Which Skool communities are making real money now?

Can we trust Skool’s MRR leaderboard?

Skool’s own MRR leaderboard is currently the strongest public evidence we have for identifying communities that are genuinely collecting recurring subscription revenue on the platform.

That makes it considerably more useful than creator screenshots or estimates based on public member counts. Skool controls the billing system, so its leaderboard can see subscriptions that outsiders cannot.

There is still an important limit: MRR is revenue, not profit. The number does not tell us what a creator spends on staff, salespeople, advertising, affiliates, events, coaching or refunds.

Public member counts create another problem. Skool’s own payment documentation says existing users keep their old price when a community raises its fee. Some members may still be free, others may be on annual plans, trials or complimentary accounts.

We tested this against 29 communities where a visible member count, current price and tracked MRR could all be compared. Median revenue per listed member came to only 71.2% of the current advertised price, and one quarter of the sample was below 53.2%.

So throughout this article, “making real money” means substantial platform-tracked recurring revenue. We only talk about profit where the evidence actually supports it.

Which Skool communities are making the most money right now?

Blue-Collar Biz Accelerator, Evolve and Synthesizer Scaling currently sit in a different league from most Skool communities, while several AI, health and real-estate groups have built businesses above roughly $200,000 MRR.

The mix is broader than you might expect. Skool’s top businesses include coaching for trades companies, creator education, AI automation, health, property investing and AI video.

Their economics are even more different. Blue-Collar has fewer than 1,000 members and charges four figures per month. AI Video Bootcamp has now reached roughly 28,000 members after growing around a very low entry price.

There is no single Skool business model hiding underneath these numbers.

Community	Recent tracked MRR	Approx. members around snapshot	Public pricing/model
Blue-Collar Biz Accelerator	~$1.00M	824	$1,597/month
Evolve	~$727K	787	$1,250/month
Synthesizer Scaling	~$424K	335	$1,950/month
Maker School: AI Automation	~$284K	~2,500	$184/month
Health = Looks	~$282K	~7,500	$39/month
Creative Owners Club	~$225K	~10,000	$25/month
AI Automation Society Plus	~$220K	~3,700	$129/month
AI Automations by Jack	~$212K	~3,700 at snapshot	$87/month
Programa Investir Imobiliário	~$208K	~1,200	$3,000/year
AI Video Bootcamp	~$205K	~27,000 at snapshot	$9 legacy-heavy model

Did Blue-Collar Biz Accelerator really reach $1 million a month?

Blue-Collar Biz Accelerator really did become the first Skool community to cross $1 million in monthly recurring revenue, according to Skool’s own recent announcement.

Logan Sendle’s community targets landscaping, HVAC, concrete, remodeling and other home-service business owners. At the time Skool announced the milestone, the group had 824 members and advertised a $1,597 monthly price.

The scale becomes clearer when we compare it with the earlier trajectory. A late-July leaderboard snapshot put Blue-Collar around $819,000 MRR. Roughly five weeks later, Skool announced that it had crossed $1 million. That is more than $180,000 of extra recurring revenue in a short period.

The economics make more sense in this niche than they would in a generic consumer community. If a contractor can improve lead generation, pricing or hiring enough to win another $20,000 job, a $1,597 monthly subscription can be rational.

Blue-Collar is especially interesting because Skool’s current number-one business comes from traditional local-service companies. The biggest business on the platform is selling help to plumbers, landscapers, remodelers and similar operators rather than relying on the latest online creator trend.

Is Evolve really making more than $700,000 a month with fewer than 1,000 members?

Evolve is currently doing roughly $700,000-plus MRR with fewer than 1,000 listed members, which makes high-ticket Skool communities much harder to dismiss as one exceptional success story.

A recent leaderboard snapshot put Evolve near $727,000 MRR with roughly 787 members. That works out to more than $900 in recurring revenue per listed member.

Evolve had already been around $662,000 MRR in a late-July snapshot. Its position therefore held across multiple observations rather than appearing after one unusually successful launch.

