# Podia

> Website, store, courses, community and email for creators in one place

Podia lets creators sell online courses, digital downloads, coaching, events and paid community memberships from their own website and blog. Email marketing with newsletters and automations is built in, priced by the number of subscribers. Podia Labs is an independent company that has been running Podia since 2014.

- **Category:** Courses & Communities
- **Made by:** Podia Labs, Inc. (since 2014)
- **Website:** https://www.podia.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

Podia is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $42 per month for up to 100 subscribers, billed annually ($49 monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of every feature, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mover | $42 per month for up to 100 subscribers, billed annually ($49 monthly) | 50 products, 500 videos, 25 community spaces. Podia takes a 5% transaction fee. $98 a month at 10,000 subscribers, billed annually. |
| Shaker | $84 per month for up to 500 subscribers, billed annually ($99 monthly) | 150 products, 1,000 videos, 100 spaces, no transaction fee, 1 assistant, affiliates, upsells, PayPal and Zapier. $140 a month at 10,000 subscribers. |
| Earthquaker | $150 per month for up to 1,000 subscribers, billed annually ($179 monthly) | Unlimited products, videos, spaces and assistants, no transaction fee. $206 a month at 10,000 subscribers, billed annually. |

Read from https://www.podia.com/pricing on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Podia before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Lower monthly price with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Billed yearly, Mover is $42 a month instead of $49, Shaker $84 instead of $99 and Earthquaker $150 instead of $179. Source: https://www.podia.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Courses, downloads and coaching:** Courses with drip lessons, quizzes, certificates and unlimited students, plus digital downloads, bookable coaching, and live or in-person events.
- **Community:** Topic spaces, group chat, member-to-member messages, badges and paid membership tiers. Everyone who signs up or buys joins the community.
- **Website, blog and checkout:** Pages, a blog and your own domain, with a one-page checkout, payment plans, coupons, subscriptions and tax handled for 230 jurisdictions.
- **Email marketing:** Broadcasts to the whole list or a segment, welcome sequences and automations, and blog posts sent to subscribers as newsletters.
- **Podia Agent and MCP:** A built-in AI assistant that works inside your account, and an MCP connection for Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. Both are on every plan.

## Good for

- Creators who want site, store, community and email in one bill
- Small lists, since email is priced by subscriber count
- Sellers of a mix of courses, downloads and coaching

## Worth knowing

- Mover adds a 5% Podia fee to each sale; Stripe or PayPal also charge their own fee of about 2.9% plus 30 cents.
- Plans include only 100, 500 or 1,000 email subscribers; 10,000 adds $56 a month billed annually ($70 monthly) on any plan.
- PayPal, Zapier, affiliate marketing, upsells and assistant seats need Shaker or Earthquaker.
- Refunds are given only within 72 hours of the latest payment; there is no free plan.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Podia gives you a website, blog, store, courses, community and email on one bill, and it's one of the friendlier all-in-ones. Mover looks cheap at $42 a month billed yearly, but it keeps 5% of sales, so most sellers end up on Shaker at $84. Email is capped by subscriber count too, so a big list costs extra.

- **Value for money: C.** Mover is $42 a month billed yearly but adds a 5% fee, $100 on $2,000 of sales: $142. Shaker at $84 takes no fee, so $84 a month is what you'd pay, inside this category's usual range but above its dearer quarter ($59). Shaker includes 500 email subscribers.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan. There's a 14-day trial of every feature with no card needed, and once you pay, refunds only within 72 hours of the latest payment.
- **Features: B.** Courses with quizzes and certificates, downloads, coaching, events, a community with chat, a website and blog, checkout with tax for 230 jurisdictions, email automations and an MCP connection. No gap in the job; PayPal, Zapier and affiliates just need Shaker.
- **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record. Everything's in one place, which helps, but you still build a site, a store and your emails before selling.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Stripe, PayPal, Zapier, Zoom, Calendly, Kit, Mailchimp and Discord, plus MCP for Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. No phone or desktop apps listed.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Podia's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among course and community platforms

- Podia's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 8 of the 18 other course and community platforms we grade, and level with 6.
- It stands best on features (B, above 10 of 18) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $42 a month, against a middle price of $41 for the category: 9 of the 17 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/courses-communities

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Podia you would be making newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $504 a year.

- You could make: Online courses: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox.
- You could not: Email sent in volume that still reaches the inbox.
- You could not: A members' space with posts, chat and events that people keep coming back to.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Stripe, PayPal and Zapier among them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: People on the other end: coaches. No app builder makes those.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Stripe, PayPal, Zapier, Zoom, Calendly, Kit, Mailchimp, Discord

**Tags:** Online courses, Community, Email campaigns, Marketing automation, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Kajabi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kajabi): All-in-one platform for selling courses, coaching and communities. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kajabi-vs-podia)
- [Teachable](https://toolgpa.com/tools/teachable): Online course, coaching and membership platform with its own checkout. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/podia-vs-teachable)
- [Thinkific](https://toolgpa.com/tools/thinkific): Course, community and membership platform for experts and academies. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/podia-vs-thinkific)
- [Kit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kit): Email marketing and paid newsletters for creators. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kit-vs-podia)
- [systeme.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/systeme-io): All-in-one marketing suite with funnels, email, courses and community. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/podia-vs-systeme-io)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://www.podia.com/pricing
- https://www.podia.com/features
- https://www.podia.com/integrations
- https://www.podia.com/about

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/podia
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