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Podia pricing
3 published plans, read off podia.com/pricing on 6 August 2026, with everything Podia bills on top of them. Free to quote with attribution.
How much is Podia?
Mover is $49/month, or $42/month billed annually. Shaker is $99/month, or $84/month billed annually. Earthquaker is $179/month, or $150/month billed annually. Every figure read off podia.com/pricing on 6 August 2026. There is no free plan. The free trial is 30 days. The plan price is not the bill — see the fees question below.
Podia's plans and pricing tiers
| Plan | Monthly | Billed annually | What the tier is for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mover | $49 | $42/mo | Their words: just getting started. |
| Shaker | $99 | $84/mo | Their words: more room to grow. Adds affiliates, upsells, PayPal and Zapier. |
| Earthquaker | $179 | $150/mo | Their words: going all-in, no limits. |
What each tier actually allows
Podia Shaker — $99/month
Podia Earthquaker — $179/month
What Podia bills on top of the subscription
- The plan price rises with email contacts — each plan card's own selector reprices the tier as your list grows (Mover at 500 contacts is $600 billed annually against $504 at the included 100)
- Card processing at the standard 2.9% + 30¢, charged by Stripe or PayPal rather than by Podia
On your own sales: 5% of your sales on Mover. No Podia fees on Shaker or Earthquaker.
What Podia does well
- Email broadcasts and automations ship inside the same product as the store — Podia Email is part of every plan, which is rare among the course platforms here.
- The whole storefront in one place: courses, digital downloads, coaching, webinars, communities and a website builder on every plan.
- A 30-day free trial with every feature open, stated plainly on the pricing page.
- Unlimited products, videos and community spaces at the top tier.
- The pricing is unusually plain: three cards, the differences listed, and the FAQ answers the fee question in one sentence.
Where Podia is hardest on a small business owner
- Email contacts are the meter: 100 included on Mover, and the plan price climbs with the list from there.
- Mover charges 5% of every sale on top of the processor's own fee.
- Marketing is a broadcast and a coupon — no funnels, no CRM, no launch engine around the store.
- It arrives as a clean, empty store: the course, the emails and the sales page are still the owner's blank page.
How this was gathered
Every figure on this page was read off podia.com/pricing on 6 August 2026. Nothing here comes from a review site, an affiliate roundup, a press release or memory, and there are no affiliate links on it. Where Podia publishes no figure for something, this page records that it is not published rather than modelling a plausible one. Prices are list prices in US dollars before any promotion, and exclude the extras listed further down, which depend on volume and on your own sales and therefore cannot be totalled for anybody in general. No rating, score or rank is published here — this page contains Podia's published prices and terms, and nothing that is an opinion except the section that says it is.
Questions people ask about Podia's price
How much is Podia per month?
The cheapest published monthly price is $49/month, on the Mover plan, read off podia.com/pricing on 6 August 2026. Paying annually lowers the per-month figure on the plans that publish one: Mover $42/month, Shaker $84/month, Earthquaker $150/month. That is the subscription only. 5% of your sales on Mover. No Podia fees on Shaker or Earthquaker.
What are Podia's plans?
3 plans on podia.com/pricing as of 6 August 2026: Mover — Their words: just getting started. Email subscribers: 100 included; Products: 50; Videos: 500; Community spaces: 25; Transaction fee: 5%. Shaker — Their words: more room to grow. Adds affiliates, upsells, PayPal and Zapier. Email subscribers: 500 included; Products: 150; Videos: 1,000; Community spaces: 100; Assistants: 1; Transaction fee: 0%. Earthquaker — Their words: going all-in, no limits. Email subscribers: 1,000 included; Products: Unlimited; Videos: Unlimited; Community spaces: Unlimited; Assistants: Unlimited; Transaction fee: 0%.
What are Podia's pricing tiers?
Mover is $49/month, or $42/month billed annually. Shaker is $99/month, or $84/month billed annually. Earthquaker is $179/month, or $150/month billed annually. The tiers differ on Email subscribers, Products, Videos, Community spaces, Transaction fee, Assistants. Read off podia.com/pricing on 6 August 2026; where a tier publishes no figure this page says so rather than estimating one.
Does Podia have a free plan or a free trial?
No permanently free plan. The published free trial is 30 days. No money-back window is published. Checked 6 August 2026.
