Teachable vs Teachery Comparison 2026
Teachable's cheapest plan, Starter, is $39 a month plus 7.5 percent of every sale, a fee that overtakes the price gap to Builder, $89 a month with no percentage, once monthly sales pass about $700. Teachery charges one flat $49 a month, or $470 a year, for unlimited courses with no transaction fee at all, ever. Once course sales pass roughly $133 a month, Teachery already beats Teachable's Starter plan on total cost, and it always beats Builder's $89 flat rate. The number to run is your own monthly sales, not the sticker price.
At a glance
- Teachable starts cheaper, at $39.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Teachable | Teachery | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $39 | From $49 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free trial, then paid | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial (they differ) | 7 days | 14 days |
| API |
Teachable
Host and sell courses, with payments included
Teachable handles hosting, checkout, drip content and student progress, and it has done so for long enough to be predictable. Coaching sessions and digital downloads sell from the same account. The cheapest plan charges a percentage of every sale on top of its monthly fee, which is the one number to check before committing.
Our note
Do not stay on Starter out of thrift. The 7.5 percent overtakes the price difference quickly, and Teachable is one of the few platforms where the second cheapest plan is genuinely the cheapest.
Only on this side
- Covers monetization & payments
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 Teachable
- Teachery charges one flat price for unlimited courses, from $49, with nothing taken per sale, the opposite arrangement to Teachable's percentage on top of the monthly fee.
- Teachable instead of Teachery
- Teachable starts cheaper at $39, but its entry plan takes a percentage of every sale on top of the fee, the exact cost Teachery's flat price is built to avoid.
Which one should you pick
Choose Teachable if a decade of predictable, full-featured course hosting matters and sales are either very small or genuinely large: coaching sessions, drip content and student progress tracking are all included, and it has worked the same way for years. Do not stay on Starter out of thrift once sales are real, since the 7.5 percent fee overtakes the $50 gap to Builder past about $700 a month, making the pricier plan the actually cheaper one.
Choose Teachery if several courses already exist and a percentage-based platform is taking a real cut: $49 a month, or $470 a year, covers unlimited courses with nothing taken per sale, so one course selling $10,000 already makes the flat fee cheaper than any five percent arrangement. What is missing is everything around the course itself, a community, a funnel builder, an app, so bring your own email platform and expect to build the rest yourself.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper, Teachable or Teachery?
- It depends on sales volume. Teachable's Starter plan is cheaper under about $133 a month in sales; past that, its 7.5 percent fee makes Teachery's flat $49 the better deal, and Teachery always beats Teachable's fee-free Builder plan at $89.
- Does Teachery charge a transaction fee like Teachable's Starter plan does?
- No, that is its entire pitch: nothing is taken from a sale on top of the flat $49-a-month subscription. Teachable's Starter plan charges 7.5 percent of every sale in addition to its $39 base fee; only the pricier Builder plan drops that to zero.
- Can I run more than one course on either platform?
- Teachery is built specifically so the course count never changes the price, one flat fee for unlimited courses. Teachable does not state a course-count limit either, but its pricing is structured around the sales fee rather than the catalogue size.
- Which one includes a community or funnel builder?
- Neither, by design on Teachery's side: it deliberately ships course pages, checkout and email hooks and nothing more, pointing anybody wanting a community or funnel builder toward Kajabi or Podia instead. Teachable's feature list does not describe a community or funnel builder either, focusing on hosting, checkout and student progress.
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