# Teachable

> Online course, coaching and membership platform with its own checkout

Teachable is a platform for selling online courses, coaching, digital downloads and memberships from a school with your own brand and domain. Its built-in checkout, Teachable Payments, collects and remits sales tax, VAT and GST, and students can learn on the web or in iOS and Android apps. Teachable is part of Hotmart Company.

- **Category:** Courses & Communities
- **Made by:** Teachable, Inc.
- **Website:** https://www.teachable.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

Teachable is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $29 per month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 7-day free trial, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Starter | $29 per month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly) | 5 products, 1 admin user, AI tools, student apps, upsells and cart recovery. Teachable takes a 7.5% transaction fee on each sale. |
| Builder | $69 per month, billed annually ($89 billed monthly) | 10 products, 1 admin user, no transaction fee with Teachable Payments, a student community, an affiliate program and real-time support. |
| Growth | $139 per month, billed annually ($189 billed monthly) | 50 products, 5 admin users, certificates, no Teachable branding, student imports, custom admin permissions, subtitles and translations. |
| Custom | Custom | For high-volume schools: flexible product and admin seats, a sandbox school, a success manager, priority support and migration help. |

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

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 22% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Teachable's pricing page says yearly billing saves 22%: Starter $29 a month instead of $39, Builder $69 instead of $89, Growth $139 instead of $189. Source: https://www.teachable.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Courses, coaching and downloads:** Video and text courses with drip content, auto-graded quizzes and short-answer assessments, plus 1:1 or group coaching, digital downloads and memberships.
- **Teachable Payments:** Built-in checkout with 35+ local payment methods that collects and remits sales tax, VAT and GST in 45+ countries, with daily payouts.
- **Sales tools:** Coupons, upsells, order bumps, bundles, abandoned cart emails and built-in email marketing. The affiliate program starts on Builder.
- **AI course tools:** An AI course starter drafts a curriculum, a generator turns lessons into quizzes, and videos get subtitles translated into 70+ languages on Growth.
- **Student apps:** Students reach their courses on the web or in Teachable's iOS and Android apps, which are included on every plan.
- **Integrations and API:** Zapier and webhooks on every plan, and a public API on Growth with 10,000 requests a month.

## Good for

- Creators selling courses to students in many countries who want tax handled
- Teachers adding coaching or downloads beside a course
- Schools whose students learn on their phones

## Worth knowing

- Starter takes 7.5% of each sale on top of processing fees: 2.9% + 30 cents for US cards, 3.9% + 30 cents for international cards.
- There is no free plan, only a 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Certificates, removing Teachable branding and more than 1 admin user all need Growth at $139 a month billed annually.
- Products are capped at 5, 10 and 50 by plan; memberships, bundles and drafts do not count.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Teachable is a straightforward course store with a checkout that collects and pays sales tax, VAT and GST for you in 45+ countries, and student apps on every plan. The catch is Starter's 7.5% cut: once you're selling, Builder at $69 a month billed yearly is the real price. The community side is thin next to its rivals.

- **Value for money: C.** Starter is $29 a month billed yearly, but its 7.5% fee adds $150 on $2,000 of sales, making $179. Builder at $69 takes no fee with Teachable Payments, so $69 a month is what you'd pay: above this category's dearer quarter ($59), well short of its dearest tenth.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan. There's a 7-day free trial, and the listing doesn't say it needs a card, then a 30-day money-back guarantee once you've paid.
- **Features: C.** Courses with drip, quizzes and graded short answers, coaching, downloads, memberships, upsells, cart recovery and email. The course job is covered; the gap is community, which is a student community on Builder rather than the spaces and events rivals offer.
- **Ease of use: B.** 4.62 from about 9,400 App Store ratings, a little under the 4.7 an A needs. The AI course starter drafts a curriculum, so you're not starting from a blank page.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android for students, with Zapier and webhooks on every plan and a public API on Growth. No desktop app, which an A needs.

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

## Where it stands among course and community platforms

- Teachable'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 ease of use (B, above 16 of 18) and worst on features (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $29 a month, against a middle price of $41 for the category: 4 of the 17 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

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

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Teachable 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 $348 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: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Stripe, PayPal and Zapier among them, and has an API.
- 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.

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

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.6 out of 5 from 9,382 ratings in the United States, read Oct 17, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1177062376

## Works with

Stripe, PayPal, Zapier, Mailchimp, Google Analytics, Zoom

**Tags:** Online courses, Email campaigns, AI features, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Thinkific](https://toolgpa.com/tools/thinkific): Course, community and membership platform for experts and academies. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/teachable-vs-thinkific)
- [Kajabi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kajabi): All-in-one platform for selling courses, coaching and communities. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kajabi-vs-teachable)
- [Podia](https://toolgpa.com/tools/podia): Website, store, courses, community and email for creators in one place. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/podia-vs-teachable)
- [LearnWorlds](https://toolgpa.com/tools/learnworlds): Online academy builder for course creators and training teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/learnworlds-vs-teachable)
- [Graphy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/graphy): Course and membership platform with AI agents and branded apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/graphy-vs-teachable)

## Sources

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

- https://www.teachable.com/pricing
- https://www.teachable.com

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/teachable
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).