovery' and 'tags-and-topics' which serve a similar purpose for content discoverability within the community. The platform supports rich media in posts and comments, offers membership monetization through various payment options, provides analytics for engagement, and includes community interaction tools like comments and direct messaging. It also supports user profiles, mobile apps, and email marketing. The core difference is that Circle is a platform for building a private, branded community, whereas Medium is a public publishing platform with a built-in audience and recommendation engine for broader content distribution.
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