Put Evolve beside Blue-Collar and the pattern is pretty clear. Together, fewer than 2,000 listed members can support around $1.7 million in monthly recurring revenue when the customer value is high enough.

For anyone studying Skool today, that is one of the biggest changes in the market. Some of its largest communities now resemble recurring coaching and advisory businesses much more than traditional $20-a-month internet groups.

How is Synthesizer Scaling making more than $400,000 a month with only a few hundred members?

Synthesizer Scaling shows how extreme Skool’s high-ticket model can get: roughly 335 listed members were enough to produce around $424,000 in monthly recurring revenue.

The community sells at $1,950 a month and targets educational creators who want to grow their own Skool businesses. Its public offer says it scaled from zero to $300,000 MRR in 12 months and teaches creators how to reach roughly $10,000 to $100,000 MRR themselves.

Its recent growth was also unusually fast. A late-July snapshot showed about $284,000 MRR. The later reading was around $424,000, an increase of approximately $140,000 in barely more than a month.

At that point, Synthesizer was producing around $1,267 of MRR for every listed member.

Compare that with AI Video Bootcamp, which was producing roughly $8 per listed member at a recent snapshot. Synthesizer could therefore generate similar or higher revenue with about one-eightieth as many people.

There is also a nice second-order business here: Skool is now large enough that teaching other people how to build businesses on Skool can itself support one of the platform’s biggest businesses.

Are AI communities still making the most money on Skool?

AI is still one of Skool’s strongest money-making categories, although business coaching has now taken the very top positions.

A late-July global top ten contained five AI-related communities. Maker School, AI Automation Society Plus, AI Automations by Jack and AI Video Bootcamp have all subsequently appeared around or above $200,000 MRR.

What makes the category more convincing is that these communities do not all sell the same thing at the same price.

Nick Saraev’s Maker School currently shows around 2,500 members at $184 a month. Nate Herk’s AI Automation Society Plus is around 3,600 members at $129. Jack Roberts’ AI Automations by Jack recently showed roughly 3,400 members at $87. Daniel Riley’s AI Video Bootcamp has reached around 28,000 members after building around a $9 legacy price.

Several independent creators have therefore reached similar revenue territory through very different AI offers.

There is a fresh counter-signal too. AI Automations by Jack showed roughly 3,700 members several weeks ago and is now closer to 3,400 while actively promoting another price increase. Even inside a hot category, growth is not automatic.

AI demand on Skool is clearly real. The leaderboard also shows that AI no longer has a monopoly on the biggest businesses.

Is Maker School really making close to $300,000 a month?

Maker School has recently been around $280,000-plus MRR, making it one of the clearest examples of a mid-priced Skool community becoming a multimillion-dollar annualized business.

Nick Saraev’s community currently has around 2,500 members at $184 a month. The offer focuses on helping members land their first paying AI automation client within 90 days, with daily coaching, templates, software discounts and a money-back promise attached to that outcome.

That positioning explains a lot about the economics. A member who lands one decent automation client could cover many months of membership.

Maker School was around $243,000 MRR in a late-July snapshot and roughly $284,000 in a later one. The increase works out to about $40,000 of additional recurring revenue.

Skool has also featured Saraev in its own interviews with operators above $100,000 MRR, where YouTube was identified as his main acquisition channel.

Maker School gives us a useful middle case. It needs neither 28,000 members nor a $1,500 subscription. A few thousand customers paying a couple hundred dollars can still produce a very large Skool business.

Can a $9 Skool community really make $200,000 a month?

AI Video Bootcamp proves that a very cheap Skool membership can generate more than $200,000 MRR, although reaching that number requires an enormous audience.

Daniel Riley’s AI Video Bootcamp recently reached roughly 28,000 members. Its public page was still advertising a $9 legacy rate, with repeated notices that the price would rise after another membership milestone.

The recent leaderboard figure was around $205,000 MRR. At the member count visible around that snapshot, revenue worked out to roughly $8 per listed member, very close to what we would expect from a community built mainly around a $9 subscription.

The community has continued adding members since then. Public snapshots moved from roughly 27,400 to 27,600 and then around 28,000 in a matter of days.

