Online course platforms take-home calculator: real cost after fees
Enter your monthly revenue and we show what each tool actually costs you — plan fee plus its own cut of every sale — from our maintained, dated pricing dataset, not a paid placement. Where a tool's per-sale fee can't be turned into a monthly total from revenue alone, we say so instead of guessing.
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At $5,000/mo in monthly revenue, the cheapest we can verify is Thinkific — $54/mo total cost on the Basic plan, leaving $4,946/mo take-home. 1 other tool doesn't publish a fee we can verify at this revenue, so it could be cheaper.
| Tool | Cheapest plan | Total monthly cost | Take-home | If you use your own Stripe | Visit site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thinkific | Basic Cheapest verified | $54/mo | $4,946/mo | Costs more — vendor surcharges own-processor sales | Visit Thinkific → |
| Kajabi | Kickstarter | $89/mo | $4,911/mo | Costs more — vendor surcharges own-processor sales | Visit Kajabi → |
| Podia | Shaker | $99/mo | $4,901/mo | Already included — no vendor processor exists | Visit Podia → |
| Teachable | Builder | $119/mo | $4,881/mo | Not published | Visit Teachable → |
| LearnWorlds | Fee not verified at this revenue | — | — | Already included — no vendor processor exists | Visit LearnWorlds → |
| Mighty Networks | Custom quote | — | — | Not published | Visit Mighty Networks → |
We can't verify a total cost for any tool we track at that revenue — see the note below.
Every figure here comes from each vendor's own published plan fee and transaction-fee terms, from our dated dataset. A tool's transaction fee is its OWN cut of each sale, separate from payment-processor card fees every tool pays. Where a tool charges a flat per-sale fee (e.g. "$5 per enrollment") rather than a percentage, the exact monthly total depends on how many sales you make — a number this calculator doesn't ask for — so we show Fee not verified at this revenue rather than guess. Custom quote means the tool has no standard priced plan at all. These totals assume you sell through the vendor's own payment processor. Some platforms add a separate per-plan surcharge if you connect your own Stripe, which lowers your take-home — the last column says which. Not published there means we haven't verified that vendor's policy on every plan we price, not that it charges nothing. Always confirm final pricing on the vendor's site.
Sources: thinkific.com/pricing, verified · kajabi.com/pricing, verified · podia.com/pricing, verified · teachable.com/pricing, verified · learnworlds.com/pricing, verified · mightynetworks.com/pricing, verified
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