Klasira vs Thinkific: Pricing, Fees and Features (2026)
Thinkific is a mature course platform with unlimited courses, strong commerce tools and an enterprise tier. Klasira is new, charges 0% fees and pays straight into your own Stripe. How they compare.
Thinkific is one of the established course platforms. It offers unlimited courses on every plan, a full set of commerce tools (order bumps, payment plans, bundles, gifting, group orders), communities, live sessions through Zoom, and an enterprise tier with SSO and SCORM. It says more than 35,000 businesses in over 100 countries use it.
Klasira is a new course platform built around a designed school site, a checkout that pays into the creator's own Stripe account, and 0% transaction fees. This post compares the two on price, fees, payouts and features.
The short answer
Choose Thinkific if you want a mature platform with unlimited courses, deep commerce tools, Zoom-based live sessions, an app store and API, and US and Canadian sales tax remitted for you. Choose Klasira if you want payments going straight into your own Stripe account with no fee on top, a designed school site, and CRM, email and booking in the same place.
Key takeaways
- Thinkific costs $109, $219 or $499 a month ($82, $164 or $374 billed yearly), with a 30-day free trial.
- There's no transaction fee on Thinkific Payments; connecting your own Stripe directly adds 2%, 1% or 0.5% depending on plan, on the first $1M of sales a year.
- Thinkific Payments adds 0.7% on subscriptions and payment plans and 1.5% on international cards, and pays out daily after a 7 to 14-day first payout.
- Thinkific remits sales tax in the US and Canada through its payments. Its branded mobile app is a $199-a-month add-on.
- Klasira charges 0% transaction fees and pays every sale straight into your own Stripe account, so the only cut of a sale is Stripe's (or PayPal's) processing fee.
Disclosure: we make Klasira, so weigh our view accordingly. Everything we say about Thinkific comes from its own public pages, checked in October 2026 and linked at the end. Klasira is new and does less than Thinkific in several areas; we list them.
Klasira vs Thinkific at a glance
| Klasira | Thinkific | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | New course platform with designed school themes and payouts to your own Stripe | Established course and community platform with an enterprise tier |
| Transaction fee | 0% | 0% on Thinkific Payments; 0.5% to 2% if you connect Stripe directly |
| How you're paid | Straight into your own Stripe account | Thinkific Payments daily (2 business days in the US), or your own Stripe |
| Courses | Courses, downloads and bundles | Unlimited courses on every plan |
| Student app | No; browser on any phone | Branded app as a $199/month add-on |
| Starting price | See Klasira pricing | $109/month, or $82/month billed yearly |
Thinkific pricing and fees
Thinkific publishes three self-serve plans and an enterprise plan, all with a 30-day free trial and no free plan. On Thinkific Payments, US cards cost 2.9% + $0.30.
| Thinkific plan | Price | Transaction fee |
|---|---|---|
| Start | $109/month, or $82/month billed yearly: 2 admins, 1 community | 0% on Thinkific Payments; 2% on direct Stripe |
| Grow | $219/month, or $164/month billed yearly: 6 admins, API and webhooks, bulk email | 0% on Thinkific Payments; 1% on direct Stripe |
| Expand | $499/month, or $374/month billed yearly: 15 admins | 0% on Thinkific Payments; 0.5% on direct Stripe |
| Plus | Custom: SSO, SCORM, learning paths, AI teaching assistant | None at this time |
Klasira: 0% transaction fees on every plan, with each sale paid into your own Stripe account. Plan prices are on Klasira's pricing page; we leave them out here so this post doesn't go stale when they change.
What the fees cost on real sales
Example (illustration, not data): $60,000 of course sales in a year, as 300 sales of $200 to US cardholders, on yearly billing where offered. Card processing of about 2.9% + 30¢ a sale (about $1,830 here) comes on top on every platform unless a row says it's included, so it's left out of the totals.
| Plan | Plan cost for the year | Platform fee on $60,000 | Plan plus platform fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thinkific Start, Thinkific Payments | $984 | $0 | $984 |
| Thinkific Grow, own Stripe | $1,968 | $600 (1%) | $2,568 |
| Klasira | See pricing | $0 (0%) | The plan price only |
Thinkific has no transaction fee as long as you use Thinkific Payments, so the gap with Klasira on fees is small; the bigger difference is the starting price and whose account the money lands in. Thinkific Payments adds 0.7% on subscriptions and payment plans, and its pricing page now lists tax tools as included. Klasira's subscriptions and payment plans also pay 0.7%, to Stripe Billing, and Stripe Tax costs 0.5% where you use it.
