Most affordable fitness studio software in 2026 (with the real prices)

This post compares boutique fitness studio software using official vendor pricing pages checked on 28 August 2026. If a vendor is quote-led, we label it quote-led instead of presenting an old estimate as current.

The short version is in the Short answer callout at the top of this page. The full price list, with sources, is below.

Methodology and sources

Every headline tier price below is taken from the vendor's official current pricing page. Quote-led tiers are labelled custom quote. Original annual calculations multiply the displayed monthly price by 12 and state transaction-fee assumptions separately. Prices were checked on 28 August 2026.

"All-in cost" throughout this post means the four things that actually leave your bank account: the subscription, any platform or per-booking fee, any payment-processing markup over Stripe's published rate, and any marketplace commission — plus the contract length that turns a monthly figure into a fixed annual commitment. A cheap headline tier with three of those layers stacked on top is not a cheap platform. To cite this comparison, link to this page; it's refreshed as vendor pricing changes.

The entry-tier price list with sources

These are official published starting prices checked on 28 August 2026. Where a vendor does not publish a current amount, the entry is labelled custom quote.

Solo and individual-shape plans (one teacher, low volume):

• OfferingTree Essentials (Individual) — $35/month month-to-month, $26/month billed annually (offeringtree.com/pricing). Single-user tier sized for solo practitioners; carries a 2.9% transaction fee that's removed on Pro and above.
• Arketa Individual Basic — $49/month when billed annually (arketa.com/pricing). Includes a 3% transaction fee on top of Stripe's standard processing rate, per the same page.
• Momence Pro — $60/month (momence.com/pricing). Adds a 2.5% per-booking platform fee on the operator side, on top of standard 3.9% + $0.30 (US) card processing. Momence's free Basic tier exists but adds a 5% operator platform fee plus a 4% client fee; the Custom tier ($199/month) drops the platform fee to 0%.

Studio-shape plans (multi-instructor, multi-staff, room-aware booking):

• Junocal Starter — $15/month (source: in-product pricing tier). One location, up to ten rooms, up to five instructor seats, digital products (gift cards + downloads), unlimited clients/classes/appointments, pick-a-spot, hybrid in-person + online classes, term-based courses, intake forms, Stripe Connect Standard direct to the studio's own Stripe account at Stripe's published rates. Monthly billing, no annual contract.
• Junocal Studio — $29/month. Up to five locations, unlimited rooms, unlimited instructor seats, full multi-location ops, front-desk role, substitute pool, Mailchimp + Klaviyo integrations, webhooks API, embed widget. The multi-instructor tier.
• Junocal Growth — $69/month. Up to ten locations, unlimited rooms, unlimited instructor seats, multi-location storefront + reporting, location-aware memberships, QuickBooks Online integration. At $69 for ten locations, the per-location cost is roughly $7/month/location — the multi-location story.
• WellnessLiving Starter — $69/month (wellnessliving.com/pricing). Limited features; the Business tier ($199/month regular, currently $39/month under a 'Save 80% for 2 months' promo) and BusinessPro tier ($349/month regular, $69/month promo) include broader functionality.
• OfferingTree Studio Starter — $120/month month-to-month, $80/month billed annually (offeringtree.com/pricing). Studio-shape tier covering up to three team members; Grow ($180/mo) and Max ($250/mo) tiers go higher. Pro/Pro Plus and all Studio tiers include 0% additional transaction fees beyond Stripe's standard rate.
• Glofox Essential — $99/month published ("Plans starting at $99/month") on its own plans page; higher tiers (Boost, Elite, Enterprise) are quote-only.
• Walla Core — $320/month per location on Walla's main pricing page; Pro is $599. Walla's support article separately lists Lite at $199 billed annually or $243 monthly, so the signed order form controls.
• Mindbody Starter — from $99/month per location on the official Mindbody pricing page. Accelerate and Ultimate are quote-led.
• Mindbody Accelerate — custom quote. Client Pick-a-Spot begins on Accelerate.
• Mariana Tek Core — custom quote on the official Mariana Tek pricing page.

Gym-adjacent and per-user platforms (for context):

• Vagaro — the US page currently shows a limited-time $23.99/month price for one bookable calendar, normally $30, plus $10 per additional calendar up to seven (Vagaro pricing explained). Selected tools and services are priced separately.
• Gymdesk — member-count tiers: $75/month up to 50 active members, $100 for 51-100, $150 for 101-200 and $200 for 201-400 (Gymdesk pricing explained). Every plan includes the full platform and one location; extra locations and the branded app are optional costs. Month-to-month, with no contract.
• TeamUp — $99/month up to 100 active customers and $189 for 101-200 (TeamUp pricing explained). All core features are included; price adjusts from the previous month's active customers. TeamUp is month-to-month and its custom branded app is $99/month extra.
• Zen Planner — $99-$289/month by active-member count, with the full Studio feature set at each band (Zen Planner pricing explained). Website, Engage, a branded app and EMV hardware are separate products. Studio is month-to-month by default; an annual commitment is available on request.

