14-Day Free Trial - No Credit Card Required
Circle's official pricing page currently advertises a free 14-day trial for Professional and Business and explicitly says no credit card is required. Professional starts at $89/month equivalent on annual billing; Business is $199/month equivalent annually. Circle Plus uses custom pricing.
How to Claim this Deal
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- 2Create your community.
- 3Start the 14-day trial; Circle says no credit card is needed at signup.
- 4Test the actual features you need. If you want to continue, follow Circle's trial-to-paid upgrade guide and choose your plan before or after the trial expires.
What Happens After the deal: If the community trial expires without an upgrade, Circle sends the owner to the Plans screen. To continue on a paid plan, the user selects a plan/billing frequency and enters payment information.
Key Benefits
- 14 days free with no credit card required.
- Professional includes unlimited members, courses, discussions, events, website builder, live streaming/rooms, custom branding, reporting, paid memberships, gamification, and Circle AI.
- Business can also be trialed and adds workflows, APIs, custom profile fields, automated transcriptions, activity scores, and removal of Circle branding.
Eligibility & Requirements
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Annual 30% Off Professional Plan / 10% Off Business Plan
Circle's current public pricing confirms annual-billing rates of $89/month equivalent for Professional and $199/month equivalent for Business. The supplied Circle upgrade screen shows Professional at $129 monthly versus $89/month on annual billing and labels this as 30% savings. Current 2026 independent pricing checks put Business at $219 monthly versus $199/month annually, matching Circle's stated roughly 10% annual saving.
How to Claim this Deal
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- 2Start a trial or, if you already have a community, open community name/logo → Plans. Circle documents the process in its plan upgrade guide.
- 3Select Professional or Business, choose Annual billing in the Summary panel, verify the annual total and saving shown, then complete the upgrade.
Key Benefits
- Professional: $89/month equivalent billed annually, versus $129 month-to-month; $480 lower over 12 months at current prices.
- Business: $199/month equivalent billed annually, versus $219 month-to-month; $240 lower over 12 months at current prices.
- Business adds workflows, API access, custom profile fields, branded email notifications, AI-assisted content tools, and activity scores.
- Annual Business plans and above can request Circle's course migration service for free if eligible.
- Initial Professional and Business purchases have a 30-day money-back guarantee under Circle's current terms.
Eligibility & Requirements
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6,500 Bonus Circle AI Credits With Any Plan Upgrade
Circle's current public pricing separately includes 2,500 Circle AI credits per month on Professional and Business and prices additional credits at $10 per 1,000. On that published top-up rate, 6,500 credits would normally correspond to $65 of extra credits. Circle does not publicly specify the bonus-credit expiry, rollover behavior, geographic restrictions, repeat-redemption rules, or a promotion end date.
How to Claim this Deal
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- 2Open your community name/logo and select Plans. Circle documents the upgrade flow in its official upgrade guide.
- 3Select a plan and billing frequency. Before paying, confirm that the 6,500 AI credits bonus banner still appears in your account, then click Upgrade and complete payment.
What Happens After the deal: The 6,500-credit grant is described as a one-time bonus. Your selected paid plan continues under its normal billing, while regular monthly Circle AI credits follow that plan's normal allowance.
Key Benefits
- One-time bonus of 6,500 Circle AI credits according to the supplied Circle upgrade screen.
- Professional and Business currently include another 2,500 Circle AI credits per month as part of their normal plan allocation.
- Extra credits normally cost $10 per 1,000, making 6,500 credits equivalent to $65 at Circle's current published top-up rate.
- Circle AI can assist with community setup, courses, posts, paywalls, workflows, content planning, and community analysis.
Eligibility & Requirements
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CircleCo, Inc. develops Circle, an all-in-one community platform for creators, coaches, educators, membership businesses, and brands. It combines community spaces, memberships, courses, events, live video, payments, website building, analytics, automation, and AI tools in a branded member experience.
Common Use Cases
- Build and monetize a paid membership community with gated spaces and subscriptions.
- Combine online courses with discussions and member networking instead of running a separate LMS and community.
- Run coaching groups, cohorts, masterminds, workshops, and member programs.
- Host live events, live streams, Q&As, and member rooms.
- Move an audience away from Facebook, Slack, or Discord into a branded community with a custom domain.
- Automate onboarding, segmentation, notifications, and other community operations with Business workflows.
- Use Circle AI to build community structures, draft content, configure courses/paywalls, and analyze community activity.
