How What Gyms Cost works, and what the numbers mean.
The all-in price is what a membership actually costs per month once every fee is counted: 12 months of dues, plus joining, admin and annual fees, divided by 12. A £41.99/mo gym with a £24.99 joining fee is really about £44.07/mo. Open any gym to see the full first-year receipt.
Some venues — council leisure centres in particular — sell entry by the visit rather than by the month, and some studios only sell class packs. There is no honest way to call that a monthly membership, so we show the per-visit price instead. We never dress a drop-in rate up as a membership.
Straight from the gyms' own websites. Every price on this site was read off the operator's own public page, and each gym page links to the exact URL it came from so you can check it yourself. We do not use front-desk or phone quotes, so a rate quoted in person may differ.
We show them, but we do not bake them into the all-in figure. Intro offers expire, and a price that is only true for one month would make the comparison misleading. Where a discounted rate is contractually held for a full 12 months, that held rate is the one used — because that is genuinely what you pay in year one.
The dataset is rebuilt by re-running the scrapers against every operator's site. This build was last checked on 18 August 2026, and every gym page shows its own check date.
Not yet. This build covers the operators that publish prices openly. Chains that keep pricing behind an enquiry form — Virgin Active and David Lloyd, for example — are deliberately left out rather than filled in with guesses.
Spotted a price that has moved? Tell us which gym and we will re-check it.