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Creative classes, priced off the seller’s own panel

The price on the panel is not the price you pay

Lecture-style$120then not publishedProject-based$167.88then not publishedCredits & courses$164.50then $329first year, then the year after
Is MasterClass worth it?Skillshare, read off the page

Easelry reads creative-class subscriptions the way you would read a contract: the annual charge, what it renews at, whether the sale is a sale, and what you keep when you stop paying.

Three sellers, one day, one browser

MasterClass, Skillshare and Domestika all sell access rather than a course, so the only figures that decide anything are the annual charge, the renewal, and whether the price on the screen is a promotion. We read all three on 24 September 2026, out of the billing panels themselves, in a browser configured to look like a US one.

Two of the three do not publish a renewal price. The third publishes one that is exactly double its first year, in grey type under the button. That single fact is most of what this site is for: it turns a $164.50 subscription into $493.50 over two years, while the two that say nothing sit at $240 and $335.76 if today's price holds.

What two years costs
Year oneYear twoMasterClass Standard$240Skillshare$335.76Domestika Plus$493.50

Only one of these three second years is a published number. Domestika prints $329 on its own panel. MasterClass and Skillshare publish no renewal price at all, so their hatched bars are simply today’s price charged again — an assumption, drawn as one.

What we found worth saying out loud

  • MasterClass sells three tiers at $10, $15 and $20 a month, billed annually — $120, $180 and $240 up front. Every tier gets the whole library; the money buys simultaneous devices and offline downloads. The full reading.
  • Skillshare charges $13.99 a month as an annual payment of $167.88, and that is the one figure on this site that reconciles exactly. Its price is also the hardest of the three to find. The reading.
  • Domestika Plus advertises $13.79 a month, charges $164.50, and renews at $329. Its struck-through "was" price is its own monthly plan. The reading.
  • The free routes are genuinely strong here — a library card, Ctrl+Paint, OpenLearn — and every one of them pays this site nothing.

How to use this site

Start with the money page if you are deciding this week, and with the workbench if you are deciding what you want to learn. Every guide answers its own question in its first two sentences, because that is the part you came for.

Nothing here is scored out of ten. We have not spent a year inside each of these three subscriptions, and a rating that pretends otherwise would be the one invented number on a site built to catch invented numbers.

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