Everyone enters the New Year hoping to upgrade their confidence and fitness – discover a budget-friendly or splurge-worthy gym that fits your price point.
There’s always a running joke that gyms become full at the start of January due to resolutions, and they become empty again in a month. Does that sound like you?
If so, then this is your sign to commit to the gym. After all, the more you go, according to girl math, the more it basically becomes free.
With gyms in Toronto ranging from $15 a month to $1,000, all offering different services, it’s important you find a gym that’s the right fit for you and your budget.
UNITY
Where: 120 Downes St, Suite 200
Cost:
- Month-to-month: $242.95 plus tax every month for 12 months
- Commitment membership: $169.50 plus tax every month for 6 months
- 12-month commitment membership: $158.20 plus tax every month for 12 months
UNITY is a wellness club in the waterfront neighbourhood, featuring premium equipment and amenities, as well as curated services and boutique classes. This includes the open fitness area, the strength training section, the group Ex studio for classes, a hot yoga studio with infrared panels, a 42 ICG-bike cycle studio, the HIIT area, and a gymnasium.
If you’d like to do an aquatic workout or relax, there’s also an indoor pool and cold plunge. This gym offers a variety of self-guided and group classes, aquatics for detox, and a members’ lounge to complete some work post-workout.
Feel free to test out the gym before committing to their flex passes, which offer three, five, or ten class visits.
Sweat & Tonic
Where: 486 Front St. W., Units SF 32 and 33 | 225 Yonge St.
Cost:
- Yonge/Shutter: $260 unlimited per month
- The Well: $290 unlimited per month
- Tonic spa pool deck: $100 unlimited per month
Sweat & Tonic offers a group setting workout experience ranging from yoga, Pilates, HIIT, ride and Lagree classes. It also promotes wellness and recovery through an infrared sauna, massages, and other services, and has a lounge to build community to make your fitness journey a little more pleasing.
It also offers credits or five-class packages if you want to test out the gym, and is offering a New Year’s sale, letting you save up to $78 on your first month, so check it out before it expires on Jan. 15, 2026.
Altea
Where: 25 Ordnance St. | 12 Blue Jays Way
Cost:
- Gold Membership: $72.99 bi-weekly, plus $199.99 one-time initiation fee
- Diamond Membership: $134.99 bi-weekly, plus $99.99 one-time initiation fee
- Diamond Flex Membership: $159.99 bi-weekly, plus $249.99 one-time initiation fee
Altea, a fitness and wellness club located in both Liberty Village and the waterfront area, has six studios with over 270 classes a week, ranging from cycle, yoga and hot yoga, Pilates, antigravity fitness, boxing, strength and barre. It also promotes post-workout wellness with steam rooms, saunas, a hot tub, contrast therapy, and community areas for healthy snacks.
AVANT Club
Where: 1 Bloor St. E.
Cost:
- Garde: $185 every two weeks, plus a $500 one-time initiation fee
- Privé: $250 every two weeks, plus a $500 one-time initiation fee
If you want to enter the new year with a bougie gym experience in one of Toronto’s most expensive areas, Yorkville’s AVANT Club might be the gym for you.
Memberships include a personalized fitness and wellness prescription, six distinct boutique fitness studios offering 250+ classes weekly, an open gym floor, and some wellness detox elements, such as a cold plunge, dry sauna and steam cabin, and science-backed recovery including lymphatic drainage, red light and normatec compression, complimentary espresso and day parking (perfect for commuters.)
If you’re scared to fully commit, AVANT promises a hassle-free membership cancellation if you’ve visited three times within the first ten days, and you’re not satisfied.
Fit Factory Fitness
Where: 373 King St. W. | 161 Eglinton Ave. E.
Cost:
- One month all-access pass for new clients: $99 per month
- 12-month committed unlimited: $229 per month
Fit Factory Fitness is a group fitness studio that combines functional, HIIT, strength, circuit, athletic conditioning, bodyweight, boxing and military-style training into one program. If this interests you, it offers memberships such as class packages, refined reformer rates, no-commitment memberships, and six-month and twelve-month packages. That way, you can choose your workout plan based on your budget.
FitnessTO
Where: 65+ locations
Cost:
- Adult All-access 12-month: $280.33 plus tax, three-month: $83.86, one-month: $49.44
- Youth and Older Adult All-access 12-month: $140.18 plus tax, three-month: $41.12, one-month: $24.72
FitnessTO is a Toronto-based program that allows Torontonians to get their workout on without breaking the bank. It offers day and multi-visit passes, as well as various memberships, including FitnessTO, FitnessTO All-Access, and FitnessTO Plus Swim.
This program gives members access to over 40 weight rooms and 30 indoor pools across the city, with a list available online.
Classpass
Where: 100+ studios
Cost:
- 8 credits: $20 per month
- 24 credits: $59 per month
- 38 credits: $89 per month
- 64 credits: $139 per month
- 82 credits: $169 per month
- 121 credits: $249 per month
Too many good gym options and can’t decide on a gym? Classpass lets you visit numerous gyms without the cost of multiple memberships. Some of the gyms from above, such as UNITY, Sweat & Tonic, and Fit Factory, are on the list. Browse the website for a list of over 100 studios that cater to several gym interests, from Pilates and yoga to strength training and more.
