SamCart vs Teachable in 2026: Order Bumps From $29, and a Fee for Using Both

SamCart vs Teachable comes down to which tools you need. Teachable is a course host from $29 a month billed yearly, plus 7.5% a sale on Starter, with order bumps on every plan. SamCart is a checkout with a course area from $59 a month billed yearly, with order bumps only on Pro at $149.

Course-only sellers do best on Teachable Builder at $69 a month, while SamCart Pro suits sellers who want post-purchase upsells, which Teachable Payments dropped. SamCart in front of Teachable adds $0.50 a month per student above 100. CartMango (free right now, from $10 a year once paid plans start in November) has order bumps but no course hosting yet. Plan prices are yearly-billing rates.

If you sell a course, you have probably seen these 2 pitched as rivals. SamCart’s own comparison page declares “SamCart Is King”. 3 of the ranking pages I read, SamCart’s included, quote plans that no longer exist.

SamCart’s page, a top Google result for this search, prices 2 Teachable plans Teachable no longer sells. It also promises every SamCart feature from $79 a month on monthly billing, while SamCart’s own pricing page puts order bumps on its $199 monthly plan.

Teachable charges $0.50 a month per student past 100 when buyers arrive from someone else’s checkout, and none of those 3 pages mention it. Below, I cut 7 setups down to 3, using live prices from both pricing pages.

Key Takeaways

• Teachable has order bumps on every plan. Even the $29-a-month Starter plan has them, but on Teachable Payments its post-purchase upsells are gone.
• SamCart’s order bumps start on Pro. Core costs $59 a month billed yearly and hosts courses, but bumps and 1-click upsells need Pro at $149.
• Running both adds a per-student fee. Teachable charges $0.50 a month per student added from an outside checkout, once a school passes 100.
• Builder beats Starter past $533 a month. At $69 a month billed yearly, it costs less than Starter’s $29 plus 7.5% once course sales pass that line.
• CartMango covers the checkout half only. It has order bumps from $10 a year once paid plans start in November, but hosts no video courses yet.

Start here: the 7 setups worth comparing

SamCart publishes prices for 2 plans and Teachable for 3. Add the setup SamCart’s own comparison page recommends, its checkout in front of a Teachable school, plus CartMango, the checkout I run, and that makes 7. SamCart’s Done For You plan and Teachable’s Custom plan have no public price, so they stay out.

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Teachable’s 3 plans cost $29 to $139 a month billed yearly and all include order bumps, SamCart’s 2 cost $59 and $149 with order bumps only on Pro, and the automated SamCart Pro plus Teachable Growth route costs $288 a month before Teachable’s student fee.

CartMango is my platform, so I priced it on the same yearly basis as the rest.

Card fees sit on top of every row: SamCart lists 2.9% plus 30 cents for SamPay, and Teachable lists the same for a US card. Teachable Payments also adds 0.5% on taxed sales and 0.7% on renewals on its default bundle, and SamCart charges 0.50% on Core or 0.35% on Pro when it collects sales tax for you.

Every price except Advanced’s comes from each vendor’s own pricing page. SamCart bills $711 a year for Core and $1,791 for Pro, which works out to about $59 and $149 a month. Teachable’s help center also names an Advanced plan at $309 a month billed yearly, but it is not on the pricing page and costs more than Growth, so it stays out of the count.

Cut 1: the course needs somewhere to live

Cut 1 removes anything that cannot host video lessons, and it kills 1 setup: CartMango.

CartMango’s own pricing table says file storage covers images, PDFs, audio and downloadable files, and that video files need outside hosting such as YouTube or Vimeo. CartMango plans to add course hosting on its $30 Platinum plan, and it is not live today. The site lists that planned feature as “a learning management system like Teachable”.

If your course is really a workbook, a few audio files and a template pack, CartMango still delivers those files on every plan. For video lessons with progress tracking it does not, so it leaves the field here. Our guide to selling courses from your website covers what that route involves.

That leaves 6.

Cut 2: no order bumps

SamCart Core is the only setup left without order bumps, so Cut 2 kills it.

SamCart’s pricing page lists Core at $79 a month, or $59 a month billed yearly. It includes unlimited pages, products and checkouts, the Courses App, cart abandonment and built-in connections to email and CRM tools. The Pro card then reads “Everything on Core, plus”, and the first line under it is “1-Click Upsells + Order Bumps”. A/B testing, Subscription Saver, the Affiliate Center, outside payment processors and 10 team seats also arrive on Pro.

SamCart’s comparison page says something else. It sits near the top of Google for this search, and it says you get full access to every feature on every plan, starting at just $79.

SamCart’s own Teachable comparison page. Read the last paragraph, then compare it with the Pro card on SamCart’s pricing page.

