By Andreas Pettersson, Founder, Leaders ADAPT
Vistage costs about $19,060 in year one. YPO's Southern 7 chapter publishes $21,560. TIGER 21 publishes $39,000, and EO in Baltimore comes to about $11,300. Only two of the four print that figure themselves.
I run the Leaders ADAPT CEO Mastermind, a virtual room of at most 14 CEOs with no revenue gate, and it sits in the table under the same 12 fields as everyone else. This page is The CEO Peer Group Index: CEO peer group cost, gates, group size, time, facilitator model and cancellation terms for 32 organisations, every figure linked, read in October 2026.
Quick answer: CEO peer group cost ranges from $0 for Long Angle's community to $39,000 in year one at TIGER 21, among organisations that publish a price. Vistage runs about $19,060 in year one, YPO about $21,560 in one published chapter, EO about $11,300. Roughly half of the 32 organisations publish no price.
The CEO Peer Group Index, read October 2026
The CEO Peer Group Index is a sourced CEO peer group comparison of 32 peer groups, forums, coaching programmes and founder networks, maintained by Leaders ADAPT and graded on 12 fields. An asterisk marks a third party figure.
| Organisation | Year one cost | Gates | Group size | Time per month | Facilitator | Cancellation | Format | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vistage | about $19,060* | $5M+ revenue | 12 to 16 | full day plus 1:1 | contractor Chair | 90 days notice | in person | vistage.com |
| YPO | $21,560, one chapter | under 45, $16M+, 50+ staff | 8 to 10 | 3 to 4 hours* | peer moderator | non refundable* | in person | ypo.org |
| EO | about $11,300, one chapter | $1M+, founder or owner | 6 to 10 | monthly | peer moderator | not published | in person | eonetwork.org |
| EO Accelerator | $1,750 plus local fees | $250,000 to $999,999 | not published | 4 full days a year | EO members | not published | in person | eonetwork.org |
| TAB | not published | none published | up to 10 | half day plus 1:1 | franchisee | not published | local boards | thealternativeboard.com |
| C12 | not published | faith based, $2M+ or 10+ staff | 10 to 12* | full day plus 1:1 | franchisee Chair | auto renewing | in person | joinc12.com |
| Convene | not published | faith based, invitation | 10 to 15 | full day plus 1:1 | Chair | not published | in person and online | convenenow.com |
| TIGER 21 | $39,000 | $20M net worth | 12 to 15 | full day, 11 a year | contractor Chair | not published | in person | tiger21.com |
| Hampton | $17,500* | tech founder, $3M+ | 8 to 10 | 3 hours, 10 a year | paid moderator | 45 day refund | in person only | joinhampton.com |
| Pavilion | $2,700 to $7,500 | $5M to $500M ARR | 6 to 8 | bi weekly | paid facilitator | not published | hybrid | joinpavilion.com |
| Chief | $5,900 to $7,900 | senior women leaders | about 10 | every 5 weeks or so | Guides (coaches) | not published | hybrid | chief.com |
| Women Presidents Organization | not published | women owners, $2M+ | capped at 20 | monthly | trained Chapter Chair | not published | in person | asora.com |
| CEO Clubs | not published | $2M sales, invitation* | not published | not published | not published | not published | in person | ceoclubs.org |
| ProVisors | not published | 10+ years in profession | not published | monthly group plus troikas | not published | not published | hybrid | provisors.com |
| Renaissance Executive Forums | not published | invitation | 12 to 15 | a monthly morning | certified Forum Leader | not published | in person | ref.global |
| MacKay CEO Forums | CAD $12,000 | $5M+ revenue | 14 | seven meetings a year | certified Chair | not published | in person | mackayceoforums.com |
| Chief Executive Network | not published | CEO, bands from $50M | not published | 2 to 4 sessions a year | professional facilitator | not published | hybrid | chiefexecutivenetwork.com |
| Small Giants Community | $275 to $1,200 | none published | no standing group | no fixed schedule | volunteer mentors | cancellable anytime | virtual | smallgiants.org |
| CEO Coaching International | not published | $5M to $1B+ | not published | two coaching sessions a month | former CEO coaches | no long term contract | virtual | ceocoachinginternational.com |
| Strategic Coach | $15,000 | $200K+ personal income | not published | one full day a quarter | entrepreneur coaches | $2,500 deposit kept | in person and virtual | strategiccoach.com |
| Scaling Up coaching | $60,000 to $120,000 | none published | not a peer group | not published | certified coach | not published | hybrid | coaches.scalingup.com |
