The LaunchPass alternative for Discord without the 3.5% cut
Members get their Discord role within seconds of paying, and it's removed when their subscription ends — all on your own Stripe account, which LaunchPass got right too. flatpass just doesn't take 3.5% of every transaction for it: flat monthly tiers, free until you have 15 paid members.
- Roles added and removed automatically
- Your own Stripe — same as LaunchPass
- 0% per transaction
A $100 sale on LaunchPass
→ your Stripe account · + $29/mo per community
A $100 sale on flatpass
→ your Stripe account
flatpass fee: $0 per sale · flat monthly tiers from $0Where the two bills stop being equal
Same Stripe, same job. Only one adds a percentage.
TL;DR
flatpass and LaunchPass do the same job on your own Stripe account: a member pays and gets the Discord role, their subscription ends and the role comes off. Your customers and payment history are yours on either platform. The difference is the bill: LaunchPass charges $29/month per community plus 3.5% of every transaction. flatpass charges one flat monthly tier — free up to 15 paid members, then $29, $79 or $149 by community size — takes 0%, and covers every server you sell in. Fees as published, October 11, 2026.
The 3.5% never stops
LaunchPass starts at $29/month and then takes 3.5% of every transaction, forever: $175 a month at $5,000 in sales, $350 at $10,000 — on top of Stripe's processing, which you pay either way. flatpass starts at $0 and never adds a percentage: the tier is the whole invoice.
Credit where due: your Stripe, both ways
Unlike platforms that hold your balance, LaunchPass routes payments to your own Stripe account — and so does flatpass. Switching costs you nothing in ownership: your Stripe account, your customers, and your history were never the platform's to keep. Pick on price, not on fear.
One subscription, all your servers
LaunchPass bills $29/month per community. flatpass is one subscription per seller, metered on your paid members across all of them — run two servers or five, the invoice doesn't move.
Feature by feature
From setup to the day a membership ends.
| flatpass | LaunchPass | |
|---|---|---|
| Steps to go live | Four: add the bot, connect Stripe, pick a role, set a price. The invite page builds itself | Fill in an offer page, start the paid Premium plan to charge, connect Stripe, and keep a public welcome channel |
| Time to set up | Fastest seller so far: 7 minutes from adding the bot to a live paid tier, Stripe onboarding included | Its guide: 10–15 minutes for a basic offer page, 30–45 for a fully optimized one, before the plan and Stripe |
| Bot permissions | Manage Roles and Create Invite — never Administrator | Its help center says to turn on Administrator and put its role at the top |
| If the bot's role is too low | The dashboard names the roles above the bot and says to drag it above them | “Fix your Discord permissions to publish a page”, without naming a role |
| When a membership ends | The paid role comes off; they stay in your server | Kicked from the server by default; removing the role instead is a setting |
| Billing periods | Weekly to yearly, members picking the period at checkout, or one payment for access until a fixed date. No lifetime access | Weekly to yearly, or a one-time payment for lifetime access |
| Tiers | Every tier on one invite page | One offer page per tier, each assigning one role |
| Invite page | Built from your server: its name, icon, banner, colours and description (or one you write), and your tiers | A page you fill in: offer image, a gallery of images and video, a feature list and a description |
| Members manage their own billing | /membership in your server opens Stripe’s billing page: change the card or cancel. Pause from the invite page | A customer portal on launchpass.com, signed into by emailed link: change the card, cancel, switch Discord account |
| Member's currency | Billed in their local currency at checkout | One display currency per page; charged in your Stripe account's currency |
| Traffic analytics | Built in: visits, clicks and subscriptions by source | Paste your own tracking code, such as Google Analytics 4 |
| Selling inside Discord | /flatpass panel posts a plans panel in a channel, with a button per plan and billing period. Pin it; it updates when you change a price | No plans panel or slash commands in the server: members buy on the launchpass.com signup page, and you share its link |
| Selling from your website | A checkout link for each plan | An embeddable payment widget |
| Free trials | Yes | Yes |
| Discount codes | Yes | Yes |
| Affiliate tracking | Built in for your members: /refer gives each one a link, and they earn the commission you set. You pay them; flatpass keeps the ledger | Rewardful integration |
Where the LaunchPass column comes from · verified September 28, 2026
All from LaunchPass’s Help Center: Premium plan to charge, public welcome channel, offer page setup time and billing periods, one offer per tier, customer portal, kicking vs removing roles, bot role and Administrator (and again in fixing the missing-permissions error), currency, Google Analytics 4, sharing the signup page, embed widget, free trials, coupons and Rewardful. The tier, invite-page and tracking rows also rest on LaunchPass’s Create Offer form, and the selling-inside-Discord row on a published offer’s server, both checked from a LaunchPass account the same day.
