LearnWorlds vs Teachable (2026): The $67 Rule

Last updated: August 2026. Written by Josh Hutcheson, OnlineCourseing editor. See our review methodology.

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Disclosure: we have an affiliate relationship with LearnWorlds and none with Teachable. We have tried to make that irrelevant by sourcing every number from the two vendors directly and saying plainly where Teachable is the better buy — which, for a good number of readers, it is.

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The short answer

These two platforms are aimed at different jobs, and most of the disagreement about which is “better” comes from people comparing them without saying which job they mean.

Teachable optimises for getting a course sold. It is simpler, it is faster to set up, and its whole shape assumes the hard part is the transaction. LearnWorlds optimises for the course actually working — interactive video, assessment tooling, certification, branded academies. It is more capable and it is more work.

If you already know which of those describes you, the decision is close to made. If you do not, the pricing structures below will decide it for you, because they punish different business models in different ways.

LearnWorlds vs Teachable at a glance

The two pricing ladders, read today

Both companies changed their pricing recently, and a lot of what is published about this matchup describes plans that no longer exist. Everything below was read from the two vendors’ own pricing pages in August 2026.

Neither platform has a free plan. Teachable offers a 7-day free trial with a 30-day money-back guarantee; LearnWorlds offers a free trial without publishing its length on the pricing page. On both, payment-gateway fees are separate and go to the gateway rather than the platform — roughly 2.9% plus $0.30 on US cards.

Flat fee vs percentage: the crossover is $67

This is the part that actually decides the comparison for most people, and it is almost always described vaguely. The two entry plans do not just charge different amounts — they charge in different shapes. LearnWorlds takes $5 no matter what your course costs. Teachable takes 7.5% of whatever it costs.

A flat fee and a percentage meet at exactly one price point. Here, 7.5% of a sale equals $5 when the sale is $66.67. That single number tells you which entry plan is cheaper for your catalogue:

Sell a $499 programme a hundred times in a year and the entry-plan fee alone costs $500 on LearnWorlds and $3,743 on Teachable — a $3,243 difference on identical revenue, before either subscription is counted. That is not a rounding error; it is the whole decision.

Run it the other way and the logic flips just as hard. A $29 course sold a thousand times gives up $5,000 to LearnWorlds’ flat fee and $2,175 to Teachable’s percentage. If you sell cheap courses in volume, Teachable’s entry plan is straightforwardly the better deal.

Both fees disappear one tier up — LearnWorlds’ Pro Trainer at $79 and Teachable’s Builder at $69 both charge nothing per sale. So for anyone doing real volume, the fee question is really a question about how long you intend to stay on the entry plan, and the answer is usually “less time than you think.”

The entry-tier limit nobody warns you about

Teachable’s Starter plan allows 100 active students. LearnWorlds’ Starter allows 1,000 active learners a month. That is a tenfold difference at the cheapest tier, and it is easy to miss because it sits in a comparison table rather than in the headline.

For a new course seller this is the constraint most likely to force an unplanned upgrade. One decent launch, one webinar that converts, one affiliate push — and 100 active students is gone. Teachable’s Starter also caps you at 5 products and 1 admin user, where LearnWorlds’ Starter caps admins at 1 but is far more generous on audience.

The picture inverts at the top of the published ladders. Teachable’s Growth plan carries 5,000 students for $139 a month; LearnWorlds’ Learning Center carries 2,000 for $249. If your model is a large, cheap-to-serve audience, Teachable scales students considerably more cheaply. If your model is a smaller audience with more staff, more courses and more branding around it, LearnWorlds gives you 25 admins and full white-labelling where Teachable gives you 5 admins.

Check the definitions before you plan around either number. “Active students” and “active learners a month” are not necessarily counted the same way, and a large dormant back catalogue behaves very differently from a live cohort. If you are close to a cap, ask each vendor in writing how they count.

Three businesses, one year, both platforms

Per-sale fees are easier to judge against a whole year than a single transaction, and the answer changes shape depending on what you sell. Below are three realistic businesses costed across both platforms on annual billing. Payment-gateway charges are excluded because they are effectively identical on both and go to Stripe or PayPal rather than to either company.

Business A — low ticket, high volume. A $39 course selling 600 times a year, $23,400 of revenue. LearnWorlds Starter costs $288 plus $3,000 in enrollment fees, or $3,288. Teachable Starter costs $348 plus $1,755, or $2,103. But both entry plans are the wrong answer: Teachable Builder at $828 and LearnWorlds Pro Trainer at $948 charge nothing per sale, and either beats both entry plans by more than a thousand dollars. Teachable Builder is the cheapest option on the board — and note that 600 students would have breached Teachable Starter’s 100-student cap long before the fees became the problem.

Business B — mid ticket. A $199 course selling 200 times, $39,800 of revenue. LearnWorlds Starter costs $1,288, Teachable Starter $3,333. Move both up a tier and the fees vanish: Teachable Builder $828, LearnWorlds Pro Trainer $948. Teachable is $120 a year cheaper, and for that $120 LearnWorlds gives you unlimited courses instead of ten, and five admin users instead of one. This is the closest call of the three, and it comes down to features rather than price.

