Teachable alternative
A Teachable alternative for exam-prep academies
Teachable is a good, low-cost way to start selling a few courses yourself. Edural is for exam and certification prep academies that have grown past that. You get an app under your own brand, built and run for you. Payments go straight into your own Stripe or Razorpay account, and your recorded lectures become course drafts. Just starting out, or want to do it all yourself? Stay on Teachable. Running a prep business with hundreds of students? Talk to us.
Checked November 2026. Teachable facts come from teachable.com/pricing.
Why prep businesses look for a Teachable alternative
Costs that grow as you grow
Teachable changed its plans in 2025. Starter charges a 7.5% transaction fee, and removing Teachable branding is listed only from the $189-a-month Growth plan.Product caps
5, 10 or 50 products depending on the plan. A prep academy with separate courses per exam, module and batch hits them fast.Support that doesn’t answer
Reviewers describe support as slow or AI-only.Hard to leave
Moving courses, students and progress elsewhere is described as a big project.
What Edural sets up for a prep academy
Edural sets up your academy end to end. You get your own student app on your own domain, designed for your brand and your exam, and a course creator for your team. Students pay into your own Stripe or Razorpay account. Every lecture you upload is transcribed, and Edural drafts notes, flashcards and quiz questions from what you actually said, for you to check and publish. Our team moves your courses and students over and stays on call after launch.
Teachable and Edural at a glance
| Compared on | Teachable | Edural |
|---|---|---|
| Who it’s built for | Creators starting and growing a course business | Exam and certification prep academies with hundreds to thousands of students |
| How you set it up | Self-serve | Done for you by our team, including migration |
| Price | $39 / $89 / $189 a month ($29 / $69 / $139 billed annually); Custom on request (source) | One flat monthly fee, no commission. Exact price agreed on a 30-minute call |
| Transaction fee | 7.5% on Starter; 0% on higher plans with Teachable Payments; card processing on top | None from Edural. You pay only your own Stripe or Razorpay fees |
| Where the money goes | Through Teachable Payments | Straight into your own Stripe or Razorpay account |
| Product and student limits | 5 / 10 / 50 products by plan; unlimited students through its checkout | No per-student fees; plan agreed on a call |
| Student app | Teachable’s iOS and Android student apps on all plans. An app under your own brand isn’t listed on the pricing page | Live Your own web app on your own domain, designed for your brand. Native iOS and Android apps: not yet, on the roadmap |
| Your branding | Removing Teachable branding listed from Growth | Your brand only, on every plan |
| Turning recordings into courses | “Create with AI”: outlines, quiz questions from text lessons, subtitles | Live Captions and chapters on every video; notes, flashcards and quiz questions drafted from the lecture’s transcript; many videos organized into modules |
| Quizzes and certificates | Auto-graded quizzes and short-answer assessments; certificates listed on Growth | Live Timed quizzes, assignment grading, certificates with a public verify link |
| Invoices | Not covered on the pricing page | Live Automatic invoices and credit notes, including GST tax invoices for India |
| AI that answers students | Not offered (adaptive AI quizzes are on Teachable’s 2026 roadmap) | Early access Answers from your own lectures and cites the minute |
| Free trial | Yes | No. You see a working academy on the intro call |
The differences that matter for a prep academy
Your app, not someone else’s
On Teachable, students learn inside Teachable’s platform and its iOS and Android apps. That’s convenient, but your brand sits inside someone else’s product. With Edural, your academy gets its own student app on its own domain, and you can choose to own the app’s code. The trade-off is that today it’s a web app that works on any phone. Native store apps are on our roadmap, and founding academies help decide when they ship. See your own student app.
Fees that don’t grow with your sales
Teachable’s Starter plan takes 7.5% of every sale. Its higher plans take 0% through Teachable Payments but cost $89–189 a month. Edural charges a flat fee and takes nothing from your sales. For a prep business selling $10,000 a month, Starter’s 7.5% alone is $750 a month on top of the plan and card fees. On Edural you pay one flat monthly fee, plus your own Stripe fees, and nothing scales with revenue. See what the flat fee includes.
Lecture in, course out
Teachable’s AI helps you write course content. Edural starts from your lectures. Every video gets captions and chapters, and AI drafts notes, flashcards and quiz questions from what you said, in the language you taught in. Nothing reaches students until you’ve checked it. See how lectures become courses.
Someone does the move for you
Teachable is self-serve. With Edural, our team sets up your academy, connects your payment account and moves your courses and students over. You review everything before it goes live.
Who should stay on Teachable
- You’re just starting, or sell a handful of courses.
- You want to set up and change everything yourself, today, and try it free first.
- You need a native student app on iOS and Android right now. Teachable has one; we don’t yet.
- You want the lowest monthly price.
Who should switch to Edural
- You run an exam or certification prep business with hundreds or thousands of students.
- You want an app under your own brand, not a course platform’s.
- You want sales paid straight into your own Stripe or Razorpay account, with no cut taken.
- You have hours of recorded lectures you want turned into courses fast.
- You want a team that sets it up, moves you over and answers you.
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Switching from Teachable
What we move for you
- Course videos, text lessons and files, re-uploaded with captions and chapters generated on the way in
- Your student list and who has access to what
- Quizzes, rebuilt in Edural’s quiz builder
What you’ll redo or decide
- Recurring subscriptions in Teachable’s checkout don’t transfer. We agree with you how to give existing students access.
- Sales pages and funnels built inside Teachable.
A 30-minute call to map what you have, an agreed migration scope, then we move you in. You review before launch, and we stay on call after it. Free for founding academies. See how switching works.
Questions about leaving Teachable
- Is Edural cheaper than Teachable?
- Not at the entry level. Teachable starts at $39 a month. Edural charges one flat monthly fee for your own app and a team that runs it, agreed on a 30-minute call, and it takes no cut of your sales. It works out cheaper only once you sell enough that transaction fees or branding upgrades add up.
- Do I need to know how to code?
- No. Our team builds and runs your app.
- Can I keep my domain?
- Yes. Your student app runs on your own domain.
- Is there a mobile app?
- Your student app works in the browser on any phone today. Native iOS and Android apps are on the roadmap, and founding academies help decide when they ship. Teachable’s own student apps are available now.
- Can I try it first?
- There’s no self-serve trial. Apply for founding access and we’ll show you a working academy on the intro call.