Franchise-grade fitness platform
Glofox is built for scale — single studio to global franchise, with real door-access hardware integration. Its pricing is almost entirely gated behind a sales call, with only a starting number published.
DanceUp pricing
Event Host is free. Studio Owner is $129/mo, Studio Owner Pro+ is $179/mo — all three published, no "request a quote" tier, plus a flat 1.5% platform fee on top of standard card processing.
Glofox pricing
Glofox publishes a starting price near $99/mo; its other three tiers (Boost, Elite, Enterprise) are "request pricing" only, with no public dollar amounts.
Pricing transparency
All three tiers public
Only a starting price is public — three of four tiers require a quote
Starting price
$0/mo (Event Host)
~$99/mo published start
AI
AI Co-Pilot (drafts, revises, and proactively suggests) + AI Insights (churn scoring, revenue forecasting, class-demand triage)
No AI features published
Dance-specific tooling
Performer/team event registration and vendor-booth registration built for festivals and congresses
General fitness-vertical booking, not dance-specific
Reviews
Public reviews on studios, instructors, and classes, with owner responses
Not published as a feature
Door access
Not offered
Integrated door-access hardware
Dancer / member mobile app
DanceUp's dancer app doubles as a cross-studio discovery marketplace, with schedule-based auto check-in on class day. Glofox's member app is studio-branded and web-portal-backed, oriented around a single studio's membership rather than cross-studio discovery.
Front-desk / tablet app
DanceUp Studio is a purpose-built iPad app — phone-number kiosk check-in, QR/ticket scanning, and live Kiosk Watch Mode syncing to the owner's dashboard. Glofox's check-in story leans on its own kiosk and integrated door-access hardware rather than a dedicated tablet product.
Where Glofox might actually be the better fit
If you're operating (or planning) more than a couple of locations, or need real door-access hardware integration, Glofox is built for that today in a way DanceUp isn't yet.
No sales call required to see what it costs — pricing's public, and Event Host is free to start.