From €900 a year instead of $8,000
Team €90 and Business €450 a month, unlimited members on both sides, two months free on yearly billing, and a 14-day trial you start yourself, ready in about two minutes.
Hivebrite sells one plan to alumni associations, professional networks and nonprofits: Focus, from $8,000 a year billed annually, with unlimited members and a launch within a month. HumHub hosted by CUZY gives a member network with a directory, groups, events and memberships from €90 a month, with single sign-on on every plan and software you own.
Hivebrite is a proprietary, hosted community platform (member directory, groups, events, job board, fundraising and membership payments) sold mainly to alumni networks, associations and nonprofits. In October 2026 its pricing page shows one plan, Focus, starting at $8,000 a year billed annually, with unlimited members, directory, events, news, forums and "smart features", live within a month, and channels and options added as needed. There is no self-hosted version.
Facts about Hivebrite come from the vendor's own pages, checked in October 2026: Hivebrite pricing, Hivebrite security. Prices are those published by the vendor (US dollars); they may have changed since. Tell us about an error on the contact page and we correct it.
An open-source social network and intranet platform (spaces, streams, wiki, files, calendar, tasks, polls, messaging, member directory, mobile app), extended by the HumHub marketplace and by every CUZY module, hosted by CUZY in the region you choose, with a flat price and unlimited members.
The questions a buyer, an IT reviewer or a data-protection officer asks both vendors.
| Criterion | Hivebrite | HumHub hosted by CUZY |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | One plan, Focus, starting at $8,000 a year, billed annually; unlimited members; channels and options added on top (pricing page read in a browser on 30 October 2026) | Team €90/month or €900/year, Business €450/month or €4,500/year, unlimited members, 14-day free trial |
| Fees on payments | Not stated on the pricing page as read on 30 October 2026 | None. Payments made with the eCommerce module go through your own Stripe account; CUZY takes no commission |
| Single sign-on | Single sign-on is listed among the login methods on the security page; the plans that include it are not published | On every plan, trial included, through OpenID Connect and OAuth modules (Keycloak, Microsoft Entra, Google, LinkedIn, GitHub) and SAML-capable identity providers |
| API | An API with its own documentation, promoted for custom integrations; the plans that include it are not published | HumHub REST API module on every plan |
| Open source | Proprietary. The software cannot be installed elsewhere | Yes. HumHub under the AGPL, every CUZY module under the AGPL or the CUZY license. 100% of the code a community runs can be browsed and downloaded through read-only SFTP (Team and Business) |
| Data ownership and exit | Not published on the pricing or security pages as indexed in October 2026 | Complete export of the database and files from the dashboard, once a day, on every paid plan; recreate the same platform self-hosted or on HumHub's own hosting; stop at any time, the remaining days refunded pro rata |
| Hosting region and isolation | Data storage in the European Union, the United States, Switzerland or Australia, at the customer's choice; AES-256 encryption at rest and in transit, penetration tests and a web application firewall stated on the security page | Hosted in the region you choose, Germany (EU), the USA or Singapore (APAC); one isolated stack per community, its database encrypted at rest; encrypted backups with a second provider in the same region |
| Extensibility | Hivebrite's own feature set, integrations and API; no third-party module marketplace | The whole HumHub marketplace plus every CUZY module on every plan; on Business, modules and themes written for your community by your developers or by CUZY, deployed after review |
| AI and your content | Not published on the pricing or security pages as indexed in October 2026 | No AI service processes your community's data, as the privacy policy and the Data Processing Agreement state |
Team €90 and Business €450 a month, unlimited members on both sides, two months free on yearly billing, and a 14-day trial you start yourself, ready in about two minutes.
Memberships, event tickets and products sold with the eCommerce module go through your own Stripe account; CUZY takes no commission.
Google, Keycloak and OpenID Connect sign-in from the trial onward, and the whole HumHub marketplace: Members Map for the alumni map, Calendar for chapter events, Mass Notification for the newsletter, LMS for courses.
HumHub and every CUZY module are open source; the daily export of database and files, media included, recreates the same network on any server. A closed platform leaves with a member list at best.
Germany (EU), the USA or Singapore (APAC), one isolated stack per community, its database encrypted at rest, encrypted backups with restore tests and a processor agreement, all described on the security page.
Hivebrite is the better fit for a large alumni office or professional association that wants fundraising campaigns, a job board, mentoring programs and CRM-style member records delivered as one hosted product with the vendor's onboarding team, and whose budget is set at the level of a yearly enterprise contract.
Start a free trial, import members and content with our help, connect your identity provider, and run both platforms side by side until you are ready. Subscribers can export everything from CUZY once a day, so the move is never a one-way door. Tell us about your current setup and we assess what can be carried over.
Yes, for alumni networks, associations and member communities: a member directory and map, spaces per chapter or cohort, events, memberships paid through your own Stripe account, a mobile app and single sign-on, at a flat price with unlimited members, hosted in Germany (EU), the USA or Singapore (APAC).
No. Payments made with the eCommerce module go through your own Stripe account; CUZY takes no percentage. Stripe's own fees apply.
Team at €90/month or €900/year or Business at €450/month or €4,500/year, whatever the number of members; the plans differ by administrators, storage, email volume, backups and the CUZY modules included.
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