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Teachable
A hosted platform for creators and businesses to build, sell, and deliver online courses, coaching, memberships, and digital downloads.
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FindThatSoftware verdictEditorial ruling
Teachable is a solid, mature pick for individual creators and small education businesses who want an all-in-one hosted course storefront without managing infrastructure. For India, subscriptions bill in USD only, and schools based in India cannot set up a Stripe custom payment gateway, so check how you will collect payments and issue GST invoices before you build. There is no free plan, only a 7-day trial, and the entry Starter tier charges a 7.5% fee on every sale on top of payment processing, so factor the total take rate before committing. Verify the latest pricing on the official pricing page.
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Should you use Teachable?
Use it if solo creators, coaches, and subject experts launching paid online courses. Avoid it if india based creators who want direct local payouts, because the Stripe custom gateway is unavailable and monthly PayPal payouts add conversion fees.
Spec sheet
- Starting price
- ₹2,878/mo$29/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Not available
- Free trial
- Available
- Status
- Source checked 29 Jul 2026
- Source trail
- 4 public sources
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Teachable is a online course platforms and learning management systems for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹2,878/mo for a GST-registered business ($29/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). It does not issue an India GST invoice, so a registered business reclaims the GST via reverse charge. FindThatSoftware rates it best for solo creators, coaches, and subject experts launching paid online courses, and a poor fit if india based creators who want direct local payouts, because the Stripe custom gateway is unavailable and monthly PayPal payouts add conversion fees.
The trade-off, weighed
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Builder and Growth drop the platform transaction fee to zero when you use teachable pay or the monthly payment gateway
- Plan prices, product counts and student limits are published, so you can model the cost of a course launch without talking to sales
- Growth includes 5 admin users and 50 products, which supports a small team running several courses under one account
The catch
- The Starter plan takes a 7.5 percent platform fee on every sale, charged on top of card processing of 2.9 percent plus 30 cents
- That fee replaced the older 5 percent Basic plan rate, and creators reported annual cost increases above 200 percent after the change
- Starter and Builder include one admin user only, so a second person editing courses forces the jump to Growth at $139 a month yearly
- Schools based in India cannot set up a Stripe custom payment gateway because of Stripe data storage rules, which narrows payout options
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹2,878
Teachable advertises $29/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹2,878 a month (₹34,534/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹3,396 a month.
- Sticker price
- $29/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹2,878
- Registered per year
- ₹34,534
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹3,396
- Try first
- Free trial before you commit budget.
- Watch for
- Verified June 2026 from the official pricing page (teachable.com/pricing). Creator plans run Starter, Builder, and Growth tiers plus a Custom tier (contact sales), starting at $29/mo for Starter on annual billing. The Starter tier carries a 7.5% platform transaction fee; higher tiers drop the platform fee to 0%. Annual billing is roughly 22% cheaper than monthly. All paid plans include a 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee; there is no free plan. Separately, payment-processor fees apply (e.g., Stripe/PayPal). Pricing is quoted in USD; there is no native INR subscription pricing. Note: third-party reviews cite a higher annual-only "Advanced" tier not clearly shown on the main pricing page, and the page also lists Enterprise tiers (Core, Pro, and a custom Enterprise). Figures change frequently, so confirm current numbers and any India-specific tax/payout terms on the official pricing page before relying on them.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
Full India pricing breakdownIndia readiness
How well Teachable fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✗GST invoice
No Indian GST invoice, so a registered business cannot claim input tax credit on the bill.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
How Teachable compares
Against the 4 other creator course platform toolswe list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 4 others, and for Teachable.
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything — roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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Audit my stackOverview
What is Teachable?
Teachable is a creator-focused online course and digital product platform used by 150,000+ creators to publish courses, coaching, memberships, and downloadable products on a hosted, no-code storefront. It bundles course building (including AI-assisted outlines and quizzes), video hosting, drip content, certificates, mobile apps, affiliate management, and built-in checkout with upsells and order bumps. It also handles US sales tax and EU/UK VAT automatically, and integrates with Stripe, PayPal, Zapier, Mailchimp, and Zoom among others.
