Leave Thinkific's monthly fee floor.Your students and your course stay in your hands.
Thinkific killed its free plan in March 2026 — now it's just a 30-day trial. Start a course today and the bill starts before you've sold a single seat.
Run my course through my own payment processor — the student list is mineFree preview first · priced per tier, 0% to the platform
A different way to look at it
You were told a free course platform was generous.
That free tier is gone — now just posting a course means paying a monthly fee first.
Let's be honest about it
Before you sell a single seat, how much are you already paying
On Thinkific
Students locked into its system
The free plan is gone
No free tier since March 2026 — just a 30-day trial. Once it ends, your course comes down.
The bill comes before the first sale
Even the cheapest plan is a monthly bill up front. Whether you sell anything this month, it doesn't care.
Student data and course delivery are locked to the platform
The student list and course delivery both live inside its system — there's not much you can take with you.
On feelreef
Priced per tier, 0% to the platform
Priced per tier — $7/tier, never a cut of revenue
One flat price per tier, not a cut of what you earn. Grow all you want — we don't take more.
Membership fees land in your Stripe, 0% cut
Every payment lands straight in your account. We never touch it.
The student list is yours — a promise
The student list and the payment relationship are yours. The door stays open by design.
This is the whole point
Priced per tier,
0% to the platform.
Your payments, your money — we never touch a cent
Money lands straight in your own account. Not a 0% promo — 0%, forever.
0%
platform cut · forever
See what your course membership could look like
Tell us about your course, and we'll build a free preview — a course membership priced per tier, 0% to the platform, where the student list is yours.
Run my course through my own payment processor — the student list is mineSee it before you pay · no lock-in · your people and your money stay yours