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Thinkific
thinkific.comSummary
Thinkific is an online learning platform that enables individuals and businesses to create, market, and sell courses, communities, memberships, and digital products. It provides tools for website building, content creation, analytics, and sales, primarily focused on monetizing expertise through educational content.
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Must Have
4 of 5
All-Access Subscription
Expert-Led Courses
Curated Learning Paths
Progress Tracking & Assessments
Live Interactive Workshops
Other
8 of 10
On-Demand Video Courses
Team Plans & Corporate Training
Certification of Completion
Code-Along Exercises
Community Discussion Forums
Multi-Device Access
Skill Assessments
Responsive Support
Offline Content Download
Personalized Recommendations
PricingTiered
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Basic
$49.00 monthly
- Unlimited Courses
- 1 Community (5 spaces)
- 5 Digital Downloads
- 5 Coaching & Webinar sessions
- Sales tools (TCommerce, Order bumps, Flexible student payment options, Instant access to revenue, Coupons and promotions, Offer free trials)
- Abandoned Cart
- Site Builder
- Landing pages
- Email Automation
- Basic Reporting
- Custom domain
- Manual student enrolment
- Video and content hosting
- 1 Site Administrator Account
- 99.5% uptime and 24/7 monitoring
- SSL
- Email and chat support
- Comprehensive knowledge base
- Access to Thinkific Academy
- Limited communities, digital downloads, coaching/webinar sessions
- No HTML & CSS editing
- No bundles/add-ons
- Thinkific branding cannot be removed
- No advanced analytics
- No group orders, invoicing, gifting, API access
- No CRM integrations, SSO, SCORM, custom reports, student learning paths
- Limited admin accounts
- Limited revenue sharing with partners
- No phone support
Start
$99.00 monthly
Popular- Everything in Basic
- Unlimited Live Lessons
- Unlimited Memberships
- Unlimited Digital Downloads
- Unlimited Coaching & Webinar sessions
- Edit HTML & CSS
- Sell Bundles and Add-ons (Product bundles)
- 2 Course Administrator Accounts
- 1 Revenue sharing with partners
- Zoom Meetings and Webinars
- Multimedia content
- In-course discussions
- User profiles
- Community notifications
- Weekly digests
- Private spaces
- Live events within Communities
- Community moderation
- Trending posts
- Pinned posts and announcements
- Limited communities (1)
- Thinkific branding cannot be removed
- No advanced analytics
- No group orders, invoicing, gifting, API access
- No CRM integrations, SSO, SCORM, custom reports, student learning paths
- Limited admin accounts
- Limited revenue sharing with partners
- No phone support
Grow
$199.00 monthly
- Everything in Start
- 3 Communities (20 spaces)
- Remove Thinkific branding
- Thinkific Analytics (Advanced Reporting and Analytics)
- Group Orders
- Invoicing
- Gifting
- API Access (Standard API and webhooks)
- Payment plans
- Accept Paypal payments
- Additional pricing
- After purchase flows
- Affiliate reporting
- 2 Site Administrator Accounts
- 5 Course Administrator Accounts
- 3 Group Analyst accounts
- 3 Revenue sharing with partners
- Phone and priority email support
- Quizzes
- Limited communities (3)
- No CRM integrations, SSO, SCORM, custom reports, student learning paths
- Limited admin accounts
- Limited revenue sharing with partners
Plus
Custom
- Everything in Grow
- Unlimited Courses
- Unlimited Communities (unlimited spaces)
- Unlimited Digital Downloads
- Unlimited Coaching & Webinar sessions
- Unlimited Live Lessons
- Unlimited Memberships
- CRM Integrations (Hubspot, Salesforce)
- Single Sign On (SSO)
- SCORM Compliant
- Custom Reports
- Student Learning Paths
- Dedicated Onboarding and Customer Support
- Unlimited Live Events within Communities
- Unlimited Course Administrator Accounts
- Unlimited Group Analyst accounts
- Unlimited Revenue sharing with partners
- Standard API and webhooks
- Plus Portal
- Advanced password complexity
- Launch preparedness review
- Dedicated sandbox site
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) 99.5%
- Master Services Agreement (MSA)
- Create private and hidden courses
- Scheduled content
- Completion certificates
- Assignments
- Course compliance tools
- Exams
- Paid memberships
- Members-only website section
- Bulk import and student enrolment
Rationale
Thinkific is a platform for creators to build and sell online courses, communities, and other digital learning products. While it offers features for creating and managing courses, it does not directly provide expert-led courses or live interactive workshops in the same way Frontend Masters does. Instead, it provides the tools for others to create and host such content. It does offer features like unlimited courses (akin to an all-access subscription for the creator's content), curated learning paths, progress tracking, on-demand video courses, team plans, certifications, code-along exercises (through SCORM), multi-device access, skill assessments (quizzes/exams), and responsive support. The core difference is that Thinkific is a platform for *creating* learning experiences, not a direct provider of them.
