Podia vs. Teachable
With Podia, you can sell unlimited courses, downloads, coaching sessions, webinars, and bundles for $39/month. Teachable has product limits on all plans, including the $189/month Growth plan.
Both Podia and Teachable let you sell online courses, downloads, and coaching, but Podia also includes built-in blogging and email marketing features on all plans.
| Podia | Teachable | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $33/mo – $89/mo | $29/mo – $399/mo |
| Free migrations | Included | Not included |
| Website | Included | Included |
| Email marketing | Included | Included |
| Online courses | Included | Included |
| Digital products | Included | Included |
| Webinars | Included | Included |
| Coaching | Included | Included |
| Community | Included | Included |
| Landing pages | Included | Included |
| Blogging | Included | Not included |
| Affiliate marketing | Included | Included |
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It comes down to what the two platforms let you, the entrepreneur, do.
Teachable works fine for courses and coaching, but Podia makes it easy to sell unlimited courses, downloads, coaching, webinars, and bundles, all in one place. Your blog and email marketing are automatically connected too.
Podia includes a built-in blog that’s already connected to the rest of your business. Teachable doesn’t have a blogging feature, so you’ll need to use another platform to share blog posts with your audience.
With Podia Email, you can design beautiful emails, create automated campaigns, tag and segment your audience, and send as many messages as you want. Everything is already connected to your products and customers.
Rather than worrying about the website and logistics, I can focus on making the best courses possible.
Podia puts everything you need in one place. Get all the features you need to sell online courses. Plus your website, your email marketing, and all your other digital products.
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, community, 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.
Teachable offers courses, downloads, and coaching, but there are limits to how many products you can sell on each plan.
Teachable plan limits:
Starter: 5 products
Builder: 10 products
Growth: 50 products
If you want to make more than 50 products on Teachable, you'll need to work with them for a custom pricing solution that could be much more expensive than the base plans available.
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.
By choosing a platform with unlimited products and many different 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.
Instead, you can just log into your Podia, make a new product, press publish, and you'll be ready to go. Everything you create lives under one roof, and you don't have to worry about running out of space for products.
(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!)
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 lessons 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.
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.
Teachable and Podia both let you make a website and sales pages 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 Builder plan which starts at $69 per month. You can also add custom css snippets and third-party integrations on the Builder 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.
If you want to connect a custom domain, add custom CSS, or work with third-party integrations, you can do all that on the Mover plan which starts at $33 per month.
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 linked to your website, products, and email list, so it's easy to send visitors from blog posts, to your email list, to your products, and back again.
You can add unlimited blog posts and customize the design and layout of your articles, as well as your blog landing page. And 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 all your blogging 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 to set up a blogging in your online business.
With Podia, you get a complete email marketing toolkit built in which includes automations, campaigns, tagging, segmentation, and newsletter templates. You can add a newsletter opt-in form to your website, offer a free lead magnet to grow your list, and build automated campaigns based on actions your audience members take with your business.
All email features are free for your first 100 subscribers, and you can send unlimited emails every month on all Podia Email plans. You only need to upgrade when your list grows, and plans are competitively priced, starting at just $7 per month for up to 500 subscribers.
Teachable takes a different approach. Their email tool is available on the Builder plan ($89/month, or $69/month billed annually) and above, but it only lets you message people who have already purchased or enrolled through your school. There's no newsletter sign-up form, no lead magnet functionality, no email templates, and no automated campaigns.
It's a way to broadcast announcements to existing students, not a tool for building an audience or driving new sales. If growing your email list is part of your business, you'll need to pay for a separate email marketing platform on top of Teachable.
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, what products are eligible, and how long your cookie window lasts. 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 email updates just for them.
Teachable offers traditional affiliate marketing features on the Builder plan. Just like with Podia, you manage affiliate invites and customize what products are eligible to earn a commission. In addition to affiliates, Teachable course creators can also set up a student referral program which allows existing customers to share products with their friends for a discounted price.
Podia and Teachable both have several plans so you can choose the best fit for your business.