Business C — high ticket, low volume. A $999 programme selling 60 times, $59,940 of revenue. Here the flat fee does something unusual: LearnWorlds Starter costs $288 plus $300, or $588 for the year — cheaper than upgrading to Pro Trainer at $948, and cheaper than every Teachable plan. Teachable Starter on the same business costs $348 plus $4,496, or $4,844. That is a difference of more than $4,200 on identical sales.

Two things fall out of that table that no feature comparison will tell you. The first is that the entry plans are rarely the cheapest plans — on two of the three businesses, upgrading immediately saves money. The second is that the only case where an entry plan wins is high-ticket and low-volume, and it wins on LearnWorlds specifically, because a flat $5 against a $999 sale is a rounding error while 7.5% is $75.

What LearnWorlds does better

Interactive video. Questions, branching and calls to action layered into the video timeline itself. This is the single clearest capability gap between the two, and it is the reason most people who choose LearnWorlds choose it.

Assessment and certification. Question banks, varied question types, graded assignments, certificates, and up to 20 SCORM uploads on Pro Trainer. If you issue anything resembling a credential, this is not a close comparison.

Courses and admins at the mid tier. Pro Trainer at $79 gives unlimited courses and learning paths plus 5 admins. Teachable’s Builder at $69 gives 10 products and a single admin; you need Growth at $139 before you get 5. For a small team, LearnWorlds is the cheaper route to multi-admin.

Branded academies. Full white-labelling and up to ten separate client groups at Learning Center. If you run training on behalf of other organisations, Teachable has no real equivalent.

What Teachable does better

Getting you live. This is the honest headline advantage. Teachable asks fewer questions and has fewer places to get stuck. LearnWorlds’ most consistent criticism across independent reviews is a steep learning curve and a cluttered builder; Teachable simply does not have that reputation.

Low-ticket economics. As the table above shows, 7.5% of a cheap course is less than $5. If your courses sit under about $67, Teachable’s entry plan is the cheaper place to start and it is not close at the very low end.

Student scale per dollar. 5,000 students at $139 a month on Growth against 2,000 at $249 on Learning Center. For large audiences of light-touch learners, Teachable is materially cheaper.

A clearer trial commitment. Teachable publishes a 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee. LearnWorlds offers a trial but does not state its length on the pricing page, which is a small thing that matters when you are comparing two tabs side by side.

Included student apps. Teachable lists iOS and Android student apps from its entry plan. LearnWorlds sells branded mobile apps as a separate add-on and does not publish the price.

Where the mid-tier comparison actually lands

Most people end up on the middle plan, so it is worth comparing the ones they will actually buy rather than the headline prices. LearnWorlds Pro Trainer is $79 a month on annual billing. Teachable Builder is $69. Ten dollars apart, and both drop the per-sale fee entirely.

For that $10, LearnWorlds gives you unlimited courses against Teachable’s 10 products, five admin users against one, 2,000 active learners, certificates and SCORM. On feature count it is not an even trade — Pro Trainer is the better-specified plan by some distance.

What Teachable keeps at that price is the thing that does not appear on a spec sheet: it is easier. If the extra capability is capability you will never use, paying $10 less for a tool you can actually navigate is a perfectly rational trade, and anyone telling you otherwise is counting features rather than outcomes.

Ease of use: the one place the reviews agree

Independent reviewers who have used LearnWorlds hands-on converge on the same complaint from different directions. Geekflare, which rated it 4.5 out of 5 in August 2025, still describes “a steep learning curve for complete beginners.” SellCoursesOnline, at 4.1 out of 5, is blunter, describing a cluttered interface and a course builder that is not user-friendly — no bulk upload, and video that has to be pushed to a media library before it can be placed in a lesson.

None of that makes LearnWorlds a bad platform; it makes it a professional one with the friction that usually implies. But it does mean the two tools ask different things of you. Budget setup time for LearnWorlds that you would not need to budget for Teachable, and be honest with yourself about whether you will spend it.

What neither platform gives you

Comparisons tend to argue about the gap between two products and skip the things both sides are missing. If you are choosing your first platform, these matter more than the differences.

Neither brings you an audience. This is the big one, and it catches people who have previously published on Udemy or Skillshare. Those are marketplaces with built-in demand. LearnWorlds and Teachable are storefronts: you get the shop, you supply the customers. If you do not already have a list, a following or a paid-acquisition budget, the platform choice is not your constraint and neither product will fix it.

Neither has a free plan. Teachable gives you 7 days and a 30-day money-back guarantee; LearnWorlds gives you a trial without publishing its length. Either way you are paying before you have proven the idea, which is an argument for validating demand somewhere cheaper first.

Neither absorbs payment processing. Roughly 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction on US cards goes to the gateway on both platforms, on every plan, on top of any platform fee. When you see a “0% transaction fee” plan, that is the platform’s own cut being zero, not your total cost of taking money.

