TinyPages vs Skool
Two different ways to build a business around your courses. Skool is the benchmark for community, but to sell your courses, capture leads or send emails, you have to plug in other tools. With TinyPages, everything lives in one place, and Claude creates it all for you: sales pages, emails, funnels, and more.
Skool hosts your community. TinyPages builds everything else.
Pricing and features verified on skool.com, August 2026.
TinyPages as a Skool alternative: why switch?
Skool stops at community
Skool handles your community really well, then stops. TinyPages builds everything else: Claude creates your sales pages, writes your emails and builds your funnels.
No email marketing on Skool
On Skool, capturing a lead or winning back an inactive member takes an external tool you wire up yourself. TinyPages includes full email marketing, and Claude writes your sequences from one prompt.
The real price of the entry plan
The $9/mo plan looks unbeatable, until Skool takes a 10% commission on every sale. TinyPages charges 0% commission — €99/mo, everything included.
Skool does one thing really well. Here’s everything it doesn’t
Credit where it’s due: for community, Skool is the market standard. Discussion feed, classroom, gamification, native video, all in an interface that’s easy to pick up. Its Discovery engine even helps communities on the platform find each other.
But Skool has no email marketing: there’s no way to send your members a newsletter or a sequence. There’s no sales funnel either, and no real sales page beyond your group description. For all of that, you have to plug in external tools and handle the syncing yourself.
On TinyPages, you describe your offer, and Claude creates your sales page, writes your emails and builds your funnel — without ever leaving the platform.
The comparison by category
Skool excels at community, and stops there
Skool excels at the community experience: discussion feed, classroom, gamification, native video. But that’s where it stops. TinyPages doesn’t offer a community yet, but builds everything you need around one: pages, emails, funnels, with Claude doing the building.
Skool skips email marketing entirely
You can’t send newsletters or automated sequences from Skool: that takes an external tool, with syncing you manage by hand. On TinyPages, email marketing is part of the platform, and Claude writes your sequences for you.
The real cost of the entry plan
The $9/mo Hobby plan takes a 10% commission on every sale. TinyPages charges 0% commission at a flat price, whatever your revenue.
Discovery: the network effect TinyPages doesn’t have
Skool’s Discovery engine helps communities on the platform get discovered by each other — a real lever for organic acquisition. TinyPages doesn’t have that network effect. Your acquisition runs through your own channels, and Claude helps you build them.
Skool pricing vs TinyPages, honestly
Skool advertises $9/mo on its Hobby plan. But that plan takes a 10% commission on every sale: at $1,000 in monthly sales, that’s already $100 in commission — ten times the price of the subscription.
And that price only covers the community. To capture leads, send emails or sell an offer outside the community subscription, you have to add external tools, each with its own bill.
TinyPages is €99/mo, 0% commission, and everything else built by Claude.
They switched to TinyPages
« I’m a French teacher launching my independent business for the first time. TinyPages let me build my site in under five hours while I was learning everything from scratch. I really appreciate having everything I need on one platform (opt-in page, sales page with checkout, course hosting and newsletters). »
Marvin, French teacher · Trustpilot« I’m not very technical, and from day one I’ve found TinyPages simple. That means my mental load is spared, and I can focus on my actual job, helping people transform their lives. I lost control of my domain name one day, and the team transferred everything (email, course, contact form, blog posts) in minutes. »
Carine, life coach · Trustpilot« It literally changed everything for me. Now I spend 95% of my time creating: writing my newsletters, my sales pages, my follow-up sequences. And at most 5% on settings and layout, all the non-essential stuff. »
Valentin, LinkedIn consultant · TrustpilotSo, Skool or TinyPages?
Choose Skool if:
- community is the heart of your business, not just a side feature
- you’re counting on Discovery’s network effect for organic acquisition
- you don’t mind plugging in external tools for email and sales
Choose TinyPages if:
- you want to sell courses with pages, emails and a funnel, not just host a community
- you want 0% commission, at a flat price
- you want Claude to build and run your entire business for you
Already on Skool? We handle migrating your pages, courses and emails — free with an annual plan. Migrate my business →
Frequently asked questions
Skool is cheaper — why choose TinyPages?
Skool’s $9/mo plan takes a 10% commission on every sale: the more you sell, the more you actually pay. TinyPages charges 0% commission at a flat price, whatever your revenue.
Skool is known for its community — does TinyPages have one?
No, not yet. If community is the heart of your business, Skool keeps the edge. TinyPages builds everything around a community (pages, emails, funnel), but doesn’t host the community itself yet.
Can I send emails from Skool?
Not natively, no. Skool has no email marketing features at all: you have to plug in an external tool and manage the syncing yourself. On TinyPages, email marketing is included, and Claude writes your emails for you.
Can I migrate my business from Skool?
Our team migrates your pages, courses and email sequences, free with an annual plan. For the community itself, write to us at hello@tinypages.co and we’ll talk it through.
Skool has Discovery for organic acquisition — does TinyPages have an equivalent?
No. Skool’s Discovery engine helps communities already on the platform get discovered by each other, and TinyPages has no equivalent. Your acquisition runs through your own channels, and Claude helps you build them.
Do I need a paid Claude subscription?
No — Claude’s free tier is enough to get started: it gives you the Sonnet model, which is more than enough to run TinyPages. A paid Claude plan unlocks more usage and the most advanced models, but you don’t need one to start.
On TinyPages, do my emails actually land in the inbox?
Yes. On TinyPages, your emails go out through Postmark, ActiveCampaign’s email infrastructure: your newsletters land in your subscribers’ inbox, not in the spam folder.
Is there a free plan, or just a trial?
TinyPages has a real free plan, with the Claude connection included: you build your whole business without paying, and upgrade to Pro the day you start selling. Skool has no free plan, only a 14-day trial.
Skool hosts your community. TinyPages builds everything else.
Free plan, Claude connection included. See the difference for yourself.