LearnWorlds vs Teachable (2026): Which One Fits Your Course?

Short answer (prices checked October 2026): pick LearnWorlds if you run several courses, issue certificates or need SCORM. Its Pro Trainer plan ($79 a month on annual billing) includes unlimited courses, certificates and up to 20 SCORM uploads. Teachable keeps certificates for its $139 Growth plan. Pick Teachable if your audience is large or learns on their phones. Paying students are unlimited on every Teachable plan and native iOS and Android apps are included. LearnWorlds' published plans list a limit of 2,000 monthly active learners, and it sells its branded app as an add-on.

Teachable is also the cheaper of the two at the first plan with no platform fee: Builder is $69 a month against $79 for Pro Trainer. That gap flips if you need certificates, which Teachable keeps for its $139 Growth plan.

Want one platform in more depth? See the LearnWorlds pricing guide with plan-by-plan cost scenarios or the Teachable pricing guide covering student usage fees.

About the video above: it was recorded in March 2026, and some of what it says has changed, including LearnWorlds' mobile app. It also presents our completion data as cause and effect. That data is an observational comparison that doesn't establish cause or compare vendors. It also quotes LearnWorlds Starter at $24 a month; LearnWorlds raised it on October 29, 2026, to $44 a month on annual billing ($49 monthly), still with $5 per paid enrollment. The dates each figure was checked are in the box above.

How much do LearnWorlds and Teachable cost in 2026?

Both platforms have three published plans and a custom tier above them. Here's what each costs, what it takes from your sales, and the limit you're most likely to run into, taken from the LearnWorlds pricing page and the Teachable pricing page.

Card processing comes on top on both platforms and isn't shown. Teachable adds a 1% surcharge on international cards. On LearnWorlds you sell through your own Stripe or PayPal account. Teachable has no free plan. LearnWorlds has a 30-day free trial.

Notice that the two student limits measure different things. LearnWorlds counts monthly active learners, and its pricing page doesn't say what happens above the limit. Teachable, since September 3, 2026, doesn't cap students who pay on any plan. Students you enroll for free, by hand or by import do count, even if they also bought something, and each one above 100 costs $0.50 a month. Schools that predate the change can stay on their older terms until renewal.

Which Starter plan costs less: a $5 fee or 7.5%?

The two entry plans charge in different ways. LearnWorlds Starter takes a flat $5 every time someone pays to enroll. Teachable Starter takes 7.5% of the sale. The two are equal on a $66.67 course ($5 ÷ 7.5%). Sell anything cheaper and Teachable takes less per sale. Sell anything pricier and LearnWorlds does. That compares the fee alone. LearnWorlds Starter's plan price is $15 higher, so at 20 sales a month Teachable Starter stays cheaper overall until the course costs about $77.

Billed monthly, the same 20 sales cost $149 on LearnWorlds ($49 + $100) and $114 on Teachable ($39 + $75) at $50, or $149 and $339 at $200.

In both rows, though, you'd be better off on the next plan up. If you issue certificates, LearnWorlds Starter is off the table anyway: certificates start on Pro Trainer. On annual billing, LearnWorlds Pro Trainer ($79) costs less than Starter once you take 8 or more paid enrollments a month. At 7 enrollments the two cost the same ($44 + $35 = $79). Teachable Builder ($69) costs less than Starter once your sales pass about $533 a month, because 7.5% of $533 is $40, the gap between the two plans. So the Starter plans are for testing, and the comparison that matters is the one below.

What do you get at the first plan with no fee?

That's Pro Trainer on LearnWorlds and Builder on Teachable. Teachable is $10 a month cheaper on annual billing, or $120 a year ($828 against $948). Here's what the extra $10 buys on LearnWorlds, and what you keep on Teachable.

Certificates are where the price order flips. If you issue them, Teachable's cheapest option is Growth at $1,668 a year, against $948 for LearnWorlds Pro Trainer. That's $720 a year in LearnWorlds' favor, and Growth still caps you at 50 products.

LearnWorlds includes a community on every plan. Teachable's Community is in maintenance mode and closed to new schools (Teachable help center, updated August 10, 2026), so discussion there happens in lesson comments. LearnWorlds also includes unlimited video hosting and your own domain on every plan, where Teachable starts custom domains at Builder.

When is LearnWorlds the better choice?

