When people ask me about Teachable, they've usually decided already that it's a competent piece of software. It is. What they're really asking is which of its four plans they'll be on in two years, and what will have moved them there.
If you have already narrowed it to Kajabi or Skool, that comparison is written out separately.
That's worth settling before you look at a single feature table. Teachable sells a ladder. You buy a rung, and the things that push you up a rung are mostly things you'd otherwise call good news: more students, more courses, wanting to hand somebody a certificate at the end. So the number you agree to today isn't the price. It's the first price.
The four rungs, from their own page
I captured teachable.com/pricing on 23 August 2026, and the screenshot is filed with this article, because a competitor's price is only worth quoting if you can show where you got it. Their page has a monthly and yearly switch and it opens on yearly, so both numbers are here. Yearly saves 22%, by their own labelling.
- Starter. $39 a month billed monthly, $29 billed annually. 5 products, 1 admin user, 100 active students, 7.5% sales transaction fee.
- Builder. $89 a month billed monthly, $69 billed annually. 10 products, 1 admin user, 1,000 active students, 0% transaction fee, an affiliate programme.
- Growth. $189 a month billed monthly, $139 billed annually. 50 products, 5 admin users, 5,000 active students, 0% transaction fee, course certificates, and the option to remove Teachable branding.
- Custom. Contact them.
All three self-serve plans list a 7-day free trial and a 30-day guarantee.
CourseSpaces is $47 a month. There is one plan, and it holds 1,000 active students, unlimited courses and products, and takes 0% of your sales.
An aside that helps nobody: every software company alive has a plan called Growth, and I have never met one person who felt they were on it. Starter, Builder, Growth. The same three words in the same order everywhere, like pub names.
What moves you up a rung
Look at what separates those rows and you'll notice it isn't really sophistication. Starter and Growth both build courses. Both list the AI features, the student apps, global payments and tax handling, upsells and cart recovery. What separates them is volume, and two specific things.
The first is certificates. On their page today, course certificates appear on the Growth plan and not on Starter or Builder. If you teach something with continuing professional development attached, or your students simply expect something to print at the end, that's the rung you're on: $189 a month billed monthly, $139 billed annually. The second is branding. Removing Teachable's name from what your students see is also a Growth-plan line.
The volume side is quieter and it catches more people. Starter holds 100 active students. That sounds generous in your first year and it stops sounding generous somewhere in your third, and the day it stops, the jump is to $89 a month billed monthly or $69 annually, which is where Builder's 1,000 students and 0% transaction fee live. None of this is hidden. It's printed on the page in plain figures, and Teachable are entitled to sell in tiers - most software does, and for a business running a large operation the top rungs are genuinely well stocked. It's just worth knowing that the ladder is the product, and that you climb it by succeeding.
The smaller, newer thing you'd be moving to
Now the other side, and I'd rather put it here than bury it.
We're small and we're new. Teachable is neither, and if longevity is what settles it for you, that settles it. We cap at 1,000 active students, which is Builder's number, and their Growth plan holds 5,000. If you can see a thousand students from where you're standing, that ceiling is ours and it's real.
And there's one thing I can't tell you. We include a certificate on completion at $47, on the one plan, with nothing to upgrade to. What I won't do is describe what's printed on it, because nobody here has generated one and read it, and I'd rather leave a hole in this page than invent a sentence about CPD hours that somebody plans a syllabus around. When one of us has made one and looked at it, we'll write that up and link it here.
Nothing is locked behind a plan
This is the settings screen where you choose what appears in your own menu. Coupons, apps, email templates, assignments - switch them on, switch them off, save. What that screen never does is check what you paid, because there's only the one thing to pay.
That's the whole difference in one screen, and it's less impressive than a feature list and more useful. You are not deciding which capabilities to buy. You're deciding which ones you want to look at on a Tuesday morning.
The first draft, before the tea has brewed
Describe the course in a sentence and the AI builder writes the first draft: sections, lessons, the lot, in about ninety seconds. What comes out is a skeleton in the wrong voice, and that is exactly what it's for. Rewriting somebody else's draft in your own words is an evening. Facing an empty screen with a blank course open is what people mean when they say they've been meaning to do this for two years.
The AI assistant sits in the lesson editor while you fix it. That's 1,500 messages a month, on the same $47.
What a transaction fee costs at the bottom rung
Teachable's Starter plan lists a 7.5% sales transaction fee. Builder and Growth list 0%. Again, that's their page, today, and it's in the capture.
We take 0% of your sales on the one plan. You bring your own Stripe account and we don't add a surcharge to it, so the only cut is Stripe's own 2.9% plus 30 cents, which everybody pays everywhere.
I'm not going to turn that into a number for you. It would need me to invent what you sell and how much of it, and a made-up figure here is worth less than nothing. You already know your own takings. Do the sum on the back of the renewal email.
Buy Teachable if any of these is you
- You're teaching more than a thousand active students, or you can see it from here. Their Growth plan holds 5,000. We hold 1,000 and there's nothing above it to move to.
- Your students want an app from the App Store. Teachable lists iOS and Android student apps on every plan. What we have is a mobile web app your students install to their home screen, and that is not the same thing.
- Your business runs on a long list of third-party connections. Teachable is the older and much larger company and it connects to more things than we do. Ask us what we connect to before you move anything, rather than assuming it's all there.
- You need every address a student sees to be yours. You can point your own domain at your portal. What we do not offer is full white-label hosting, where every address a student sees is yours.
One flat $47, and what's in it
$47 a month. 1,000 active students. Unlimited courses and products. Hosted video with 1TB of bandwidth a month, and $10 a terabyte if you ever go past it. AI course generation. The AI assistant, 1,500 messages a month. Unlimited communities. Chat with your students. 0% of your sales.
There's a 30-day money-back guarantee, and a 30-day free trial that doesn't ask for a card.
No tiers to decode, because there is nothing above this one. The day you go from eleven students to nine hundred, the figure on this page is still the figure, and the certificate at the end of your course was included the whole time.
Move one course across and see
Take the course you already teach. Not the one you keep meaning to build - the real one, the one you could deliver from memory. Put it in during the trial, add three of your own students, and watch what they open.
Thirty days, no card, and you'll know by the end of the first evening whether the ladder was ever the thing you needed.