Thinkific
$54at 500 students
$5 a month dearer$54 at 250 students
A straight course platform with communities bolted on, where the price does not move with students.
- Also lists live events and cohorts
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Heights Platform alternatives
The 9 closest of 18, each with its real monthly cost at 500 students and what it does that Heights Platform does not. See all 19.
LearnWorlds does everything we verified about Heights Platform for $20 a month less at 500 students, $29 against $49. It is a price cut rather than an upgrade: on the two features checked against the vendors’ own pricing pages the two are level. The trade: Heights Platform is built for keeping every dollar of your sales and growing to a large student base without a price jump and LearnWorlds is not, so this is a swap with a cost.
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 $49 a month at 500 students with the add-ons it forces on you included. 6 of the 18 alternatives on this site cost less than that.
The closest thing to Heights Platform
Ranked by how much of what we record for Heights Platform each platform also does. Thinkific is the nearest, and it is $5 a month dearer at 500 students. On every feature this site records, the two are level.
The rest, in order of how close they are
Prices are the real monthly cost at 500 students, 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.
Kajabi
$249at 5,000 contacts
$200 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 live events and cohorts
LearnWorlds
$29at 500 students
$20 a month cheaper$29 at 250 students
Course design that goes deep: interactive video, assessments, learning paths, a branded app, for someone whose course IS the product.
- Also lists live events and cohorts
- Does not list digital downloads
Podia
$84at 10 products
$35 a month dearer$84 at 5 products
Courses, downloads and a community on one simple bill, for a creator who wants the least admin.
- Does not list building the course with AI and a mobile app
Xperiencify
$99at 500 students
$50 a month dearer$99 at 250 students
Courses built around gamification: points, streaks and triggers to get students to actually finish.
- Does not list building the course with AI and digital downloads
Teachable
$89at 10 products
$40 a month dearer$89 at 5 products
Selling a handful of courses without wanting the platform to run your whole business.
- Also lists live events and cohorts
- Does not list building the course with AI and a community
Teachery
$39.17at 500 students
$9.83 a month cheaper$39.17 at 250 students
Paying once and owning it: one flat price, or a lifetime licence, with nothing metered.
- Does not list building the course with AI, a community and a mobile app
Circle
$129at 500 members
$80 a month dearer$129 at 250 members
A community that feels like a product, with courses, events and a branded app around it.
- Also lists live events and cohorts
- Does not list certificates, digital downloads and quizzes and assessments
Kartra
$229at 5,000 contacts
$180 a month dearer$119 at 2,500 contacts
Memberships and courses with the email, checkout and affiliate programme around them, priced by contacts.
- Also lists live events and cohorts
- Does not list building the course with AI, digital downloads and a mobile app
What Heights Platform is still the best answer for
Growing from a first challenge to a large student base on one platform, with AI drafting the course and no cut of sales.
On this site it is the pick for having AI draft the course, keeping every dollar of your sales and growing to a large student base without a price jump. 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.
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This page compares everything to Heights Platform. 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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