Skool Statistics 2026: I Pulled All 1,000 Trending Communities

The most useful Skool statistics are not published by Skool, so I pull them myself. On July 19, 2026, I captured all 34 pages of skool.com/discovery: 1,000 trending communities with their prices, member counts, and creation dates. I re-pull the full list every month, so every number here carries a date.

Every number below comes from that dataset or from a named source. Where a figure is an estimate (revenue, valuation), I say so, because most Skool statistics circulating online are blog lore with no source attached.

• 77.7% of trending communities charge for access (777 of 1,000 on July 19).
• The median monthly price is $27; the mean is $42.91 now that the $10,000/mo outlier has rotated off.
• The median community has 205 members; the 1,000 together hold 1,192,504 memberships.
• The median community is 8.6 months old; 39% launched within the last 6 months.
• Skool's two biggest communities are not on the trending list at all: AI Automation Society (427,011 members) and Skoolers (163,802) sit outside it.
• No official user total or valuation exists; estimates below are labeled as such.

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The Dataset: Skool’s Entire Public Trending List

Skool's discovery page ranks communities by its own trending score and caps the list at 1,000 across 9 categories. I captured the complete list on July 19, 2026. That makes three full pulls in one week: July 14, 16, and 19. Every listing exposes its price, member count, and creation date.

The week between pulls is itself a statistic. Combined memberships grew from roughly 1.14 million on July 14 to 1,152,875 on July 16 and 1,192,504 on July 19. The median asking price wobbled from $27 to $29 and back to $27 as the list churned. Even the $10,000-a-month outlier, Gym Exit™, rotated off entirely.

How Many People Use Skool?

Skool has never published a user total. The verifiable floor now sits above 1.78 million memberships. The trending 1,000 hold 1,192,504 between them. AI Automation Society adds 427,011 and Skoolers adds 163,802, and neither appears on that list. Google Play shows over 1 million Android downloads.

That last part deserves its own line: the two biggest communities on Skool are not on the trending list at all. AI Automation Society, a free group created in October 2024, holds 427,011 members. Skoolers, the company's own community running since December 2019, holds 163,802. The trending list measures momentum, not size, and it misses the giants.

Memberships overstate unique people, because one person joins several groups; they also understate the platform, because private and unlisted groups never appear in discovery. Both app stores rated the mobile experience 3.8 out of 5 at my July 2026 checks, on 679 App Store ratings and about 5,850 Play reviews.

What Skool Communities Charge

Of the 1,000 trending communities, 777 charge for access: 762 bill monthly and 15 bill yearly. The median monthly price is $27 and the mean is $42.91. Three days earlier, 45 one-time-access sellers held slots on this list. All of them rotated off.

• The center: 30.7% of monthly-billed groups charge $10 to $29. Another 27.0% sit under $10.
• The premium half: 18.4% charge $50 to $99, and 4.2% charge $100 or more.
• The extremes: the cheapest paid groups list at $1; the priciest, Synthesizer Scaling, lists at $1,950 a month with 282 members.
• The vanished outlier: Gym Exit™ listed at $10,000 a month on July 16. Three days later it was gone from the list.

On July 16 the paid share was 82.9%; on July 19 it is 77.7%. Neither number is wrong. The trending list rotates daily, and the honest way to quote it is with its date attached.

The list also skews paid. Third-party samples that count non-trending communities report a free share near 70%. Both readings are honest: paid groups fight hardest for trending placement, since a trending slot sells seats, while most small free groups never surface here at all.

Community Size: The Median Winner Has 205 Members

The median trending community holds 205 members. The distribution is brutally top-heavy. The ten biggest groups hold about 504,000 memberships, 42.3% of the list's total. AI Automation (A-Z) leads at 164,893 members, with 709 of the 1,000 sitting under 500.

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The practical read: a 300-member group already sits in the top half of Skool’s public winners. If you want the named list, my ranked directory of the biggest Skool communities covers the top 10 by size, momentum, and category.

Skool Statistics by Category

Skool's discovery splits into 9 categories, and the economics differ sharply by niche. Money is the most monetized: 85.7% of its trending groups charge, at a $29 median. Hobbies is the cheapest at a $14 median. Music and Relationships flip the pattern, with roughly 60% of trending groups free.

Method note: each category row samples the top 210 of that category's own trending list, pulled July 19, 2026. Category lists run past the main 1,000: Sports' biggest sampled group, THP Jump Training at 79,387 members, does not appear on the main list at all. Every category except Music (910 listings) and Relationships (960) maxes out Skool's 1,000-listing cap.

The Age Curve: Skool’s Trending List Is Young

Group creation dates put the median trending community at 8.6 months old. 39% launched within the last 6 months, and 67% within the last year. Only 132 of the 1,000 are older than two years. The platform’s public winners are overwhelmingly new.

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Read that both ways. New communities clearly can break into trending fast, which is the opportunity. And two-year survivors are rare enough that longevity itself is a moat: 132 groups have outlasted roughly two full turnovers of the list around them.

Skool Revenue: Estimates vs the Ceiling Math

Skool publishes no revenue figures, so here is the honest range. My ceiling math assumes every listed member pays list price. On that assumption, the 762 monthly-billed groups would gross about $18.4 million a month. The same math gave $21.5 million on July 16. The ceiling swings as the list rotates.

Real revenue sits far below the ceiling, because member counts include free-trial and comped members. The table below shows where the theoretical money concentrates: I multiplied each group's member count by its list price and kept the top 10. Treat every row as a maximum, not earnings.

Skool's cut of community billing runs 2.9% to 10% plus $0.30 per transaction, on top of the $9 or $99 subscription, so even the ceiling translates to single-digit millions a month for Skool itself from this segment. For comparison, tracker GetLatka estimated Skool at roughly $26.6M ARR in July 2026, and Hormozi's January 2024 announcement claimed host payouts were growing 62% per month back then. The full pricing model and its 2025 changes explain where those fees come from.

Two follow-ups if you are running this math for your own community. My Skool fee tool turns any price and member count into a net payout. And the income patterns behind these numbers, from paid groups to the 40% affiliate cut, live in how people actually make money on Skool.

Skool Valuation: The Number That Does Not Exist

Skool has never published a valuation, never announced a venture round, and never disclosed the size of Alex Hormozi’s 2024 investment. The $1B+ figure that dominates search results traces to creator-economy blogs citing one another. Ownership itself is documented, and I keep the confirmed-versus-rumor table in who owns Skool.

The number that changes your own budget is not the valuation, it is the hosting bill. I checked how the other nine platforms price out against Skool's $9 and $99 tiers, transaction fees included.

Company Snapshot

Citing these numbers somewhere? Take anything on this page with a link back to it as the source, including the charts. New to the platform entirely? The plain-English Skool explainer covers how the product behind these numbers works. And if you are deciding whether to build on it yourself, my full Skool review weighs the platform against its $9 and $99 plans.