Payhip
$69at 10 products
$131 a month cheaper$69 at 5 products
Selling courses, downloads and memberships from a free storefront and paying a cut only when you sell.
- Also lists a website builder
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Gumroad alternatives
The 9 closest of 13, each with its real monthly cost at 10 products and what it does that Gumroad does not. See all 19.
Payhip does everything we verified about Gumroad for $131 a month less at 10 products, $69 against $200. It is a price cut rather than an upgrade: on the two features checked against the vendors’ own pricing pages the two are level.
Why people look for an alternative
We have no recorded weakness for it, so this page is a price and feature comparison rather than a list of complaints.
It runs $200 a month at 10 products with the add-ons it forces on you included. 11 of the 13 alternatives on this site cost less than that.
The closest thing to Gumroad
Ranked by how much of what we record for Gumroad each platform also does. Payhip is the nearest, and it is $131 a month cheaper at 10 products. On every feature this site records, the two are level.
Cheaper, with nothing we record missing
Everything this site records for Gumroad is also recorded for these, and they cost less at 10 products, each priced on what it charges by. That is not the same as saying they are better: the last column is what Gumroad is built for that they are not, and for someone who needs that, the saving is not a saving.
| Platform | At 10 products | You save | What Gumroad does that it does not |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teachery | $39.17 | $160.83 | the cheapest way to sell something today and a storefront that takes a cut instead of a subscription |
| Heights Platform | $49 | $151 | the cheapest way to sell something today and a storefront that takes a cut instead of a subscription |
| Thinkific | $54 | $146 | the cheapest way to sell something today and a storefront that takes a cut instead of a subscription |
| Payhip | $69 | $131 | nothing we record |
| Podia | $84 | $116 | the cheapest way to sell something today and a storefront that takes a cut instead of a subscription |
| Teachable | $89 | $111 | the cheapest way to sell something today and a storefront that takes a cut instead of a subscription |
The rest, in order of how close they are
Prices are the real monthly cost at 10 products, or the equivalent size on whatever each one charges by, with the add-ons each platform forces on you included, from the same engine the shortlist quiz uses.
Whop
$0at 10 products
$200 a month cheaper$0 at 5 products
Selling access to a community, a course or software with no subscription and the payments stack handled.
- Also lists a community
- Does not list email marketing
Teachery
$39.17at 500 students
$160.83 a month cheaper$39.17 at 250 students
Paying once and owning it: one flat price, or a lifetime licence, with nothing metered.
- Also lists certificates, quizzes and assessments and a website builder
Podia
$84at 10 products
$116 a month cheaper$84 at 5 products
Courses, downloads and a community on one simple bill, for a creator who wants the least admin.
- Also lists certificates, a community, quizzes and assessments and a website builder
Teachable
$89at 10 products
$111 a month cheaper$89 at 5 products
Selling a handful of courses without wanting the platform to run your whole business.
- Also lists certificates, live events and cohorts, a mobile app, quizzes and assessments and a website builder
Heights Platform
$49at 500 students
$151 a month cheaper$49 at 250 students
Growing from a first challenge to a large student base on one platform, with AI drafting the course and no cut of sales.
- Also lists building the course with AI, certificates, a community, a mobile app, quizzes and assessments and a website builder
Thinkific
$54at 500 students
$146 a month cheaper$54 at 250 students
A straight course platform with communities bolted on, where the price does not move with students.
- Also lists building the course with AI, certificates, a community, live events and cohorts, a mobile app, quizzes and assessments and a website builder
Kajabi
$249at 5,000 contacts
$49 a month dearer$179 at 2,500 contacts
Running the whole business from one place: courses, the email list, the website, the checkout and the community, and paying for that convenience.
- Also lists building the course with AI, certificates, a community, live events and cohorts, a mobile app, quizzes and assessments and a website builder
Xperiencify
$99at 500 students
$101 a month cheaper$99 at 250 students
Courses built around gamification: points, streaks and triggers to get students to actually finish.
- Also lists certificates, a community, a mobile app, quizzes and assessments and a website builder
- Does not list digital downloads
What Gumroad is still the best answer for
Putting a course or a download on sale today with no bill until something sells.
On this site it is the pick for the cheapest way to sell something today and a storefront that takes a cut instead of a subscription. If that is you, read the savings above and then ignore them.
How to read the feature lines
Two features were checked against each vendor's own pricing page: a free plan and running on your own WordPress. Those are the ones written above as does and does not. The other twelve are read out of each vendor's own pricing page, so an absence there means we did not find it listed, not that the product lacks it, and those lines say lists and does not list instead. How all of this gets checked.
Or let it pick for you
This page compares everything to Gumroad. The shortlist asks 8 questions about what you sell and how many students you have, and gives you four picks priced at your own numbers, which is a better question than “what is like the one I already have”.
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