The Median Skool Community Charges $27 and Has 205 Members. Do the Math.

Start with two numbers pulled from Skool's own shop window.

A July 2026 scrape of the 1,000 communities in Skool's public Discovery feed found that 84.6% of trending communities charge for access, the median price across the 795 monthly-billed groups is $27 a month, and the median community has 205 members.

Multiply them and you get about $5,535 a month. That is the shape of a "successful" Skool community — successful enough to make a list Skool itself promotes.

Not a business empire. A decent second income, run by one person, in public.

The honest caveat, before anyone screenshots this

Those are two separate medians. The community charging $27 is not necessarily the one with 205 members, and some of those 205 members are on trials, comped, or churning out this month. 154 of the 1,000 trending communities charge nothing at all.

So $5,535 is not a revenue figure. It is a sense of scale. And the scale is the story, because the scale is small.

A group with 300 members already sits comfortably in the top half of the trending list. The full list holds 1.14 million memberships, but the giants soak up most of them. The distribution is brutal and very familiar: the #1 trending community in July 2026 had 3,085 members while #4 had 164,744.

Then Skool takes its slice

Skool runs two plans. Six years of one $99 plan, then a $9 Hobby plan split off in July 2025. The subscription is the small part. Hobby charges 10% of each member payment. Pro charges 2.9% + $0.30, and on Pro, single payments above $900 move to 3.9% + $0.30.

Run the median community through that. At roughly $5,500 a month in member payments spread across ~205 transactions, Pro costs about $320 all-in — the $99, plus roughly $160 in percentage fees, plus about $62 in per-transaction charges. On the $9 Hobby plan, the same revenue costs around $560, because 10% of $5,500 is $550.

The cheap plan is the expensive plan the moment you start working. That is not a scandal, it is arithmetic, but a lot of hosts discover it late. One pricing analysis calculates a creator running a $50,000/month community on Hobby gives up around $37,800 a year — "That is a full hire" — and notes people sit on that for months before anyone shows them the spreadsheet.

Even the median price is contested

Here is where the data gets slippery. The $27 figure comes from the trending list only. Samples that include non-trending communities report a much higher free share. Another count of 768 monthly prices in Discovery put the median at $39. A third analysis of the top paid communities landed at a $49 median with a $376.77 average — an average that tells you everything about the outliers and nothing about your odds.

Even the scraper's own week wobbled: the median asking price moved from $27 to $29 and back to $27 as the list churned.

And nobody knows what Skool earns either

The platform selling the dream is as opaque as the hosts are exposed. Skool has never published a valuation; the $1B+ figure circulating online traces to blogs citing each other, and the one named tracker, GetLatka, estimated roughly $26.6M ARR as of July 2026 — also an estimate. No confirmed figure exists. No venture round has ever been announced, and the only publicly confirmed outside money is Alex Hormozi's stake.

Hormozi's January 2024 announcement is still the loudest number attached to the company. "I just made the largest investment of my life into Skool.com," he wrote, adding that host payouts were "growing by 62%...PER. MONTH. (Not a typo)."

That was two and a half years ago, on a smaller base, and Skool has not updated it publicly since.

What the data actually recommends

The biggest groups on the platform are not the $27 ones. The two largest communities on Skool do not appear on the trending list at all: AI Automation Society, a free group created in October 2024, holds 427,011 members, and Skoolers, the company's own community, holds 163,802.

Which is the quiet lesson buried in the scrape. Paid communities are a small-numbers game with recurring revenue attached. The $27 tier is not the machine. It is one product in a business that needs others.

If you are building toward 205 members at $27, build knowing that is the realistic ceiling of the visible middle — and decide now what you sell to the people who stay.