Setup101 vs Teachable
Choose Teachable
Teachable if you're building a real online school: long courses, quizzes, certificates, your own branded site, coaching and downloads, and you're happy to pay a monthly fee for it.
Choose Setup101
Setup101 if your course is a short guide to the gear you use. It's free to start, there's no monthly fee, and the course lives on your setup with product cards in every lesson.
At a glance
Feature comparison
| Capability | Setup101 | Teachable |
|---|---|---|
| Sell a course for a one-off price | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to start, not just a trialTeachable has a trial and a money-back guarantee, then a monthly plan (checked 15 October 2026). | ✓ | — |
| Sell courses with no monthly fee | ✓ | — |
| Course shown on the setup and products it teaches | ✓ | — |
| Product cards with buy links inside lessonsTeachable lessons can contain links. Setup101 lessons show product cards from your gear list, with click tracking per lesson. | ✓ | ◐ |
| Quizzes and completion certificates | — | ✓ |
| Upload and host your own videosSetup101 lessons embed video from YouTube, Vimeo, Loom or Wistia. | — | ✓ |
| Your own branded school website | — | ✓ |
| Coaching and digital downloads as well | — | ✓ |
◐ means partly, or only in some circumstances. See pricing for what each Setup101 plan includes.
Also in Setup101
- iOS and Android apps
- Promo codes on products, tracked separately
- Broken-link alerts
- Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee and Shopify buttons
- Apps and software alongside physical products
- Setup total price, worked out for you
- Private setups for drafts
- Follow, like, comment and save
Pricing, plainly
Pricing side by side
Setup101
- Free to start, with no monthly fee to sell courses.
- Setup101 keeps a share of each sale; the share depends on your plan. Card fees come out of your share.
- You're paid 14 days after each sale, after the refund window.
- Free courses cost nothing to run, with no limit on how many you make.
Teachable
- No free plan; a free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Starter $39/month ($29/month billed yearly), with a 7.5% transaction fee and up to 5 products.
- Builder $89/month ($69 yearly) and Growth $189/month ($139 yearly), with 0% transaction fees when you use Teachable Payments.
From Teachable's site, checked 15 October 2026. Prices change, so check before you decide.
Honest limits
Where Teachable is better
No tool wins on everything, and a comparison that pretends otherwise is not worth reading. Here is where Teachable genuinely has the advantage.
- A complete course platform: quizzes, completion certificates, long multi-module courses and a branded school site.
- Hosts your videos, so you don't need YouTube or Vimeo.
- Sells coaching and digital downloads alongside courses.
- On Builder and above, 0% transaction fees, which beats any per-sale commission once you sell a lot.
Switching
Moving from Teachable to Setup101
- 01Keep big flagship courses on Teachable if you need quizzes or certificates.
- 02Turn short product tutorials into 101 Courses, connected to the setup and products they cover.
- 03Already selling on Teachable? Add it as a linked course, so it shows under your 101 Courses on your setups and points buyers to Teachable.
- 04Add product cards to lessons, so learners can buy the gear while they learn.
See how 101 Courses work, from the first lesson to the first sale. 101 Course →
Questions, answered