Constants vs Whop: Two Very Different Ways to Charge for Access

Whop and Constants both let you charge people for access to something, but they're built around a different idea of where that access lives.

What Whop Actually Is

Whop is built to gate access to a Discord or Telegram community, then bolt on digital products, courses, and subscriptions around that gate. It's free to start — no monthly fee — and it eliminated its 30% marketplace commission in 2025, so a sale sourced from Whop's own discovery feed now costs the same as a direct sale.

What Whop Charges

Card processing runs about 2.7% plus $0.30 per US sale. On top of that, gating a Discord or Telegram server — which is what most Whop sellers actually use it for — adds a 3% platform fee. Put together, the realistic cost for a community-gated sale lands closer to 5.7% plus $0.30, not the 2.7% headline rate.

What Constants Charges

Constants runs a flat 6% fee on one-time sales and 10% on subscriptions — memberships and Agent Access both fall under the subscription rate — on every plan, including the free Starter plan. No separate gate fee, no marketplace-vs-direct distinction, one number either way.

The Real Difference Isn't the Fee

To be fair both ways: on pure math, Whop's ~5.7% effective rate for a gated community is actually cheaper than Constants' 10% subscription fee. Where Constants pulls ahead is what you're not paying for in the first place — Whop's model assumes you're running a separate Discord or Telegram server that the platform gates. Constants' memberships and Agent Access live directly on the page you already have, under the same handle people already found you through, with no second app for a member to install and no server to moderate.

The Math on $1,000 a Month

Say a paid community brings in $1,000 a month either way. On Whop's realistic ~5.7% rate, fees run about $57, leaving $943. On Constants' 10% subscription rate, fees run $100, leaving $900 — close enough at that volume that the fee isn't really the deciding factor. What actually separates them is the setup underneath: Constants members interact through the same page a creator already runs, rather than a separate Discord or Telegram app most of them would need to join for the first time.

Pick Constants If, Pick Whop If

Pick Constants for keeping paid access folded into the same bio-link page an audience already knows, without standing up a separate community app. Pick Whop only if a community is already living on Discord or Telegram and genuinely isn't moving — otherwise, folding paid access into a page that already exists beats building a second one from scratch.

The full pricing page has the exact numbers for every plan, and the memberships guide walks through setting up recurring paid access on Constants if that's the direction that fits.