MyMembers Editorial
A Sublaunch Alternative for Paid Telegram Channels
A side-by-side look at Sublaunch and MyMembers for selling access to a paid Telegram channel or group, with current pricing, the fee math at different revenue levels, and where each one is the better choice.
If you are looking at Sublaunch for a paid Telegram channel and the 15 percent cut on its free plan or the monthly fee on its paid plans gives you pause, the main Telegram-focused alternative is MyMembers, which charges a flat 5 percent per sale and no monthly fee. Both tools do the same core job: a subscriber pays, a bot adds them to your private channel or group, and the bot removes them when they cancel or a payment fails. The difference is what you pay to run it, how wide the tool spreads across other platforms, and what sits around the payment. This post compares the two on current pricing and features so you can pick the one that fits your community.
Everything about Sublaunch below is from sublaunch.com as it read on 26 October 2026. Prices change, so open their pricing yourself before you decide. Everything about MyMembers is from its own product pages.
What each tool is
Sublaunch sells paid access to communities and online courses across several platforms. Its homepage lists Telegram, Discord, and WhatsApp communities plus online courses, and it bundles sales pages, subscriptions, payments, an affiliate system, and email campaigns. It is a broad creator suite, and Telegram is one of the places it can gate.
MyMembers is narrower on purpose. It is a subscription bot for paid Telegram channels and groups. You connect a channel or group, set a price, and share a branded page at mymembers.io/yourname. The bot invites people who pay and removes them when their access ends. It covers private groups, broadcast channels, and multi-channel bundles, with free, one-time, monthly, and yearly plans and tiered pricing.
In both tools your subscribers pay you through your own Stripe account. The money lands in your Stripe balance and Stripe pays it out to your bank on your own schedule. Neither tool sits in the middle of the payment.
Pricing side by side
This is where the two part ways. Sublaunch uses a tiered model: a free plan with a high transaction fee, and paid monthly plans that lower that fee. MyMembers uses one flat rate with no monthly fee.
| Plan | Monthly fee | Fee per sale |
|---|---|---|
| Sublaunch Free | None | 15 percent |
| Sublaunch Business | 99 US dollars | 4 percent |
| Sublaunch Premium | 169 US dollars | 3 percent |
| MyMembers | None | 5 percent |
A few things to read from this table. Sublaunch's free plan charges 15 percent of every sale, which is three times the MyMembers rate. To get below 5 percent on Sublaunch you move onto a paid plan at 99 or 169 US dollars a month, and that monthly fee only pays for itself once your sales are high enough. MyMembers has no free-versus-paid decision to make, because the 5 percent is the same whether you sell once or a thousand times, and a month with no sales costs nothing.
The fee math at different revenue levels
The flat rate versus monthly-fee question only has one honest answer, which is the arithmetic. Here is what each option costs per month at five levels of sales, counting only the platform fee and ignoring Stripe's own processing fees, which both tools pass through to you the same way.
| Monthly sales | MyMembers 5% | Sublaunch Free 15% | Sublaunch Business 99 + 4% | Sublaunch Premium 169 + 3% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500 | 25 | 75 | 119 | 184 |
| 1,000 | 50 | 150 | 139 | 199 |
| 2,000 | 100 | 300 | 179 | 229 |
| 5,000 | 250 | 750 | 299 | 319 |
| 10,000 | 500 | 1,500 | 499 | 469 |
All figures are in US dollars per month.
Read down the columns and the pattern is clear. Up to around 8,000 to 9,000 US dollars in monthly sales, the flat 5 percent is the cheapest option by a wide margin, because Sublaunch's free plan takes 15 percent and its paid plans charge a monthly fee that a smaller seller cannot earn back. The lines cross near 8,500 US dollars a month: above that, Sublaunch Premium at 169 plus 3 percent starts to come out ahead, and the gap grows as you sell more. At 10,000 US dollars a month Sublaunch Premium costs 469 against 500 for MyMembers, a 31 US dollar difference.
One more thing belongs in this math. MyMembers lists a lower rate for high-volume sellers that you agree by booking a call, so the crossover point is not fixed. If you are selling enough that a percentage-based fee matters, it is worth asking both tools what they would actually charge you rather than taking the published rate.
Where Sublaunch is the better choice
A flat rate is not the only thing that matters, and there are real reasons to pick Sublaunch instead.
- You sell on more than Telegram. If you gate a Discord server or a WhatsApp group as well, Sublaunch handles all of them from one place. MyMembers is Telegram only.
- You sell courses. Sublaunch hosts online courses alongside community access. MyMembers stays focused on gating a Telegram channel or group.
- You want email campaigns and affiliates built in. Sublaunch bundles both. MyMembers keeps its scope on the Telegram subscription itself, so you would run email and affiliates through separate tools.
- You are selling at high volume. Above roughly 8,500 US dollars a month, Sublaunch Premium's 3 percent plus a fixed fee can beat a flat 5 percent, as the table shows, unless you have agreed a lower MyMembers rate.
If any of those describe you, Sublaunch may well be the right call, and you should weigh its monthly fee against what that extra reach is worth.
Where MyMembers is the better choice
The case for MyMembers is strongest when Telegram is the whole business and you would rather not pay a monthly fee to get a fair rate.
- A flat 5 percent and no monthly fee, so a quiet month costs nothing and you never pay for a plan tier you have not grown into.
- Built for Telegram groups and channels specifically, including private groups, where access is controlled by invite links that only payers receive. Telegram's own documentation notes that private channels are closed and you need an invite link to join, and a bot made admin with the right to restrict members is what adds and removes people.
- The same automatic member management: the bot invites a subscriber the moment they pay and removes them when a subscription lapses, with automatic retry on a failed card.
- A branded page at mymembers.io/yourname and built-in analytics for earnings and subscriber counts, with no website to build and no code.
If you want a deeper look at how the Telegram-focused tools stack up, our comparison of the best Telegram subscription bots covers fees and failed-payment handling across the field, and our guide to selling access to a Telegram group walks through the private-group setup step by step.
How to decide
Start with one question: is Telegram the whole thing, or one part of a wider setup?
If Telegram is the business and you are not yet selling five figures a month, the flat 5 percent with no monthly fee is almost always cheaper and simpler, and that is the case for a Telegram-focused tool like MyMembers. If you are spreading across Discord, WhatsApp, or courses, or you want email and affiliates in the same tool, Sublaunch earns its monthly fee by covering more ground. And if you are a high-volume seller, run your own numbers against both published rates, then ask each tool what they would actually charge at your volume before you commit.
Whichever you choose, the setup is the same shape: a private Telegram channel or group, a connected Stripe account in your name, and a bot that handles invites and removals so you are not chasing access by hand. Pick the tool whose pricing and reach match how you actually sell, not the one with the loudest homepage.