Heartbeat vs Heights Platform Comparison 2026
Heartbeat runs channels, threads, events and courses in one paid community, from $49 a month plus a transaction fee that falls from 5 percent to 1.25 percent as the plan rises, with a 14-day trial. Heights Platform starts cheaper at $19 a month for a short challenge format, then $39 for courses and community together, with a 30-day trial and no free plan either. Pick Heartbeat once a Discord community has outgrown itself and needs real structure. Pick Heights Platform to test with a short challenge before building a full course.
A community with courses and events built in
Courses, community and short challenges
At a glance
- Heights Platform starts cheaper, at $19.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Heartbeat | Heights Platform | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $49 | From $19 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free trial, then paid | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial (they differ) | 14 days | 30 days |
| API |
Heartbeat
A community with courses and events built in
Heartbeat runs channels, threads, events, courses and a member directory in one place, which is the shape most creator communities end up wanting after outgrowing a Discord server. Payments run through it and it takes a cut that falls as the plan rises. There is no free plan, and a community that stops paying is deactivated rather than frozen.
Our note
Work out the transaction fee at your own revenue before comparing headline prices: at $5,000 a month collected, Grow costs less in total than Build. Against Circle and Mighty Networks this is the one with courses and events genuinely built in rather than bolted on.
Only on this side
- Covers memberships & subscriptions
- Works with Discord
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.
Why people weigh these two
- Heights Platform instead of Heartbeat
- Heights Platform leads with courses and short challenges and attaches the community, from $19 a month, a cheaper start when teaching is the core of the group.
- Heartbeat instead of Heights Platform
- Heartbeat comes from the community side, with channels, events and courses in one place from $49 a month, suited to groups that outgrew Discord.
Which one should you pick
Pick Heartbeat if you are moving an active paid community off Discord and need channels, threads, scheduled events and courses genuinely built in rather than bolted on. Build is $49 a month plus a 5 percent transaction fee on top of Stripe, falling to 2.5 percent on Grow at $149 and 1.25 percent on Scale at $849. A community that does not upgrade after the 14-day trial is deactivated, so plan the trial around a real decision date.
Pick Heights Platform if you are testing whether an audience will pay for structure at all. The $19-a-month tier is built around a short challenge rather than a full course, a deliberately small first product, and $39 a month is where most creators settle once courses and community are both running. The trial runs 30 days, twice Heartbeat's, and a drafting assistant for course structure is included on every tier.
Common questions
- Does Heights Platform charge a percentage fee like Heartbeat does?
- Heartbeat states its cut plainly: 5 percent on Build, falling to 1.25 percent on Scale, on top of Stripe's charge. Heights Platform's pricing lists flat monthly tiers only, with no transaction fee mentioned on any of them.
- Which one has the longer free trial?
- Heights Platform, at 30 days against Heartbeat's 14. Neither has a free plan, so the trial is the only way to test either one without paying.
- What happens to a Heartbeat community that does not upgrade after the trial?
- It is deactivated, and deleted after 30 days of inactivity. That is worth knowing before importing a member list, since Heights Platform's own pricing page does not describe anything comparable happening to an unpaid trial.
- Which one is cheaper to start?
- Heights Platform, at $19 a month against Heartbeat's $49, though Heights Platform's entry tier is built around a short challenge rather than a full course and community. Heartbeat has no tier below $49 at all.
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