The Teachable Insider’s Guide
Everything we know about Teachable in one document: what it costs, its grades, getting a refund, getting help and what else to look at. Read it here, or keep a copy.
Teachable
The Insider’s Guide
Online course, coaching and membership platform with its own checkout
Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among course and community platforms, read from Teachable’s own pages.
Made by Teachable, Inc. · checked Oct 17, 2026 · toolgpa.com
Contents
- 01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
- 02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
- 03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
- 04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
- 05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
- 06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
- 07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
ToolGPA put this guide together from Teachable’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Teachable’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Oct 17, 2026.
Part 01 · Overview
Welcome
What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
2.4
GPA, above 8 of the 18 other course and community platforms we grade
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.
To get you started, here are 9 things to know about Teachable, taken from its own pages and our grades.
The AI course starter drafts a curriculum, so you're not starting from a blank page.
- 1
Best for selling courses to students around the world
The community side is thin next to its rivals.
- 2
Paid plans start at $29 a month
As its pricing page puts it: $29 per month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly).
- 3
You can try it first
7-day free trial, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee
- 4
It runs on 3 platforms
Web, iOS and Android.
- 5
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.
- 6
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.
- 7
Sales tools
Coupons, upsells, order bumps, bundles, abandoned cart emails and built-in email marketing. The affiliate program starts on Builder.
- 8
A 2.4 GPA, above 8 of 18
That is against the other course and community platforms we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
- 9
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.
Teachable at a glance
- Pricing
- Free trial, from $29 per month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- No
- Free trial
- 7-day free trial, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee
- Runs on
- Web, iOS, Android
- Made by
- Teachable, Inc.
- Category
- Courses & Communities
- Our grade
- 2.4 GPA, fair
- Store rating
- 4.6 on the App Store, 9,382 ratings
The report card
Best for selling courses to students around the world
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.
| Subject | Grade | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.
Who Teachable is for
- Great if your students are in many countries and you don't want to deal with VAT yourself
- Handy when you sell coaching or downloads next to a course
- Good for schools whose students learn on their phones, with apps on every plan
Who it is not for
- Skip it if a lively community is the point, since it's a student community at most
- Tight if you want certificates or a second admin, which need Growth at $139 a month
- Pricey if you stay on Starter once sales pick up, as 7.5% of every sale adds up fast
Good to know
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.
Part 02 · Pricing
What it costs
Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
$29
A month to start
Teachable is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $29 per month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly).
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.
Trying it first
7-day free trial, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee
Read from teachable.com on Oct 17, 2026.
Ways to pay less
Annual discount
Save 22% with yearly billing
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.
Stated on teachable.com
Part 03 · Features
What it does
Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
3
Places it runs: Web, iOS and Android
Online course, coaching and membership platform with its own checkout. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: public API, AI features, email campaigns, online courses.
Courses with drip, quizzes and graded short answers, coaching, downloads, memberships, upsells, cart recovery and email.
- 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.
Where it runs
- Web
- iOS
- Android
What it works with
- Stripe
- PayPal
- Zapier
- Mailchimp
- Google Analytics
- Zoom
Teachable is made by Teachable, Inc.
Part 04 · Standing
Where it stands
Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
8/18
Other course and community platforms it is graded above
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.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 19 course and community platforms we grade, cut by the letter each got. Teachable’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 3 of 18
- CFree plan and trialAbove 3 of 18
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 18
- BEase of useAbove 16 of 18
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 0 of 18
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 19 course and community platforms. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Teachable is the marked dot.
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
Keep it, or make your own?
Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.
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.
What you could make
- Online courses: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox.
- A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- It plugs into other products, Stripe, PayPal and Zapier among them, and has an API.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- People on the other end: coaches. No app builder makes those.
What this rests on. Teachable’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
Part 05 · Alternatives
The alternatives
The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
Thinkific, Kajabi, Podia, LearnWorlds and Graphy
The 5 tools Teachable is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.
- 2.4GPA
Thinkific
Free trial · from $40/mo
Course, community and membership platform for experts and academies.
- Only Teachable lists iOS and Android apps.
- Teachable also covers email campaigns.
- Thinkific also covers invoicing and community.
- 2.0GPA
Kajabi
Free trial · from $143/mo
All-in-one platform for selling courses, coaching and communities.
- Kajabi also covers marketing automation, paid newsletters and community.
