Heights Platform vs Teachable Comparison 2026
Heights Platform runs courses, community and short challenges from $19 a month, with no transaction fee mentioned and a 30-day trial. Teachable is course-only, no community, no challenge format, from $39 a month, and its cheapest plan adds a 7.5 percent fee on every sale that the next tier up, Builder at $89, drops to zero. Pick Heights Platform for the cheaper, broader bundle. Pick Teachable if a decade-old, course-first platform with coaching sessions built in matters more than price.
Courses, community and short challenges
Host and sell courses, with payments included
At a glance
- Heights Platform starts cheaper, at $19.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Heights Platform | Teachable | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $19 | From $39 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Paid subscription | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial (they differ) | 30 days | 7 days |
| API |
Heights Platform
Courses, community and short challenges
Heights Platform puts a course, a community and a set of challenges behind one login, and prices the entry tier low enough that a first course does not need a launch to justify it. Challenges are the part worth noticing: a short repeated commitment converts an audience better than a long curriculum most people never finish. An assistant will draft course structure from a description. The cheapest plan is built around that challenge format rather than around a full course.
Our note
The challenge format is the reason to pick this over a general course platform, because a seven day commitment converts an audience that will never finish a twelve module course. Start on the $19 tier deliberately rather than as a saving, since it is the tier that matches a first experiment.
Only on this side
- Covers community platforms
Teachable
Host and sell courses, with payments included
Why people weigh these two
- Teachable instead of Heights Platform
- Teachable focuses on hosting and selling the course itself with payments included, from $39 a month on a free trial.
- Heights Platform instead of Teachable
- Heights Platform adds a community and short challenge formats alongside the course itself, from $19, before you count that Teachable also takes a percentage of each sale.
Which one should you pick
Pick Heights Platform if community and a short challenge format are part of what you are selling, not just a course, and the price should stay predictable. The $19-a-month tier suits a first experiment, and $39 a month covers courses and community together, with a 30-day trial and a drafting assistant on every tier.
Pick Teachable if the course is the whole business and you want a platform that has worked the same way for years, with coaching sessions and a public API included. Starter is $39 a month plus 7.5 percent of every sale, but its own numbers say Builder at $89 with no fee becomes cheaper past about $700 a month in sales, which the pricing page does not make obvious. There is no free plan, only a 7-day trial and a 30-day guarantee.
Common questions
- Is Heights Platform cheaper than Teachable?
- At the entry tier, yes: $19 a month against Teachable's $39, which also adds a 7.5 percent fee on every sale. Teachable's own guidance says not to stay on that cheapest plan out of thrift, since the fee overtakes the price difference quickly.
- When does Teachable's more expensive plan become the cheaper one?
- Past roughly $700 a month in course sales. Starter charges $39 plus 7.5 percent, and Builder charges $89 with no fee at all, so Builder wins once the 7.5 percent would cost more than the $50 difference.
- Does Heights Platform include coaching sessions like Teachable does?
- Not as described in its own features, which centre on courses, community and challenges. Teachable specifically supports selling one-to-one coaching time alongside the course, booked and paid for in the same place.
- Which one has a community built in?
- Heights Platform. Courses and community discussion sit behind the same login on its $39 and $99 tiers. Teachable's features are course hosting, checkout and progress tracking, with no community feature described.
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