The same page says Teachable’s Pro plan costs $119 a month and that order bumps and upsells need a $199 Business plan. Teachable no longer sells either plan. Its current pricing page ticks “Coupons, upsells, order bumps” and “Abandoned cart emails” on Starter, Builder and Growth alike.

Teachable’s word “upsells” needs a footnote, though. Its help article on the move to Teachable Payments says checkout upsells, its new name for order bumps, now go up to 10, while post-purchase and thank-you-page upsells were removed and in-lesson upsells remain. Schools on a connected Stripe account keep their checkout unchanged, per the same article. SamCart Pro still offers 1-click upsells after the sale, and that gap comes back in the section on the last 3.

To be fair to Core, it is a working course host. The Courses App and members area come with it, and SamCart lists video hosting as “Limited” on Core and “Unlimited” on Pro. If you never plan to add an order bump, Core is a real option. If the order bump is why you are looking at SamCart, Core fails this cut. Our SamCart pricing breakdown covers both plans in more detail.

That leaves 5.

Cut 3: Teachable’s fee for students from another checkout

SamCart’s checkout in front of a Teachable school fails Cut 3: it means 2 subscriptions, plus a Teachable fee for every outside student past 100. That is the setup SamCart’s own page recommends.

Teachable’s usage fees page splits students into 2 groups. Students who buy through Teachable’s own payments, or a Stripe account connected to Teachable, are free and unlimited (US schools on that connected-Stripe route pay Teachable a 2% fee per sale). Everyone else counts against an allowance of 100 per school. The page lists what counts, and it includes “the Teachable API” and “access provisioned from a sale completed on another platform”.

Above 100, Teachable charges $0.50 a month per student, on every plan, billed on the highest count your school reached in each billing period. A student stops counting only once their access to every product is removed. So the fee keeps growing with each buyer you add from SamCart, and you pay it again every month for as long as those students keep access.

Teachable’s own page says more than 80% of its customers pay no usage fees at all. It does not say why, but students who buy through Teachable’s checkout do not count on their own. The fee falls on schools that add students any other way: imports, free or 100%-coupon enrollments, and sales made on another platform.

There is a second cost before that fee. SamCart’s integrations page lists membership tools such as Kajabi and Thinkific, but not Teachable. Zapier’s SamCart and Teachable page fills the gap with a template that enrolls a Teachable student for each new SamCart order. Teachable’s pricing page ticks Zapier, webhooks and its public API only from Growth, at $139 a month billed yearly. So the automated version needs SamCart Pro at $149 plus Teachable Growth at $139, which is $288 a month before the student fee and before any Zapier plan.

Under the rules for schools created from September 3, 2026, the SamCart-plus-Teachable pair climbs from $288 to $738 a month by 1,000 outside students, while Teachable Builder stays at $69 when those students buy through Teachable’s own checkout.

A seller flagged an older version of this fee in April 2026. In an r/Teachable thread on usage-based pricing, they said the extra charge “was going to be over $400 in addition to my monthly fee”. The same commenter added: “We shouldn’t be punished for using other checkout tools though.” That thread came before the September rewrite, so their number reflects the older rules.

Those older rules still apply to schools created before September 3, 2026, until their first renewal on or after April 30, 2027. The legacy schedule charges $1.50, $1 or $0.75 a month per imported student over the plan’s limit on Starter, Builder and Growth, so an existing school can pay more than the table shows.

The same student rule covers any checkout that is not Teachable’s, CartMango included. That is one more reason Cut 1 already removed it for video courses.

That leaves 4.

Cut 4: Teachable Growth’s extra $70 a month

Teachable Growth costs $139 a month billed yearly against Builder’s $69, and Cut 4 removes it for any seller who will not use what that extra $70 buys.

Here is what Growth adds over Builder, from Teachable’s pricing page: 50 products instead of 10, 5 admin users instead of 1, course certificates, removing Teachable’s branding, imported students, free subtitles and translations, and the Zapier, webhooks and API access from Cut 3.

If you sell 10 or fewer products, issue no certificates and connect nothing through Zapier, Growth costs $840 more a year for features you will not touch. For a solo seller with a small catalogue, that is enough to cut Growth. If you do need certificates or a bigger catalogue, keep it and read Builder’s row below as Growth’s.

That leaves 3: Teachable Starter, Teachable Builder and SamCart Pro.

Starter, Builder or SamCart Pro: picking between the last 3

The 3 survivors split by how much you sell and which tools you need, and Teachable Builder is the right default for course-only sellers past about $533 a month.

Teachable Starter costs $29 a month billed yearly and takes 7.5% of every sale, $7.50 on a $100 course. Builder costs $40 a month more and takes no transaction fee on Teachable Payments. The 2 cost the same at $533 a month in sales, because 7.5% of $533 is $40. Below that line Starter is cheaper, and above it every Starter sale costs more than it needs to. Starter also caps you at 5 products.

