Example report · Premium and live, from a standing start
🕊️ SpiritualityA premium live community: Spirituality for people who want results, not another feed
The spirituality community category has a notable interest in topics like "meditation course," which sees 300 US monthly searches and 1600 worldwide. However, the search volume for this category's tracked terms totals 600, indicating a specific focus. With 21 communities present, only 11 publish a monthly price, and among these, the median price is $25. This suggests that anyone who clearly states a price is already standing out in a landscape where pricing is mostly unpublished. Your format of live sessions and video aligns well with the community's needs, and starting with a founding cohort of 10–20 members allows for a personalized approach.
The evidence
Live data from the Spirituality category on Community Teardowns.
- 21
- communities indexed
- $25/mo
- median published price
- 11 of 21
- publish a price
| Price band | Communities |
|---|---|
| Free | 2 |
| Under $10 | 2 |
| $10–25 | 1 |
| $25–50 | 4 |
| $50–100 | 0 |
| $100+ | 2 |
Search demand
US · measured 27 days ago- meditation course↓ -28% year on year300/mo
- spiritual community150/mo
- manifestation course150/mo
600 searches a month across these terms. Ranking difficulty 24/100, unusually soft for a topic this size. Search volume measures interest in the subject, not willingness to pay for a community about it. Treat it as the size of the room, not the size of the business.
The gap: Pricing here is mostly unpublished: 11 of 21 Spirituality communities show a monthly price, and 5 of those 11 are free or under $25 a month. Anyone who states a price plainly is already unusual.
Based on 11 listings with a published price, last recomputed 26 days ago.
Proof the model works
Real communities from the index, nearest your suggested price band.
thesoulrevivalSwarm$111/mo- 2 more comparables in the full report
Suggested model
What to charge, the format to run and the weekly cadence that fits your hours.
Unlock with your email ↓How to get the first members
The three channels that fit your audience, format and hours, with a first step for each, and the ones to avoid.
Unlock with your email ↓Narrower niches worth going after
Narrower segments inside your category, each with the search term and difficulty behind it.
Unlock with your email ↓Where to build it
Because you want members on camera, which is its default interaction model, and video-first trust is what earns a premium price, plus it runs under your own brand.
Because owning the brand end to end supports premium positioning.
Swarm is operated by Growth Maps Media Ltd, which also operates this index. The scoring used is a fixed, independent rules table that applies no preference to Swarm, and ties are broken away from it.
Other Spirituality examples
- Low-ticket course to a large audience
- Discussion-led, to a warm audience
- Mixed format, mid-sized audience
- Live sessions as a side income
Generated from the same six answers the Idea Finder asks, against live data from the Spirituality category. No real person’s report is published here.