Can't I just charge for a Discord server with a bot?

You can, and plenty of people do — but you're then running a paid bot subscription, your own Stripe account, and a role sync between them, and you own every failure in that chain. Berrytap treats paid access as the product rather than as an add-on, from $0 a month.

Should I shut my Discord down?

Usually not. Most creators keep Discord for real-time chat and use Berrytap for the part people pay for — courses, live sessions, and members-only posts. The paid tier is what moves.

What does Berrytap cost?

$0 a month on the Free plan, up to 25 members, with a 10% platform fee on what you collect. Growth is $29 a month with a 5% fee and no member cap; Scale is $299 with no fee at all.

Does Berrytap have voice and video?

It has live rooms — scheduled video sessions inside your community, for calls, classes and webinars. It doesn't have always-on voice channels, which is one of the reasons keeping Discord alongside it makes sense.

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Berrytap vs Discord

The Discord alternative built to take the payment

Discord is free because it never has to charge your members. The moment you want to, you're wiring up a paid bot, your own Stripe, and a role-syncing script. Berrytap does it natively, from $0.

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What it costs, side by side

Platform fees only. Card processing — around 2.9% + 30¢ — is charged by the payment provider on both, so it’s left out of both.

Berrytap

Before your first member: $0/mo, no card
Cut of your revenue: 10% on Free, 5% on Growth, 0% on Scale
Can the cut reach 0%: Yes — Scale, $299/mo

Discord

Before your first member: $0 — but you can't sell access
Cut of your revenue: No platform fee, because there's no checkout
Can the cut reach 0%: No — no plan takes it to zero

On $1,000 a month of member revenue

$79/mo

Berrytap, on the Growth plan

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Discord, Discord can't collect it. Charging for a server means a third-party membership bot on its own subscription, your own Stripe account, and a role sync that fails quietly when a payment does.

Discord genuinely is cheaper for a free community — it's when you want to charge that the maths starts.

Discord pricing as published, checked August 2026, and subject to change. Discord is a trademark of its respective owner.

Berrytap vs Discord at a glance

The money first, then what you get for it.

Feature	Berrytap	Discord
Cost before your first paying member	$0/mo, no card required	$0
Paid memberships	Built in	Third-party bot + your own Stripe
Cut of your member revenue	10% on Free, 5% on Growth, 0% on Scale	n/a — plus the bot's monthly fee
Where the money lands	Straight to your own Stripe account	Wherever your bot sends it
Courses	Built in	No
Events calendar	Yes	Basic
Live rooms	Built-in live rooms	Voice and video channels
Gamification	Points, levels & leaderboards	Via bots
Whose brand it is	Yours	Discord's

Based on Discord’s publicly available pricing and documentation, checked August 2026. Both may change.

Why creators switch

Charging is a setting, not a project

Set a price, pick monthly or one-time, connect Stripe. Access is granted when a payment clears and removed when one doesn't — no bot to keep alive, no roles to reconcile by hand.

Structure the conversation doesn't give you

A Discord backlog scrolls away. Courses, lessons, progress and an events calendar mean what you teach is still findable next month.

Your own space

A community under your name and your brand, rather than one more server in a list of forty.

Keep Discord for hanging out. Move to Berrytap when you want to be paid for it — it costs nothing to find out.

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