On a $25 tier whose only benefit is Discord access, Patreon keeps $2.50 in platform fee and $1.03 in its own card processing — $3.53, or 14.1%. On an in-app iOS pledge it is $10.00, because Apple's 30% replaces Patreon's processing while the platform fee stays. Keep Patreon for the posts; the Discord-only tier can move to a flat monthly fee and the same role, granted by a bot instead.
Patreon's fees read August 23, 2026
A $25 pledge, on a card
Patreon keeps $3.53 — 14.1% — before conversion and payout fees
The same $25, bought on iOS
Patreon and Apple keep $10.00 — 40% — Apple's cut replacing Patreon's processing
What Patreon does better, said before the pitch rather than after it.
Before the pitch
Patreon’s Discord integration is free and built in — connect the server once and patrons get their role, at no cost beyond the fees you already pay. If your tiers bundle posts with Discord, stay: flatpass hosts no content, so splitting them would mean running two things where you now run one. Patreon also has real discovery and a brand members already trust with their card, and neither of those is something an invite page replicates. This page is only about the tier whose only benefit is the role.
All-in monthly cost at a $35/month tier — the site's modelled average, above the $25 pledge in the receipts up top. Patreon's fee plus its own processing, against a flat tier plus your own Stripe.
| flatpass, all in | Patreon, all in | |
|---|---|---|
| $560/mo in pledges 16 patrons at $35 — the first member you pay for | $50 Starter tier + your own Stripe | $77 10% + 2.9% + $0.30 |
| $1,000/mo in pledges 29 patrons at $35 | $67 Starter tier + your own Stripe | $138 10% + 2.9% + $0.30 |
| $2,500/mo in pledges 71 patrons at $35 | $123 Starter tier + your own Stripe | $344 10% + 2.9% + $0.30 |
Every figure in that table is at a $35/month tier. The tier price is what decides the answer, and Discord-only tiers are usually cheaper than that — which is what the next table is for.
The comparison is unusually short, and Patreon is the reason: its own processing is 2.9% + $0.30, exactly Stripe's US rate. Processing cancels on both sides, and the whole difference is the 10% platform fee. The crossover — where $29 a month stops costing more than Patreon's 10% — is $29 ÷ 10% = $290 a month in pledges.
Whether you ever reach $290 depends on what your tier costs. At $35 a tier, your sixteenth paid patron is already putting $560 a month through — past the crossover — so the flat fee is cheaper from the moment it starts costing you anything, and free below that. At $5 a tier the same 16 patrons are $80 a month, nowhere near it, and Patreon is cheaper across patrons 16–58. Discord-only tiers are commonly $5 or $10, so that is not a corner case.
The gap doesn't close for good at the top, either. Each cap on our ladder hands the next rung a flat fee to make back, so at $5 the gap re-opens three more times on the way up. The table below has the exact patron counts: at its $10 and $15 rows the concession is 14 and 4 patrons wide, and at its $25 and $50 rows none of this happens at all — the flat fee is cheaper from your first paying patron and free before that.
The legacy plans, which still run for pages published before August 4, 2025, move the crossover without changing the shape. Founders at 5% crosses at $29 ÷ 5% = $580, Pro at 8% at about $363, Pro + Merch at 11% at about $264. Divide by your own tier price for the patron count: at $35 a tier Founders breaks even at your seventeenth patron — one past the first patron you pay for — so the band where Patreon wins is exactly one patron wide and worth about a dollar. At $5 a tier the same 5% doesn't break even until your 117th.
None of the figures on this page include Patreon's currency conversion fee — 2.5% on any payment made in a currency other than your payout currency — or what it charges to move the money out: $0.25 per direct deposit, 1% by PayPal (minimum $0.25, capped at $20) or $1.00 by Payoneer. They are excluded for the same reason Whop's payout menu is excluded from our other tables — they depend on choices you haven't made yet — not because they're small.
| Tier price | flatpass cheaper from | Free up to | Patreon cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|
| $5/mo a Discord-only tier | 59 and again from 159, 299 and 799 | 15 patrons, on the Free tier | 16–58, 81–158, 201–298, 751–798 every cap re-opens it |
| $10/mo a Discord-only tier | 30 and it never gives it back | 15 patrons, on the Free tier | 16–29 then never again |
| $15/mo a Discord-only tier | 20 and it never gives it back | 15 patrons, on the Free tier | 16–19 then never again |
| $25/mo a Discord-only tier | 16 your first paying patron | 15 patrons, on the Free tier | Never at any number of patrons |
| $50/mo a Discord-only tier | 16 your first paying patron | 15 patrons, on the Free tier | Never at any number of patrons |
Paid patrons, scanned one at a time to 5,000. Where a Patreon band ends in an exact tie — the $5 and $10 rows — the tied patron is counted against us rather than for us. Both sides pay 2.9% + $0.30 on the same charges, so processing is not in any of these numbers. Past the top rung the flat fee stops growing, so the final band never turns over again.
