Burn Boot Camp is one of the few large fitness franchises that publishes no price at all. We read more than sixty Burn location pages across thirteen states on September 5, 2026, plus the national memberships page and the app support center, and the only dollar figures anywhere on them were a $29 two-week trial and a $9.99 a month Burn On Demand add-on. Every location page ends the same way: “For pricing options, contact a location near you.”
That is a sales strategy, not an oversight, and it means the honest version of this guide has to come at the number two ways. The first is what the company tells state regulators. Kline Franchising, LLC, which franchises Burn Boot Camp, registered its 2026 franchise disclosure document with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions on April 20, 2026 (the document itself was filed on June 26, 2026), and that filing discloses both revenue and member counts for hundreds of gyms. Divide one by the other and you get a very tight answer. The second is independent price tracking, which we use only for the shape of the tiers.
What Does Burn Boot Camp Cost Without Insurance?
| Membership or fee | Low | Typical | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12-month agreement, monthly dues | $139 | $149 | $159 |
| 6-month agreement, monthly dues | $159 | $169 | $179 |
| Month to month, monthly dues | $189 | $200 | $210 |
| Universal (all-location) upgrade | +$20/mo | +$20/mo | +$20/mo |
| Initiation or enrollment fee | $0 (waived) | $49 | $99 |
| Drop-in class | $25 | $30 | $35 |
| 10-class pack | $200 | $225 | $250 |
| Two-week intro trial (published by Burn) | $29 | $29 | $29 |
| Burn On Demand, member add-on (published) | $9.99/mo | $9.99/mo | $9.99/mo |
| Burn On Demand, standalone (published) | $159/yr | $29.99/mo | $29.99/mo |
| Childwatch (published) | $0 | $0 | $0 |
The rows marked “published” come straight from Burn’s own pages read on September 5, 2026. The dues, drop-in, pack and enrollment-fee rows come from an independent price tracker’s 2026 survey, because Burn publishes none of them, and they should be treated as a market range rather than a quoted price. Use them to open a conversation at your local gym, not to argue about a specific number.
What the franchise filing implies a member actually pays
This is the closest thing to a hard figure that exists. The 2026 filing’s financial performance representation covers 307 franchised gyms that operated the full 2025 calendar year, out of 395 open at year end. Those 307 gyms averaged 378 members each (median 367, high 777, low 126) and averaged $732,444 in annual gross operating revenue (median $699,718, high $1,662,127, low $248,561).
Divide revenue by members and the average Burn gym collected about $1,938 per member in 2025, which is roughly $161 a month. The median works out to about $159 a month. What is striking is how little that varies by gym size: gyms with more than 500 members averaged $161.84 per member per month, gyms with 400 to 500 members $165.72, gyms with 300 to 399 members $158.96, gyms with 200 to 299 members $157.86, and gyms under 200 members $159.47.
Two caveats. Gross revenue includes drop-ins, retail, On Demand and any annual fees, so pure dues sit somewhat below those numbers. And these are 2025 calendar-year figures published in 2026, not today’s rate card. Still, a system where revenue per member lands between $158 and $166 across every size band is a system with real pricing discipline, and it lines up with the independent $139 to $210 range once you account for members on longer, cheaper terms.
What Drives the Price
Contract length is the main lever
Burn’s memberships page will only say that memberships are “designed to be flexible” and that your local gym will explain the options. In practice the tiers are 6-month, 12-month and month-to-month, and the gap between the longest and shortest term is roughly $50 a month, or about $600 a year. That is the single largest discount available to you, and the single largest thing you give up.
What a state health club law can claw back
Burn Boot Camp is headquartered in North Carolina, and North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 66, Article 21 governs health and athletic club contracts there. It is worth reading before you sign anywhere, because most states have an analogue.
The statute requires a cancellation notice printed in bold type next to your signature and gives you until midnight of the third business day after signing to cancel in writing. It requires a refund of at least 90% of the pro-rata cost of unused services if you become disabled, die, or relocate more than eight miles from your home and more than thirty miles from the gym. If your contracts with the gym total more than $1,500, it requires a pro-rata refund of unused services with any cancellation fee capped at 25% of that pro-rata amount and no more than $500. And it caps the aggregate duration of your contracts at three years.
That $1,500 threshold matters: a 12-month Burn agreement at $139 a month totals $1,668, which is above it. If a gym quotes you a 50% buyout of your remaining balance, that is not what a North Carolina contract permits.