Feature by feature: Klasira vs Thinkific
| Klasira | Thinkific | |
|---|---|---|
| Courses | Courses built from sections and lessons: video, text and downloadable files, with free-preview lessons | Unlimited courses on every plan |
| Digital downloads | Digital downloads (PDFs, templates, audio) sold on their own or in bundles | Yes |
| Quizzes and assignments | Quizzes: single answer, multiple answers, true/false and short answer, graded automatically, with a pass mark, attempt limits and explanations. Assignments: students hand in text and a file, you approve or send it back with feedback | Quizzes and assignments on every plan; exams on Plus |
| Certificates | Certificates issued automatically on completion, printable as a PDF, with a public verification link and an Add to LinkedIn button | Completion certificates on every plan |
| Drip content | Drip schedules: open a lesson a number of days after enrollment or on a date, or unlock lessons in order | Scheduled content on every plan |
| Community | Community spaces for the whole school or one course, with posts, comments and likes, and announcement spaces emailed to members | Communities and spaces, by plan (1 community on Start) |
| Live sessions | No live classes or webinars built in; a booking page handles one-to-one calls | Zoom meetings and webinars in courses; live events in communities |
| Affiliates | Affiliate program: commission per offer, cookie window, refund hold and an affiliate dashboard; you pay affiliates yourself and export to CSV | Affiliate reporting on every plan |
| Checkout tools | A tick-box order bump at checkout and one-click upsells after a card payment. Coupons at checkout. Payment plans, such as 3 monthly payments, with access kept once every installment is paid | Order bumps, upsells, payment plans, coupons, bundles, gifting; group orders from Grow |
| Every student is also a CRM contact, with email automations, funnels, forms and a booking page for coaching calls | Email automation on every plan; bulk email from Grow | |
| AI | AI course builder: drafts a course outline from a topic, plus lesson text, video scripts and quiz questions, for you to edit; it uses AI credits | AI outline, quiz, landing page and email tools; AI teaching assistant on Plus |
| Themes | 15 designed school themes, edited as real pages in a drag-and-drop page editor | 3 themes with 12 theme-and-style combinations, plus CSS/HTML editing |
| Tax | Sales tax, VAT or GST on card payments through Stripe Tax, if you switch it on in your own Stripe account | Calculates, collects and remits US and Canadian sales tax on Thinkific Payments |
| Integrations | Few integrations so far: no Zapier app or webhooks for student events yet | App store, Zapier, API and webhooks from Grow |
What comes with Klasira
Many creators pay for a course platform, then add a payments tool, an email tool, a community app and an affiliate tool. Klasira puts the school, checkout, teaching tools, community, affiliates and email in one place, and keeps none of your revenue. If you're weighing Thinkific, check which of these you'd pay extra for there, or which plan unlocks them.
| Included | What it does |
|---|---|
| Fees and payouts | 0% transaction fee: Klasira takes nothing from your sales; Stripe or PayPal charge their usual processing fees. Payments go straight into your own Stripe account (connected through Stripe Connect, with the full Stripe dashboard), paid out on Stripe's schedule; Klasira never holds your money |
| Currencies | Each school sells in its own currency, one of 19 (including USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD, INR, JPY and BRL) |
| Your school's site | 15 designed school themes, edited as real pages in a drag-and-drop page editor. Every school gets its own address at yourname.klasira.com |
| What you sell | Courses built from sections and lessons: video, text and downloadable files, with free-preview lessons. Digital downloads (PDFs, templates, audio) sold on their own or in bundles. Offers: a one-time price, a monthly or yearly subscription, or a bundle of courses and downloads |
| Checkout | Payment plans, such as 3 monthly payments, with access kept once every installment is paid. Coupons at checkout. A tick-box order bump at checkout and one-click upsells after a card payment. PayPal checkout on one-time offers, through your own PayPal business account |
| Teaching | Quizzes: single answer, multiple answers, true/false and short answer, graded automatically, with a pass mark, attempt limits and explanations. Assignments: students hand in text and a file, you approve or send it back with feedback. Drip schedules: open a lesson a number of days after enrollment or on a date, or unlock lessons in order |
| Finishing | Certificates issued automatically on completion, printable as a PDF, with a public verification link and an Add to LinkedIn button. Course insights: enrollments, completion rate, how many students finish each lesson, and quiz averages |
