DoorFee vs Patreon Comparison 2026
DoorFee sells access to a Discord server you already run, free at 10 percent or $28 a month for Pro's 2.5 percent. Patreon charges a flat 10 percent with no plan to upgrade into, but its own community chat can replace the Discord server altogether, and most audiences already know how to pay a creator there. DoorFee's free rate and Patreon's flat rate land on the same 10 percent, so the same roughly $375 a month threshold that makes DoorFee's Pro plan worth $28 applies just as well against Patreon.
Paid Discord memberships with a sales funnel
Membership tiers and posts for paying supporters
At a glance
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
- DoorFee takes 2.5% of what you earn against Patreon's 10%.
Side by side
DoorFee | Patreon | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $28 | Free |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Free |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing (they differ) | Monthly or annual | Usage-based |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Yes |
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.
Patreon
Membership tiers and posts for paying supporters
Patreon is still where most audiences expect to pay a creator monthly, and that familiarity is worth something. Tiers, member-only posts, and now paid courses and shops. The platform fee is 10 percent of what you earn, before payment processing.
Our note
Patreon costs more than Ko-fi and more than running memberships yourself, and what you buy with the difference is recognition: a listener who hears the word already knows what to do. Once an audience would follow you anywhere, that premium stops earning its keep.
Only on this side
- Works with YouTube
- Works with Podcast
Why people weigh these two
- Patreon instead of DoorFee
- Patreon runs membership tiers and posts for paying supporters with nothing up front, a broader home for paid membership than a Discord-only gate.
- DoorFee instead of Patreon
- DoorFee charges for access to a Discord server specifically, with a sales funnel built around that one platform rather than Patreon's posts and tiers.
Which one should you pick
Pick DoorFee if the community is staying on Discord and the goal is selling into it harder: a built sales page, email marketing, an affiliate program and abandoned-checkout recovery, none of which Patreon offers. Once revenue passes roughly $375 a month, Pro's $28 a month and 2.5 percent beats Patreon's flat 10 percent by the same math DoorFee uses against its own free plan.
Pick Patreon for the audience familiarity alone: most supporters have paid a creator here before, which is worth something no Discord paywall can replicate cheaply. Its built-in community chat can replace a separate Discord entirely, and courses and a shop sell to the same audience already paying monthly, all for a flat 10 percent with no subscription to weigh against it.
Common questions
- Do DoorFee and Patreon actually charge the same amount?
- At the free tier, yes: both charge 10 percent. DoorFee's Pro plan, at $28 a month, drops that to 2.5 percent, and the point where that upgrade beats a flat 10 percent, DoorFee's own or Patreon's, works out to roughly the same $375 a month in revenue either way.
- Can Patreon replace the Discord server itself?
- Possibly. Patreon includes its own members-only chat space, which it markets as saving a creator from running a separate Discord for paying supporters. DoorFee assumes the opposite: it exists specifically to sell and gate a Discord server you keep running.
- Which one has more built-in selling tools?
- DoorFee. It comes with a drag-and-drop sales page, built-in email marketing, an affiliate program and abandoned-checkout recovery, all aimed at converting a visitor into a paying Discord member. Patreon relies mostly on audience familiarity and its own page rather than a dedicated funnel.
- Is there a monthly fee on Patreon the way there is with DoorFee Pro?
- No. Patreon has no plan ladder or monthly fee at all, just a flat 10 percent of what members pay, with processing, currency conversion and payout fees taken separately. DoorFee's Pro plan is the one with a subscription, $28 a month, in exchange for the lower 2.5 percent rate.
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