The math, in full
Platform fees and card processing included — at each platform's own published rates.
Complete bill — each platform’s card processing included at its own rate; Stripe’s US rate on ours. 300 paid members at $35 is about $10,500/month in sales.
| flatpass | LaunchPass | You keep the difference | |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000/mo in sales | $67 | $102 | $35/mo |
| $5,000/mo in sales | $267 | $392 | $125/mo |
| $10,000/mo in sales | $525 | $755 | $230/mo |
All-in monthly cost at a $35/month membership — which also fixes the member count our tier is metered on, so the $1,000 row is the Starter tier and the $10,000 row is Scale. Both platforms’ sellers pay Stripe’s standard 2.9% + $0.30 on their own accounts — the difference is LaunchPass’s 3.5% per transaction and per-community base fee.
Sources · verified October 11, 2026
Calculator and table both show the complete bill — each platform’s card processing at its own rate. LaunchPass pricing per its Help Center — $29/month + 3.5% per transaction, per community; Stripe’s fees are separate; LaunchPass’s own estimate of the total is ≈ 6.4% + $0.30 per sale — retrieved October 11, 2026. flatpass math uses Stripe’s standard US card rate — your Stripe rate may differ.
Same Stripe. Different invoice.
The ownership story is a tie — the fees aren’t.
| flatpass | LaunchPass | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly fee | Flat tiers from $0 — cover every server you run | $29 per community |
| Cut of your sales | 0% | 3.5% per transaction |
| Card processing | Stripe's 2.9% + $0.30 — your account | Stripe's 2.9% + $0.30 — your account, same |
| A $50 membership nets you | $48.25 | $46.50 — LaunchPass's own worked example |
| Your Stripe account | Yours — stays if you leave | Yours — stays if you leave |
| Platforms | Discord | Discord, Telegram, Slack |
Competitor pricing as published, October 11, 2026 — sources above. Coming from a percentage-only platform? flatpass vs Whop →
Weighing LaunchPass against Whop rather than against us? Whop is the cheaper of the two on fees at every volume — LaunchPass’s case is the own-Stripe ownership this page already concedes. The whole comparison: Whop vs LaunchPass →
Selling a signals or trading Discord on your own Stripe? PayBot beside LaunchPass, with the bill at a trading price: Sell Discord access with Stripe →
What your members actually see
Ownership of the money is a tie. The page your members land on isn't.
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On LaunchPass
- You pick one of LaunchPass's page themes and fill in its template — the look is chosen from their set, not taken from your server.
- The theme observed put the server's icon and name in a slim bar, with no banner anywhere on the page.
- The signup card carries LaunchPass's purple, its “Powered by LaunchPass” mark, and a link to LaunchPass's terms.
On flatpass
- The Discord invite screen your members already know, staged over your server's own banner — or, since Discord only gives banners to boosted servers, over art generated in your colour.
- Your server's colour runs through the whole page — the buttons, the tier they pick, every highlight, and the banner art it's staged on.
- Your name, your server description, your member and online counts.