| Community | Community spaces for the whole school or one course, with posts, comments and likes, and announcement spaces emailed to members. A discussion under every lesson |
| Growing | Affiliate program: commission per offer, cookie window, refund hold and an affiliate dashboard; you pay affiliates yourself and export to CSV. Every student is also a CRM contact, with email automations, funnels, forms and a booking page for coaching calls |
| AI | AI course builder: drafts a course outline from a topic, plus lesson text, video scripts and quiz questions, for you to edit; it uses AI credits |
What Klasira doesn't do yet
| Mobile app | No native mobile app: students learn in the browser, on any phone |
| Live classes | No live classes or webinars built in; a booking page handles one-to-one calls |
| Moving from another platform | No importer for courses from another platform: students come over by CSV, courses are rebuilt |
| Finding students | No marketplace that sends you students: you bring your own audience |
| Integrations | Few integrations so far: no Zapier app or webhooks for student events yet |
| Languages | Student pages are in English only |
| Track record | New: no long track record, case studies or large community of other creators yet |
Where Thinkific is the better choice
Unlimited courses and deep commerce
Every Thinkific plan has unlimited courses, plus gifting, group orders and B2B invoicing on higher plans, and buy now, pay later through Thinkific Payments.
Live teaching built into courses
Thinkific puts Zoom sessions and webinars inside courses, with attendance tracking. Klasira has no live classes built in.
Tax remitted in the US and Canada
On Thinkific Payments, Thinkific calculates, collects and remits sales tax for qualifying US and Canadian sales. With Klasira you register and file yourself.
An enterprise path
Thinkific Plus adds SSO, SCORM, learning paths and an AI teaching assistant, for training companies that outgrow a creator platform.
Where Klasira is the better choice
Your own Stripe with no gateway fee
On Thinkific, connecting Stripe directly adds a 1% to 2% fee on Start and Grow. Klasira always sells through your own Stripe account and adds nothing.
Designed school themes
Klasira gives you 15 designed school themes, edited as real pages in a drag-and-drop editor. Thinkific offers 3 themes with style variations, plus code editing.
CRM and booking in the box
Every student is also a CRM contact, with email automations, funnels, forms and a booking page for coaching calls, so your students, leads and coaching calls live in one place.
Who should choose which
Choose Thinkific if
- You want unlimited courses and a broad set of commerce tools today.
- You teach live sessions inside your courses.
- You want sales tax remitted for US and Canadian buyers.
- You may need SSO, SCORM or an enterprise contract later.
Choose Klasira if
- You want every payment to land in your own Stripe account without a gateway fee.
- You want a designed school site and an all-in-one CRM, email and booking.
- You don't need live classes built in, or you run them on your own Zoom.
Moving from Thinkific to Klasira
There's no automatic importer. Export your students from Thinkific as a CSV and import them into Klasira, then rebuild your courses in the course builder with your videos and files. Keep your Thinkific site open until students have their new sign-in links.
Frequently asked questions
Does Thinkific charge transaction fees?
Not on Thinkific Payments. If you connect Stripe directly, Thinkific adds 2% on Start, 1% on Grow and 0.5% on Expand, on the first $1M of sales each year.
How much does Thinkific cost in 2026?
Start is $109 a month, Grow $219 and Expand $499, or $82, $164 and $374 a month billed yearly. Plus is custom-priced.
Does Thinkific have a free plan?
No. Thinkific offers a 30-day free trial instead.
Does Klasira have live classes like Thinkific?
No. Klasira has no live classes or webinars built in; its booking page handles one-to-one calls.
Can I move from Thinkific to Klasira?
Yes, by importing your students from a CSV and rebuilding your courses in Klasira. There's no automatic course importer.
Try Klasira with your own course
Set up one course in Klasira and compare the result with your Thinkific site. Pick a theme, add one course and connect Stripe, then judge it on your own material. Start your school or see pricing.
Related: Thinkific pricing explained, Klasira vs Teachable, Klasira vs Kajabi, the best online course platforms, all course platform comparisons.
Sources
Details about other companies in this post were checked against these public pages in October 2026. Products, prices and rules change, so confirm with each source before you decide.
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