ClickFunnels vs Podia Comparison 2026
ClickFunnels charges $97 a month, or $81 billed annually, for funnels, email and three courses with no cut taken from sales. Podia starts far cheaper at $42 a month billed yearly, but that entry tier takes 5 percent of everything you sell, a fee that disappears entirely once you reach the $84 tier, which lands within a few dollars of ClickFunnels' own annual rate. The two converge in price once Podia's transaction fee is removed from the picture.
Funnels, courses and email in one subscription
Courses, downloads and email in one place
At a glance
- Podia starts cheaper, at $42.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
ClickFunnels | Podia | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $97 | From $42 |
| Pricing model | Free trial, then paid | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | 30 days |
| API | Yes |
ClickFunnels
Funnels, courses and email in one subscription
ClickFunnels sells the whole sequence rather than the page: opt-in, offer, upsell, email follow-up and a course to deliver what you sold. Everything lives in one account, which is the argument for it and also the argument against, since leaving means moving five things at once. The community around it is a large part of what people pay for.
Our note
The maths only works if you would otherwise be paying for a page builder, an email tool and a course platform separately. If you already have two of the three, Unbounce or Leadpages will do the pages for a quarter of the money.
Only on this side
- Covers landing pages & funnels
- Covers email marketing & automation
Podia
Courses, downloads and email in one place
Podia sells courses, digital downloads, coaching and memberships from one storefront, with an email tool attached so the list and the products live together. Nothing in it is the best version of itself, and that is the trade being offered: one subscription instead of four. The entry plan charges 5 percent of sales, which the two plans above it drop.
Why people weigh these two
- Podia instead of ClickFunnels
- Podia keeps courses, downloads and email in one place for $42, a fit when the funnel-building layer is the part you would not open.
- ClickFunnels instead of Podia
- ClickFunnels centers on the sales funnel and the upsell sequence, with courses and email attached to that, for a creator whose bottleneck is conversion rather than course delivery.
Which one should you pick
Buy ClickFunnels if you want a flat $97-a-month bill with no percentage taken from sales, and the funnel-building workflow, opt-in through upsell, is central to how you sell. Three courses and 50,000 emails a month come with the entry plan.
Buy Podia if you are selling a small catalogue of courses, downloads or memberships and want to start cheap: $42 a month billed yearly against ClickFunnels' $81. Run the 5 percent fee against your sales first, since past roughly $850 a month it costs more than the $42 jump to Podia's fee-free Shaker tier, which then sits close to ClickFunnels' own annual price.
Common questions
- Is Podia cheaper than ClickFunnels?
- At entry, yes: $42 a month billed yearly against ClickFunnels' $81. Podia's entry tier also takes 5 percent of your sales, though, so the real saving shrinks as revenue grows.
- When does Podia's transaction fee stop being worth it?
- Past about $850 a month in sales, the 5 percent fee costs more than the $42 jump to Podia's Shaker tier, which removes the fee entirely. Above that point, Shaker is the cheaper choice.
- Does ClickFunnels charge a transaction fee like Podia's entry tier?
- No, ClickFunnels is a flat monthly subscription with no stated cut of sales. Podia's Mover tier takes 5 percent, which its own Shaker tier at $84 a month removes.
- Which one includes email marketing?
- Both do. ClickFunnels includes 50,000 sends a month on its $97 Launch plan. Podia's email tool is bundled in at every tier, tied to the same subscriber list as the products it sells.
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