Last updated 14 September 2026.
Every price on this site was true at a specific club, on a specific date, according to a specific source. None of those three things is guaranteed to still hold when you read it.
That sounds like a get-out clause. It is actually how gym pricing works in the United States, and this page explains what it means for you in practice.
Prices move, and clubs differ
Most large US chains operate a mix of corporate and franchise locations, and franchised clubs set many of their own fees. Two clubs eleven miles apart can quote different monthly rates, different joining fees, and different promotional terms on the same afternoon.
Planet Fitness says it plainly on its own membership page: “Prices may vary depending on location.” Almost every national chain has some version of that line, and it is the single most important sentence in the industry.
So a figure on this site tells you what to expect and what to ask about. It does not tell you what your club will charge you. Get the number from the club, in writing, before you sign.
What the “last checked” date means
It means a person opened the source on that date and confirmed the figure, in the way our research method sets out. It does not mean the gym has held the price since, and it does not update itself. If a page you are reading is more than a few months old, treat the number as an estimate and check it.
We are not connected to any gym
GymsCost is independent. We have no ownership, partnership, sponsorship, or affiliate relationship with Planet Fitness, LA Fitness, Anytime Fitness, Crunch, Gold’s Gym, Equinox, Life Time, or any other operator we write about.
Brand names and logos belong to their owners and appear here only to identify the business being discussed. No gym has reviewed or paid for anything on this site. If any of that ever changes, the page carrying the relationship will say so at the top, before the content.
This is information, not advice
Nothing published here is financial or legal advice, and none of it is a personalized recommendation. We write about what memberships cost. We do not know your budget, your contract, your injuries, or your reasons for joining.
If you are in a billing dispute with a gym, the documents that matter are your membership agreement and your bank records, not our summary of a fee schedule. For consumer complaints in the US, your state attorney general’s consumer protection office is a better first stop than any website.
And before you start training, particularly after time away or with a health condition, talk to a doctor. We are researchers, not clinicians.
Advertising on this site
GymsCost is funded by display advertising. Ads are selected and served by third-party networks including Google, and we do not choose which advertisers appear or in what order.
An ad next to an article is not a recommendation from us. Advertising revenue has no influence on which gyms we cover or what we say about their fees. We also do not run affiliate links to gym signup pages, so there is no commission riding on whether you join.
Links to other websites
We link out constantly, mostly to gyms’ own pricing pages and membership agreements, because a claim you cannot check is worth very little. Those sites are not ours. We do not control their content or what they do with your data, and a link is not an endorsement.
If we have got something wrong
We will, eventually, publish a number that is wrong. When you find one, email hello@gymscost.com or use the contact page, with the page and the club location, plus what you were actually charged.
We check it, and if you are right the page changes and the correction is dated. That loop is the only thing that keeps a site like this honest, and it depends on readers using it.