Teachable

• Pricing tiers are strongly usage-oriented: published products, student counts, video storage, and admin seats are explicit limits.
• Platform transaction fees exist on the entry tier (Starter) but are removed on paid tiers when using Teachable’s supported payment routing.
• Material discounting is offered on annual billing (Teachable has a Yearly 22% OFF indicator on its pricing UI); annual contracts effectively reduce the monthly cost.
• Every paid level includes course and student management, native mobile applications, affiliate assistance, tax management, and even basic white-labeling; higher levels offer higher published-product quotas, increased student capacity, and preference support.
• The Advanced tier or a sales-based unlimited/enterprise contract is needed to meet enterprise needs (SSO, dedicated support, bulk sales tooling, automated tax handling at scale).
• In 2025, Teachable changed its plan structure and usage restrictions to define transaction costs and product/student controls; companies are recommended to check the plan regulations that can influence per-student or per-product overruns.

0% base sales transaction fees apply when using Teachable: pay or an approved payment gateway. Standard payment processor fees still apply.

Teachable’s tier architecture is designed so that subscription prices control published-product capacity and access to higher-level operational features, while its transaction-fee design incentivizes businesses to upgrade to higher tiers that remove base transaction fees and optimize revenue retention.

Starter

Ideal for: Small-scale teams that test one product fit for a small pilot group.

What to know about this plan: Starter enables a minimal, white-label storefront and access to the platform’s core creator tools, but it introduces a meaningful 7.5% platform transaction fee that materially affects margin when per-course pricing is modest, or volumes rise. Student limits and a single published product make the plan tactical rather than strategic for businesses that expect multi-product portfolios.

Core plan features

• 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
• 1 published product; unlimited drafts.
• 7.5% platform transaction fee (in addition to payment processor fees).
• Up to 100 student seats
• Up to 1 TB of video storage.
• Live chat support, affiliate program, course certificates, and basic admin controls.

Builder

Ideal for: Growing teams that require multiple published offers and want to eliminate platform transaction fees.

What to know about this plan: Builder removes the platform transaction fee (when using supported payment routing), increases published product capacity to five, and expands student and admin capabilities. The plan is commonly chosen by businesses establishing multi-product catalogues while keeping operational costs predictable.

Core plan features

• 5 published products; unlimited drafts.
• 0% platform transaction fee with Teachable: pay or approved gateways.
• It has a capacity of 1,000 students and can store up to 1 TB.
• Live chat, expanded integrations, and administrator privileges.

Growth

Ideal for: Any organisation adding product lines and sizes that require more operational and reporting controls.

What to know about this plan: Growth raises published product limits to 25 and increases student capacity to roughly the mid-thousands. It is the platform’s “scale” tier, appropriate where revenue and catalog complexity require zero platform transaction fees and enhanced support.

Core plan features

• 25 published products; unlimited drafts.
• 0% platform transaction fee with Teachable: pay or approved gateways.
• Accommodate 5,000 students.
• Offers TB storage.
• Live support, increased reporting, and priority access to high-level tooling.

Advanced

Ideal for: Established learning companies, learning teams, and agencies that require a large number of products, high storage, administration controls, and enterprise integration capabilities.

What to know about this plan: Advanced offers high storage and product capacity, with the option to transition to a custom Unlimited agreement when SSO, large exports, SLA, or specific migration support are needed. Advanced supports businesses that must securely integrate Teachable into a broader learning stack.

Core plan features

• 100 published products; unlimited drafts.
• 0% platform transaction fee with Teachable: pay or approved gateways.
• Can accommodate 5,000 students
• up to 2 TB of higher video storage.
• Sales add-ons (SSO, sandbox schools, priority SLA, dedicated success manager).

Unlimited

Ideal for: Organisations that require bespoke capacity, security, compliance, SSO (OIDC/SAML), priority SLA, automated global tax handling and payout processes, account management, and migration assistance.

What to know about this plan: Unlimited is a negotiated offering for complex procurement needs. It is the right tool in situations where an organisation needs high-touch onboarding, on-hand support, specific service levels, and flexibility in product and administrative boundaries. The pricing is tailored and takes into consideration the extent of migration, single sign-on, reporting and UAT/sandbox needs.

Core plan features

• All Advanced plan capabilities, with flexible and expandable limits for products, learners, storage, and administrators
• Account management, strategic direction, and priority escalation. Success manager dedicated to continuous account management.
• Access control and security at the enterprise level, including secure SSO via OIDC and SAML, as well as high-level compliance assistance.
• Priority support and a sandbox school provided by SLA, allowing testing, UAT, and risk-free updates and integrations.
• Onboarding, migration, and automation with white-glove, including bulk sales processes, automated international tax processing, payouts worldwide, and integrations native to their own applications, and unlimited access to their API.

Teachable is praised in many learning organisations as one of the platforms with an intuitive interface and the ability to seamlessly integrate tools for course delivery, payments, and sales into a single system. Review highlights the ease of operation, all-in-one form, the elimination of the need to use several third-party tools, and the ability to execute a go-to-market faster with digital learning products.

