Circle vs Hivebrite

Circle brings community, content, events, courses, payments, email and website tools into one platform. Its community features include discussions, chat, member profiles and directories, gamification and analytics. Courses can be self-paced, structured or scheduled, with sections, lessons and quizzes. Events, live streams and live rooms include Q&A, attendee participation and session recordings. Circle lists integrations such as Airtable, Google Sheets, Memberstack, WordPress, Memberful, Typeform and Slack through native connections, embeds, snippets or Zapier. It offers Admin and Headless Member APIs, with request limits varying by plan. Access includes Android, iOS, Mac, Windows and web; desktop apps are available to communities on all plans. Professional costs $89 a month with annual billing, Business costs $199 a month with annual billing, and Scale costs $419 a month with annual billing. A 14-day trial is listed, but there is no free plan. The pricing comparison lists live-stream attendee caps of 100, 200 and 500 for Professional, Business and Scale, respectively.

Hivebrite is a paid community platform for web, iOS, and Android, with event hosting, private spaces, custom domains, moderation tools, and mobile apps for both listed mobile systems. The maker, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Paris, France, describes four plans: Core, Flex, Prime, and Custom Fit. Each plan includes unlimited users, while capacities differ for global administrators, group administrators, and groups. Core includes two global administrator seats and five groups. Flex includes five global administrator seats, five group administrator seats, and ten groups. Prime includes ten global administrator seats, ten group administrator seats, and 25 groups. Custom Fit provides custom administrator-seat and group capacities. The platform therefore emphasizes community structure and administration, with the plan choice determining how many administrators and groups an organization can configure.