LearnDash vs Teachery Comparison 2026
LearnDash is a WordPress plugin at $259 a year, with hosting and a cart added separately on your own domain. Teachery is a standalone hosted platform at $49 a month, or $470 a year, with unlimited courses and no transaction fee ever, but no community and no funnel builder either. Both are deliberately minimal compared with a full suite like Podia or Kajabi. LearnDash trades a lower licence price for the work of self-hosting. Teachery trades a flat annual fee for giving up ownership of the domain the course lives on.
At a glance
- Teachery starts cheaper, at $49.
- Neither has a free tier.
- LearnDash bills annually only, so there is no month to try it for.
Side by side
LearnDash | Teachery | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $259 | From $49 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing (they differ) | Annual only | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | 14 days |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
LearnDash
Turn a WordPress site into a course platform
LearnDash is the answer for somebody who already has a WordPress site and does not want their course living on somebody else's domain. Lessons, quizzes, drip schedules and certificates all become part of the site you own, and the payment plugin is your choice rather than theirs. Hosting, backups and the security of that site stay your problem. That is the whole trade against a hosted platform.
Our note
Add hosting and a payment plugin to the licence before comparing this against a hosted platform, because $259 is the floor rather than the total. The reason to choose it is ownership: the course sits on your domain, feeds your own SEO, and does not disappear if a vendor changes its plans.
Only on this side
- Covers website builders
Teachery
Unlimited courses on one flat price
Teachery charges the same whether you sell one course or forty, and takes nothing per sale, which is the opposite arrangement to most of this category. It is deliberately small: course pages, a checkout and email hooks, without a community, a funnel builder or an app. Two people have run it for over a decade. That is either the reassurance or the warning, depending on what you need from a vendor.
Why people weigh these two
- Teachery instead of LearnDash
- Teachery charges one flat price for unlimited courses at $49, which suits a growing catalogue.
- LearnDash instead of Teachery
- LearnDash lives inside a WordPress site you already run, from $259, for somebody who wants the course on their own site rather than a separate hosted account.
Which one should you pick
Pick LearnDash if owning the domain matters more than convenience, and you already run a WordPress site with hosting handled. Two hundred and fifty nine dollars a year is the licence floor, with no percentage ever taken, though the true cost includes hosting and a cart plugin that Teachery's price already covers.
Pick Teachery if you want a flat, predictable annual fee with nothing to self-host and no percentage taken from any sale. Four hundred and seventy dollars a year covers unlimited courses, and one course selling $10,000 already makes that flat fee cheaper than any 5 percent arrangement elsewhere. It has no community and no funnel builder by design, so bring your own email platform if you need one.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper, LearnDash or Teachery?
- LearnDash's licence alone is cheaper at $259 a year against Teachery's $470. That figure leaves out hosting and a payment plugin, both of which Teachery's price already includes, so the real gap narrows once those are added to LearnDash's side.
- Does either take a percentage of sales?
- No, neither does. LearnDash takes nothing because the payment gateway is a separate WordPress plugin. Teachery states plainly that no fee is taken per sale, so the flat subscription is the whole cost of the platform.
- Do I need to run my own WordPress site for either?
- Only for LearnDash, which is a plugin that lives inside a WordPress site you already host. Teachery is fully hosted and needs no separate site, though it also has no built-in community or funnel builder to make up for that.
- Which one supports unlimited courses on one price?
- Teachery does, at $49 a month or $470 a year regardless of how many courses you publish. LearnDash's pricing is per site rather than per course, so the number of courses on one WordPress install does not change the $259 a year licence.
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