Spark Membership pricing in 2026: what it costs at 75 students
Spark Membership is $199 a month after an 8-week free trial, with Ignite, a branded app and texts priced on top. What 75 students cost, from their own pages.
Spark Membership is one of the better-known names in martial arts software, and its price is on its website. This is what that price is in 2026, what sits on top of it, and what a business with 75 students actually pays in a year. Every figure below links to the Spark page it came from, checked on October 24, 2026.
The base price
Spark’s pricing page offers an 8-week free trial, then $199 a month. Their current offer page adds that the fee is the same “whether you have 200 students or 1000”, and that the plan is month to month with no long-term contract.
Flat pricing is simple to read, and for a large business it is good value. The question is where your business sits on the size curve, because a flat fee costs the same at 40 students as at 400.
What is priced on top
From Spark’s own pages:
- Ignite, their website and marketing content add-on, is $199 a month, with a $1 setup that covers the first 30 days.
- A white-label member app is $1,200 for the first year, including setup, then $499 a year.
- Text messages are bought as credit packages.
- Card processing averages 2.86%, through Spark’s in-house merchant service. Their offer page says plainly that you “cannot use your own merchant service company to collect payments through Spark.”
None of that is hidden. It is worth adding up before you compare, because the base price is rarely the whole bill.
What a 75-student business pays in a year
At list price, software only:
| Per month | Per year | |
|---|---|---|
| Spark Membership | $199 | $2,388 |
| BlackBeltCRM (51 to 100 members) | $119 | $1,428 |
That is $960 a year on the software alone, before any add-ons on either side. With us, every feature is on every plan, and the only extras are the ones you choose: extra Locations at $39 each, payment processing and text messaging. The full ladder is on our pricing page.
To be fair to Spark: above 500 members their flat $199 is $50 a month less than our top rung of $249, and from 251 to 500 members we are both $199. If your business is that size, the software price is a wash and the decision should rest on everything else.
Where Spark is strong
Spark is built around winning new students. Their lead follow-up and campaigns are mature, Ignite gives you a website and a monthly calendar of ready-made social posts, and the white-label app is a real product. If filling classes is your bottleneck, those are real reasons to look at them.
Where we put our weight is the other half of the problem: keeping the students you already have. BlackBeltCRM flags students who are slipping, reports retention and churn as a rate, and bills families in your business’s own name through a merchant account held in your name. The row-by-row view is on our comparison page, and the one-to-one version is at Spark Membership alternative.
If you are thinking of moving, our switching guide covers the import: you bring your members over yourself with our free import tool, see every family before anything is written, and can undo it. If you would rather we did it for you, we can, for a fee.
Spark Membership prices and terms are quoted from sparkmembership.com and help.sparkmembership.com on October 24, 2026. They can change; check their pages before deciding, and tell us if anything here is out of date.
Questions people ask
How much does Spark Membership cost per month?
Spark Membership publishes one plan: $199 a month after an 8-week free trial, the same whether you have 200 students or 1,000. Checked on sparkmembership.com on October 24, 2026.
What does Spark Membership charge on top of the $199?
From their own pages: the Ignite add-on is $199 a month, a white-label app is $1,200 for the first year and $499 a year after that, and text messages are bought as credit packages. Card processing averages 2.86% through their in-house merchant service.
What would a 75-student business pay with BlackBeltCRM instead?
BlackBeltCRM is $119 a month for 51 to 100 active members, every feature included, which is $1,428 a year against $2,388 a year for Spark at $199 a month.