DoorFee vs Whop Comparison 2026
DoorFee's free plan charges 10 percent, dropping to 2.5 percent on the $28 a month Pro plan. Whop charges no monthly or setup fee at all instead: 2.7 percent plus 30 cents on a card, more on other payment methods, which already undercuts DoorFee's free tier without any subscription needed, though Pro edges back below Whop's card rate once volume justifies the subscription. Whop also runs its own marketplace and handles checkout and access together across memberships, courses and software; DoorFee stays focused on gating and selling one Discord server.
Paid Discord memberships with a sales funnel
Sell access to a community with no monthly fee
At a glance
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
DoorFee | Whop | |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
Only on this side
- Covers community platforms
- Works with Discord
Whop
Sell access to a community with no monthly fee
Whop sells memberships, courses, software and communities from a storefront that handles the checkout and the access control together, so a paying customer lands inside whatever they bought rather than in an email thread. There is no setup cost and no monthly cost; the money comes off each transaction. Rates differ by how the customer pays, with cards cheapest and instalment financing dearest. The marketplace side brings its own traffic, which is either the reason to be here or noise to ignore depending on what is being sold.
Our note
Why people weigh these two
- Whop instead of DoorFee
- Whop sells access to a community with no monthly fee, a lower-commitment gate than a $28 plan when the sales machinery is more than the server needs.
- DoorFee instead of Whop
- DoorFee is built specifically for paid Discord memberships with a sales funnel attached, with a free tier and plans from $28, narrower than Whop's storefront for courses and software too.
Which one should you pick
Pick DoorFee if the product is specifically a paid Discord server and the built-in sales page, email marketing, affiliate program and abandoned-checkout recovery matter more than shaving a fraction of a percent off the card rate. Pro's $28 a month for 2.5 percent only beats Whop's 2.7 percent once membership revenue is high enough to absorb that subscription.
Pick Whop if there is no monthly fee to spare and the product is not exclusively a Discord community: memberships, courses, software and access all sell from one storefront with no setup cost. Push customers toward cards where possible, since other payment methods run 4 to 5 percent plus $1, well above anything DoorFee charges.
Common questions
- Which one is cheaper with no subscription?
- Whop. Its card rate is 2.7 percent plus 30 cents with no monthly fee at all, cheaper than DoorFee's free-tier 10 percent. DoorFee only closes that gap by paying $28 a month for Pro, which drops its own rate to 2.5 percent.
- Does Whop charge anything beyond the card rate?
- Yes: 1.5 percent more on international cards, 1 percent for currency conversion, 4 to 5 percent plus $1 on other payment methods, 15 percent on instalment financing, and $2.50 per payout plus $15 per dispute. DoorFee's page states only its 10 percent free or 2.5 percent Pro rate, without itemising equivalent charges.
- Is Whop built for Discord communities specifically?
- No. It sells memberships, courses, software and communities from a general storefront that is not tied to any one chat platform, and its own marketplace can bring in buyers who were not already looking for the seller. DoorFee only gates and sells access to a Discord server.
- Which one has built-in marketing tools like DoorFee's sales pages?
- DoorFee does: a drag-and-drop sales page, email marketing, an affiliate program and abandoned-checkout recovery. Whop's own description centres on checkout and access control plus its marketplace traffic, without describing the same kind of built-in funnel.
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