Disciple vs Heights Platform Comparison 2026
Both cover community platforms. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Your community as an app in the app stores
Courses, community and short challenges
At a glance
- Heights Platform starts cheaper, at $19.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Disciple | Heights Platform | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $399 | From $19 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | 30 days |
| API | Yes | Yes |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Disciple
Your community as an app in the app stores
Disciple builds a branded community app and puts it in the Apple and Google stores under your name, rather than sending members to a website that happens to work on a phone. It takes nothing from what members pay, which matters at the price it charges. That price starts at several hundred a month, so it is a business decision rather than an experiment.
Our note
Zero transaction fees against a high fixed cost is the whole shape of this, and it favours communities already collecting real money. Below roughly $8,000 a month in member revenue, a platform taking a percentage costs less.
Only on this side
- Covers memberships & subscriptions
Heights Platform
Courses, community and short challenges
Heights Platform puts a course, a community and a set of challenges behind one login, and prices the entry tier low enough that a first course does not need a launch to justify it. Challenges are the part worth noticing: a short repeated commitment converts an audience better than a long curriculum most people never finish. An assistant will draft course structure from a description. The cheapest plan is built around that challenge format rather than around a full course.
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