- 2.4GPA
Podia
Free trial · from $42/mo
Website, store, courses, community and email for creators in one place.
- Only Teachable lists iOS and Android apps.
- Podia also covers marketing automation and community.
- 2.4GPA
LearnWorlds
Free trial · from $24/mo
Online academy builder for course creators and training teams.
- Only Teachable lists iOS and Android apps.
- LearnWorlds also covers community.
- 2.2GPA
Graphy
Free trial · from $49/mo
Course and membership platform with AI agents and branded apps.
Part 06 · Questions
Quick answers
The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
15
Questions, each answered in a line or two
The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.
Is Teachable free?
No, Teachable is a paid product, but you can try it first. 7-day free trial, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee.
How much does Teachable cost?
Teachable lists 4 plans. Starter: $29 per month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly).
What platforms does Teachable work on?
Teachable is available on Web, iOS and Android.
Does Teachable offer any discounts?
Teachable publicly lists the following: Save 22% with yearly billing.
How is Teachable rated?
Teachable's iPhone and iPad app averages 4.6 out of 5 from 9,382 ratings on the App Store in the United States, as read on Oct 17, 2026.
Does Teachable have a Windows app?
No Windows app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 17, 2026. Teachable is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Does Teachable have a macOS app?
No macOS app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 17, 2026. Teachable is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Is Teachable open source?
Teachable is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 17, 2026.
Does Teachable have an API?
Yes. Teachable offers a public API, according to its own site.
What does Teachable integrate with?
Teachable's listing names Stripe, PayPal, Zapier, Mailchimp, Google Analytics and Zoom.
Who makes Teachable?
Teachable is made by Teachable, Inc.
What are the alternatives to Teachable?
The closest alternatives to Teachable in our directory are Thinkific, Kajabi, Podia, LearnWorlds and Graphy.
How does Teachable compare with other 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.
Is Teachable good value for money?
ToolGPA grades Teachable C for value for money. 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.
Could I make my own version of Teachable?
To replace Teachable you would be making newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox.
Where this guide comes from
The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Teachable’s own pages on Oct 17, 2026, and the grades were given on Oct 17, 2026. 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.
Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by Teachable, Inc. Prices change, so check teachable.com before you buy.
Part 07 · About
About ToolGPA
Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
1,880
Tools graded, in 47 categories
ToolGPA grades software the way a school report grades a pupil: five subjects, a letter for each with the reason written beside it, and a GPA that averages them. Prices, plans and platforms are read from each maker’s own pages and dated, so you always know how fresh a figure is.
ToolGPA is free to read. It may earn a commission from affiliate links and it works with sponsors, but anything paid for is labelled and no one can pay for a grade. Every tool on the site has a guide like this one, free to download and pass on. It all lives at toolgpa.com.
1,880
tools graded
47
categories
426
price changes on record
579
apps priced in 12 countries
What else is on toolgpa.com
- Teachable, kept up to dateEverything in this guide, with prices and grades as they are todaytoolgpa.com/tools/teachable
- How grades are givenThe rules behind every letter and every GPAtoolgpa.com/grades
- Value chartsWhat each tool costs against what it scores, for every categorytoolgpa.com/charts
- CompareAny two tools side by side, plan by plantoolgpa.com/compare
- Price changesEvery price rise and cut on record, each with its sourcetoolgpa.com/price-changes
- Prices by countryWhat apps cost on the App Store in 12 countriestoolgpa.com/prices-by-country
- Pay lessEvery public discount: yearly billing, students, nonprofitstoolgpa.com/save
- Keep or makeWhich tools are worth paying for, and which you could build yourselftoolgpa.com/keep-or-make
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Prices and grades as they are today
Quoting this guide?
Please name ToolGPA and link to the live page, so readers can check the figures for themselves:
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Choosing software? Every tool graded, every price dated.
Compare tools at toolgpa.com ›Everything in this guide is ToolGPA’s own summary of what Teachable’s pages, its app-store listings and public reviews said on the dates shown. Grades are our judgement under the rules at toolgpa.com/grades. ToolGPA uses affiliate links and may earn a commission from them, and it works with sponsors; anything paid for is labelled, and no one can pay for a grade. Teachable is a trademark of its owner, and this guide is not made, paid for or approved by Teachable, Inc. Prices and plans change: check teachable.com before you buy.