Teachable
The easiest-to-use platform to grow your education business
By Teachable · 4.0/5 verified-buyer score
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Creators and experts selling online courses, coaching, memberships or digital downloads
- Solo operators who want a hosted, no-code school with payments and international tax handled for them
- Education businesses scaling past US$12k/yr that need affiliates, upsells and 0% transaction fees
- Teams that want built-in global checkout, 35+ local payment methods and automatic VAT/GST remittance
Ideal size: 1–50 people · Solo creator through scaled education business
Not for
- Teams that need a free-forever plan — Teachable is paid, with only a 7-day trial and 30-day guarantee
- Buyers who require ISO 27001 or HIPAA certification today; the vendor states it focuses on SOC 2 Type II
- Organizations needing LMS standards compliance such as SCORM or xAPI, which vendor pages do not evidence
- Companies wanting deep custom development beyond CSS snippets, the public API and webhooks
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
About 1 week (7-day free trial)
~7 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$1,668/yr
Starts at $348 · Per-school subscription with product and admin-user limits; billed monthly or annually, with annual billing saving 22%
Implementation Friction
1/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Buyer Score
out of 5 · verified buyers
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Starter: 5 products / 1 admin; Builder: 10 / 1; Growth: 50 / 5; Custom: contact sales for flexible seats
Add-on costs
- Starter plan carries a 7.5% transaction fee on sales; Builder, Growth and Custom are 0% when using teachable:pay or the monthly payment gateway
- Implementation, migration and white-glove onboarding are scoped with the Custom plan rather than sold as fixed add-ons
Company & support
Who is behind Teachable, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- Not recorded
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailAll plans
- Live chatPlan not stated
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerEnterprise only
- In person / on-siteEnterprise only
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Priority SLA-based support on the Custom plan (specific SLA not published)
Support is listed per plan on the pricing page: email support and the Help Center broadly; real-time support appears from Builder up; a dedicated account manager plus implementation and migration services sit on the Custom plan.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Teachable sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line. A dashed ring marks an outlier pinned to the edge; hover for its value.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Teachable
- Perfect Venue
- Anchor
- Teamwork.com
- Rezdy
- LearnWorlds
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Teachable. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Teachable ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Homepage describes AI creation tools: a course starter that generates a ready-to-use curriculum, a quiz generator that turns existing course material into quizzes, and automatic video subtitles translated into 70+ languages. No source states how the underlying models are hosted or whether customers can bring their own key.
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Teachable is a hosted platform for selling online courses, coaching, memberships and digital downloads. Annual plans run from about US$29/mo (Starter) to US$139/mo (Growth), with a Custom enterprise tier adding SSO, bulk sales, a dedicated success manager and SLA support. Global payments, plus sales tax, VAT and GST across 45+ countries, are handled in-platform, and the site advertises 0% transaction fees above Starter. SOC 2 Type II and GDPR/CCPA compliance are documented, and AI course, quiz and translation tools ship built in.
Frequently asked questions
What does Teachable cost per year?
Annual billing is US$29/mo for Starter (about US$348/yr), US$69/mo for Builder (about US$828/yr) and US$139/mo for Growth (about US$1,668/yr); monthly billing is US$39, US$89 and US$189 respectively. The Custom plan is quoted per organization. A 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee are included, and annual billing saves 22%.
How long until we can sell our first course on Teachable?
The plan cards describe drag-and-drop course builders and a 7-day free trial, so a first product can realistically go live inside a week. No implementation fee is required on Starter, Builder or Growth; the Custom plan adds assisted migration and white-glove onboarding for larger moves.
Does Teachable take a cut of our sales?
Starter carries a 7.5% transaction fee. Builder, Growth and Custom are listed at 0% when using teachable:pay or the monthly payment gateway, though standard payment processing fees may still apply. Teachable also automatically collects and remits US sales tax and international VAT/GST.
Is Teachable secure enough for a procurement review?
Teachable states it holds SOC 2 Type II, audited annually by A-lign, and that its program is aligned with GDPR and CCPA. The SOC 2 report is available under NDA via an account or customer success manager. The security page says ISO 27001 is evaluated on demand rather than held today.
What does the enterprise or Custom plan add?
Custom includes everything in Growth plus single sign-on, advanced reporting, bulk sales and customer management, flexible product/student/admin seats, a sandbox school, priority SLA-based support, a dedicated success manager, white-glove onboarding, migration assistance and native integrations with API access.
What are the hard limits on lower plans?
Starter allows 5 published products and 1 admin user; Builder 10 products and 1 admin; Growth 50 products and 5 admins. Student enrollment through Teachable checkout is unlimited, video storage runs to 1TB, and API volume is capped at 10,000 requests/month at 100/minute on Growth. Memberships and bundles do not count toward product limits.