Skool 90-Day Free Trial: The Hormozi Deal Is Over (14 Days Now)

The Skool 90-day free trial is over. It ran on one landing page, skool.com/hormozi, during the August 2025 launch of Alex Hormozi’s $100M Money Models. That page now offers the same 14 days every other Skool signup gets.

I read every Wayback Machine capture of that page. The words START YOUR 90-DAY FREE TRIAL sit on it from August 17 to August 25, 2025, then vanish. Twelve months of captures since show no sign of them coming back.

• What ran: 90 free days on a new Skool group, tied to the book launch.
• What runs now: 14 days, on both the $9 Hobby and $99 Pro plans.
• Still free: two months a year, if you pay yearly instead of monthly.
• Never existed: a Skool coupon code. Checkout has no code field.

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What the Skool 90-Day Free Trial Actually Was

Skool built a single landing page around Hormozi’s $100M Money Models book. He released it at a virtual launch event on August 16, 2025, and Amazon lists the publication date as August 19. The 90-day trial offer was live on that page by August 17, one day after the event.

The offer was a longer runway on a normal Skool group, not a different product. You still picked Hobby or Pro, still entered a card, and still got the full plan. The pitch was the book: Skool marketed the platform as the place to run the models the book describes, with promotional posts framing the window as closing on August 23. One widely shared Facebook post from Hormozi carried the line "Ends Aug 23rd: 90 Days Free + $9/mo".

That deadline is the reason so many pages still describe the deal in the present tense. They were written inside a nine-day window and never updated.

Proof the Offer Ended: Every Archived Capture

The Wayback Machine holds captures of skool.com/hormozi from August 2025 through today. I read the signup button text in each one. Seven captures between August 17 and August 25, 2025 show the 90-day wording. The next capture, on August 28, shows the standard trial button with $9 per month underneath it.

The button text is the cleanest evidence available because Skool renders it directly into the page. Nothing between August 2025 and today reverses it. I checked captures from September 2025, October 2025, December 2025, March 2026, and May 2026, then loaded the live page on August 11, 2026. All of them show the short trial.

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The live page is worth reading closely. It still sells the book connection, still lists $9/month, and still promises setup in under 60 seconds. The only thing that changed is the number of free days.

The $9 Price Was Never the Discount

Most surviving posts frame $9 a month as part of the Hormozi deal. It is not a deal. Skool’s public pricing page lists Hobby at $9 a month and Pro at $99, and those have been the standard rates across the whole period those posts cover. The link never saved anyone a dollar on price.

What the page does add is context, not savings: Skool positions the platform as the execution layer for the book’s models, and the signup lands on the same checkout as any other. The plan you pick still decides your transaction fee, which is where the real money sits. Hobby charges 10% plus 30 cents on every sale. Pro charges 2.9% plus 30 cents. The $9 versus $99 fee math shows the monthly revenue point where the expensive plan becomes the cheaper one.

Anyone hunting a promo code should stop there too. Skool’s checkout has no code field, which the Skool discount page covers in full, including the offers that turned out to be affiliate pages dressed up as coupons.

What Those 76 Extra Free Days Were Worth

The gap between 90 days and 14 days is 76 days, or about two and a half months of hosting. On the Hobby plan that is roughly $23 of value. On Pro it is roughly $251. Worth having, but small next to what a working community bills in a single month.

Put that against the discount that still exists. Yearly billing gives two months free: Pro drops from $1,188 a year to $990, saving $198 every single year. The promo was a one-time $251 on Pro. Yearly billing passes it during year two and keeps paying after that. If you are choosing where to care, care about the billing cycle, not the promo you missed. The Skool fee calculator runs the same math against your own member count and price.

The Free Skool Months You Can Still Get

Two months a year, through yearly billing. Skool’s pricing page shows the yearly toggle at $7.50 a month on Hobby and $82 a month on Pro, which is ten monthly payments spread across twelve months. That is the only standing discount on the platform, and it needs no code or special link.

• Hobby yearly: $90 instead of $108. Saves $18 a year, and the 10% transaction fee stays.
• Pro yearly: $990 instead of $1,188. Saves $198 a year, plus the 2.9% fee instead of 10%.
• The catch: Skool issues no refunds, so a yearly plan you abandon in month three is gone.

The sequence that protects you is simple: run the 14-day trial monthly, keep billing monthly until members stick, then switch to yearly once churn stops scaring you. Skool’s no-refund policy makes the reverse expensive. The full wording of that policy, and what happens to your group after you stop paying, sits in the guide to canceling a Skool subscription.

How to Use 14 Days When You Expected 90

Fourteen days is enough to validate an offer, not to build a finished product. The trial converts to a paid subscription on day 15 and Skool refunds nothing after that, so the real deadline is day 13. Treat the two weeks as a launch sprint with a hard stop, and work backwards from that date.

1. Days 1 to 2: pick the plan on fees, not price. Under about $1,268 a month in billing, Hobby wins despite the 10% fee. Above it, Pro wins.
2. Days 3 to 5: build one thing worth paying for. One short course or one live call beats an empty classroom with nine sections.
3. Days 6 to 9: invite 20 people you already know. A silent group at day 14 tells you nothing. A noisy group of 20 tells you plenty.
4. Days 10 to 12: charge someone. The median paid Skool community charges $27 a month. One real payment beats any amount of interest.
5. Day 13: decide. Keep it and let day 15 bill, or cancel through Settings, Billing, Manage subscription.

Skool saves a canceled group exactly as you built it, so a cancel is a pause rather than a delete. The day-by-day mechanics of the 14-day trial cover what converts on day 15 and what the cancel screen actually looks like.

Will the 90-Day Trial Come Back?

Unknown, and nobody outside Skool can promise otherwise. What the record shows is a single occurrence in the platform’s history, attached to a book launch rather than a seasonal sale. No Black Friday version appeared in November 2025, and no anniversary version appeared in August 2026.

The pattern worth watching is the trigger, not the calendar. The trial appeared because a partner with an enormous audience had something to launch, and Skool is co-owned by that partner. If another launch of that size happens, a promotional window is plausible. Waiting for one costs you months of building. The ownership story behind that partnership explains why Hormozi gets a landing page nobody else on the platform gets.

Verdict: Stop Chasing It and Start the 14 Days

The 90-day trial was real, brief, and is gone. Every page still advertising it is at least twelve months stale, and the link they send you to now shows 14 days. Spending another hour hunting a longer trial costs more than the $23 to $251 the promo was worth.

• Start now if: you have an audience to invite and an offer to test inside two weeks.
• Wait if: you have nothing to put in the group yet. The clock runs whether you build or not.
• Switch to yearly if: members stick past month three. That is where the two free months live.

For the wider picture on whether the platform is worth a subscription at all, my hands-on Skool review covers the classroom, the points system, and where each one breaks.