Arketa's published Individual plan and custom Studio tiers; on-demand video; the 3% Individual transaction fee; and a reproducible Junocal comparison. Updated 24 August 2026.
Method: checked Arketa's official pricing page on 24 August 2026; custom Studio tiers remain quote-based. Original calculations below show every multiplier and exclude Stripe fees.
The Individual plan is $49/month when billed annually. Add the flat 3% fee on top of Stripe and, as payment volume grows, the percentage becomes the dominant cost.
Subscription: $49 × 12 = $588/year. A 3% platform fee on $100,000 card volume = $3,000/year before Stripe. Total above Stripe: $3,588/year. The formula is annual subscription + (annual processed volume × 0.03).
Subscription $348/year. Stripe Connect Standard direct, no per-booking fee — you pay Stripe's published rate (2.9% + $0.30 for US cards) and nothing on top. All-in: ~$350/year above your direct Stripe processing. On $100,000 card volume, that's about $3,240/year less than Arketa Individual, mostly from the 3% transaction-fee gap.
Arketa bundles an unlimited recorded library into Individual. Junocal's modular model pairs a portable video host with the stronger studio operating system, keeping booking, memberships, client ownership and direct Stripe payments in Junocal.
Arketa publishes one Individual plan at $49/month when billed annually, plus a 3% transaction fee on top of Stripe fees. Studio Core, Studio Growth and Studio Suite are custom-quoted. The public page says plans renew month to month unless the customer selects annual billing.
The published Individual plan covers one team login, one location, classes, privates, events, memberships, packages and an unlimited on-demand library. Studio Core adds unlimited team members, multiple rooms and locations, POS and staff management. Studio Growth adds marketing automation and lead tools; Studio Suite adds the branded app and website. All Studio prices are custom quotes.
Arketa is venture-backed rather than owned by a private-equity roll-up. Junocal remains independently founder-owned, which supports its public flat pricing, month-to-month structure, direct Stripe ownership and zero platform percentage.
No. Arketa doesn't operate a consumer-facing marketplace — no equivalent of the Mindbody app where consumers browse and book across studios. Arketa studios run their own customer-acquisition channels — Instagram, Google, local marketing — and pay no marketplace commission. Same category as Walla, OfferingTree, and Junocal: no marketplace, no commission.
On the Individual plans, Arketa charges a flat 3% transaction fee on top of Stripe's own processing rate — so the effective rate runs around 6% once Stripe's ~2.9% + $0.30 is included. On $100,000 of annual card volume, the 3% Arketa fee alone is about $3,000/year, before Stripe's underlying rate. This is a flat 3% across the Individual plans, not a per-transaction flat fee and not a rate that scales by tier.
Arketa publishes the $49 Individual price with annual billing and states that plans renew month to month unless an annual plan is selected. Studio terms are custom-quoted. Junocal publishes $15, $29 and $69 month-to-month plans, with annual billing optional rather than required.
At the public annual-billed Individual price, $49 × 12 = $588/year. On $100,000 of payment volume, Arketa's 3% platform fee adds $3,000, for $3,588/year before Stripe processing. Junocal Studio is $29 × 12 = $348/year before the same underlying Stripe processing, with no Junocal percentage fee.
Junocal is the stronger operating system for yoga, meditation, wellness and reformer studios that want class booking, memberships, direct Stripe ownership and published flat pricing in one place. For a substantial on-demand library, pair Junocal with a portable video host; that keeps the streaming layer flexible while Junocal owns the client and revenue workflows.
For boutique pilates, reformer, barre, and movement studios where filling in-person spots is the core operation and on-demand video is supplementary, Junocal ships pick-a-spot, hybrid classes, term-based courses, and a first-to-claim waitlist (it alerts everyone at once, and the first to tap gets the spot) at $15-$69/month with direct Stripe Connect Standard pass-through.