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Thinkific pricing
4 published plans, read off thinkific.com/pricing on 6 August 2026, with everything Thinkific bills on top of them. Free to quote with attribution.
How much is Thinkific?
Basic is $54/month, or $40/month billed annually. Start is $109/month, or $82/month billed annually. Grow is $219/month, or $164/month billed annually. Plus has no price published on that page. Every figure read off thinkific.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.
Thinkific's plans and pricing tiers
| Plan | Monthly | Billed annually | What the tier is for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $54 | $40/mo | Their words: for experts publishing their first course and building an audience from scratch. |
| Start | $109 | $82/mo | Their words: everything you need to sell, engage, and grow — with full commerce tools from day one. Marked most popular. |
| Grow | $219 | $164/mo | Their words: more selling power, deeper analytics, and professional support. |
| Plus | not published | not published | Custom-priced — talk to sales. The enterprise tier. |
What each tier actually allows
Thinkific Start — $109/month
Thinkific Grow — $219/month
Thinkific Plus
What Thinkific bills on top of the subscription
- The branded mobile app is $199/mo, included only on select Plus plans
- Using a payment gateway other than Thinkific Payments adds a third-party gateway fee that varies by plan; Thinkific Payments itself processes at 2.9%
On your own sales: No platform fee on your sales. Thinkific Payments processes at 2.9%, which their FAQ calls in line with Stripe and PayPal; other gateways add a per-plan fee.
What Thinkific does well
- Unlimited published courses on every plan, including the cheapest.
- The deepest course craft in this set: quizzes, assignments, certificates, drip schedules, cohorts and communities, from a company that has done only this since 2012.
- TCommerce is real commerce — order bumps, buy-now-pay-later, gifting, group orders, abandoned-cart reminders and automated sales tax in the checkout.
- A 30-day free trial — double the category's usual 14.
- Your school runs on your own custom domain on every plan.
Where Thinkific is hardest on a small business owner
- Current students are capped at 10,000 on every self-serve tier — the one number growth actually hits.
- Course video bandwidth is metered — 100 GB a month on Basic — a limit almost nobody prices in before they buy.
- Removing Thinkific branding waits until the $219/mo Grow tier.
- The marketing engine around the course — email sequences, funnels, a CRM, launch campaigns — largely lives in integrations, and the course itself is still yours to write.
How this was gathered
Every figure on this page was read off thinkific.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 Thinkific 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 Thinkific's published prices and terms, and nothing that is an opinion except the section that says it is.
Questions people ask about Thinkific's price
How much is Thinkific per month?
The cheapest published monthly price is $54/month, on the Basic plan, read off thinkific.com/pricing on 6 August 2026. Paying annually lowers the per-month figure on the plans that publish one: Basic $40/month, Start $82/month, Grow $164/month. That is the subscription only. No platform fee on your sales. Thinkific Payments processes at 2.9%, which their FAQ calls in line with Stripe and PayPal; other gateways add a per-plan fee.
What are Thinkific's plans?
4 plans on thinkific.com/pricing as of 6 August 2026: Basic — Their words: for experts publishing their first course and building an audience from scratch. Published courses: Unlimited; Current students: 10,000; Communities: 1; Spaces: 5; Digital downloads: 5; Video bandwidth: 100 GB/month; Custom domain: Included. Start — Their words: everything you need to sell, engage, and grow — with full commerce tools from day one. Marked most popular. Published courses: Unlimited; Current students: 10,000; Communities: 1; Spaces: 10; Digital downloads: Unlimited; Video bandwidth: 200 GB/month; Memberships: Memberships, bundles, upsells and payment plans. Grow — Their words: more selling power, deeper analytics, and professional support. Published courses: Unlimited; Current students: 10,000; Communities: 3; Spaces: 20; Video bandwidth: 400 GB/month; Branding: Removes Thinkific branding; API: API access and webhooks. Plus — Custom-priced — talk to sales. The enterprise tier. Current students: Custom; Communities: Unlimited; Video bandwidth: Starting at 7,500 GB/month.
What are Thinkific's pricing tiers?
