Swarm
Swarm is a video-first community platform for online experts and coaches.
What Swarm is
Swarm is a video-first community platform for online experts and coaches. It brings discussions, courses, live events, and paid offerings into a branded storefront. Members can use threaded text, video, voice notes, images, GIFs, embeds, mentions, and screen shares in conversations. Course builders organize lessons into ordered modules and can include video, text, PDFs, and embeds. Native live events offer meeting or webinar modes, co-hosts, and recordings that can be posted automatically. Creators can sell memberships, courses, downloads, event tickets, and bookings, with Stripe handling payments. That trial uses Launch and excludes testing the store, white label, Zapier, and API integrations. Swarm provides an installable Progressive Web App for mobile and desktop, with push notifications and no app-store download required. Its Scale plan includes Zapier, API access, and SSO.
Good
- Supports threaded video, voice, text, and image discussions.
- Builds courses from ordered modules and varied lesson content.
- Offers native events with recordings and co-hosts.
- Sells memberships, courses, downloads, tickets, and bookings.
- Provides a mobile and desktop Progressive Web App.
Watch out
- Launch limits live events to 30 minutes.
- Launch allows one space and up to 1,000 members.
- Launch charges a 10% transaction fee.
- The trial excludes store and selected integrations.
Who it suits
Swarm suits coaches and experts whose teaching is visual, physical, or personal. It may not suit text-only communities or people who do not want to appear on camera.
Verdict
Swarm combines community conversation, teaching content, events, and sales for creators whose work benefits from video. Check the plan limits and trial exclusions against the way you intend to run your community.
Plans and prices
From Swarm's own pricing page, checked 30 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Launch | $29 a month | 1 space · 1,000 members · 10% transaction fee · live events up to 30 minutes · 3 admins and 3 moderators · uploads up to 200MB per post and 500MB per course · Monthly |
| Growth | $89 a month | 5 spaces · 5,000 members · 2% transaction fee · live events up to 60 minutes · live rooms up to 50 members · live streams up to 200 members · uploads up to 500MB per post and 3GB per course · Monthly |
| Scale | $199 a month | Unlimited spaces and members per space · 0.5% transaction fee · live events up to 90 minutes · live rooms up to 100 members · live streams up to 1,000 members · white label and branded mobile app · uploads up to 600MB per post and 5GB per course · Zapier, API and SSO · Monthly |
| Launch | $228 a year | 1 space · 1,000 members · 10% transaction fee · live events up to 30 minutes · 3 admins and 3 moderators · uploads up to 200MB per post and 500MB per course · $228.00 per year (= $19.00/month, billed annually) |
| Growth | $948 a year | 5 spaces · 5,000 members · 2% transaction fee · live events up to 60 minutes · live rooms up to 50 members · live streams up to 200 members · uploads up to 500MB per post and 3GB per course · $948.00 per year (= $79.00/month, billed annually) |
| Scale | $1,788 a year | Unlimited spaces and members per space · 0.5% transaction fee · live events up to 90 minutes · live rooms up to 100 members · live streams up to 1,000 members · white label and branded mobile app · uploads up to 600MB per post and 5GB per course · Zapier, API and SSO · $1,788.00 per year (= $149.00/month, billed annually) |
The facts
Each one read from Swarm's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Community conversations
- Discussions support threaded text, video, voice notes, images, GIFs, embeds, mentions and screen shares.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Courses
- Course builders support ordered modules and lessons containing video, text, PDFs and embeds.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Data retention
- Swarm says it keeps most data while an account is active and for six months afterward, and begins deleting personal data within 10 business days of account closure.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Events
- Swarm supports native live events with meeting or webinar modes, co-hosts, and recordings that can be posted automatically.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- The Scale plan includes Zapier, API access and SSO; Swarm’s help center describes syncing new space members to a CRM through Zapier.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Intended users
- Swarm describes itself as a fit for coaches and experts whose teaching is visual, physical or personal, and says it is a poor fit for text-only communities or people who do not want to appear on camera.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Payment processing
- Swarm connects to Stripe for paid space memberships and storefront payments.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Payments
- Creators can sell memberships, courses, downloads, event tickets and bookings through a branded storefront.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Product
- Swarm is a video-first community platform for online experts and coaches.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Security and subprocessors
- Swarm’s privacy policy names AWS and Google Cloud Platform for hosting and storage, Stripe for payments, and OpenAI for AI features, which it says are temporarily processed and not used for model training.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Support
- Swarm provides a Help Center with guidance on getting started, member management, live events, billing, stores, courses and troubleshooting.checked 30 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Mobile app
- Swarm provides an installable Progressive Web App for mobile and desktop, with push notifications and no app-store download required.checked 30 Sep 2026
Money
- Trial
- Swarm offers a 14-day trial without requiring a credit card; the trial uses Launch and does not allow testing the store, white label, Zapier or API integrations.checked 30 Sep 2026
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