DoorFee vs Ko-fi Comparison 2026
DoorFee gates a Discord server specifically, granting and revoking roles automatically and building the sales pages, email and abandoned-checkout recovery around that one platform. Ko-fi is not Discord-specific: it takes nothing from a plain tip and 5 percent from memberships, commissions and the shop, dropping to 0 percent everywhere on the $12 a month Gold plan. DoorFee's own free tier already charges more, at 10 percent, than Ko-fi ever does on any plan.
Paid Discord memberships with a sales funnel
Tips, memberships and a shop with no platform cut
At a glance
- Ko-fi starts cheaper, at $12.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
DoorFee | Ko-fi | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $28 | From $12 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export |
DoorFee
Paid Discord memberships with a sales funnel
DoorFee sells access to a Discord server and gives you the pages and email that sell it, which is the half most access tools leave to you. Payments run through Stripe and roles are granted and revoked automatically. The page builder, affiliate program and coupon codes are what separate it from a bare paywall bot.
Only on this side
- Covers community platforms
- Works with Discord
Ko-fi
Tips, memberships and a shop with no platform cut
Ko-fi takes nothing from tips on the free plan, which no other platform of its size does. Memberships, commissions and digital downloads all work from the same page. It is lighter than Patreon in every direction, which is often the point.
Our note
The best free option for somebody who mostly gets tipped, and worth weighing against Patreon the moment memberships become the larger half of the income. Do the Gold arithmetic yourself rather than taking the upgrade prompt's word for it.
Why people weigh these two
- Ko-fi instead of DoorFee
- Ko-fi covers memberships alongside tips and a shop with no platform cut, a simpler, cheaper gate for a small friendly server.
- DoorFee instead of Ko-fi
- DoorFee is built specifically around paid Discord memberships with a sales funnel attached, at $28 a month, narrower than Ko-fi's mix of tips, shop and memberships.
Which one should you pick
Pick DoorFee if the product is specifically a paid Discord server and the selling matters as much as the gate. Free takes 10 percent, and Pro at $28 a month drops that to 2.5 percent plus custom domains and white-label branding, worth it above roughly $375 a month in membership revenue by DoorFee's own math. Ko-fi has no automatic Discord role feature to compare it against.
Pick Ko-fi for support that is not tied to gating a Discord server: tips arrive whole for free, and memberships, commissions and shop sales cost 5 percent until Gold's $12 a month removes it entirely, cheaper than DoorFee reaches at any tier. It also covers Twitch and YouTube directly, where DoorFee only ever serves Discord.
Common questions
- Which one is built specifically for a Discord community?
- DoorFee. It grants and revokes Discord roles automatically as people pay and lapse, and builds the sales page, email and abandoned-checkout follow-up around that one platform. Ko-fi has no equivalent role-gating feature and is not Discord-specific.
- Which one takes the smaller cut?
- Ko-fi, on everything but a plain tip, which is free on both. Ko-fi charges 5 percent on memberships and shop sales, or 0 percent with the $12 a month Gold plan, both below DoorFee's free-tier 10 percent and even below DoorFee Pro's 2.5 percent at $28 a month.
- When does DoorFee's Pro plan pay for itself?
- By DoorFee's own numbers, around $375 a month in membership revenue, where the 7.5 point difference between 10 percent and 2.5 percent outweighs the $28 subscription. Below that, the free plan's higher percentage is still cheaper in dollar terms.
- Can Ko-fi replace DoorFee's Discord role automation?
- Not directly. Ko-fi is built around a creator's own page for tips, memberships and a shop, with Twitch and YouTube mentioned specifically, but nothing describes granting or revoking a Discord role. That automation is DoorFee's core feature.
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