Childwatch is included, not an add-on
This is the line item that decides the math for Burn’s core audience. Burn’s memberships page lists complimentary Childwatch inside the standard membership, and location pages repeat that gym memberships include unlimited camps, complimentary Childwatch and unlimited Focus Meetings. The 2026 filing requires franchisees to hire enough staff to provide Childwatch, while reserving the franchisor’s right to waive that requirement, so it is standard but not guaranteed. At a typical drop-in childcare rate, a parent training four times a week is effectively getting $100 to $200 a month of care bundled into the dues, which is why Burn’s headline price sits above a conventional gym and can still be the cheaper choice.
Single gym versus Universal
Burn’s app support center describes two in-gym tiers. A Single Gym Membership gives full amenities at one home gym plus discounted drop-in rates elsewhere. A Universal Membership gives full amenities at any Burn location nationwide with no drop-in fee. If you travel or split time between two cities, price the upgrade; if you do not, do not buy it.
Joining fees, annual fees and the fine print
The franchise agreement’s definition of Gross Revenues explicitly names initiation fees, enrollment fees, processing fees, paid-in-full dues, renewal fees, monthly dues and annual membership fees. In other words, all of those are normal instruments in this system, and none of them are published. Ask directly whether there is an enrollment fee, whether an annual fee will hit your card on your join anniversary, and what the early-termination formula is, and get all three in writing.
Cash Price vs. Insurance
There is no insurance price for a fitness studio, and pre-tax dollars generally will not reach these dues. IRS Publication 502 states plainly that you cannot include membership dues in a gym, health club, or spa as medical expenses, and it lists health club dues among the expenses that are not includible. The narrow exception is a separate fee charged for weight loss activities when the weight loss treats a specific disease diagnosed by a physician, which requires a Letter of Medical Necessity and your plan administrator’s agreement. Do not build your budget on an HSA or FSA reimbursement you have not confirmed in advance.
Employer wellness stipends and insurer or Medicare Advantage fitness benefits are the more realistic route. Because Burn gyms are independently owned, participation in any of those networks is decided gym by gym, so ask your specific location whether it accepts your plan’s fitness benefit before you sign anything. Our gym membership cost guide walks through which benefits typically apply.
How to Pay Less
Buy the trial before you buy the pitch. The published $29 two-week offer is the cheapest way to see the gym, the childwatch room and the schedule before a salesperson quotes you a term. Some gyms run free one-day, three-day or seven-day trials instead. The $29 voucher must be redeemed within 14 days, activates on your first camp, is nonrefundable and works only at the gym that sold it, so buy it for the location you would actually join.
Price the term against your honest horizon. Twelve months saves roughly $50 a month over month-to-month, which is real money, but only if you finish it. If there is any chance of a move, a pregnancy, an injury or a job change in the next year, the month-to-month premium is cheap insurance against a buyout fight.
Ask what is waived, not what is discounted. Enrollment fees are the item most commonly waived at Burn locations during promotional windows, and a waived $99 enrollment fee is worth more than a $5 a month dues concession on a six-month term. Ask for the enrollment fee, the first-month proration and any annual fee to be spelled out on the agreement itself.
Do not buy On Demand twice. Burn On Demand is $29.99 a month or $159 a year on its own, but $9.99 a month as an add-on for in-gym members. If you are already paying dues, never buy the standalone subscription.
Get the all-in annual number, then check it. Ask for dues times the term, plus enrollment, plus any annual fee, as one figure, and compare it against local rates with our fair price checker. If dues keep hitting your card after you cancel, our guide to negotiating a bill covers documenting and escalating a disputed recurring charge, and if a disputed balance gets handed to a collection agency, the playbook in medical bills in collections applies to any consumer contract debt.
If the price is simply out of reach, change the category. A YMCA membership prices on household income and usually includes child watch, which is the same value proposition at a fraction of the cost, in the same way free and sliding-scale clinics price care on ability to pay.
The Bottom Line
A 12-month Burn Boot Camp agreement at $149 a month with a $49 enrollment fee is about $1,837 for the first year. Month to month at $200 is $2,400 a year with no exit penalty. The franchise data says the average member generates about $161 a month for their gym, which sits almost exactly in the middle of those two.
Burn is growing while much of boutique fitness contracts: the 2026 filing shows franchised gyms rising from 356 to 386 during 2025, with 393 total outlets at year end. Against the alternatives, it costs more than a conventional gym and lands in the same band as F45 and Orangetheory, but it is the only one of the three that bundles childcare. If childcare is not what you need and coaching is, a handful of sessions with a personal trainer may buy more attention per dollar than a year of group camps.