About Best Creator Platforms
We help creators choose where to sell, and help brands choose where to hire creators. We have been comparing creator platforms since 2016.
What we do
Best Creator Platforms reviews 31 platforms: membership sites, newsletter tools, digital product stores, course and community software, and the marketplaces where brands pay creators for sponsored work. Every review covers fees, plans, payouts, who can join, and what happens to your audience if you leave.
Why fees come first
Most comparison sites print a platform's percentage and stop. That's half the bill. Card processing, per-sale charges and monthly plans change the answer, and the cheapest platform at $300 a month is rarely the cheapest at $5,000.
So we work out what you'd pay at a given volume, publish the formula, and let you change the inputs in the fee calculator. For every creator-side platform, the fee score comes from that math, not from our opinion.
Fully independent and unpaid
Best Creator Platforms is fully independent. No creator platform, marketplace, brand or sponsor owns us, funds us or pays us, and none has any say in what we publish. All of our research is unpaid and nothing on this site is sponsored: no paid placements, no sponsored reviews and no affiliate links. Every fee and figure is verified against the platform's own pricing and help pages, dated, and linked so you can check it yourself.
We don't take free upgrades, gifts or early access in exchange for coverage, and no platform sees a review before it's published. The full rules are in our editorial policy.
Corrections
Platforms change prices often. If a number here is out of date, email hello@creatormarketplaces.com with a link to the official page. We fix it and update the check date on the review.