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The 9 closest of 18, each with its real monthly cost at 500 students and what it does that Thinkific does not. See all 19.
LearnWorlds does everything we verified about Thinkific for $25 a month less at 500 students, $29 against $54. 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: Thinkific is built for a mature platform with a large creator base and keeping every dollar of your sales and LearnWorlds is not, so this is a swap with a cost.
We have no recorded weakness for it, so this page is a price and feature comparison rather than a list of complaints.
It runs $54 a month at 500 students with the add-ons it forces on you included. 7 of the 18 alternatives on this site cost less than that.
Ranked by how much of what we record for Thinkific each platform also does. Kajabi is the nearest, and it is $195 a month dearer at 5,000 contacts (Thinkific at 500 students; they charge by different things). On every feature this site records, the two are level.
$195 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.
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.
$25 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.
$5 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.
$35 a month dearer$89 at 5 products
Selling a handful of courses without wanting the platform to run your whole business.
$30 a month dearer$84 at 5 products
Courses, downloads and a community on one simple bill, for a creator who wants the least admin.
$45 a month dearer$99 at 250 students
Courses built around gamification: points, streaks and triggers to get students to actually finish.
$75 a month dearer$129 at 250 members
A community that feels like a product, with courses, events and a branded app around it.
$175 a month dearer$119 at 2,500 contacts
Memberships and courses with the email, checkout and affiliate programme around them, priced by contacts.
$14.83 a month cheaper$39.17 at 250 students
Paying once and owning it: one flat price, or a lifetime licence, with nothing metered.
A straight course platform with communities bolted on, where the price does not move with students.
On this site it is the pick for a mature platform with a large creator base and keeping every dollar of your sales. If that is you, read the savings above and then ignore them.
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.
This page compares everything to Thinkific. 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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