Pike13 is class and appointment management for businesses that run on scheduled sessions — swim schools, music schools, gyms, tutoring, and studios. It is stable, well-established, and unusually forthcoming about its prices. Mako is the business platform underneath the same kind of business: booking, memberships, payments, staff pay, retail, and profit reporting. Both are credible; they answer different questions.
Pike13: Published. Essential at $139/month billed annually ($159 month-to-month), Advanced at $195/month annually ($225 monthly), and Premium at $249/month annually ($286 monthly). Clear tiers, posted openly, with the monthly premium stated rather than hidden.
Mako: Pulse is free. Basic at $139/month — roughly $1,334/year paid annually, covering the complete operational platform with three team members. Team at $249/month (~$2,390/year) — fifteen team members, extra locations at $75/month each, advanced reporting, QuickBooks sync. Enterprise at $999/month. No contract.
Like for like: Pike13 Essential paid annually is $1,668/year. Mako Basic paid annually is roughly $1,334/year — about $334 less for the full platform. Month-to-month it is $159 against $139. At the top, Pike13 Premium annual is $2,988 against Mako Team's $2,390. Mako is cheaper at every matched tier, though not dramatically — this is a close comparison on price, which makes what you get for it the real question.
Pike13 is built around the schedule: who is enrolled, who attended, who paid. It does that reliably and has done for years.
Mako starts from the same place and keeps going — into what each class costs to deliver, what each staff member is owed, what the retail shelf earns, and whether the business is generating cash. If your operational problem is running the timetable, Pike13 solves it. If your problem is that you can see revenue but not profit, that is a different tool.
Session-based enrolment, attendance, and rosters handled cleanly and predictably. It has had a long time to get the edge cases right.
All three tiers on the page, with the month-to-month premium stated plainly. In this category that is genuinely uncommon.
A mature product with a long track record. For a business that cannot afford a bad migration, that counts.
Swim, music, tutoring, fitness — it does not assume you are a gym, which suits businesses that do not fit a fitness-shaped box.
Roughly $334/year less at entry and around $598/year less at the top, with no contract on either side of the comparison.
Profit per class after instructor pay and room cost, cash-flow forecasting, unit economics, LTV. Pike13 reports enrolment and revenue thoroughly; it is not built to tell you which sessions carry the business.
Per-class rates, splits, tips, timesheets and payouts — native, and calculated at the rate that applied on the day of the session.
Products and consumables with stock levels, low-stock alerts, and margin per item.
Pulse costs nothing, imports from other platforms, and compares your retention against market averages while naming who has drifted. You can run it beside Pike13 today without changing anything.
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Your business is a business. Not a hobby, not a side project, not a calendar with a cash register. It deserves software that treats it accordingly. If your platform cannot tell you whether you are financially healthy, it is not doing its job. And in 2026, you have better options.
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