Podia pricing:
Podia has two plans to choose from, as well as a 30-day free trial. All plans have checkout features and payment options like payment plans, waitlists, preselling, and monthly subscriptions.
Mover: $39/month or $33/month paid annually (5% transaction fee): Includes your website, blog, landing pages, and link in bio, plus unlimited digital downloads, online courses, webinars, product bundles, and coaching sessions. There are also more selling features like coupons, upsells, and access limits.
Shaker: $89/month or $75/month paid annually (no transaction fees): Includes everything in Mover plus affiliate marketing.
See what’s included with each Podia plan here.
In addition to having all the features you need to build a great online business, Podia also has free migrations on all paid plans. This means that if you already have courses or products on another platform, the team will move everything over for you so you don't have to rebuild from scratch.
Teachable pricing plans:
Teachable has three main pricing plans and a 7-day free trial. They also offer a custom Enterprise plan for larger organizations, which requires contacting their sales team.
Starter: $39/month with a 7.5% transaction fee ($29/month when paid annually): Includes 1 published product, up to 100 students, affiliate program, course certificates, upsells and cart recovery, global payments and tax handling, and live chat support
Builder: $89/month with 0% transaction fee ($69/month when paid annually): Includes 5 published products, up to 1,000 students, and everything in Starter, plus real-time support
Growth: $189/month with 0% transaction fee ($139/month when paid annually): Includes 25 published products, up to 5,000 students, 5 admin users, and everything in Builder, plus the ability to import students
Let's run the numbers to get a better picture of how much you'll pay with each platform.
Both Podia's Mover plan and Teachable's Starter plan cost $39/month, but Teachable charges slightly more in transaction fees. If you earn $500 in a month, here's what you actually pay:
On Teachable's Starter plan: $39 for the plan plus $37.50 in transaction fees (7.5%) comes to $76.50 total. You're also capped at one published product and 100 students.
On Podia's Mover plan: $39 for the plan plus $25 in transaction fees (5%) comes to $64 total, with unlimited products and no student caps.
Now let's look at what happens as you grow. Once you're earning more than $667/month on Teachable's Starter plan, the 7.5% transaction fees cost more than the $50/month price difference to upgrade to the Builder plan. So Teachable effectively pushes you to $89/month before you've hit $1,000 in revenue.
At $1,000/month in earnings, here's the full picture:
Teachable Starter: $39 + $75 in fees = $114/month
Teachable Builder: $89 + $0 in fees = $89/month
Podia Mover: $39 + $50 in fees = $89/month
Podia Shaker: $89 + $0 in fees = $89/month
At that revenue level, Podia Mover and Teachable Builder cost exactly the same. But Teachable Builder limits you to 5 published products and a thousand students. Podia's Shaker plan is also $89/month with 0% transaction fees but there are no product limits or student caps, so you have much more space to grow.
If you’re looking for an all-in-one platform that:
Makes it simple to run your online business
Lets you sell as many products as you like without student caps
Includes your full website, blog, unlimited 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.
Join thousands of creators just like you who use Podia to create websites, sell digital products, send great emails, and build online businesses.
Podia is an all-in-one platform where you can run your website, community, online store, and email marketing, as well as your blog, landing pages, affiliates, and everything else. You can sell online courses, downloads, coaching, webinars, community, or any other kind of digital product you want, and you can see all your customer and sales information under one roof.
You sure can! Podia has a 30-day free trial so you can make sure Podia is the right fit for you. You can test all the features, so you're free to set up your website, blog, email list, and products without spending a dime. Start your free trial today to see for yourself!
Podia Email is an optional add-on that you can use with any Podia plan. Your first 100 subscribers are free, and all Podia Email users get unlimited email sends, automations, campaigns, newsletters, email templates, segmentation, and audience tagging.
Podia Email is automatically connected to your website, landing pages, and products, and you don’t need to manage any integrations. Plus, you can see your customer data – like products purchased, lead magnet opt-ins, and email engagement – all in one place. Learn more about Podia Email here.
Yes! We offer free product migrations on all Mover and Shaker plans. We also offer free email migrations on all paid Podia Email plans. Learn more about Podia’s free migrations here.