Riley also uses price scarcity aggressively. The public page repeatedly tells visitors that only a small number of $9 spots remain before new members pay more.

So yes, $9 can become a $200,000-a-month Skool business. The harder part is getting tens of thousands of people to pay it.

Can Creative Owners Club really make more than $200,000 a month at $25?

Creative Owners Club has recently generated around $225,000 MRR from a $25 membership, giving Skool another strong example of low-ticket economics working at scale.

Samuel G’s community now shows more than 10,000 members. It teaches alternative ways of buying property, particularly seller financing and loan takeovers, and currently markets itself to people who struggle with traditional credit, down-payment or bank requirements.

The community was around $196,000 MRR in a late-July snapshot before climbing to roughly $225,000.

Around that later observation, tracked revenue per listed member was roughly $23 against a $25 monthly sticker price. That is unusually close compared with many Skool communities where historical prices and free members create a much wider gap.

Creative Owners Club currently offers a $25 monthly plan and a $200 annual plan. Its public page is also advertising a coming price increase to $47.

Together with AI Video Bootcamp, it gives us a fairly clean picture of low-ticket Skool economics. The model can absolutely produce serious revenue, but it generally needs a five-figure member base to compete with high-ticket communities containing only a few hundred customers.

Are people paying serious money for Skool communities outside AI and business coaching?

Yes, substantial Skool businesses now exist in health, real estate, spirituality, trading and cybersecurity, so the money has spread well beyond AI and generic entrepreneurship.

Oscar Patel’s Health = Looks is the clearest current example. A recent leaderboard snapshot put it around $282,000 MRR, roughly level with Maker School, despite selling a consumer health offer at only $39 a month. The public group has since grown to around 7,600 members.

The pricing difference is useful. Maker School can reach similar MRR with roughly one third as many members because its price is almost five times higher.

Trading Bootcamp has also appeared around $160,000-plus MRR, while The Cyber Range has been around $130,000-plus. Eternal Life Tribe has reached a similar range in spirituality.

These categories remain smaller than business and AI at the extreme top, but they are already large enough to support seven-figure annualized businesses.

Niche	Example	Recent MRR level
Health	Health = Looks	~$282K
Real estate	Creative Owners Club	~$225K
Trading	Trading Bootcamp	~$160K+
Spirituality	Eternal Life Tribe	~$130K-$150K
Cybersecurity	The Cyber Range	~$130K+
Self-improvement	Leading communities	~$80K+
Relationships	Leading communities	~$60K-$70K

Do Skool communities need huge audiences to make real money?

No, Skool’s current revenue leaders show that a few hundred valuable customers can be worth much more than tens of thousands of cheap members.

At one recent snapshot, Blue-Collar had about 824 members and just over $1 million MRR. AI Video Bootcamp had more than 27,000 members and around $205,000 MRR.

Blue-Collar therefore had roughly one thirty-third of the membership and almost five times the revenue.

Synthesizer Scaling pushed the comparison even further. Roughly 335 members supported around $424,000 MRR. Creative Owners Club needed close to 10,000 members to reach about $225,000.

The dividing line is price and customer value. Cheap communities depend heavily on distribution. High-ticket communities can become large businesses with surprisingly small audiences if the promised outcome is valuable enough.

Raw Skool member counts tell us remarkably little about the quality of the underlying business.

Which Skool pricing model is making the most money now?

High-ticket communities tied to an expensive business problem currently produce the biggest absolute revenue and by far the highest revenue per member on Skool.

Blue-Collar, Evolve and Synthesizer Scaling were recently producing about $2.15 million of combined MRR from fewer than 2,000 listed members.

The middle of the market is working too. Maker School, AI Automation Society Plus and AI Automations by Jack sit roughly in the $80-$200 monthly range, use audiences of a few thousand members and have each reached around $200,000-plus MRR.

At the low end, Creative Owners Club and AI Video Bootcamp together had roughly 37,000 members around the relevant snapshots and approximately $430,000 of combined MRR.

All three models can work. Right now, though, a narrow high-value offer is producing the strongest economics.

