DoorFee vs Memberful Comparison 2026
DoorFee gates and sells access to a Discord server specifically, free at 10 percent or $28 a month for Pro's 2.5 percent. Memberful sells subscriptions from a site you already run, most often WordPress, at one flat price: $49 a month plus a 4.9 percent transaction fee, with nothing charged until the first payment arrives. DoorFee only ever serves a Discord community; Memberful never touches Discord at all, keeping members on your own site instead.
Paid Discord memberships with a sales funnel
Paid memberships bolted onto a site you own
At a glance
- DoorFee starts cheaper, at $28.
- Only DoorFee has a free tier.
- DoorFee takes 2.5% of what you earn against Memberful's 4.9%.
Side by side
DoorFee | Memberful | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $28 | From $49 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Paid subscription |
| Free tier (they differ) | Yes | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated |
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
- Works with Discord
Memberful
Paid memberships bolted onto a site you own
Memberful sells memberships from a site you already run rather than moving your audience to a platform, and it is the tool most WordPress publishers reach for when they start charging. One price covers everything and the money is charged on top as a percentage. Nothing is billed until a first payment comes in, so a launch that never launches costs nothing.
Our note
The 4.9 percent is the number to model, because it is charged on revenue rather than on profit: at $2,000 a month collected it is about double the subscription. Against Ghost, which takes nothing, this wins on flexibility and loses on arithmetic once you are large.
Why people weigh these two
- Memberful instead of DoorFee
- Memberful bolts paid memberships onto a site you own from $49 a month, for sellers who want the membership on their own domain rather than inside Discord.
- DoorFee instead of Memberful
- DoorFee charges for access to a Discord specifically, with a sales funnel built around that one platform rather than a site you already run.
Which one should you pick
Pick DoorFee if the community lives on Discord and needs a sales page, email marketing and abandoned-checkout recovery built around it, none of which Memberful offers. Free takes 10 percent, and Pro's $28 a month drops that to 2.5 percent, which by DoorFee's own math is worth it above roughly $375 a month in revenue.
Pick Memberful if the membership needs to live on a site you already run rather than inside Discord, especially on WordPress. It charges nothing until the first payment lands, then $49 a month plus 4.9 percent, a fee Memberful itself says roughly doubles the subscription's cost once a creator collects around $2,000 a month.
Common questions
- Can Memberful gate a Discord server the way DoorFee does?
- No. Memberful sells memberships from a site you already run, most often WordPress, and does not describe any Discord role feature. DoorFee's whole job is granting and revoking Discord roles automatically as people pay and lapse.
- Which one costs less at a small membership revenue?
- DoorFee's free plan takes 10 percent with no monthly charge, and Pro is only worth its $28 a month once revenue passes roughly $375 a month by DoorFee's own numbers. Memberful charges $49 a month plus 4.9 percent from the very first payment, with no free-forever tier.
- Does Memberful charge anything before a creator earns?
- No. Billing only starts once the first payment comes in, so a launch that never launches costs nothing. DoorFee's free plan is also genuinely free, but it takes 10 percent of whatever does come through, where Memberful's zero-until-launch has no percentage attached before that point.
- When does Memberful's 4.9 percent fee start to hurt?
- By Memberful's own account, around $2,000 a month collected, where the fee runs close to double the $49 subscription. DoorFee's equivalent tipping point is its own Pro plan paying for itself above roughly $375 a month, a smaller number because DoorFee's percentage is lower to begin with.
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