Gumroad
$200at 10 products
$200 a month dearer$200 at 5 products
Putting a course or a download on sale today with no bill until something sells.
- Also lists email marketing
- Does not list a community
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Whop alternatives
The 9 closest of 13, each with its real monthly cost at 10 products and what it does that Whop does not. See all 19.
Every platform here that costs less than Whop gives up something we verified. There is no cheaper like-for-like, so the question is which feature you are willing to trade, and the cards below name it for each one. That is a point in its favour, not a dodge.
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 $0 a month at 10 products with the add-ons it forces on you included. No other platform on this site costs less than that.
The closest thing to Whop
Ranked by how much of what we record for Whop each platform also does. Gumroad is the nearest, and it is $200 a month dearer at 10 products. Nothing we verified is missing; the only gaps are features Whop lists and Gumroad does not, which is weaker evidence.
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.
Payhip
$69at 10 products
$69 a month dearer$69 at 5 products
Selling courses, downloads and memberships from a free storefront and paying a cut only when you sell.
- Also lists email marketing and a website builder
- Does not list a community
Podia
$84at 10 products
$84 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 certificates, email marketing, quizzes and assessments and a website builder
Heights Platform
$49at 500 students
$49 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, certificates, email marketing, a mobile app, quizzes and assessments and a website builder
Teachery
$39.17at 500 students
$39.17 a month dearer$39.17 at 250 students
Paying once and owning it: one flat price, or a lifetime licence, with nothing metered.
- Also lists certificates, email marketing, quizzes and assessments and a website builder
- Does not list a community
Thinkific
$54at 500 students
$54 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, certificates, email marketing, live events and cohorts, a mobile app, quizzes and assessments and a website builder
Kajabi
$249at 5,000 contacts
$249 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, email marketing, live events and cohorts, a mobile app, quizzes and assessments and a website builder
Xperiencify
$99at 500 students
$99 a month dearer$99 at 250 students
Courses built around gamification: points, streaks and triggers to get students to actually finish.
- Also lists certificates, email marketing, a mobile app, quizzes and assessments and a website builder
- Does not list digital downloads
Kartra
$229at 5,000 contacts
$229 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 certificates, email marketing, live events and cohorts, quizzes and assessments and a website builder
- Does not list digital downloads
What Whop is still the best answer for
Selling access to a community, a course or software with no subscription and the payments stack handled.
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. Which is why nothing cheaper here matches it.
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 Whop. 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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