Model	Examples	What we see today
High-ticket, narrow outcome	Blue-Collar, Evolve, Synthesizer	Biggest businesses and highest revenue per member
Mid-ticket expert community	Maker School, AI Automation Society Plus, AI Automations by Jack	Repeatedly reaches ~$200K-$300K MRR
Low-ticket mass membership	Creative Owners Club, AI Video Bootcamp	Can exceed $200K MRR but needs roughly 10K-30K members

Why does Skool member count multiplied by price give the wrong revenue?

Multiplying a Skool community’s member count by its current price often produces a bad revenue estimate because many people inside the same group are paying different amounts.

Skool explicitly grandfathers existing members. Someone who joined at $49 can remain at $49 after the public price rises to $99. Members who originally entered free can remain free after a community becomes paid.

There can also be annual customers, free trials, complimentary members and admins in the visible total.

The differences are easy to see in real communities. Maker School’s current sticker price is $184, but its tracked MRR around the relevant snapshot worked out to closer to $114 per listed member. Blue-Collar showed $1,597 publicly while tracked MRR per listed member was closer to $1,200. Health = Looks happened to sit much nearer its advertised $39.

As we saw above, our 29-community sample produced median revenue per listed member equal to about 71% of the visible price.

This is why we use Skool’s own MRR whenever it is available. The public formula “members × price” looks precise but can be badly wrong.

How much of Skool MRR does the community owner actually keep?

Skool’s leaderboard numbers can translate into much less take-home profit once payment fees, customer acquisition and delivery costs are included.

According to Skool’s current payment documentation, Pro communities pay 2.9% plus $0.30 on transactions up to $899. Payments above $900 are charged 3.9% plus $0.30. Skool’s cheaper Hobby plan takes 10% plus $0.30.

Growth Boost can create a much bigger deduction. Skool promotes participating communities through its own search and off-platform advertising, then takes a 30% recurring commission when it acquires the customer. Skool’s current help documentation says that commission continues for as long as the member keeps paying.

A $100 membership sourced organically and a $100 membership sourced through Growth Boost therefore have very different margins.

Large high-ticket communities can also carry meaningful staffing costs. AI Automation Society Plus currently lists more than 20 admins. Blue-Collar has a multi-person team. Daily calls, onboarding, salespeople and one-to-one support make these businesses more expensive to operate than passive course libraries.

We can confidently describe $200,000 of Skool-tracked MRR as a large business. Public information usually does not let us convert that into an equally precise profit number.

Where do the biggest Skool communities actually get their customers?

The biggest Skool communities usually build demand on YouTube, Instagram or another external channel first, and Skool can become a more meaningful acquisition source once the group already has traction.

Skool’s own interviews with high-MRR operators give us several useful examples. Nick Saraev’s Maker School leans heavily on YouTube. Oscar Patel built Health = Looks largely through Instagram. Trading Bootcamp also gets substantial traffic from Instagram.

Josh Madakor’s Cyber Range shows how the mix can change. Skool later reported that its own network had grown to roughly 55% of his traffic, versus around 20% from YouTube.

That sequence is more useful than simply saying Skool has discovery. Madakor already had outside distribution, then Skool itself became a major acquisition channel.

The same pattern appears elsewhere. Creators bring an audience or an acquisition machine, convert people into a paid group, then benefit more from internal discovery as their community develops reviews, activity and sales history.

Opening a Skool group by itself is still a weak distribution strategy. The largest current communities generally arrived with a way to get customers.

Are the biggest Skool communities still growing?

Several of Skool’s biggest communities are still adding meaningful recurring revenue, although the recent data also contains enough declines to show that the leaderboard is moving rather than simply rising everywhere.

Blue-Collar increased from roughly $819,000 MRR in a late-July snapshot to more than $1 million a little over a month later. Synthesizer Scaling climbed from roughly $284,000 to $424,000. Maker School moved from around $243,000 to $284,000, while Creative Owners Club increased from about $196,000 to $225,000.

AI Video Bootcamp’s revenue rose much more slowly, from roughly $197,000 to $205,000, even as its membership kept climbing.

