What does a gym really cost in the first year?
The advertised monthly price is only part of it. TrueGymCost adds the joining fee and the annual fee to twelve months of dues, so you can compare gyms by what you will actually pay, with the source and the date of every price.
A plan advertised at $15 a month with a $29 joining fee and a $49 annual fee costs $258 in its first year, not $180.
Gym prices in San Antonio, TX
570 gyms, 153 with a price checked on their own website; the median costs $600 in its first year (checked November 2026).
Cheapest first-year cost in San Antonio
Guides
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- Is a gym membership worth it? What one visit really costs
- How to cancel a gym membership without paying more than you must
Read the blog: the questions around a gym’s price, each number with its source and the day we checked it.
How we check a price
We read each gym’s own website, and for chains the club’s own page on the chain’s site, up to the screen that shows the plan and its fees. Every number on this site must appear, word for word, on that page, or it is not published. A gym that publishes no price says so; an estimate is always labelled.