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Circle Community Platform vs. Mastodon

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Circle Community Platform
Score 8.6 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
Score 0.0 out of 10
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.N/A
Pricing
Circle Community PlatformMastodon
Editions & Modules
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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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Circle Community PlatformMastodon
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Circle Community PlatformMastodon
Considered Both Products
Circle Community Platform
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Circle Community Platform
The benefit of products like Slack and Facebook groups are they are integrated into tools that most folks already use. However, we wanted the customization and community tools Circle Community Platform offers. Luckily, Circle Community Platform offers an excellent email …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Circle Community Platform
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
Soleiman Bolour | TrustRadius Reviewer
Soleiman Bolour
Mens Transformational Coach
Chose Circle Community Platform
There is another platform, called Group.App that I tried as well that you don't have listed. Group.App has been around for a few years and they are okay app, they had some issues still when I was using them, but I enjoyed there quick response time when I was using them.
I still …
Mastodon

No answer on this topic

Best Alternatives
Circle Community PlatformMastodon
Small Businesses
PowerDMS by NEOGOV
PowerDMS by NEOGOV
Score 7.0 out of 10
PowerDMS by NEOGOV
PowerDMS by NEOGOV
Score 7.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
PowerDMS by NEOGOV
PowerDMS by NEOGOV
Score 7.0 out of 10
PowerDMS by NEOGOV
PowerDMS by NEOGOV
Score 7.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Verint Community
Verint Community
Score 10.0 out of 10
Verint Community
Verint Community
Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Circle Community PlatformMastodon
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.9
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Circle Community PlatformMastodon
Likelihood to Recommend
If you want to create a community based teaching or communication this would be a great platform. If you also want to sell courses or content, this would be a great place to do that. Giving a group of people a place to come together and learn from each other. I wouldn't recommend this for a person who isn't interested in creating a community, if you want to just sell courses, you can use other software for that
Soleiman Bolour | TrustRadius Reviewer
Soleiman Bolour
Mens Transformational Coach
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Pros
  • User friendly
  • Nice layout
  • Good functionalities
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
  • Video Space or Channel like YouTube
  • Giving more options for embed
  • Allowing documents and pdfs to open on mobile app in app versus needing to be downloaded on mobile first before viewing
Soleiman Bolour | TrustRadius Reviewer
Soleiman Bolour
Mens Transformational Coach
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Usability
Overall, great. Platform could be easier to navigate.
Don Torrance | TrustRadius Reviewer
Don Torrance
Director, RevOps
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Alternatives Considered
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
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • Increased the siz our most engaged audience
  • Increased our overall engagement with our audience - way more two way dialogue than traditional email marketing can do
  • Increased attendance at our webinars and paid classes
Verified User
Anonymous
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