Several users report that the latest platform updates have introduced more well-defined product and student thresholds. However, this necessitates more carefully planned scaling strategies, prompting organisations to pursue more effective scaling approaches.

Overall, feedback indicates strong satisfaction with core functionality, particularly among small- to mid-sized training providers and professional learning organisations operating on comparable digital learning platforms. Meanwhile, larger organisations advise that due diligence and a pilot phase should be undertaken before expanding into a larger catalogue. This measured strategy allows the stakeholders to measure feature alignment of the enterprise, its scalability requirements and cost effectiveness in the long run concerning their particular operation.

• Catalogue strategy: Builder or Growth is usually the better option when the product roadmap includes more than a few separate courses, cohorts, and coaching products.
• Margin analysis: The 7.5% Starter transaction fee should be added to unit economics models; for mid- to high-priced products, upgrading to a zero-platform-fee level can be recouped in the short run.
• Operation scale: Advanced discussions with sales should be budgeted for Teams that need SSO, sandbox testing, mass student import, or a strict SLA.
• Support and compliance: Enterprises with compliance and migration limitations must consider prioritizing SLA support and migration assistance offered under the Unlimited offering.

For organizations focused on speed to market and a unified sales and learning experience, Teachable offers core functionality in a single subscription and eliminates the engineering burden of integrating distinct systems.

All-in-One Infrastructure

Teachable is a single ecosystem that incorporates course hosting, payment processing, and affiliate management. For organisations seeking to reduce third-party integration and technical overhead, this integrated structure delivers operational efficiency and shorter deployment times.

Revenue Optimization on Paid Tiers

The base platform transaction fee is eliminated in the Builder, Growth, and Advanced plans (when approved gateways are used), enhancing margin retention as enrollments increase. This renders the top levels as a commercially viable access to revenue-generating academies.

Scalable for Growing Catalogs

With articulate product, learner, and storage thresholds, Teachable facilitates systematic expansion. Without migrating platforms, organisations can upgrade tiers as the complexity of catalogues and the volume of learners grow.

Enterprise Readiness (with Custom Plan)

The Unlimited plan provides flexibility in negotiations and dedicated account management to institutions that need SSO, SLA-backed support, sandbox environments, and controls for compliance.

Although Teachable is an affordable and feature-rich platform, organizations can consider other options to find platforms that align with specific requirements for catalog customization, enterprise-level integration, or learner-specific analytics.

The choice of the appropriate Teachable plan comes down to aligning catalog goals with the size of the operations and revenue policy. Each tier accommodates different levels of growth, and organizations can match their capabilities to their business maturity.

Early-Stage Teams

Starter can be used to start a first course, provide course creation, checkout, affiliate functions, and white-label capabilities at a managed expense. Over time, it can be upgraded to a zero-platform-fee level to enhance margins as more people enroll.

Growing Businesses

Academies with a variety of courses and growing learner bases should use the Builder or Growth tier. These levels eliminate platform charges, increase product ceilings and student capacity, and offer enhanced reporting and administrative capabilities.

Existing Learning Companies

The Advanced tier is for learning companies that need big catalogs, increased storage, and increased access to administration. The Advanced tier enables scalable, structured deployments and includes enterprise-level integrations and management.

Enterprise Organizations

Unlimited is designed for organizations that are compliance-intensive, require SSO, have SLA-based support, support sandbox testing, handle high workflow volumes, and require dedicated account management, including migration support.

Flexibility to Change Plans

Teachable enables organizations to easily change their subscription level to suit the business's needs. Regardless of expanding course lists, growing student counts, or utilizing advanced operational capabilities, groups can upgrade or downgrade plans without changing platforms, ensuring a seamless transition and minimal disruption to ongoing operations.

Does Teachable have transaction fees?

Yes, the Starter tier carries a 7.5% platform transaction fee; Builder, Growth, and Advanced report 0% platform transaction fees when organizations use Teachable: pay or an approved payment gateway. Standard payment processing fees (card networks, processor fees, taxes) still apply.

Are usage caps enforced?

Yes, published product counts, student seats, video storage, and admin seats are enforced per plan. Overruns require plan upgrades or an Enterprise/Unlimited agreement.

Is enterprise support and SSO available?

SSO (OIDC/SAML), dedicated success managers, sandbox schools, and SLA-backed support are available via the Unlimited/Enterprise offering with custom commercial terms.

Does Teachable offer plans for upgrading as they grow?

Yes, Teachable also provides the option to upgrade to Pro and Enterprise plans as the user increases their number of students, feature needs, and product catalog, so that they are not forced to change the platform.

Does Teachable charge per-learner licensing?

No, Teachable’s published model is subscription-based by plan tier, with published product and student caps; it does not charge per-learner licensing like per-seat LMSs, but listed student capacity and overage considerations should be checked with sales for high-scale programs.