Basic is $54/month, or $40/month billed annually. Start is $109/month, or $82/month billed annually. Grow is $219/month, or $164/month billed annually. Plus has no price published on that page. The tiers differ on Published courses, Current students, Communities, Spaces, Digital downloads, Video bandwidth. Read off thinkific.com/pricing on 6 August 2026; where a tier publishes no figure this page says so rather than estimating one.
Does Thinkific 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 Thinkific charge on top of the plan?
Their own pages, read on 6 August 2026, listed: The branded mobile app is $199/mo, included only on select Plus plans; Using a payment gateway other than Thinkific Payments adds a third-party gateway fee that varies by plan; Thinkific Payments itself processes at 2.9%. On fees taken from your sales: No platform fee on your sales. Thinkific Payments processes at 2.9%, which their FAQ calls in line with Stripe and PayPal; other gateways add a per-plan fee.
How much does Thinkific cost?
Read off thinkific.com/pricing on 6 August 2026: Basic is $54/month, or $40/month billed annually. Start is $109/month, or $82/month billed annually. Grow is $219/month, or $164/month billed annually. Plus has no price published on that page. There is no free plan. The free trial is 30 days.
Does Thinkific charge fees on top of the subscription?
Yes — on 6 August 2026 their own pages listed: The branded mobile app is $199/mo, included only on select Plus plans; Using a payment gateway other than Thinkific Payments adds a third-party gateway fee that varies by plan; Thinkific Payments itself processes at 2.9%. On transaction fees specifically: No platform fee on your sales. Thinkific Payments processes at 2.9%, which their FAQ calls in line with Stripe and PayPal; other gateways add a per-plan fee.
What does Thinkific do well?
Unlimited published courses on every plan, including the cheapest. The deepest course craft in this set: quizzes, assignments, certificates, drip schedules, cohorts and communities, from a company that has done only this since 2012. TCommerce is real commerce — order bumps, buy-now-pay-later, gifting, group orders, abandoned-cart reminders and automated sales tax in the checkout. A 30-day free trial — double the category's usual 14. Your school runs on your own custom domain on every plan. That is from their own pricing and product pages, read on 6 August 2026.
Where does Thinkific fall short for a small business owner?
Current students are capped at 10,000 on every self-serve tier — the one number growth actually hits. Course video bandwidth is metered — 100 GB a month on Basic — a limit almost nobody prices in before they buy. Removing Thinkific branding waits until the $219/mo Grow tier. The marketing engine around the course — email sequences, funnels, a CRM, launch campaigns — largely lives in integrations, and the course itself is still yours to write. That is our reading of their published plans and limits as of 6 August 2026 — check thinkific.com/pricing before you decide anything on it.
What's a cheaper alternative to Thinkific?
Thinkific's lowest published tier is $54/month, read off thinkific.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, Podia at $49/month. Systeme.io publishes a permanently free plan. Read that carefully before switching on price alone: the entry tier is not the bill. Thinkific's own pages list these on top of the plan: The branded mobile app is $199/mo, included only on select Plus plans; Using a payment gateway other than Thinkific Payments adds a third-party gateway fee that varies by plan; Thinkific Payments itself processes at 2.9%. On transaction fees: No platform fee on your sales. Thinkific Payments processes at 2.9%, which their FAQ calls in line with Stripe and PayPal; other gateways add a per-plan fee. 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 Thinkific worth it?
That depends on who is going to run it, and their own pages make it answerable. Thinkific is a course platform for building, marketing and selling online courses and communities on your own site, sold to experts and educators turning what they know into courses, memberships and communities. What it genuinely does better: Unlimited published courses on every plan, including the cheapest. The deepest course craft in this set: quizzes, assignments, certificates, drip schedules, cohorts and communities, from a company that has done only this since 2012. Where it is hardest on a small business owner running it alone: Current students are capped at 10,000 on every self-serve tier — the one number growth actually hits. Course video bandwidth is metered — 100 GB a month on Basic — a limit almost nobody prices in before they buy. Its lowest published tier is $54/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 thinkific.com/pricing yourself before deciding anything on the strength of ours.
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