Podia
$84at 10 products
$44.83 a month dearer$84 at 5 products
Courses, downloads and a community on one simple bill, for a creator who wants the least admin.
- Also lists a community
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Teachery alternatives
The 9 closest of 18, each with its real monthly cost at 500 students and what it does that Teachery does not. See all 19.
LearnWorlds does everything we verified about Teachery for $10.17 a month less at 500 students, $29 against $39.17. 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: Teachery is built for paying yearly or once rather than per student, the least admin to get a course on sale and keeping every dollar of your sales 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 $39.17 a month at 500 students with the add-ons it forces on you included. 5 of the 18 alternatives on this site cost less than that.
The closest thing to Teachery
Ranked by how much of what we record for Teachery each platform also does. Podia is the nearest, and it is $44.83 a month dearer at 10 products (Teachery at 500 students; they charge by different things). 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.
Teachable
$89at 10 products
$49.83 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 and a mobile app
Payhip
$69at 10 products
$29.83 a month dearer$69 at 5 products
Selling courses, downloads and memberships from a free storefront and paying a cut only when you sell.
- Does not list certificates and quizzes and assessments
Heights Platform
$49at 500 students
$9.83 a month dearer$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, a community and a mobile app
Xperiencify
$99at 500 students
$59.83 a month dearer$99 at 250 students
Courses built around gamification: points, streaks and triggers to get students to actually finish.
- Also lists a community and a mobile app
- Does not list digital downloads
Kartra
$229at 5,000 contacts
$189.83 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 a community and live events and cohorts
- Does not list digital downloads
Thinkific
$54at 500 students
$14.83 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 building the course with AI, a community, live events and cohorts and a mobile app
Kajabi
$249at 5,000 contacts
$209.83 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, a community, live events and cohorts and a mobile app
Gumroad
$200at 10 products
$160.83 a month dearer$200 at 5 products
Putting a course or a download on sale today with no bill until something sells.
- Does not list certificates, quizzes and assessments and a website builder
What Teachery is still the best answer for
Paying once and owning it: one flat price, or a lifetime licence, with nothing metered.
On this site it is the pick for paying yearly or once rather than per student, the least admin to get a course on sale and keeping every dollar of your sales. 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 Teachery. 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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