Best platforms to sell online courses in India (2026)

“Best” is the wrong word for this decision. A course platform is only good at one of two jobs: finding students or serving the students you already have. Every option below is excellent at one and mediocre at the other, and the pricing structure tells you which job it is actually doing.

Disclosure: we build Beevo, one of the options. We have included the published prices of every competitor and the reasons they beat us.

First, pick your family

The full field, by published price

Beevo — rupees, courses, your audience

A storefront at /@yourname, course sales pages, video lessons and file downloads, Razorpay checkout with UPI, a learner dashboard with progress, and email receipts. ₹0/month plus a flat 8% platform commission per successful eligible sale; gateway charges and taxes settled separately.

• Choose it if: your buyers are in India, your product is a course, and your traffic comes from your own links.
• Skip it if: you need a marketplace to bring students, sell physical goods, or price in dollars.

Instamojo — cheapest Indian entry point, weakest classroom

At 5% + ₹3 + 18% GST on digital goods, Instamojo is the least expensive rupee-first option for higher-priced products, and its payment links work anywhere. What it does not provide is a course: no curriculum, no lesson player, no learner progress.

• Choose it if: you are testing demand with a single download or a live-cohort product delivered off-platform.
• Skip it if: students need a place to watch lessons in order.

Teachable — the reference point for course features

Teachable's Starter plan is $39/month with a 7.5% transaction fee; Builder at $89/month removes the transaction fee. Historically it had a free tier — it does not any more, so any article promising “Teachable free” is out of date.

• Choose it if: you want a mature course product with quizzes, certificates and an established app, and you can absorb a monthly dollar charge.
• Skip it if: ₹3,300+ a month before your first sale is a real risk, or your buyers need UPI-first checkout.

Thinkific — no transaction fee, monthly cost

Thinkific's entry plan sits in the $49–54/month range with 0% platform transaction fee on Thinkific Payments, and a surcharge if you process through your own Stripe account. Its free plan was retired, so it is now a paid-only decision.

• Choose it if: you sell enough to justify a fixed monthly cost and want to keep 100% of each sale.
• Skip it if: you are pre-revenue — every month is a cost you have to earn back.

Podia — bundles courses, downloads and email

Podia's entry tier runs around $39–49/month with a 5% transaction fee, and its higher tier removes the fee. It is a genuinely broad product: courses, digital downloads, webinars and email marketing in one place.

• Choose it if: you sell several formats and want one dashboard.
• Skip it if: a 5% fee on top of a monthly fee feels like paying twice — because, on the entry tier, it is.

Kajabi — a marketing suite with courses attached

Kajabi starts at $179/month and includes funnels, email automation, landing pages and communities. Its value is in replacing three or four other subscriptions, and it is priced accordingly.

• Choose it if: you are running a course business with paid traffic and need the marketing machinery.
• Skip it if: you are selling to an audience you already have. You would be paying for a funnel you may not use.

Udemy — distribution, not ownership

Udemy is the only true marketplace on this list. It sets and discounts prices, owns the student relationship, and pays you a revenue share that depends on how the student arrived. Teachers often earn well there, but the thing you are building is Udemy's catalogue, not your own brand.

• Choose it if: you have no audience and want students from day one, or you want a second channel alongside your own storefront.
• Skip it if: you want to own your list, set your own price, and sell the same course at a premium to your own people.

How to decide in one sitting

1. 1Count your list. Under 500 reachable people? Start with whatever finds buyers (Udemy) or costs nothing (Beevo, Instamojo).
2. 2Check the currency of your buyers' wallets. Indian buyers → rupee checkout, always.
3. 3Decide whether you need course delivery. If yes, cross Instamojo off. If no, cross the course platforms off.
4. 4Compare the fee at your price, not at the headline. A 7.5% fee plus a $39 subscription is not cheaper than 8% at low volume.
5. 5Pick one and publish. The platform you launch on beats the platform you are still comparing.

If you land on Beevo, sign up free — there is no card, no trial and nothing to cancel. If you want the fee arithmetic first, read Stop losing sales to platform fees.