Teachable pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Teachable (teachable.com) is a course platform. Tiered monthly or annual subscriptions capped by published products; Starter adds a 7.5% transaction fee, higher plans 0% with Teachable Payments.. No free plan.
What Teachable costs
- 1 course, $1k/mo sales: $89/mo (Builder $89/mo monthly, 0% fee with Teachable Payments = $89; beats Starter $39 + 7.5% x $1,000 ($75) = $114)
- 5 courses, $10k/mo sales: $189/mo (Growth $189/mo monthly, 0% fee; cheapest plan with branding removal and more than 1 admin seat (5 admins, 50 products))
Plan compared: Builder. Monthly USD on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) for a defined course business, including any transaction fee the platform itself takes on sales at that volume; card processing fees and hosting for WordPress plugins are not included. The headline is selling 1 course to 100 students at $1,000 a month; we also compare a 5-course business with 1,000 students, 2 admins, your own domain without platform branding and $10,000 a month in sales.
Teachable price hikes
No price hikes on record for Teachable.
Cheaper alternatives to Teachable
At 1 course selling $1,000 a month to 100 students, Teachable costs $89/mo. 1 course platform costs less:
- Thinkific: $54/mo (Basic)
Teachable alternatives: 2 course platforms compared, at every size.
Sources
Pricing page: teachable.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Current prices from teachable.com/pricing (no free plan, 7-day trial only). Price-change history not researched: the web search budget was exhausted and PricingSaaS has no Teachable page, so past changes (e.g. the removed free plan) are not recorded.