What fees does Podia charge on top of the plan?
Their own pages, read on 6 August 2026, listed: The plan price rises with email contacts — each plan card's own selector reprices the tier as your list grows (Mover at 500 contacts is $600 billed annually against $504 at the included 100); Card processing at the standard 2.9% + 30¢, charged by Stripe or PayPal rather than by Podia. On fees taken from your sales: 5% of your sales on Mover. No Podia fees on Shaker or Earthquaker. The entry tier's own card puts that at 5%.
How much does Podia cost?
Read off podia.com/pricing on 6 August 2026: Mover is $49/month, or $42/month billed annually. Shaker is $99/month, or $84/month billed annually. Earthquaker is $179/month, or $150/month billed annually. There is no free plan. The free trial is 30 days.
Does Podia charge fees on top of the subscription?
Yes — on 6 August 2026 their own pages listed: The plan price rises with email contacts — each plan card's own selector reprices the tier as your list grows (Mover at 500 contacts is $600 billed annually against $504 at the included 100); Card processing at the standard 2.9% + 30¢, charged by Stripe or PayPal rather than by Podia. On transaction fees specifically: 5% of your sales on Mover. No Podia fees on Shaker or Earthquaker.
What does Podia do well?
Email broadcasts and automations ship inside the same product as the store — Podia Email is part of every plan, which is rare among the course platforms here. The whole storefront in one place: courses, digital downloads, coaching, webinars, communities and a website builder on every plan. A 30-day free trial with every feature open, stated plainly on the pricing page. Unlimited products, videos and community spaces at the top tier. The pricing is unusually plain: three cards, the differences listed, and the FAQ answers the fee question in one sentence. That is from their own pricing and product pages, read on 6 August 2026.
Where does Podia fall short for a small business owner?
Email contacts are the meter: 100 included on Mover, and the plan price climbs with the list from there. Mover charges 5% of every sale on top of the processor's own fee. Marketing is a broadcast and a coupon — no funnels, no CRM, no launch engine around the store. It arrives as a clean, empty store: the course, the emails and the sales page are still the owner's blank page. That is our reading of their published plans and limits as of 6 August 2026 — check podia.com/pricing before you decide anything on it.
What's a cheaper alternative to Podia?
Podia's lowest published tier is $49/month, read off podia.com/pricing on 6 August 2026. Of the 11 platforms priced on this site, these publish a lower entry tier: Systeme.io at $0/month, Skool at $9/month, Teachable at $39/month. Systeme.io publishes a permanently free plan. Read that carefully before switching on price alone: the entry tier is not the bill. Podia's own pages list these on top of the plan: The plan price rises with email contacts — each plan card's own selector reprices the tier as your list grows (Mover at 500 contacts is $600 billed annually against $504 at the included 100); Card processing at the standard 2.9% + 30¢, charged by Stripe or PayPal rather than by Podia. On transaction fees: 5% of your sales on Mover. No Podia fees on Shaker or Earthquaker. Several of the cheaper options above charge a percentage of your sales or per-message usage instead, and every one of those is listed per vendor, in their own words, at /data/platform-pricing — all of it read on 6 August 2026. The alternative this page is about is KBD Systems, which is priced at /pricing; the difference it is arguing is not the monthly figure but what you still have to do yourself after you have paid it.
Is Podia worth it?
That depends on who is going to run it, and their own pages make it answerable. Podia is an all-in-one storefront for digital products — courses, downloads, coaching and communities — with email marketing built in and priced by contacts, sold to creators who want their website, store and email under one roof. What it genuinely does better: Email broadcasts and automations ship inside the same product as the store — Podia Email is part of every plan, which is rare among the course platforms here. The whole storefront in one place: courses, digital downloads, coaching, webinars, communities and a website builder on every plan. Where it is hardest on a small business owner running it alone: Email contacts are the meter: 100 included on Mover, and the plan price climbs with the list from there. Mover charges 5% of every sale on top of the processor's own fee. Its lowest published tier is $49/month. There is a 30-day free trial, so this is testable before it is decided. That is our reading of their published plans, limits and product pages as of 6 August 2026, not a rating — we publish no scores, and you should check podia.com/pricing yourself before deciding anything on the strength of ours.
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