Circle Community Platform vs. Mastodon

Circle Community Platform

9 Reviews and Ratings

Mastodon

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Circle Community Platform	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Circle is an all-in-one branded community platform. Circle empowers creators and businesses to bring together their community, events, courses, and so much more — all under their own brand.	$39 per month
Mastodon	N/A	N/A	Mastodon is an open source social networking platform that enables users to join or create servers built around topics of interest, built by the company of the same name in Berlin. Mastodon provides users with the possibility of managing an audience without middlemen. Mastodon deployed on one's own infrastructure allows the user to follow and be followed from any other Mastodon server online, without a middleman. It is free to use and to establish a Mastodon server, under a AGPL-3.0 license.	$1

Pricing

Circle Community Platform

Mastodon

Basic: $39
per month
Professional: $89
per month (billed annually)
Business: $199
per month (billed annually)
Enterprise: $360
per month (billed annually)
Enterprise: $399
per month

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Pricing Offerings
Circle Community Platform	Mastodon
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Best Alternatives
	Circle Community Platform	Mastodon
Small Businesses	Higher Logic Thrive Score9 out of 10	Higher Logic Thrive Score9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Higher Logic Vanilla Score5.5 out of 10	Higher Logic Vanilla Score5.5 out of 10
Enterprises	Verint Community Score10 out of 10	Verint Community Score10 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Circle Community Platform	Mastodon
Likelihood to Recommend	8.3 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	7.9 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Circle Community Platform	Mastodon
Likelihood to Recommend	CircleCo, Inc Circle offers all the main functionalities that are needed to build a Community from scratch. It is very easy to set up even for someone like me with ZERO technical skills. I really enjoy managing the Community on Circle as it is very intuitive and smooth and doesn't require a lot of time to learn of to work around it Verified User Read full review	Mastodon No answers on this topic
Pros	CircleCo, Inc Community Engagement, connection and communication Courses Payments Channels/Spaces to specific topics and conversations Incentivized Soleiman Bolour Mens Transformational Coach Read full review	Mastodon No answers on this topic
Cons	CircleCo, Inc Deeper analytics and more customization in metric views More accurate tracking for invite links (Not just clicks; actual joining would be useful) Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Mastodon No answers on this topic
Usability	CircleCo, Inc Overall, great. Platform could be easier to navigate. Incentivized Don Torrance Director, RevOps Read full review	Mastodon No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	CircleCo, Inc It was the easiest to set up and it was suggested by a lot of people as the best one for my needs! I have zero previous experience about building a community so I tried to listen to suggestions of ppl with more experience than myself. So far it has been a good choice Verified User Read full review	Mastodon No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	CircleCo, Inc $500 a month, instead of needing several different platforms to do the things I need, Circle does most of them. Incentivized Soleiman Bolour Mens Transformational Coach Read full review	Mastodon No answers on this topic
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