AI Automation Society Plus moved the other way, from around $242,000 to roughly $220,000 between snapshots. AI Automations by Jack has lately shown another cautionary clue: its public membership count has dropped from around 3,700 to roughly 3,400 while the community continues to promote new offers and price increases.

So the top of Skool is still expanding overall, but individual businesses can flatten or shrink quickly.

Repeated observations tell us much more than a single screenshot.

Can Skool communities keep this revenue, or does everyone eventually churn?

We still do not know how durable the average high-revenue Skool community is because Skool does not publish community-level churn rates.

The leaderboard shows net MRR. It cannot tell us whether a group added $50,000 of new subscriptions while losing $40,000 of old ones, or added $10,000 and lost almost nobody.

That difference becomes huge at scale. A community with 2,000 paying customers and 8% monthly churn would need to replace about 160 members every month merely to stay the same size.

There are at least some signs that customers can stay for meaningful periods. Current Skool reviews increasingly display how long reviewers have remained paying members. AI Automation Society Plus currently includes reviewers still paying after six and fifteen months. AI Video Bootcamp shows several members still paying after five, six or nine months. Other established groups show members remaining for a year or longer.

Those examples cannot tell us the average retention rate, but repeated leaderboard appearances help. Blue-Collar, Maker School, Creative Owners Club and several AI communities have remained large across multiple snapshots rather than appearing for one launch cycle.

Retention is still the biggest missing number in this market. Until Skool publishes it, we should have much more confidence in current revenue than in assumptions about how long that revenue will last.

What do the Skool communities making the most money have in common?

The Skool communities making serious money today usually sell a concrete outcome that feels much more valuable than the monthly fee.

Blue-Collar helps trades businesses make more money. Synthesizer Scaling helps education creators grow paid communities. Maker School sells a path toward landing an AI automation client. Creative Owners Club teaches alternative ways to buy property. Health = Looks sells a visible physical transformation.

Their memberships then deliver the outcome through recurring help: coaching calls, implementation support, feedback, templates, deal flow, accountability or rapidly updated training.

That recurring layer matters more now because static information has become cheap. A library of videos is easier than ever to reproduce, summarize or replace with AI. Direct help and a useful network are harder to copy.

Pricing follows the value of the problem. A home-service owner can justify spending more than $1,500 a month if the program helps produce additional five-figure jobs. A casual hobby community has far less room to charge at that level.

The strongest Skool businesses have understood that distinction very well.

So which Skool communities are making real money now?

The clearest answer today is Blue-Collar Biz Accelerator, Evolve, Synthesizer Scaling, Maker School, Health = Looks, Creative Owners Club and a cluster of AI communities that have all reached roughly $200,000 or more in monthly recurring revenue.

Blue-Collar has already crossed $1 million MRR. Evolve has been above $700,000. Synthesizer Scaling has moved above $400,000. Maker School and Health = Looks have been close to $280,000, while Creative Owners Club, AI Automation Society Plus, AI Automations by Jack and AI Video Bootcamp have recently occupied the roughly $200,000-plus range.

The more useful conclusion comes from how differently they got there.

High-ticket specialist communities currently have the strongest economics. Blue-Collar, Evolve and Synthesizer can build enormous businesses with hundreds of members because their customers pay four figures a month.

Mid-priced communities have also been repeatedly proven. Maker School and the larger AI automation groups show that a few thousand customers paying roughly $80-$200 can support $2 million to $3 million of annualized recurring revenue.

Low-ticket communities can reach the same neighborhood, but distribution becomes the hard part. Creative Owners Club needed around 10,000 members and AI Video Bootcamp more than 27,000 to reach roughly $200,000-plus MRR.

AI remains one of the biggest categories, yet the current leaders make the broader opportunity much clearer. Trades, health, real estate, trading, cybersecurity and spirituality are already supporting large paid communities too.

The best Skool businesses currently look less like communities people pay to “join” and more like ongoing services built around a problem people badly want solved. The community format helps deliver that service, but the valuable outcome is what gets people to keep paying.