Gym pricing guide

Why biweekly gym billing costs more than it looks

Biweekly billing is easy to misread because it feels like twice per month. Over a year, every-two-week billing creates 26 charges, which is more than 12 monthly charges or 24 twice-monthly charges.

Quick takeaways

  • A biweekly price is charged every two weeks, so it usually happens 26 times per year.
  • Monthly equivalent = advertised charge x 26 / 12.
  • The advertised source price should still stay visible because that is what the gym shows publicly.
  • No-BS Monthly uses the monthly equivalent before layering in fees and exit friction.

The quick math

For a $50 biweekly membership, the monthly equivalent is $50 x 26 / 12, or $108.33 per month before required fees.

Every-four-weeks billing has the same trap

A four-week billing cycle creates 13 charges per year. It is not the same as monthly billing, even when the public price looks monthly-ish.

Why gains.fyi shows both numbers

The source price shows what the gym advertises. The monthly equivalent shows what that billing cadence means in a yearly comparison.

Public record examples

Current examples in the dataset

These examples are current public records where the listed billing cadence is weekly, biweekly, or otherwise week-based.