Lessonforge vs Teachable pricing (2026)

The price anchor

Subscription figures from the vendor's published pricing ($39+/mo, ~$468/yr); the Lessonforge column is the full price, paid once.

Break-even analysis

Selling one course to a handful of students on Teachable Basic costs more in a single month than Lessonforge costs once.

• After 1 year: Lessonforge has cost you $49 total — Teachable has cost $468.
• After 3 years: Lessonforge is still $49 — the subscription is at $1,404.
• After 5 years: Lessonforge is still $49 — the subscription is at $2,340.

What you get for $49 once

• Courses, modules, lessons. Video via YouTube/Vimeo embed or self-hosted upload up to 500MB, rich-text lessons, downloadable attachments, reorder everything.
• Three enrollment paths. Add a student manually, let them self-serve with a per-course access code, or take paid enrollment via your own Stripe Checkout.
• Progress and certificates. Mark-complete per lesson with a live completion percentage, and a PDF certificate generated the moment a student hits 100%.
• Quizzes per module. Multiple-choice and true/false with a configurable pass threshold and unlimited retakes; correct answers are never sent to the browser.
• Instructor dashboard. Enrollment counts, average completion, completion rate and revenue per course.
• No renewal, ever. The license does not expire and there is no per-seat meter — $49 is the whole price.

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