Teachable Alternatives

Thinkific does the same job as Teachable: a hosted school with a course player, checkout and student accounts, but it does not cap how many courses you publish. Start, Grow and Expand all include unlimited published courses, where Teachable stops at 5 products on Starter, 10 on Builder and 50 on Growth. Start costs $109 a month, or $82 a month billed annually; Grow is $219 a month or $164 billed annually.

The price comparison cuts both ways. Thinkific Start costs more than Teachable Starter ($39 a month) and Builder ($89 a month), so you pay a premium for room to grow. What you get is a catalog that never forces an upgrade, 2 admin seats on Start including the site owner, and a 30-day trial long enough to rebuild one course before you pay anything. If Thinkific itself feels heavy once you are in, our Thinkific alternatives page lists where people go next.

Podia puts courses, digital downloads, a storefront and email under one simple dashboard. Mover costs $42 a month billed annually ($504 a year) and allows 50 products, ten times Teachable Starter's 5, but it keeps a 5% transaction fee and only 100 email subscribers. Shaker, at $84 a month billed annually ($1,008 a year), removes Podia's fee, lifts you to 150 products and 500 email subscribers. Earthquaker is $150 a month billed annually with unlimited products.

Compared with Teachable, the logic is close: a cheap entry plan with a fee, then a fee-free plan. Podia's fee on Mover is 5% against 7.5% on Teachable Starter, and its product cap is far looser. The 14-day trial covers every feature, and if you pay and change your mind, Podia refunds a payment within 72 hours.

LearnWorlds is the alternative for people who teach rather than just publish videos. It adds interactive video, assessments and a site builder, and from Pro Trainer it accepts SCORM, the package format corporate training teams use. Starter costs $49 a month or $44 billed annually, with unlimited paid courses but a $5 fee for each enrollment and no free courses. Pro Trainer, at $99 a month or $79 billed annually, drops the enrollment fee and adds certificates and up to 20 SCORM uploads.

Against Teachable, Starter looks close on price but charges per enrollment instead of a percentage. On a $20 mini course, $5 is 25% of the sale; on a $500 program it is 1%. So LearnWorlds Starter suits expensive courses, and Pro Trainer suits volume.

Systeme.io is an all-in-one marketing tool that also hosts courses. Its free plan has no end date but stops taking payments after $10,000 in lifetime sales, and includes 2,000 contacts, 3 sales funnels, 1 course, 1 blog, 1 affiliate program and 1 custom domain. Startup costs $17 a month with 5,000 contacts, 10 funnels and 5 courses; Webinar is $47 a month with 10,000 contacts and 20 courses; Unlimited is $97 a month. Every plan, free included, has 0% transaction fees, and annual billing gives 2 months free.

Against Teachable, the gap is mostly cost. A year of Startup is $204, less than half a year of Teachable Starter on monthly billing, and you keep 100% of each sale before card fees. The trade-off is a plainer course player and student experience, so it fits creators who sell with funnels and email, not schools that live on course design. Its built-in automations can be extended: see how to connect Systeme.io with Make.

Kajabi is the premium all-in-one: website, funnels, email, checkout, courses, coaching and community under one login, with 0% revenue share. Basic costs $179 a month or $143 a month billed annually ($1,716 a year), Growth $249 a month or $199 billed annually. Contacts above your plan come in blocks of 25,000 for $125 a month. There is a 14-day trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Compared with Teachable, Kajabi costs more than four times Starter's monthly price, but it replaces the email platform, page builder and funnel tool that most Teachable schools pay for separately. Kajabi itself pitches Basic at experts making their first $10k a year; below that, the bill is hard to justify. Card processing still applies on top.

Skool is a community first: a feed, a calendar, leaderboards and a classroom tab for courses. Both plans include unlimited members and unlimited courses. Hobby costs $9 a month with a 10% transaction fee; Pro costs $99 a month with a 2.9% transaction fee. On yearly billing they drop to $7.50 and $82 a month, which Skool sells as 2 months free.

Against Teachable, Skool flips the model: a $9 entry price, but a 10% fee on Hobby. Hobby's 10% beats Teachable Starter's 7.5% only on the smallest revenue; at $2,000 of monthly sales, Hobby takes $200 and Teachable Starter $150. Course features are thin: no checkout pages to design, no quiz depth, no certificates of the kind course schools sell. To pass new members to your CRM or email tool, see how to connect Skool with Make.

Payhip is a storefront for digital products, courses, memberships and coaching. Its pricing is the inverse of Teachable's: every plan has all features and unlimited products, and only the fee changes. Free Forever costs $0 with a 5% transaction fee, Plus is $29 a month with 2%, and Pro is $99 a month with no transaction fee.

Against Teachable Starter, Payhip Free keeps a 5% fee with no monthly bill, while Starter costs $39 a month and takes 7.5%. Payhip Free stays cheaper than Plus until about $967 of monthly sales, and Plus stays cheaper than Pro until $3,500. The course player is simpler than Teachable's, so it fits a creator for whom courses are one product among several. To send each sale to a spreadsheet or an email list, see how to connect Payhip with Zapier.