Best for
- Solo creators, coaches, and subject experts launching paid online courses
- Small education businesses wanting an all-in-one hosted storefront with checkout
- Creators selling mainly to buyers outside India in USD or EUR
- Sellers needing built-in memberships, coaching, and digital downloads alongside courses
Who should avoid it
- India based creators who want direct local payouts, because the Stripe custom gateway is unavailable and monthly PayPal payouts add conversion fees
- Creators earning above roughly $667 a month who plan to stay on Starter, because the 7.5 percent fee then exceeds the Builder upgrade
What Teachable does
What we verified about Teachable
Read from Teachable’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
Features we confirmed30
- Webhooks
- Webhook allowances scale 1 / 3 / 5 / unlimited across Starter, Builder, Growth and Custom.
- Product bundles
- Bundles are a listed sales feature and do not count toward product limits.
- Memberships
- Memberships are a named product type and do not count toward the product limit.
- Digital downloads
- Digital Downloads are a supported sellable product type.
- Custom roles
- Custom user roles appear under Customizations for higher tiers.
- Custom reporting
- Custom reporting is gated to the Custom, contact-sales tier.
- Custom domain
- Custom domain is available under Customizations in the plan comparison.
- Completion certificates
- Course certificates are listed as a Growth-tier feature.
- Affiliate program management
- An integrated affiliate program unlocks from the Builder plan.
- Abandoned cart recovery
- Abandoned cart emails are advertised as part of upsells and cart recovery.
- AI course creation
- 'Create with AI' is included on every published plan tier.
- Auto graded quizzes
- Auto-graded quizzes appear in the platform features table across plans.
- Automatic sales tax vat GST handling
- Feature table lists U.S. sales tax, global VAT and GST handling on the platform.
- Branded student mobile apps
- iOS and Android student apps are included on every plan.
- Built in email marketing
- Built-in email marketing is listed under Sales & marketing features.
- Bulk student import
- Bulk student imports are listed in the platform features table.
- Checkout with upsells and order bumps
- Coupons, upsells and order bumps are listed sales features on all tiers.
- Coaching products
- Coaching is listed under 'What you can sell' alongside courses and downloads.
- Community space
- Community appears as a platform feature from the Builder tier upward.
- Course compliance tracking
- 'Course compliance' is listed among platform features in the plan comparison.
- Css snippet customization
- CSS snippets are the listed route to visual customization.
- Drip course content
- Drip course content is listed in the platform features comparison on all tiers.
- Free subtitles and translations
- Growth advertises free subtitles and translations for course video.
- Lesson comments
- Lesson comments give students a discussion thread inside the course.
- No code course builder
- Platform builds and publishes courses on a hosted storefront without code.
- Public API with oauth
- Developer tools list a public API with OAuth, 10,000 requests/month and 100/minute on Growth.
- Sandbox school
- Custom tier includes a sandbox school for testing before publishing.
- Short answer assessments
- Short answer assessments are a listed platform feature.
- Student referrals
- Student referrals are listed among the sales and marketing features.
- Video hosting up to 1tb
- Every published tier includes up to 1TB of video storage.
What people use it for3
- Collect recurring subscriptions
- Memberships are a first-class sellable product with no count against product limits.
- Sell online courses
- Site-wide banner offers up to $6,500 cashback to migrate schools selling over $30k/yr elsewhere.
- Sell internationally
- Multiple customer testimonials cite automatic tax compliance across 188 countries as the reason they stay.
Works with6
- Zoom
- Our research lists Zoom among Teachable's supported integrations for live sessions.
- Zapier
- Zapier is listed under Integrations in the plan comparison table.
- Stripe
- Stripe is a supported payment processor, with US and international card rates published.
- Paypal
- PayPal is a supported processor with its own US and international fee schedule.
- Mailchimp
- Our research lists Mailchimp among the 40+ supported third-party integrations.
- Teachable pay
- teachable:pay is the in-house processor that unlocks 0% platform fees and daily payouts.
Terms, compliance and how you buy34
- Vendor training academy
- Teachable University access is a listed learning and support benefit.
- Us incorporated vendor
- Footer copyright reads Teachable, Inc. with US-centric tax handling built in.
- Self serve signup
- 'Start for free' begins a trial directly without a sales conversation.
- Money back guarantee
- Plan cards carry a 30-day guarantee alongside the trial.
- 15 usd chargeback fee
- Additional plan information lists a $15 chargeback fee.
- 22 percent annual discount
- The yearly toggle is labelled 22% OFF and saves $120 to $600 per year by tier.
- 7 5 percent transaction fee on entry plan
- Starter carries a 7.5% sales transaction fee on top of processing fees.