| EOS implementers | $20,000 to $45,000* | 10 to 250 staff | not a peer group | 10 session days in two years | franchisee | no contract* | in person or virtual | eosworldwide.com |
| Business Mastery | $10,000 in 2016* | none published | thousands* | five day event | founder led | not published | virtual | tonyrobbins.com |
| Genius Network | $25,000* | $1M+ revenue | not published | two meetings plus annual event | founder led | not published | hybrid | geniusnetwork.com |
| Abundance 360 | $12,500 to $55,000 | application only | not published | monthly groups plus a summit | founder led | not published | hybrid | abundance360.com |
| Founder Groups | not published | none published | 4 to 10 | monthly, 2+ hours | member led | not published | local in person | blog.foundergroups.com |
| Long Angle | $0, or $4,500 circle | $3M+ investable assets | 6 to 8 | 3 hours monthly | trained moderator | 12 month minimum | virtual first | longangle.com |
| Birthing of Giants | $21,000 | $5M+ revenue | no more than 6 | one week intensive | expert faculty | not published | in person | birthingofgiants.com |
| Founders Network | $900 to $2,988 | full time tech founder | not published | 100+ events a year | staff team | annual commitment | hybrid | foundersnetwork.com |
| Dynamite Circle | $697 to $5,500 | $100K+ revenue | 4 to 6 | monthly, two hours (BLACK) | member led | cancel before renewal | virtual first | dynamitecircle.com |
| Vistage Canada (formerly TEC Canada) | not published | $5M+ revenue | 12 to 16 | full day plus 1:1 | Vistage Chair | not published | in person | vistage.ca |
| Leaders ADAPT CEO Mastermind | on a fit call | none, no revenue gate | at most 14 | monthly virtual session plus weekly office hours | operator | no multi year contract | virtual | leadersadapt.com |
All 12 fields are downloadable as CSV, and as JSON from the compare tool. Put any three side by side in the CEO peer group compare tool.
How to read the index
The 12 fields: name and website, what it is, cost (joining fee, dues, year one, increases), gates (revenue, age, headcount, net worth, title), group size, time per month, facilitator model, contract and cancellation, format and geography, industry mix, what members say, founded and size. The table shows nine, the CSV all 12.
Sources are the organisation's own pages first. Otherwise a labelled third party stands in: Long Angle and First Page Sage for the Vistage price, or the Asora listing for the Women Presidents Organization, whose site blocks readers. Pages were read on 10 and 11 October 2026 and are reread each quarter and when a term changes.
Leaders ADAPT runs a room listed in the same table, graded by the same rules, not claimed to be better, only different in structure.
How much does a CEO peer group cost? Five patterns
The joining fee comes first: Vistage charges $2,500 to join. YPO charges $4,790 in global initiation plus a chapter fee, $8,000 at Southern 7. EO charges $3,500 global initiation plus $2,000 at the Baltimore chapter. The Alternative Board publishes no fee at all, each board being independently owned, see Alternative Board cost.
Dues are the second: Vistage runs $1,380 a month. YPO is $4,790 a year in global dues plus chapter dues, $4,120 at Southern 7. EO's global dues appear as $2,470 on the apply page and $2,630 on 2026 chapter fact sheets, plus chapter dues. The Vistage cost and YPO requirements pages break these down.
The third number is time: Vistage asks for one full day a month plus a one to one. A YPO Forum runs three to four hours. A TAB board is about half a day plus coaching. At a CEO's day rate, the day is the largest line in the peer advisory group cost.
Fourth, dues rise. Vistage says dues typically increase every year in October. Long Angle reports that YPO and TIGER 21 raise dues by at least CPI.
Fifth, leaving. Vistage needs 90 days notice after the first 90 days, enrollment fee non refundable. YPO dues are annual and non refundable. EO and TAB publish no cancellation terms. Read the contract before the first meeting, and the is EO worth it page shows why.
The gates, and who they exclude
Revenue: Vistage $5M+, YPO $16M+, EO $1M+, MacKay $5M+, Genius Network $1M+.
Age: YPO, under 45 at application. Headcount: YPO 50 or more, C12 10 or more. Net worth: TIGER 21 $20M qualifying, Long Angle $3M in household investable assets. Title: EO takes founders and owners, Hampton tech founders.
Read the gates from the other side. An owner at $2M with 12 employees clears EO and C12 and is turned away by every $5M line.
A founder who exited last year clears nothing except the asset gated rooms. A first time applicant at 46 cannot enter YPO. A hired CEO with no equity cannot enter EO.
