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Patreon

Who runs Patreon, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest creator membership platform alternatives.

Who’s behind it
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Online since
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Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
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Closest alternative
ko-fi.com

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Patreon

Patreon patreon.com

Build a community, share exclusive work, and turn your passion into a thriving business with Patreon. Get started today!

Wikidata: American crowdfunding platform

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Patreon tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 14 alternatives below has fewer; 7 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
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US company
1 tool

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Patreon

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Patreon, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    ko-fi.com Top 10K English

    web patronage service

    Compare ko-fi.com with Patreon →
  2. 02
    Memberful memberful.com English 2 trackers

    Memberful | Build a membership that’s truly yours

    Sell subscriptions, share content, and connect with your audience, all on your own website or app.

    Compare Memberful with Patreon →
  3. 03
    Buy Me a Coffee buymeacoffee.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Buy Me a Coffee

    Buy Me a Coffee is the best way for creators and artists to accept support and membership from their fans.

    Compare Buy Me a Coffee with Patreon →
  4. 04
    Substack substack.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Substack

    Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.

    Compare Substack with Patreon →
  5. 05
    Fanvue fanvue.com English 5 trackers

    Fanvue

    The creator subscription platform for the future. Take home 80% of your earnings from day 1. Earn from your fanbase faster with the No1 AI monetisation platform for creators.

    Compare Fanvue with Patreon →
  6. 06
    Gumroad gumroad.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Earn your first dollar online with Gumroad

    Start selling what you know, see what sticks, and get paid. Simple and effective.

    Compare Gumroad with Patreon →
  7. 07
    Hotmart hotmart.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    Hotmart — Learn what you want, teach what you know

    Learn more about Hotmart, the leading platform for selling and distributing digital products.

    Compare Hotmart with Patreon →
  8. 08
    Kajabi kajabi.com

    California-based SaaS technology company that develops a platform for creators and entrepreneurs to create, market and sell digital content

    Compare Kajabi with Patreon →
  9. 09
    kickstarter.com Top 10K English

    US-based crowdfunding platform

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  10. 10
    Heartbeat heartbeat.chat English 6 trackers

    Online Community Platform for Creators & Coaches | Heartbeat

    The online community platform for creators and coaches. Run memberships, courses, events and payments in one place you own. 37,000+ communities built.

    Compare Heartbeat with Patreon →
  11. 11
    Stan stan.store No trackers

    Stan - Your Creator Store

    We work 1-on-1 with the Top Creators to monetize their business

    Compare Stan with Patreon →
  12. 12
    Circle circle.so English 2 trackers

    Circle | The complete community platform

    Build a home for your community, events, and courses — all under your own brand.

    Compare Circle with Patreon →
  13. 13
    Eduzz eduzz.com English 2 trackers

    Eduzz — Tudo para criar, vender e crescer no digital

    Uma comunidade que ajuda você a transformar conhecimento em impacto.

    Compare Eduzz with Patreon →
  14. 14
    note note.com Top 1K Japanese 1 tracker

    note ――つくる、つながる、とどける。

    クリエイターが文章やマンガ、写真、音声を投稿することができ、ユーザーはそのコンテンツを楽しんで応援できるメディアプラットフォームです。だれもが創作を楽しんで続けられるよう、安心できる雰囲気や、多様性を大切にしています。

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  15. 15
    Ning ning.com Top 10K

    online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks

    Compare Ning with Patreon →
  16. 16
    Ghost ghost.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform

    Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.

    Compare Ghost with Patreon →
  17. 17
    Indiegogo indiegogo.com Top 10K English

    American crowdfunding website

    Compare Indiegogo with Patreon →
  18. 18
    Diply diply.com English No trackers

    Diply — The operating system behind creator growth

    You create. Diply operates what happens next: people, distribution, strategy, analytics, monetization and technology behind creator growth. Apply today.

    Compare Diply with Patreon →
  19. 19
    MyMiniFactory myminifactory.com

    website

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  20. 20
    Ulule ulule.com English No trackers

    Ulule

    Ulule makes it easy to take action and develop creative, sustainable projects. Crowdfunding, certified training courses and a store of sustainable brands.

    Compare Ulule with Patreon →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Patreon’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Patreon uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Patreon adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 20 technologies
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Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Patreon’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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