# MemberMouse review (2026): is it worth $299 a year?

> WordPress membership plugin with tiered yearly licenses

Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

MemberMouse is a WordPress membership plugin for gating content, taking recurring payments and managing members, with optional courses, coupons, upsells and reporting. It is licensed per year in three tiers, and the pricing page advertises a 50% introductory first-year discount with renewals at full price.

- **Category:** Courses & Communities
- **Made by:** MemberMouse
- **Website:** https://membermouse.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a free plan or trial, as there is neither.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 13, 2026, MemberMouse is a paid product, starting at $299 per year at renewal, after a first year at $149.50.

- **Pricing model:** Paid
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Basic | $299 per year at renewal, after a first year at $149.50 | Stripe payments, courses, 7 email integrations, Zapier, drip content, coupons, gifting and standard reports. |
| Plus | $499 per year at renewal, after a first year at $249.50 | Adds PayPal and Braintree payments, social sign-up and login, and quizzes and certificates for courses. |
| Pro | $699 per year at renewal, after a first year at $349.50 | Adds Authorize.Net and ClickBank, billing-date management, full analytics, employee access control and priority support. |

Read from https://membermouse.com/plans/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with MemberMouse before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **50% introductory first-year price** (Other savings): Basic is $149.50, Plus $249.50 and Pro $349.50 in the first year, against $299, $499 and $699 regular. The page says annual renewals are at full price. Source: https://membermouse.com/plans/

## Key features

- **Content protection and drip:** Gate pages and posts by membership level in bulk, and schedule content to release over time.
- **Payments:** Stripe on every plan; PayPal and Braintree from Plus; Authorize.Net and ClickBank on Pro. One-click purchases and upsells.
- **Courses:** A courses add-on is included from Basic; Plus adds quizzes and certificates for those courses.
- **Email and affiliate integrations:** Basic lists 7 email integrations including ConvertKit, Drip and ActiveCampaign, plus Zapier and affiliate tracking.
- **Reporting:** Standard reports and analytics on Basic; the full analytics and reporting suite on Pro.
- **Developer tools:** WordPress hooks and developer tools, and a staging license on every plan.

## Good for

- WordPress sites selling recurring memberships
- Businesses that need several payment gateways
- Developers who want hooks to customize a membership flow

## Worth knowing

- It runs only inside a self-hosted WordPress site; hosting is your job.
- The page says all annual renewals are at full price, so year two costs double the intro price.
- Gateways beyond Stripe, and quizzes and certificates, need Plus or Pro.
- A 14-day money-back guarantee applies to purchases.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. MemberMouse is a WordPress membership plugin with content protection, drip and payments, from $299 a year at renewal. Year two costs double the intro price, and there is no free version.

- **Value for money: C.** Basic is $299 a year at renewal, about $24.90 a month, between the cheapest quarter ($20) and the middle ($37). The first year is $149.50.
- **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial are on record. A 14-day money-back guarantee is not a trial.
- **Features: B.** Content protection, drip, payments, courses, email and affiliate hooks and reporting. Quizzes, certificates and extra gateways are on dearer plans.
- **Ease of use: D.** It needs a self-hosted WordPress site, and no store rating is on record.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with Stripe, PayPal, ActiveCampaign, Zapier, LearnDash and more on the list. No app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from MemberMouse's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among course and community platforms

- MemberMouse's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 8 of the 98 other course and community platforms we grade, and level with 14.
- It stands best on features (B, above 56 of 98) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $24.92 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $36 for the category: 21 of the 65 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 7 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/courses-communities

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace MemberMouse you would be making email sent in volume that still reaches the inbox. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 76 of the 98 other course and community platforms grade higher. It costs $299 a year.

- You could make: Online courses and reports: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Email sent in volume that still reaches the inbox.
- You could not: A members' space with posts, chat and events that people keep coming back to.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Stripe, PayPal and Braintree among them.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Stripe, PayPal, Braintree, Authorize.Net, ConvertKit, ActiveCampaign, Zapier, LearnDash

**Tags:** Online courses, Community, Marketing automation, Reports

## Alternatives

- [MemberPress](https://toolgpa.com/tools/memberpress): WordPress plugin for paid memberships, courses and communities. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/membermouse-vs-memberpress)
- [Paid Memberships Pro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/paid-memberships-pro): Open-source WordPress membership plugin with managed hosting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/membermouse-vs-paid-memberships-pro)
- [Memberium](https://toolgpa.com/tools/memberium): WordPress membership plugin run from ActiveCampaign, Keap or HighLevel. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/memberium-vs-membermouse)
- [AccessAlly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/accessally): WordPress plugin for courses, memberships and communities. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/accessally-vs-membermouse)
- [Ultimate Member](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ultimate-member): WordPress plugin for member profiles, sign-up and directories. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/membermouse-vs-ultimate-member)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026:

- https://membermouse.com/plans/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/membermouse
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