What was read
6 companies placed; 0 read during October 2026.
- MemberfulSep 30, 2026
- MemberSpaceSep 30, 2026
- PatreonSep 30, 2026
- OutsetaSep 30, 2026
- Platform cut on membershipsSep 30, 2026
- Creators with a paying audienceSep 30, 2026
Gaps closed and opened
3 themes were raised about two or more of 5 read companies; 0 share no word with anything a company declares. Against the previous month: 0 gaps opened and 0 closed (0 now share a word with a declared capability, 0 no longer raised about two companies). Themes are compared by their words, so a theme the reading reworded counts as one closed and one opened.
- Opened · 0
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- Now answered in the declared names · 0
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- No longer raised about two companies · 0
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- ● Billing, fees and cancellationraised about 4 of 5
- ● Customization and brandingraised about 2 of 5
- ● Price levelraised about 2 of 5
Who entered
0 companies placed; 4 products sighted by a search and not yet read (CommuniPass, Beehiiv, PaywallProject, Thenty).
Pricing moves
6 of 6 read companies have a pricing entry on record; none recorded a pricing change this month.
- Creators with a paying audience [FACT] Sep 30, 2026As of August 2025, Patreon charges a flat 10% commission for all creators who joined on or after that date, while pre-existing creators remain on legacy Lite (5%), Pro (8%), or Premium (12%) tiers. source
- Memberful [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Memberful's current plan structure is Starter/Free (0/month, unlimited members, website-integration only, ~10% transaction fee), Pro ($25/month, 4.9% transaction fee, custom branding, private podcasting, newsletters, referral program, API/webhooks), and Premium ($100/month, 4.9% fee, adds group submissions/priority support). source
- MemberSpace [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Third-party pricing aggregators report MemberSpace on a tiered structure: an entry tier around $39-49/month with a 5% transaction fee, a mid tier (Premium) around $199-249/month with a 3% fee and multi-site support, and a custom Enterprise tier with a 1%+ fee and a dedicated customer success manager. source
- Patreon [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Since August 4, 2025, all new Patreon creators are placed on a single flat 10% platform fee plan covering the full feature set (memberships, tiers, one-time payments, video/livestreaming, audio/rich-text posts, newsletters, analytics, discovery, podcast distribution), replacing the old 'pay less, get less' tiered model. Creators who signed up before that date may remain on legacy Lite (5%), Pro (8%), or Premium (12%, $300+/month, invite-only) plans. source
- Outseta [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Outseta's entry-level Founder's Plan is listed at $47/month, usage-based, covering up to 1,000 contacts and bundling payments, authentication, protected content, CRM, email, and help desk. source
- Platform cut on memberships [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Patreon consolidated its old Pro (8%) and Premium (12%) tiers into a single standard 10% platform fee for any creator publishing a new page after August 4, 2025; creators with pages published on or before that date keep legacy rates (5%, 8%, or 11%) indefinitely. source
What users raised
17 themes raised by users; the most raised: Billing, fees and cancellation (4 of 5), Customization and branding (2 of 5), Price level (2 of 5).
- Billing, fees and cancellation 4/5
- Customization and branding 2/5
- Price level 2/5
- Analytics and reporting 1/5
- Checkout page structure inflexible 1/5
- Data export and lock-in 1/5
- discovery/algorithm changes 1/5
- forced creator/fan profile merge 1/5
- lack of integrated course or cohort tools 1/5
- Lacks built-in email marketing/courses/community tools 1/5
- layoffs affecting platform stability 1/5
- Manual work and automation 1/5
- No member grouping for multi-level access control 1/5
- Patreon's weak native community/discussion tools 1/5
- platform owns the customer relationship, not the creator 1/5
- Price increases 1/5
- Single logo/favicon per account 1/5
Funding by quarter
Withheld: something was read in 1 of the last 8 quarters. A series needs at least 2 to say anything a single reading does not.
The ledger this month
0 observed claims recorded this month.
How big this market is, as its publishers state it
No market-size figure has been recorded for this level yet. Not read is not zero.
Research-house estimates for this sector, carried side by side under each house’s own name. Estimates of one market can differ several-fold; none is averaged, and none is Forge’s.
No publisher is named for this level yet, so there is nothing to read from. Publishers are authored in the taxonomy and arrive with a deploy.