Whop

ALMOST

A weekend of work, and real gaps remain.

A marketplace and storefront for digital products and memberships, with access management for chat servers and software licences included.

Promptfree, for everyone, and the only version there is

Build the storefront. The marketplace is what you leave.

SAY IT PLAINLY
- The software is a checkout and an access grant. The traffic is the product
- If your buyers come from your own audience, leaving costs little. If they come from the marketplace, it costs a lot

STACK
- Astro with a Node adapter, Stripe, SQLite

CHECKOUT
- Product ids only from the browser; the price is looked up server-side
- Order created by the webhook, idempotent by event id

ACCESS GRANTS
- On payment, call the chat platform API to issue a single-use invite tied to the order
- On cancellation, remove the member. Do this on the webhook, not on a nightly job, or people keep access they stopped paying for

LICENCES
- A key per order, stored hashed, with a rate-limited validation endpoint

Include the checkout, the grant and revoke handlers and the licence endpoint.

What you lose

A marketplace where buyers already look, which is discovery you would otherwise have to create
Access management that adds and removes people from chat servers automatically
Payments and disputes handled

If you would rather not build

Stripe Checkout plus your own access grants
Lemon Squeezy, for tax handled
Gumroad, for the simplest possible store

The escape hatch

open source · no votes, no paid placement

Medusa

Commerce backend with subscriptions and digital products via plugins.

medusajs/medusafree · open source

Killbill

Subscription billing with entitlement management.

killbill/killbillfree · open source

Why this verdict

our own opinion · changed only by a person

60/100

Verdict kinda at 60. The mechanics are a weekend; whether leaving makes sense depends entirely on where your buyers come from.

History

tracked since 10 Aug 2026 · nothing is ever overwritten

Interest · last 30 days

Nothing recorded yet. This chart fills in once the page has visitors, votes or prompt copies — it will not draw a flat line to look busy.

Questions about Whop

answered from the record above

Is Whop free?

No — the plan we track is $0 a month. No monthly fee; Whop takes a percentage of each sale, typically around 3%.

Can you replace Whop by building your own?

ALMOST. A weekend of work, and real gaps remain. Replacement score 60 out of 100, build time a weekend. Read what you lose before you decide.

How much does Whop cost?

$0 a month on Free to use — $0 a year. Recorded 10 Aug 2026.

What do you lose by replacing Whop?

A marketplace where buyers already look, which is discovery you would otherwise have to create; Access management that adds and removes people from chat servers automatically; Payments and disputes handled. If any of those carry weight for you, keep paying.

Is there an open-source alternative to Whop?

Yes: Medusa, Killbill. The prompt on this page is for when you want it your way instead.

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