- 7 day free trial
- Every plan card advertises a 7-day free trial.
- Active student caps
- Active students are capped at 100 on Starter, 1,000 on Builder and 5,000 on Growth.
- API access gated to growth
- Public API, OAuth and stated rate limits are shown only from the Growth tier.
- Auto renews until cancelled
- Pricing fine print: plans auto-renew each billing cycle until cancelled, effective at period end.
- Branding removal only on growth
- 'Remove Teachable branding' first appears on the Growth plan.
- Creator economy oriented
- Vendor positions itself for creators, experts and entrepreneurs rather than institutions.
- Daily payouts only on teachable pay
- Payouts are daily on teachable:pay but monthly on the payment gateway.
- Expert services marketplace
- Support menu includes 'Hire an expert' for paid implementation help.
- Imported student caps
- Imported student allowances are 5, 50 and 1,000 across the three published tiers.
- India stripe custom gateway unavailable
- Our research records that India-based schools cannot set up a Stripe custom payment gateway due to Stripe data storage rules.
- International card surcharge
- International card sales cost a full point more than US card sales at 3.9% + 30c.
- Migration cashback incentive
- Persistent banner offers up to $6,500 cashback for migrating a school this month.
- No free plan
- FAQ states Teachable is a paid service with only a trial, no free tier.
- No INR subscription pricing
- There is no rupee subscription price; only student-side payments are in local currency.
- Optional backoffice fee
- An optional BackOffice fee of 2-2.8% is disclosed in the pricing fine print.
- Priority sla support on custom
- Custom tier lists priority SLA-based support and a dedicated success manager.
- Processing fees charged separately
- US cards cost 2.9% + 30c, international cards 3.9% + 30c, US PayPal 3.49% + 49c, international PayPal 4.99% + 49c.
- Promotional 3 months for price of 1
- Site navigation carries a 'Get 3 months for the price of 1' offer.
- Published product count caps
- Plans cap published products at 5, 10 and 50; drafts, bundles and memberships do not count.
- Real time support from builder tier
- 'Real time support' appears from the Builder plan up, with priority support higher.
- Sales assisted custom tier
- The Custom tier is entirely contact-sales, with all limits shown as 'Contact Sales'.
- Single admin seat on lower tiers
- Starter and Builder include one admin-level user; Growth includes five.
- Student caps lifted above 10k sales
- FAQ says active and imported student caps are removed once you pass $10k USD/year in on-platform sales.
- Students pay in local currency
- FAQ states Teachable supports global payments so students can pay in their own currency.
- Usd billed
- FAQ confirms all prices on the page are in US dollars.
- White glove onboarding on custom
- Custom tier includes white glove onboarding and migration assistance.
- Zero platform fee above entry tier
- Builder, Growth and Custom show 0% transaction fees when using teachable:pay or the monthly payment gateway.
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Pricing caveat and source trail
Pricing and free-plan claims can change. FindThatSoftware keeps source URLs visible so users can verify before buying.
Verified June 2026 from the official pricing page (teachable.com/pricing). Creator plans run Starter, Builder, and Growth tiers plus a Custom tier (contact sales), starting at $29/mo for Starter on annual billing. The Starter tier carries a 7.5% platform transaction fee; higher tiers drop the platform fee to 0%. Annual billing is roughly 22% cheaper than monthly. All paid plans include a 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee; there is no free plan. Separately, payment-processor fees apply (e.g., Stripe/PayPal). Pricing is quoted in USD; there is no native INR subscription pricing. Note: third-party reviews cite a higher annual-only "Advanced" tier not clearly shown on the main pricing page, and the page also lists Enterprise tiers (Core, Pro, and a custom Enterprise). Figures change frequently, so confirm current numbers and any India-specific tax/payout terms on the official pricing page before relying on them.
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Does Teachable give a GST invoice in India?
Teachable does not issue an India GST invoice. A GST-registered business can still reclaim the 18% through the reverse-charge route by raising a self-invoice, but there is no vendor GST invoice to claim against directly.
Is Teachable good for Indian small businesses?
Teachable can work for Indian buyers, but check currency, tax, billing, support, and whether the workflow justifies foreign-currency pricing.
Does Teachable have a free plan?
Teachable does not list a permanent free plan in FindThatSoftware data. Check the official pricing page for trial terms and current offers.
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