Course Platforms
Course Platforms tools -- a subcategory of Learning & Education
Why Self-Host Your Course Platform?
Teachable, Thinkific, and Kajabi charge monthly fees plus transaction percentages on course sales — Kajabi starts at $149/month and Teachable takes up to 10% on its free plan. These platforms also control the student experience, inject their branding, and own the customer relationship. Self-hosted course platforms give you a white-label learning management system where you keep 100% of revenue.
Self-hosted LMS platforms provide the core features that make online education work: course creation with video hosting, quizzes and assignments, student progress tracking, certificates, and payment processing. You control the entire student experience from enrollment to completion, with your branding throughout and no platform fees eating into your margins.
For organizations running internal training — corporate onboarding, compliance education, skills development — self-hosting eliminates per-learner pricing that enterprise LMS vendors charge. A company training 500 employees on a SaaS platform might pay $5-15 per user per month. A self-hosted course platform handles unlimited learners at fixed infrastructure cost, and keeps all training records and completion data within your organization’s systems.