The online course platform built to grow with you

An online course platform is software that lets you create, host, and sell online courses from one place. Most include a course builder, video hosting, student management, and payment tools, so you don't need to build your own website or combine separate apps. Teachable is an online course platform used by 150,000+ experts and businesses, with built-in AI tools, iOS and Android student apps, and Teachable Payments.

Choose an online course platform based on what your business needs today and where you want it to go. Before deciding, compare:

• Ownership: whether you keep control of your content, brand, and student relationships
• Payments and taxes: whether checkout and sales tax, VAT, and GST are handled for you
• Student experience: mobile access, quizzes, certificates, and progress tracking
• Fees: transaction fees on each plan, in addition to processing fees
• Risk: whether you can test the platform before committing

Teachable covers these points and offers a 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Teachable lets you create, host, and sell online courses from one platform. You can build your course and learning experience while using built-in tools for payments, taxes, upsells, student referrals, analytics, and more. You keep control of your content, pricing, and brand while Teachable handles much of the technical infrastructure behind selling online.

To create an online course on Teachable, start your 7-day free trial and select Course when prompted to create a product. Build it manually with the drag-and-drop course builder, or use the AI course starter to draft your curriculum, lessons, and sales page at once. You can add videos, audio, text, quizzes, and downloadable files.

While Teachable is built for self-paced courses by default, you can host live courses using third-party embeds, including YouTube, Vimeo, and Zoom. You can also create a cohort-based learning experience using drip content.

To sell online courses, you need a course built around a clear outcome, a sales page, a price, and a way to accept payments. On Teachable, you can:

• Build your course with the course builder or the AI course starter
• Create a sales page that shows what students will learn
• Set your pricing: one-time payments, payment plans, or subscriptions
• Promote it with coupons, upsells, affiliates, and email marketing

Teachable Payments handles checkout and taxes, so you can focus on teaching.

Teachable's online course platform offers three self-serve plans, billed annually: Starter at $29/month, Builder at $69/month, and Growth at $139/month. With monthly billing, the same plans cost $39, $89, and $189 per month. Plans include up to 5, 10, or 50 products, respectively, so you can choose based on how many online courses and other products you want to sell. Starter has a 7.5% transaction fee, while Builder and Growth have 0%. For high-volume businesses, the Custom plan is priced on request. Every self-serve plan includes a 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

You can publish up to 5 products on the Starter plan, 10 on Builder, and 50 on Growth. A published product is any course, coaching offering, or digital download that you make live on your school, and each one counts as 1 product regardless of how many videos, modules, or files it contains. Memberships, bundles, and unpublished drafts don't count toward your limit. The Custom plan offers flexible product limits.

Online courses that sell start with a clear audience and a specific problem your expertise can solve. Validate the idea with the people you want to teach, define the outcome students will reach, and organize your content into short, practical lessons. Then write a sales page that explains who the course is for and what they'll achieve. Many creators start small: Dan George grew FlightInsight from a few dozen students to more than 10,000 pilots worldwide on Teachable.

Yes. Businesses use Teachable as an online training course platform to onboard employees, train customers, and educate partners. You can track learner progress, use auto-graded quizzes and completion certificates, enforce course compliance rules, and import students in bulk. For larger organizations, Teachable Enterprise adds single sign-on (SSO), advanced reporting, and a dedicated success manager.

Besides online courses, you can create and sell one-on-one or group coaching, digital downloads like templates and guides, memberships with recurring subscriptions, and a community space for your students, all from the same school.