Gates do not signal who makes a good member. They signal what is easy to check. The criteria for selecting executives for peer groups page sets out what I select on instead, and the CEO peer group guide maps who admits you at each level.
Who runs the room: four facilitator models
Paid professional. Hampton uses a paid and trained moderator, Pavilion a recruited, trained, paid facilitator. The organisation controls quality and the facilitator has no stake in filling seats.
Franchisee. TAB boards are independently owned, C12 Chairs purchase a C12 franchise, EOS implementers sign a franchise agreement. The person in the room sets the price, picks the members, keeps the margin.
Independent chair on a sliding scale: Vistage Chairs are contractors paid for each group they chair, and the chair prospectus says a group launches at eight and grows to up to 18. MacKay Chairs earn $40K to $55K per group a year and may run up to five groups. This is structure, not accusation. A chair paid per member has a reason to grow the room, and 18 members get less airtime each than eight.
Peer moderator. EO forums are led by a trained peer Moderator, Founder Groups by whoever created the group. No one is paid and no one has a stake, and the Entrepreneurs Organization profile shows that trade up close.
Then the operator: CEO Coaching International staffs former CEOs, presidents and founders. Strategic Coach uses coaches who are themselves entrepreneurs, see the Strategic Coach program profile. Mine is operator led. Two rows are not peer groups at all: ProVisors is a referral network and Long Angle a wealth stage community, both searched for by CEOs who mean a peer group.
What a room of peers catches that you cannot
At Arcules I said yes to 47 initiatives. The teams shipped and every dashboard was green. A board director told me I had built an efficient company solving the wrong problems. He was right, and the cost was more than $1M in lost revenue and 14 months behind the market.
We were perfect at everything that did not matter. I did not need more information. I needed someone with no stake in my calendar to ask why there were 47 things on it.
That is what a peer room does, if whoever runs it lets the room say hard things. Do not read the index for the cheapest row. Read it for the row where nobody has a reason to keep you comfortable.
The row with no gate and no chair
The Leaders ADAPT CEO Mastermind is the last row of the index: virtual, at most 14 members, no revenue gate, no multi year contract, run by an operator who scaled a company to 150+ people and exited to Canon. I am not paid per seat and I own no territory.
Each monthly session opens with a check in scored one to ten, then a hot seat where one member presents against a ten slide template and the room answers five fixed prompts, including what the presenter is not seeing. Weekly office hours sit between sessions.
It is not for anyone who wants a full day a month, a local dinner, or a polite room.
CEO peer group cost FAQ
How much does a CEO peer group cost?
Among organisations that publish a price, CEO peer group cost runs from $0 for Long Angle's community to $39,000 in year one at TIGER 21. Vistage comes to about $19,060 in year one, YPO about $21,560 and EO about $11,300 in one chapter each.
What is the cheapest CEO peer group?
Long Angle charges no membership fee and $4,500 a year for an optional moderated Trusted Circle, behind a $3 million investable asset gate. Dynamite Circle charges $697 a year at the standard tier and Small Giants Community $275. Neither is a chaired full day board.
Does Vistage publish its price?
No. Vistage's own membership pages give no fee. Third party reviews from Long Angle and First Page Sage report a $2,500 joining fee and $1,380 a month for the CEO program, about $19,060 in year one. Vistage's terms say dues typically rise every October.
What is the difference between a CEO peer group and a CEO forum?
A forum is the small confidential unit inside a membership organisation such as EO or YPO, usually 6 to 10 members run by a trained peer moderator. A CEO peer group is the broader category, including chaired boards such as Vistage. CEO forum cost is the parent organisation's dues.
Which CEO peer groups have no revenue gate?
The Alternative Board publishes no revenue threshold and describes fit as 5 to 250 employees. Small Giants Community and Founder Groups publish no gate at all. Strategic Coach gates on personal net income rather than revenue. The Leaders ADAPT CEO Mastermind has no revenue gate.
How often is the CEO Peer Group Index updated?
Every source page in the index was read in October 2026, and the date at the top of the page states when the sources were last reread. The index is rechecked each quarter and whenever an organisation changes a published fee, gate or term.
The verdict: use the index, then sit in once
With 32 CEO peer groups compared, CEO peer group cost in the rows that publish it runs from $0 to $39,000 a year, and the number is rarely the deciding fact. The gate decides whether you can enter. The facilitator model decides what the room is for. The cancellation terms decide what a mistake costs.
Pick three rows. Run them through the compare tool. Ask each for the contract in writing and one seat at one meeting.
Who in that room will tell you that you are solving the wrong problem?