Teachable Builder costs $69 a month billed yearly, with up to 10 products, Teachable’s affiliate program and real-time support. Its 0% transaction fee has 2 small extras on the default payment bundle, according to Teachable’s fees and bundles article: 0.5% on sales where tax is charged and 0.7% on every recurring charge. For example, a $50 monthly membership pays Teachable $0.35 a month on Builder. Our Teachable review covers those payment changes in full.

SamCart Pro costs $149 a month billed yearly and takes nothing extra on SamPay beyond the 2.9% plus 30 cents card fee, apart from 0.35% if SamCart collects sales tax for you. It earns that price with 1-click upsells after the sale, which Teachable Payments dropped, plus A/B tests on pages and prices, Subscription Saver for failed cards, an affiliate center and 10 team seats.

SamCart can sell physical goods and services on either plan, and its Courses App hosts lessons with unlimited video on Pro. Teachable lists iOS and Android student apps on every plan, and SamCart’s pricing page lists no student app.

Teachable Builder wins for course-only sellers past $533 a month, Starter wins below that, and SamCart Pro wins mainly when you want 1-click upsells after the sale or A/B tests. All 3 cleared all 4 cuts.

Teachable is the cheaper way to sell with order bumps

Teachable is the cheaper of the 2 for a course seller whose main add-on is an order bump, the opposite of what SamCart’s comparison page suggests.

SamCart Pro, the lowest SamCart plan with order bumps, costs $149.25 a month on yearly billing, which is $1,791 divided by 12. Teachable Starter’s 7.5% only catches up with that once you sell $1,603 a month, and by then Builder is the better buy at $80.25 a month less than SamCart Pro.

Teachable’s 0.7% renewal fee narrows that gap for membership sellers. It takes $11,464 a month in recurring revenue before that 0.7% costs as much as the $80.25 plan gap.

At $2,000 a month in sales: Teachable Builder $69, SamCart Pro $149, Teachable Starter $179 ($29 plus $150 in fees), and SamCart Pro plus Teachable Growth $288 before any student fee. Starter’s $150 sales cut is included, card and tax fees are not.

Pay for SamCart Pro when you want its 1-click upsells after the sale or its testing tools. For order bumps alone, Teachable already has them for less.

SamCart vs Teachable FAQ

Can you use SamCart with Teachable?

Yes, through a connector. SamCart’s integrations page does not list Teachable, so one route is a Zapier template that enrolls a Teachable student for each SamCart order. Teachable’s pricing page puts Zapier on Growth and above, and Teachable charges $0.50 a month per student above 100 for students added this way. SamCart Pro plus Teachable Growth costs $288 a month plus that fee.

How much does SamCart cost per month?

SamCart Core costs $79 a month, or $59 a month billed yearly ($711 a year). Pro costs $199 a month, or $149 a month billed yearly ($1,791 a year). Order bumps and 1-click upsells come only with Pro. A Done For You plan is priced on a sales call, and live support is a $19 a month add-on on any plan.

Is SamCart worth it?

SamCart is worth it if you will use Pro’s 1-click upsells after the sale, order bumps and A/B tests, since those are what the $149 a month buys. For a course-only seller who mainly wants order bumps, Teachable Builder covers them and the course itself for $69 a month. Our SamCart review sorts what its Trustpilot reviewers complain about.

Does Teachable have order bumps?

Yes. Teachable now calls them checkout upsells and allows up to 10, and its pricing page ticks them on every plan from Starter at $29 a month billed yearly. On Teachable Payments it no longer has post-purchase or thank-you-page upsells, which its help center says were removed, though in-lesson upsells remain. SamCart’s claim that Teachable needs a $199 Business plan refers to a plan Teachable no longer sells.

What are some good alternatives to SamCart?

For a course seller, Teachable is the closest swap, since it hosts the lessons and has order bumps from $29 a month billed yearly. For a seller who only needs a checkout, CartMango has order bumps from $10 a year once paid plans start in November, with no course hosting yet. Our list of SamCart alternatives prices 8 options.

Where do the workbook and templates around your course go?

A workbook or template pack can go on a plain checkout, because it needs no course host. The SamCart vs Teachable choice above is about where the lessons live, and 2 of the 3 survivors are Teachable plans.

CartMango sells and delivers those files, with order bumps on every plan and no CartMango fee on each sale (Stripe or PayPal still charge theirs). CartMango is free right now, and paid plans start in November from $10 a year.

About the Author

👋 I’m Welly, founder of CartMango (the site you’re on), a checkout platform for digital product sellers. We’ve previously processed $179M+. I also run BirdSend (email marketing tool, 3.1B+ emails sent). On the side I show other non-techie digital sellers how I use AI workflows to automate 50%+ of my operations. Find me on LinkedIn.

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