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  "name": "Circle",
  "url": "https://circle.so",
  "cat": "rt",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Hosted community and courses",
  "price": "Professional $89/mo (3 admin seats, 2% transaction fee, 200 GB); Business $199/mo (5 seats, 1% fee, 500 GB); Circle Plus custom (unlimited seats, 0.5% fee, 1 TB). Unlimited members on every plan. 14-day trial, no permanent free plan",
  "tier": "paid",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Hosted community platform bundling discussion spaces, live streaming and events, courses, member directories and paid memberships behind your own branding and domain. Native payments let you sell subscriptions or course access directly, and branded mobile apps are available. Fully managed, with no self-hosting option.",
  "why": "The turnkey way to put a paid subscriber community, live events and a course behind one login. For a content site monetising membership, Circle collapses forum, streaming and billing into a single vendor and a single bill.",
  "warn": "No free tier, a $89/mo floor, and a 2% cut of every transaction on the entry plan stacked on top of Stripe fees. You are renting your community — content and member relationships live inside Circle with limited export.",
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    "key": "rt",
    "name": "Realtime, comments & collab",
    "desc": "Live updates, comment systems, video, community.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
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    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://circle.so/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T18:09:22.039+00:00"
  },
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}