Two structural observations from the list. First, the cheapest standard-published entry tier sized for studio operations (multi-instructor, room-aware) is Junocal Starter at $15/month — and it undercuts even the solo-only tiers (OfferingTree Essentials at $35/month, Arketa at $49/month), which carry solo-shape constraints and, in both those cases, a transaction fee on top of Stripe that Junocal doesn't charge. Second, every platform priced above $100/month either gates features behind higher tiers (Mindbody Starter excludes pick-a-spot) or adds extra fees on top of the subscription (Arketa's 3% transaction fee over Stripe, Momence's 2.5% per-booking platform fee), or both.

What you actually get at the cheapest tier

The headline price comparison is misleading without the feature comparison. Studios are not buying a tier; they are buying the set of features that tier includes.

Here is the feature breakdown at the lowest published tier of each major studio-shape platform as of 28 August 2026, with the source of each pricing claim linked above.

Feature	Junocal Starter ($15)	OfferingTree Studio ($120)	Walla Core ($320)	Mindbody Starter (from $99/loc)	Mariana Tek Core (quote)
Pick-a-spot booking	Included	Not offered	Book-a-Spot on Core	Accelerate and above (custom quote)	A core Mariana Tek feature
Hybrid in-person + online	Included, mode-aware capacity	Included	Higher tier	Higher tier	Higher tier
Term-based courses	Built in, sold as a block	Yes	Yes	Workaround over recurring classes	Workaround
Automated client emails	Reminders, welcome, win-back, renewal, failed-payment recovery all included	Included	Included	Add-on (Mindbody Marketing reported $80-200/month)	Included on Core+Growth tier
Stripe Connect Standard direct	Yes, your Stripe account	Yes, Stripe direct (Pro/Pro Plus/Studio 0% markup)	Standard Stripe rates, no markup	Bundled processing (Mindbody as merchant of record)	Stripe, payouts direct to studio bank, no published markup
Processing markup over Stripe	None	None on Pro+ tiers	None	Bundled (effective rate higher than Stripe direct)	None
Marketplace commission on bookings	None	None	None	20% on Mindbody app-attributed bookings, capped at $30/transaction	None
Annual contract requirement	None (monthly)	None	Monthly available; annual offers ~18% saving	12-month standard (auto-renew, 30-day notice)	Not published, reported annual
Per-location pricing	Flat single account; Growth tier ($69) covers up to 10 locations	Flat single account	Flat single account	Per location	Per location
Multi-location storefront + reporting	Included on Growth tier ($69 for 10 locations = ~$7/location)	Higher tier	Higher tier	Enterprise tier	Built in, billed per location
Data export	Free CSV on demand	Yes, supported	Yes, supported	Free reports; $500 for Subscriber Data Export at cancellation	Not specifically published

Two specific comparisons make the price-per-feature gap concrete:

Pick-a-spot booking. Mindbody places Client Pick-a-Spot on quote-led Accelerate. Junocal publishes the feature on $15 Starter: $15 × 12 = $180/year. Enter Mindbody's current proposal into proposal × 12 to compare the same capability.

Automated client email stack. A studio that wants the operational email stack (welcome, 24-hour class reminder, win-back, renewal nudge, failed-payment recovery) on Mindbody pays the base tier plus the Mindbody Marketing add-on, commonly reported at $80-200/month. On Junocal, the same emails are included on Starter at $15/month with no add-on. The Mindbody combined cost is roughly 8-16× the Junocal cost for the equivalent email automation.

What "affordable" really means: four cost layers

The headline monthly price is rarely the real annual cost. Four cost layers consistently move the actual total away from the entry-tier number.

Annual multipliers. For any annual proposal, multiply the monthly amount by 12 and add one-off implementation charges. Junocal's published month-to-month totals are $180 Starter, $348 Studio and $828 Growth per year before standard Stripe processing.

Marketplace and app-discovery commissions. Mindbody charges 20% on bookings attributed to its consumer app, capped at $30 per transaction, on top of standard payment processing (Mindbody support article on the marketplace). The combined fee on app-attributed transactions is roughly 23.5% (3.5% processing + 20% marketplace) on Mindbody's bundled processing rate. The attribution mechanic means the commission applies to bookings inside an attribution window after the client's first marketplace booking, not only to genuinely new app-discovered clients. See our post on the 20% marketplace commission problem for the mechanic in detail.

