Great question! We obviously think we’re pretty great, but here’s an honest answer:

Both platforms let you sell online courses and coaching. Both give you landing pages, affiliate program tools, and helpful selling features like coupons, payment plans, and upsells.

But while Teachable is primarily an online course platform, Podia is an all-in-one platform that can replace many tools for your business, including your website builder, email marketing platform, blog, affiliate management system, live chat tool, and much more.

Let’s take a closer look at how Podia and Teachable stack up.

Sell unlimited products and courses

Teachable offers courses, downloads, and coaching, but there are limits to how many products you can sell on each plan (except the $665/month Business plan).

With Podia, you can sell online courses, downloads, webinars, coaching, subscriptions, and product bundles. Everything is unlimited on Mover and Shaker plans, so you can design the best learning experience for your students.

When it comes to the content within your products, both Teachable and Podia allow you to add a variety of file formats like PDFs, images, audio files, and videos.

On Podia, the maximum supported file size is 5GB. On Teachable, the maximum size you can upload is 2GB.

By choosing a platform with many product types like Podia, your business has room to grow. You may come up with an idea for a fabulous new ebook or an awesome webinar, and it’s inconvenient (and expensive) to find a new tool each time.

With Podia, everything you create lives under one roof. (Plus, if you already have digital products on another platform, Podia has free migrations when you sign up for a monthly or annual Mover, Shaker, or Podia Email plan. See how Podia's customer support can help you make the switch!)

Build a beautiful learning experience with native course creation tools

Both Teachable and Podia provide advanced tools that online course creators will love. You can sell unlimited courses to unlimited students on Podia’s Mover and Shaker plans. With Teachable, you only get unlimited courses on the Enterprise plan (which costs $665/month).

With Podia, you can create standalone courses, drip content courses, or cohort courses with unlimited modules and lessons. The course builder is easy to use, and course content is displayed in a clean, distraction-free interface.

Add multiple-choice quizzes and course completion certificates to keep students engaged. To validate your idea, you can waitlist, pre-launch, and pre-sell courses to your audience. You can also offer upsells to increase your earnings per sale.

Teachable courses come with unlimited content as well as quizzes, course completion certificates, and course compliance functionality. Course design templates are available on all plans to help you get started quickly.

Build a complete website for your business

Teachable and Podia both let you make a website that showcases your products.
Teachable offers a customizable storefront for your courses and products. This page is referred to as your “Teachable School.”

You can add different content blocks on your school page to tell visitors about your business and highlight your products. You can add up to 25 custom pages to your Teachable website.

If you'd like to connect a custom domain, you can do so on Teachable's Basic plan which starts at $39 per month. You can also add custom css snippets and third-party integrations on the Basic plan.

With Podia’s website builder, you can design a full website for your business or brand with unlimited pages. You can also create as many sales pages and landing pages as you need to promote your work.

You can easily edit the design and layout of your Podia site with just a few clicks, even if you don’t know how to code. Display testimonials, share your story, sort products by categories, highlight your best products, and grow your email list. You can do it all using Podia’s beginner friendly site editor.

You can connect a custom domain to your Podia account, add Google Analytics, and unlock live chat support on the Mover plan which starts at $33 per month.

In addition to a beautiful website, Podia also lets you build unlimited landing pages with lots of customization options. Teachable also has landing page/sales page features but you’re limited to 25 per course, and 1 per coaching offer and product bundle.

You can also build a blog with Podia

One of the key differences between Podia and Teachable is that you can build your full blog with Podia, and it’s already connected to the rest of your business. Your blog is automatically connected to your website and products, and you can easily promote your products on your blog pages in a few clicks.

You can add unlimited blog posts and customize the design and layout of your individual blog pages, as well as your blog landing page. If you have a blog on another platform, you can import your existing blog content using the Podia's blog post importer.

Plus, you can do it all using the same user-friendly website builder so you don’t need to learn any new tools.

Teachable does not have a blogging feature, so you’ll need to use a third-party platform if you’d like to use blogging in your online business.

Promote your products with built-in email marketing tools

Both Podia and Teachable provide built-in email marketing to help you promote your digital products.

With Podia, all email features (including automations, campaigns, tagging, segmentation, and newsletter templates) are available for free for your first 100 subscribers. That means you can start running automations, sending newsletters, and building campaigns from day one.

You can gain email subscribers by adding a newsletter opt-in form to your website or offering a free lead magnet. You can also send unlimited emails each month on all Podia Email plans.

You can use Podia Email for free as long as you like, and you only need to upgrade when your list grows.

Teachable also has built-in email marketing that's available on Teachable’s $59/month Basic plan and above.

Grow with affiliate marketing

Speaking of marketing tools, both Teachable and Podia have built-in affiliate marketing features.

Affiliates are available on Podia's Shaker plan and the affiliate feature works with all product types. You decide what commissions you pay and who you want to invite, and managing your affiliates is as easy as clicking a button. You can make your affiliate program public or invite-only, and Podia automatically keeps track of your affiliates in your audience tab so you can send out custom emails just for them.

Teachable offers affiliate marketing features on the Pro plan. Course creators can also implement a student referral program, allowing existing customers to share products with their friends for a discounted price.

Pick your payment processor to accept payments

With Podia, students can checkout with Stripe and PayPal. If you use Stripe, you can also enable Google Pay and Apple Pay. When you make a sale, Podia offers instant payouts so you can access your money right away.

With Teachable, you can choose from three payment processing options:

• Teachable payments: Receive payments daily on paid plans

• Monthly payment gateway: Receive payments monthly

Pricing for Podia and Teachable

Podia and Teachable both have several plans so you can choose the best fit for your business.

Podia pricing plans:

• Mover plan: $39/month or $33/month when paid annually (5% transaction fee)

• Shaker plan: $89/month or $75/month when paid annually (0% transaction fee)

See what’s included with each Podia plan here.

Teachable pricing plans:

• Free plan: (10% transaction fee + $1 per sale)

• Basic plan: $59/month or $39/month paid annually (5% transaction fee)

• Professional plan: $159/month or $119/month paid annually

• Pro Plus plan: $249/month or $199/month paid annually

• Business plan: $665/month or $499/month paid annually

Let’s run the numbers to get a better picture of how much you’ll pay with each platform.

If you make 20 sales and earn $500 on Teachable’s Free plan, you’ll pay $70 in fees ($500 x 10% transaction fee = $50, 20 sales x $1 per sale = $20).

If you make 20 sales and earn $500 on Podia’s Mover plan, you’ll pay a total of $64 per month ($39 for Mover + $25 in transaction fees). Plus, you'd have unlimited courses and products.

Now let's say you earn $1000 in a month.

On Teachable's Basic plan, you'll pay a total of $109 ($59 per month for the plan and $50 in transaction fees).

On Podia's Shaker plan, you'd pay a flat rate of $89 per month with no fees.

To avoid Teachable’s transaction fees, you’ll need to sign up for the $159 per month Pro plan. Podia’s comparable Shaker plan also doesn’t have transaction fees and costs only $89 per month.

Podia is your all-in-one home base for your business

If you’re looking for an all-in-one platform that:

• Makes it simple to run your online business

• Lets you sell more than just online courses and coaching

• Offers world-class customer service

• Includes your full website, blog, landing pages, and link in bio page

• Connects with your email marketing automatically so you don't have to manage extra integrations

• Is affordable whether you’re just starting out or scaling your business

…then we built Podia for you.

We can’t wait to see what you create.

Sign up now to start your free 30 day trial of Podia.