# Why doesn't Discourse hosting include the Subscriptions plugin on the Starter plan?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-hosting-include-the-subscriptions-plugin-on-the-starter-plan/392570
**Category:** General
**Tags:** subscriptions
**Created:** [January 2, 2026, 8:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-hosting-include-the-subscriptions-plugin-on-the-starter-plan/392570 "2026-01-02T20:08:35Z")
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### Author: ![westes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/westes/32/535721_2.png) [@westes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/westes)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2026, 7:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-doesnt-discourse-hosting-include-the-subscriptions-plugin-on-the-starter-plan/392570/4 "2026-01-03T07:02:15Z")

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And why do they make you pay $100/month to start using this plugin? I expect that the first year I try this experiment I will have less than 100 people in my Discourse forum, maybe even five or 10 people, while I work out the kinks and start to pressure for migration. I want to have the ability for people to subscribe even before I have the economics in place to make any of it worth doing.

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