The 10% platform fee per patreon.com/pricing — “10% of the income you earn on Patreon”, plus “payment processing, currency conversion, and payout fees, and applicable taxes” — retrieved August 23, 2026. Processing, conversion, payout and iOS figures per Patreon’s help centre, Creator fees overview, retrieved August 23, 2026: credit card and Apple Pay 2.9% + $0.30 in any region, PayPal and Venmo 2.9% + $0.30 in the US and 3.9% + $0.30 outside it; a 2.5% currency conversion fee; payouts at $0.25 by direct deposit, 1% by PayPal (minimum $0.25, capped at $20) and $1.00 by Payoneer. On iOS, verbatim: “Patreon does not charge additional payment processing fees on iOS transactions, but the platform fee still applies”, and “U.S. customers may have the option to complete purchases through Patreon’s mobile web checkout instead of using Apple’s in-app purchase flow”. The standard 10% applies to pages published after August 4, 2025; legacy plans run at 5% (Founders), 8% (Pro) and 11% (Pro + Merch). That article returns a 403 to an automated fetch and was read through a render proxy. flatpass math uses Stripe’s standard US card rate on the seller’s own account — your Stripe rate depends on your country and your member’s card. Every figure here is also in the public dataset behind our fee table.
Three steps, and none of them is a migration.
Step 1 · 0 min
Anything with writing, video, audio or a back catalogue behind it stays on Patreon — flatpass hosts no content, so there is nothing to move it to. This is not a migration.
Step 2 · ~7 min
Same price, same Discord role, on your own Stripe account. Your invite page builds itself from what Discord already knows about your server.
Step 3 · ~3 min
Existing patrons stay exactly where they are — there is no Patreon import, and a card on file can't be handed between platforms. New sign-ups go to the page; the old tier winds down on its own or stays open indefinitely.
Use a different Discord role for the flatpass offer than the one Patreon’s integration manages. If you point both at the same role they will fight over it — each is trying to own who holds it, and whichever runs last wins until the other runs again. Two roles with the same channel permissions solves it completely: Patreon’s integration keeps managing its role for your patrons, flatpass manages its own for people who sign up on the invite page, and your private channels admit both.
Four of them, and none is on a roadmap.
One shape of Patreon page, and it's a common one.
The creators this page is written for run a Patreon whose paid value is the server: alerts and signals, a trading room, coaching or accountability, a community whose worth is the people in it and the conversation happening now. The tier description says “access to the private Discord” and little else. On that tier the 10% is buying a role grant, and a bot does role grants for a flat monthly fee.
It is not for creators whose Discord is a bonus on a content tier. If the server is the extra thing you throw in beside the essays, the podcast or the art, splitting it out gives you two checkouts, two audiences to explain, and no saving worth the trouble. Keep it where it is.
Yes, and the page is written on that assumption. flatpass hosts no content — no posts, no video, no audio, no back catalogue — so anything on Patreon that isn't purely a Discord role has nowhere here to go. What moves is one tier: the one whose only benefit is access to your server. Everything else stays, including your existing patrons, who are not touched.
Nothing. They stay on Patreon, on the tier they are on, billed by Patreon as usual. There is no import — a card on file cannot be moved between platforms, so nothing about their subscription changes and nobody has to re-enter anything. The flatpass page is where new Discord-only members sign up, and the old tier either winds down as patrons churn or stays open forever, whichever you prefer.
Only if you point them at the same role, and then it will — both are trying to own who holds it, and whichever ran last wins until the other runs again. Use a different Discord role for the flatpass offer, and give both roles access to the same private channels. Patreon's integration keeps managing its role for your patrons, flatpass manages its own for people who sign up on the invite page, and neither ever touches the other's.
On an iOS in-app purchase, Apple's App Store fee is 30%. Patreon doesn't add its own processing fee on those transactions — Apple's cut replaces it — but the 10% platform fee still applies, so a $25 pledge bought in the app costs you $10.00, which is 40%. Patreon notes that US customers may have the option to check out through its mobile web flow instead of Apple's. A flatpass invite page is a web page, so an Apple fee never enters it. (Read August 23, 2026.)
The 10% is the platform fee, and it is charged on the single published plan. Payment processing is separate and is Patreon's own: 2.9% + $0.30 on a credit card or Apple Pay in any region, and on US PayPal or Venmo, rising to 3.9% + $0.30 outside the US. So a card pledge is 12.9% + $0.30 before a 2.5% currency conversion fee where it applies, and a payout fee of $0.25 flat, or 1% by PayPal, when the money leaves. Legacy plans — pages published before August 4, 2025 — still run at 5%, 8% and 11%. (Read August 23, 2026 from Patreon's own pricing page and its Creator fees overview.)
Free up to 15 paid members · 0% of sales · Nothing migrates