What Mindbody and Jane really cost, and what leaving them *involves*

How much does Mindbody cost per month?

Mindbody's own pricing page says plans start at $79 a month per location, read on 2026-10-16. A competitor's guide reports higher tiers, from $99 to $159 up to $699 or more, and a 24-month minimum on most plans (vendor-sourced, October 2026). Confirm the current contract before you sign.

What does Mindbody cost: the page price or the reported tiers?

Mindbody's page says it starts at $79 USD a month in North America, with unlimited users per location and no onboarding fee. Payments are optional. If you use Mindbody Payments, a processing rate plus a fixed $0.10 to $0.30 applies to each transaction. Listing in the Mindbody app is free, and a fee applies when the app delivers a client you would not otherwise have had: 20%, capped at $30, on that new client's initial purchase (Mindbody pricing, read 2026-10-16).

Studios often pay more than $79. FitBudd, which sells a rival product, reports Starter at $99 to $159, Accelerate at $259 to $279, Ultimate at $499 and Ultimate Plus at $699 or more per location, a branded app at $249 to $299, and a 24-month minimum on most plans (FitBudd, read 2026-10-16). Mindbody's page says your contract depends on the plan and billing terms you signed, and that cancelling may need advance notice. We could not confirm FitBudd's figures against Mindbody, so treat them as a prompt to read your own contract.

What does Jane cost: Balance, Practice or Thrive?

Jane lists three plans: Balance at $59 a month, Practice at $79 and Thrive at $99. Balance covers one practitioner profile and up to 20 appointments a month. Practice and Thrive each include one full-time practitioner and add a monthly fee for every further practitioner who takes bookings. Thrive adds packages and memberships, a waitlist, rooms and equipment, and patient self check-in. Insurance Billing is $20 a month more (Jane pricing, read 2026-10-16).

AI Scribe is $15 a month for each practitioner who opts in, with five free notes to try. Online card payments are 2.85% + $0.25 and card-present payments are 2.6% + $0.10. Jane also states that it has no open API and no plans to add one, and that data imports are free when you join.

Which contract terms should you check before you leave?

• • Term length and renewal date, and whether renewal is automatic.
• • How much notice you must give, and whether it has to be in writing.
• • What happens to your data after you cancel, and for how long you can export it.
• • Fees for exports, data transfer or extra storage.
• • Payment-processing terms, if your cards run through the vendor.

What data can you take with you?

Ask for your client list, appointment history, intake forms and notes, packages and memberships, payment history and any documents. Check the file format, because a spreadsheet of names is not a usable history. Jane lists its reports as exportable, and Mangomint says you can take all of your data when you leave. Where records hold patient information, move them under a written plan and confirm each step with your own advisers.

What does leaving involve?

How do you export your client data? Start in the vendor's help center. Export steps differ by plan and change over time, so read the page for your plan on the day. Then ask support in writing for the full set, and check what you got against your own records.

A careful move runs the new system beside the old one, with written rollback triggers. You switch over when the new system has passed your acceptance checklist, not before. Plan the move for a slow week, not for the week before a busy season.

Should you stay, switch to another SaaS, or own it?

Stay. If the tool fits, keep it. Many practices should. A Jane Thrive shop already has memberships, packages and reminders, and most of what we would build there is a weak fit.

Switch to another SaaS. Mangomint lists one plan at $120 a month per location plus $10 a month per user, with free onboarding, free data transfer and no contracts (Mangomint pricing, read 2026-10-16). For a med spa that wants a modern scheduler, that may be a better move than a build.

Own it. A build makes sense when your front door, memberships, intake and follow-up run across three or more tools, or when you want your own booking flow, client portal and reporting in accounts in your name. We do not replace a core system on a promise. We build the layer it does not have, and we tell you when a plan upgrade covers the gap. Pike13, a studio platform, starts digital waivers at its $195 plan, $56 a month above its $139 plan on annual billing, so a waiver gap alone does not call for a build. See what we do for med spas, studios and camps and online booking.

Does owning pay back for a studio or a med spa?

Licence savings alone rarely pay for a build. Mindbody from $79 a month and Jane from $59 to $99 are small next to the monthly cost of a build. Spread over 24 months, a Focused build ($4,950) with Essentials care ($149) is about $355 a month, and a Complete build ($9,850) with Standard care ($299) is about $709 a month, before tax. That is our arithmetic, not a forecast.

So the case rests on what the build adds. At about $20 an hour for front-desk time, $355 a month is 18 hours of work and $709 a month is 36 hours. At a $110 monthly membership, it is four members or seven. A wellness studio that loses members to a clumsy signup, or a med spa that sends financing to a lender's page, can reach that. A practice that simply wants to pay less for software cannot. If that is you, keep the tool you have. Every price is on one page.

Sources, all read on 2026-10-16: Mindbody pricing, FitBudd, Jane pricing, Jane and Mangomint pricing. Pike13 pricing was read on 2026-10-16 from the vendor's own page. Last updated October 16, 2026.