Processing rates and markups. Junocal, OfferingTree, Walla, and Mariana Tek use Stripe direct without operator-side markup; the studio pays Stripe's published rates (2.9% + $0.30 online in the US, 1.5% + 20p in the UK). Arketa charges 3% on top of Stripe's standard rate (arketa.com/pricing). Momence layers a per-booking platform fee on top of standard processing — 2.5% on Pro and 5% (plus a 4% client fee) on the free Basic tier, with standard card processing at 3.9% + $0.30 (US) on top, all published, not a markup over Stripe (momence.com/pricing). Mindbody routes payments through its bundled merchant arrangement at a rate commonly reported around 3.5%, higher than Stripe direct.

Feature gating. The cheapest tier on many enterprise platforms excludes features studios actually need. Mindbody Starter excludes pick-a-spot, and Mindbody Marketing is separate. Walla includes its Branded Studio App and two-way texting in Pro while pricing them separately on Core. The useful comparison is between the complete configuration a studio needs, not the lowest isolated line.

For any platform, calculate the complete configuration at the studio's real booking volume. Junocal's public subscription total remains fixed by plan and does not add a marketplace commission.

What multi-location actually costs

Single-location operations only pay one subscription; multi-location operations pay differently depending on the platform's pricing model. Two pricing patterns dominate, and the cost gap between them is large.

Quote-led pricing (Mindbody higher tiers and Mariana Tek). Ask for the exact location count and calculate monthly proposal × 12. Do not multiply an old web estimate.

Flat per-account pricing covering multiple locations (Junocal Growth tier). One subscription covers up to ten locations on Junocal Growth at $69/month — roughly $7/month per location at ten locations. Multi-location storefront, location-aware memberships, and cross-location reporting are included in the same subscription.

For a five-location studio, the per-location cost difference is meaningful:

Platform	5-location annual cost
Junocal Growth	$69/mo × 12 = $828/year ($14/loc/mo at 5 locations; ~$7/loc/mo at 10 locations)
Mariana Tek Core	Custom proposal × 12
Mariana Tek higher packages	Custom proposal × 12
Mindbody Accelerate	Custom proposal × 12

The flat-per-account pattern is the structural feature of Junocal Growth. It covers up to ten locations on one $69 monthly plan, making the subscription total directly comparable without a sales call.

Junocal Growth includes a multi-location storefront, location-aware memberships, cross-location client records and reporting that rolls up across sites at the same published $69 plan price.

Why the cheap end is structurally cheap

Junocal's model is simple: public plan pricing, direct Stripe ownership and no marketplace commission. That lets an operator calculate the subscription before a sales call and retain control of client acquisition and payments.

For a studio that wants to minimise total cost, the practical implication is straightforward: compare the complete annual configuration and choose the platform whose pricing model stays aligned as the operation grows.

What to ask during a demo

Three questions, asked on every demo, will surface the difference between the headline cheap price and the actual annual cost.

Is the displayed tier price the monthly bill or an annualised average? Some platforms display the monthly equivalent of an annual prepayment, and the actual monthly bill is different. Get the exact monthly invoice amount, the exact contract length, and the exact cancellation terms.

What is the processing rate and is it markup-free? Ask for the platform's processing rate as it appears on a sample transaction. Compare it to Stripe's published rate at stripe.com/pricing. The difference, if any, is the platform's markup. If the rate is "negotiated" or "varies by configuration" and not transparent, the markup exists.

What feature is on the next tier up that I would actually use? The cheapest tier often excludes one or two features studios want most. Identify the next tier's price and the gated features before signing up; if the upgrade path is likely, the entry-tier price is misleading.

The bottom line

Junocal Starter at $15/month is the lowest published entry price in this comparison. For multi-location operations, Junocal Growth at $69/month covers up to ten locations — $6.90/location/month at ten sites and $828/year. Mindbody's higher tiers and Mariana Tek are quote-led. Walla publishes Core at $320/month, Glofox publishes plans from $99/month, and WellnessLiving publishes standard tiers on its current pricing page. Each figure is linked to its official source above.

Related reading: which fitness studio software has no additional fees, the discipline-specific barre software comparison and dance software comparison, the 20% marketplace commission problem, payment processor lock-in: the hidden cost, the annual contract trap in studio software, why are pilates studio software prices going up, and — if you're setting your studio's own prices — what to charge for studio classes in 2026.