Drry vs Whop
A warmer home for your community, without the cut.
Whop is a marketplace: fast to start, but it takes a percentage of every sale, and a much larger share of sales that come through its marketplace. Drry charges one flat price, takes 0% of member payments, and your community lives on your brand, not inside someone else's storefront.
Drry vs Whop, the full picture
| Drry | Whop | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes. 100 members, 5 GB, unlimited courses, and the community feed. No card. | Free to start; the fees are the price. |
| Fee on your member payments | 0%. You keep 100%, only Stripe's standard processing fee applies. | A percentage of every sale, plus a much larger share on marketplace-driven sales. |
| Courses + community together | Both built in, in one branded space you own. | Storefront and access passes; community lives in bolted-on apps. |
| Funnels + landing pages | Built in: compose landing pages from proven sections, capture leads with email boxes and embeddable forms, and see views, joins, and revenue per funnel. 1 free, unlimited on paid plans. | A storefront page inside the Whop marketplace; no funnel analytics on a domain you own. |
| Your own brand and domain | Your own address like grace.drry.com on free; connect your own domain plus site white label (no Drry branding, the site is 100% yours) on paid plans, and on Growth your email sends from your own domain too. | A whop.com storefront inside their marketplace. |
| Knowing who is showing up | See who is showing up, who is drifting away, which content people love, and how many finish each course. Included on Creator ($29/mo). | Sales dashboards. |
| Where pricing starts | Free, then $29/mo (Creator), $99/mo (Growth). | No monthly fee, but a cut of everything you earn. |
| Getting paid for 1:1s and packages | Send any client a one-time or installment link with an agreement they sign before they pay, built in, free on every plan, 0% platform fee. Most platforms make you bolt on a separate contract tool. | Checkout links for one-time payments, but creator-billed installments are recurring-only (one-time uses third-party financing), no signed agreement, and a per-sale cut. |
| Email your members | Built in on every plan: send a broadcast to your whole community or to an audience your forms captured (free covers 100 sends a month, unlimited on paid). Creator adds automations, journeys that welcome new signups, deliver a lead magnet, and win back quiet members on their own. On Growth, Spark drafts the whole email for you from your own courses and writes it in your voice. | No native email: you install a third-party email app from the Whop marketplace and pay for it separately, and any help writing the email comes from that add-on, not Whop. |
Details reflect each platform's publicly stated model and can change. Check current terms before deciding.
Moving off Whop is easier than staying.
Keep your margin
On Drry, every member payment stays yours on every plan, including free. 0% platform cut; only Stripe's standard processing fee applies.
One tool, not five
Courses, community, payments, and funnels in one place, your brand on all of it. No bolt-on page builders or separate apps.
You own the rails
Your own Stripe account and member list. Leaving never means starting over, because your customers were always yours.
Why creators pick Drry
- Keep 100% of member payments. Only Stripe's standard processing fee applies, we take nothing on top.
- Payments run through your own Stripe account, so your customers and subscriptions belong to you, not the platform. No payment lock-in.
- Funnels built in: fast landing pages on your domain with views, joins, and revenue attributed per page. Standalone funnel tools charge $49 to $97 a month for less.
- A genuinely free tier: 100 members, 5 GB storage, unlimited courses, and the community feed, with no card required.
- Courses, a community feed, members, and payments in one branded space you own.
- Your own address like grace.drry.com out of the box, with custom domain and site white label on paid tiers, and white-label email from your own domain on Growth.
- Member analytics on the $29 Creator plan: who is showing up, what is landing, and who is quietly drifting away. The kind of insight other platforms save for their priciest plans.
- Get paid for 1:1s and packages: send a client a one-time or installment link with an agreement they sign before paying. Built in, free on every plan, and no platform fee. Other platforms make you bolt on a separate contract tool, and most never reach 0%.
- Email your whole community, built in on every plan, even free (100 sends a month free, unlimited on paid), no add-on and no second tool to wire up. Creator adds email automations: welcome journeys, lead-magnet delivery, and win-backs that run on their own. And on Growth, Spark drafts your emails AND your funnel pages for you, pulling from your own courses and writing in your voice, so you start from a finished draft instead of a blank page. Tweak it and send.
Drry vs Whop, questions
Does Drry take a percentage of sales like Whop?
No. Drry charges a flat monthly price ($0, $29, or $99) and takes 0% of what your members pay you. Only Stripe's standard processing fee applies.
Is Drry a Whop alternative for paid communities?
Yes. Drry is built around a paid membership community: courses, a community feed, and audio behind one recurring membership, in a branded space you own.
Can I use my own domain instead of a marketplace page?
Yes. You get your own address like grace.drry.com on free, and a custom domain plus site white label (no Drry branding on your site) on paid plans; on Growth, even your emails send from your own domain.
Try Drry free. Bring your people.
Spin up your branded space in minutes, courses and community together, and keep 100% of what your members pay you.