- flatpass stays small on purpose: a mark up top and one “Powered by flatpass” line at the bottom — enough to reassure someone who arrived from a Discord link, next to the renewal and cancellation terms Stripe expects to see.
A themed template is genuinely more room to sell — headings, perks, a whole pitch, and LaunchPass gives you a starting draft for it. flatpass has no canvas to fill: it builds the page from what Discord already knows about your server, its description included, and you can write your own description in its place. Less to say, nothing to maintain.
How LaunchPass’s checkout was observed · verified August 3, 2026
Competitor chrome described from a live LaunchPass signup page viewed August 3, 2026, not reproduced. Layouts change; re-check before citing this later.
Switching keeps your Stripe
The account LaunchPass was routing to is yours. It comes with you — because it never left.
Step 1 · ~2 min
Connect the same Stripe account
The Stripe account behind your LaunchPass sales is yours — connect it to flatpass and your customer history is already there.
Step 2 · ~5 min
Recreate your tiers
Pick your Discord roles, set your prices. Your invite page builds itself.
Step 3 · ~3 min
Cut over your invite link
New members subscribe on your flatpass page. LaunchPass-created subscriptions keep billing in your Stripe, but LaunchPass stops syncing roles once you cancel — switch the link first, cancel after the transition.
Common questions
Does flatpass give the Discord role automatically?
Yes. Members get the role within seconds of paying, and it’s removed when their subscription ends, so nobody on your team adds or checks roles by hand. A member who cancels keeps the role until the end of the period they’ve paid for; if a renewal fails, they keep it while Stripe retries the card.
How is flatpass different from LaunchPass?
Both connect your own Stripe account and automate Discord roles. LaunchPass charges $29/month per community plus 3.5% of every transaction; flatpass charges one flat monthly tier per seller — free up to 15 paid members, then $29, $79 or $149 by community size — and takes 0%. At $5,000/month in sales that's roughly $392 versus $267 all-in — the gap is the 3.5%.
Does LaunchPass use my own Stripe account?
Yes. That's a real point in its favor, and flatpass works the same way. On either platform your customers, cards, and payment history live in your own Stripe account and stay with you. The comparison comes down to fees, not ownership.
What does LaunchPass really cost per month?
$29/month per community, plus 3.5% of every transaction, plus Stripe's standard 2.9% + $0.30 — LaunchPass's own help center totals it at about 6.4% + $0.30 of every sale. At $5,000/month in sales that's about $392 all-in; the same volume on flatpass costs about $267. (As published, October 11, 2026.)
Is there a LaunchPass alternative with no transaction fee?
flatpass: flat monthly tiers, 0% of sales, your own Stripe account. It is free until you have 15 paid members, where LaunchPass bills $29 from day one, and cheaper at every volume this page models. The 3.5% is the difference.
Can I switch from LaunchPass without losing my Stripe customers?
Yes. Your Stripe account — customers, payment methods, history — is yours and stays connected through the switch. Subscriptions LaunchPass created keep billing in your Stripe; switch your invite link to flatpass before cancelling LaunchPass, since LaunchPass stops syncing Discord roles once your plan ends.
Which is cheaper for a small community?
flatpass, and by the widest margin at the bottom: it’s free until you have 15 paid members, where LaunchPass bills $29 from day one. After that both charge a monthly fee, and every sale costs 3.5% more on LaunchPass. (Comparing against percentage-only platforms like Whop instead? Below about $1,036/month the answer flips — see flatpass vs Whop.)
What are the other LaunchPass alternatives?
Whop, PayBot, Subscord and Upgrade.chat also sell Discord roles, and Discord’s own Server Subscriptions do in the US. They differ in whether they take a percentage of every sale or a flat monthly fee, and in where the money lands. The best Discord subscription bots compares all seven, with what each costs all-in.
Same Stripe. Minus the 3.5%.
Free up to 15 paid members · No setup fee · Cancel anytime