• You teach more than a handful of courses. Pro Trainer has no course cap. Teachable stops at 10 products on Builder and 50 on Growth.
• You issue certificates. They're on the $79 plan, not a $139 one.
• You have SCORM files to host. Pro Trainer takes up to 20 uploads, which suits a trainer with an existing library of packaged modules.
• You work with a team. Pro Trainer has 5 admin seats. Teachable Builder has 1.
• You train other organizations or sell seats to employers. Learning Center ($249 a month on annual billing) adds full white-label branding, up to 10 client groups, automations and scheduled reports. On Teachable, bulk imports start at Growth ($139), and anyone you enroll by hand or import counts toward the $0.50-a-month fee above 100.

If you're coming from Teachable, LearnWorlds offers a done-for-you migration service and names Teachable among the platforms it moves courses from. The 30-day trial gives you time to rebuild one course and see how it feels.

When is Teachable the better choice?

• Your audience is large. Teachable doesn't cap paying students on any plan. LearnWorlds tops out at 2,000 monthly active learners on its published plans, so ask how it handles a bigger month before a large launch.
• Your students learn on their phones. Native iOS and Android apps come with every Teachable plan. On LearnWorlds a branded app costs extra.
• You sell a few products and want the lowest no-fee price. Builder at $69 a month covers up to 10 products for $120 a year less than Pro Trainer.
• You want affiliates and email at the lowest price. Builder includes both at $69 a month. LearnWorlds has them too, from Pro Trainer at $79.
• You sell across borders. Teachable handles U.S. sales tax and global VAT on every plan. Budget for the 1% surcharge on international cards.

One thing to watch on Teachable: if you give courses away or import a student list, those students count toward the $0.50-a-month fee once you pass 100. If your model is a big free course feeding a paid one, do that math first.

Where does Ruzuku fit?

I'll be brief, because for many readers the answer is that it doesn't. If price comes first, either platform above costs you less. Ruzuku Core is $997 a year ($83.08 a month), more than either no-fee plan, and certificates are on Pro at $1,997 a year.

Ruzuku fits when your course runs on live sessions and conversation:

• Built-in video meetings in the browser, no Zoom account needed: up to 60 people on camera with breakout rooms, or 250 in presentation mode. There's a Zoom integration if you prefer Zoom.
• A discussion beside every lesson. Across 1.3 million enrollments on Ruzuku, courses with lesson-level discussions complete at 50.9%, against 37.3% without. That's an association, not a controlled experiment, and it doesn't compare vendors, but it's the pattern I see most often in courses that work.
• Student tech support on every plan, including Free. Our team answers your students' login and playback questions.
• 0% platform fee and a free plan for up to 5 students, so you can build and test with a pilot group before you pay.

There's no import tool, so moving to Ruzuku means rebuilding your course yourself. For a fuller picture, see Ruzuku vs LearnWorlds and Ruzuku vs Teachable.

How should you decide?

When people ask me to choose between two platforms, I suggest writing down the one or two things you can't work without before you compare anything else. To choose between LearnWorlds and Teachable, three questions settle most cases:

1. Will you have more than 2,000 active learners in a month? If yes, Teachable, or ask LearnWorlds about its Corporate plan, which sets a custom limit.
2. Do you issue certificates or host SCORM files? If yes, choose LearnWorlds Pro Trainer: certificates and up to 20 SCORM uploads for $948 a year, against $1,668 for Teachable Growth, Teachable's cheapest plan with certificates.
3. Do most of your students learn on a phone? If yes, choose Teachable: native iOS and Android apps come with every plan, while LearnWorlds sells its branded app as an add-on.

Two made-up examples show how the questions play out. Say you run a teacher-training program: four courses, about 300 students a year, and a certificate at the end. LearnWorlds Pro Trainer covers that for $948 a year. On Teachable you'd need Growth for the certificates, at $1,668. Now say you sell one $49 course to a large audience, most of them on their phones. Teachable Builder covers that for $828 a year with the apps included and no cap on paying students. On LearnWorlds you'd be pricing the app add-on, and in a big launch month you'd want to ask how it handles more than 2,000 active learners.

If none of the three questions applies, Teachable Builder is the cheaper of the two, and I'd spend LearnWorlds' 30-day trial checking whether its extra features are ones you'd use. If you're weighing a third option, the LearnWorlds vs Thinkific comparison and our Teachable alternatives guide cover the platforms people most often shortlist next.

The bottom line

LearnWorlds gives you more course tools for $10 a month more: unlimited courses, certificates and SCORM on Pro Trainer. Teachable gives you more room for students and an app in their pocket, for less. Choose by the limit you'd hit first. If your course is mainly a live cohort with discussion at its center, you can start free on Ruzuku and build it with up to 5 students before you decide. Certificates aren't on Free or Core; they come with Pro. If you get stuck, you'll be emailing a real person.

Related: how Ruzuku works, Is Teachable any good?, and course platform pricing compared.