Thinkific
Hosted course and community platform for educators and businesses selling learning, memberships, cohorts and training.
Strong hosted course, membership, cohort, community and B2B selling features, with enterprise additions for training teams.
Accessible hosted builder and creator support; customization, domains and complex enterprise workflows need configuration.
Current plan and quotas clearly displayed but $109 monthly entry, extras and gateway country rules add cost.
Grow provides API/webhooks, enterprise Plus offers SSO/SCORM and matched G2 user feedback is available; no Toollers audit.
Scored by Shikha Goyal
Quick facts
- Vendor
- Thinkific Labs Inc.
- Pricing model
- Paid hosted SaaS subscriptions Start, Grow and Expand with monthly or annual billing; quote-based Thinkific Plus; 30-day trial, no permanent free plan
- Plan pricing
- Start $109/month month-to-month, or $82/month equivalent billed annually ($984/year); Grow $219/$164; Expand $499/$374; Thinkific Plus custom quote.
- Free plan
- Not confirmed
- Free trial
- Yes — check eligibility
- Last verified
- 11/6/2026
About Thinkific
Thinkific is a hosted course-creation and learner-commerce platform for instructors, coaching businesses, associations and organizations that deliver training to customers or partners. Creators build multimedia lessons, upload videos and downloads, add quizzes and graded assignments, issue completion certificates, schedule live cohorts and coaching, and sell access through a branded learning website. Its commerce features cover one-time course sales, bundles, memberships, subscriptions, payment plans and upsells. Course creators can use a custom domain without building or securing a WordPress LMS, while operations teams can use community spaces, groups, enrollment reporting and partner-revenue sharing to support structured programs. Thinkific Payments, within its TCommerce suite, adds payment processing and selling tools, but third-party card processing is not necessarily free: separate processor rates apply and selected markets may face an additional Thinkific gateway surcharge for external Stripe or future gateways. The CURRENT published self-serve lineup is Start, Grow and Expand; Thinkific Plus is a negotiated enterprise tier. Older Basic plan prices still appear in some historical vendor help articles, but Basic is not displayed as a new self-serve signup option on the current page. Start is $109/month billed month to month, or $82/month when billed annually. Grow is $219/month or $164/month when billed annually. Expand is $499/month or $374/month when billed annually. The current entry tier is Start at $109/month, not legacy Basic; 10,000 active students and monthly video bandwidth are capped, and third-party gateway and mobile app fees can add cost.
Best for
Independent course businesses, coaches, membership educators, associations and customer-training teams selling branded, structured learning experiences.
Thinkific pros and cons
Pros
- Unlimited course creation on the entry self-serve subscription with quizzes, assignments, certificates and live coaching.
- Combines course storefront, payments, subscriptions, bundles, community and learner engagement in one hosted service.
- Grow and higher add business enrollment, engagement analytics, white labeling and API/webhooks.
- Pricing page spells out administrator, community, student and video-bandwidth allowances.
- 30-day trial makes it possible to build and preview an initial course before committing.
Cons
- −No permanent free plan, and the current entry price is $109/month before annual discount.
- −Third-party payment gateway platform surcharges apply in some countries and vary by plan.
- −All self-serve tiers cap current students at 10,000 and video bandwidth and communities by tier.
- −SCORM, SSO and learning paths are enterprise Plus capabilities, not ordinary self-serve entitlements.
- −A branded mobile application is a separately priced $199/month add-on for normal subscriptions.
Features
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Integrations
Pricing — verified 11/6/2026
What you’ll actually pay
$109 billed monthly; 10,000 current students, 1 community and 200 GB/mo video bandwidth.
$82/month equivalent; $984 due for a 12-month annual term.
$219 billed monthly; adds brand removal, advanced reporting, 3 communities, 6 administrators and API/webhooks.
$164/month equivalent; $1,968 charged annually.
$499 billed monthly; higher team and community limits and professional branding controls.
$374/month equivalent; $4,488 charged annually.
Custom negotiated pricing and learner capacity for enterprise training and business requirements.
Official pricing / availability source · Checked 6 November 2026. Confirm current taxes, regional terms and allowances. A listed plan is not necessarily the cheapest option.
Editorial verification: 11/6/2026. Check the vendor's site for current pricing.
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