Both meter something, just different things. Teachable counts products and students; LearnWorlds counts active learners, admins and AI credits. There is no plan on either platform that is simply “unlimited,” so whichever you choose, find the meter that applies to your model before you commit to a year.

Neither publishes everything. LearnWorlds sells branded mobile apps as an add-on without a public price; Teachable’s Custom tier is quote-only and its page invites anyone selling more than $12k a year to contact sales for special conditions. If either of those applies to you, the published pricing is not your real pricing and you should get a quote before comparing.

Neither is yours. Both are hosted platforms. You are renting distribution infrastructure and accepting that the pricing, the limits and the feature set can change under you — as both have demonstrated in the last year. Keep your own copy of your content and your own list, on both platforms, always.

Choose LearnWorlds if

• Your courses sell for more than about $67 — the flat fee stops being the expensive option and becomes the cheap one.
• You issue certificates, run assessments, or need SCORM support.
• Interactive video would genuinely improve your teaching, not just your feature list.
• You run training for client organisations and need branded, separated academies.
• You need several admin users without paying for a top tier.

Choose Teachable if

• Your courses are low-ticket — under about $67, the percentage beats the flat fee.
• You want to be selling quickly and would rather not fight the software.
• You expect a large audience of light-touch students; Growth’s 5,000 students at $139 is the cheaper way to hold them.
• Student mobile apps matter and you do not want to buy them separately.
• Your content is straightforward video and the interactive tooling would go unused.

Why most comparisons of these two are wrong

This is worth saying because it affects how you should read everything else you find on this matchup, including the pages ranking above this one.

Almost every comparison of LearnWorlds and Teachable is published by a company selling a third course platform. The current top results include write-ups hosted by Mighty Networks, Teachfloor, Coursebox, EzyCourse and Ruzuku — all of them direct competitors to both products under discussion, and several of them conclude, remarkably, that the best option is the platform their own company sells. That is not necessarily dishonest, but it is not a neutral comparison either.

The bigger problem is accuracy. When we checked the two highest-ranking comparisons in August 2026, both were quoting pricing that no longer exists. One, updated in April 2026, lists Teachable plans called Basic, Pro and Pro+ — names Teachable no longer uses — and puts the entry transaction fee at 5% when the published figure is 7.5%. The other states that Teachable has a free plan; Teachable’s own pricing page answers the question “Is there a free plan?” with “Teachable is a paid service that includes a 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.”

If you are making a decision worth hundreds of dollars a year, check the number on the vendor’s own page before you trust any comparison, this one included. Pricing in this category has moved twice in the last year.

How we compared these

Every price, fee, cap and plan name on this page was read directly from learnworlds.com/pricing and teachable.com/pricing in August 2026, in a browser rather than through a scraper — LearnWorlds renders its currency symbol as a CSS pseudo-element, so automated reads of that page routinely come back without it, which is one reason so much published pricing for it is wrong.

The usability and capability judgements draw on the vendors’ documentation together with independent hands-on reviews, principally Geekflare (4.5/5, August 2025) and SellCoursesOnline (4.1/5). We have weighted criticisms most heavily where independent reviewers agree. This is a desk comparison rather than a parallel hands-on build, and we would rather say so than imply testing we did not do. We have an affiliate relationship with LearnWorlds and none with Teachable; the section above naming where Teachable is the better buy is there because it is true, and the arithmetic is reproducible from the two pricing pages.

Frequently asked questions

Is LearnWorlds better than Teachable?
For higher-priced courses and for anything involving assessment or certification, yes. For low-ticket courses, large light-touch audiences, or a fast launch, Teachable is the better fit. The price of your course is the fastest way to tell which side you are on: above about $67, LearnWorlds’ fee structure favours you.

Which is cheaper, LearnWorlds or Teachable?
It depends on what you charge. LearnWorlds’ entry plan is $24 a month plus $5 per sale; Teachable’s is $29 a month plus 7.5% per sale. The fees are equal at a $66.67 course price. One tier up, LearnWorlds Pro Trainer is $79 and Teachable Builder is $69, and neither charges a per-sale fee.

Does Teachable have a free plan?
No. Teachable’s pricing page states plainly that it is a paid service with a 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Several widely-read comparisons still claim otherwise.

What is Teachable’s transaction fee?
7.5% on the Starter plan. Builder and Growth carry no transaction fee when you use Teachable’s own payment handling. Payment-gateway processing charges apply separately on every plan.

How many students can I have on the entry plans?
Teachable Starter allows 100 active students and 5 products. LearnWorlds Starter allows 1,000 active learners a month. This is the most commonly missed difference between the two entry tiers.

Can I move my courses from Teachable to LearnWorlds?
Both platforms support migration in principle, but neither publishes a guaranteed scope on its pricing page. Because LearnWorlds has no bulk upload or cloud import, expect manual work proportional to your catalogue size, and ask the vendor directly what assistance is included at your tier before committing.

Which is easier to use?
Teachable, clearly, and this is the most consistent finding across independent reviews of both. LearnWorlds is the more capable platform and the more demanding one.

Related reading

• LearnWorlds review — the full verdict, pricing breakdown and the tier most course sellers get wrong.

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