The LaunchPass alternative without the 3.5% cut
LaunchPass got the big thing right: your sales run through your own Stripe account. flatpass works the same way — it just doesn't take 3.5% of every transaction for it. Flat monthly tiers, 0% of sales, and one subscription for every server you run — free until you have 15 paid members.
- Your own Stripe — same as LaunchPass
- 0% per transaction
- Cancel anytime
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 both connect your own Stripe account, so 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 — Stripe’s 2.9% + $0.30 comes on top, and LaunchPass’s own help center totals it at about 6.4% + $0.30 per sale. flatpass charges a flat monthly tier — free up to 15 paid members, then $29, $79 or $149 by community size — takes 0%, and one subscription covers every server you sell in. Fees as published, August 3, 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.
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 August 3, 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 August 3, 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, August 3, 2026 — sources above. Coming from a percentage-only platform? flatpass vs Whop →
What your members actually see
Ownership of the money is a tie. The page your members land on isn't.
You've been invited to join
Chef Society
Monitors, early links, and release guides for sneaker drops.
- 1,204 online
- 4,318 members
Renews monthly until cancelled
Payments are securely processed by Stripe
A live preview, not a screenshot — this is the component your members get
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 tagline, 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 takes a tagline and builds the rest from what Discord already knows about your server. 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
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%.
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.
$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, August 3, 2026.)
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.
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.
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.)
Same Stripe. Minus the 3.5%.
Free up to 15 paid members · No setup fee · Cancel anytime