Best Course & Membership Hosting Platforms (2025)
Monetizing your expertise requires a platform that delivers a great student experience while handling payments and access. Here are the best platforms to host your knowledge business.
HighLevel disrupts the course market by offering unlimited video hosting and users for one price. It includes "Communities" (a Circle.so alternative) and integrates course access directly with your sales funnels and email marketing.
Pros
- Unlimited Users & Courses
- Built-in Community Platform
- Integrated Video Hosting
- Seamless Marketing Integration
Cons
- Less "LMS-specific" features than dedicated academic tools
The gold standard for premium course creators. Kajabi offers a polished user experience but comes with a high monthly price tag and transaction fees on lower plans.
A popular, easy-to-use platform for beginners. It is solid for starting out but takes a percentage of your sales on basic plans, which eats into profits.
Very similar to Teachable, offering a robust LMS. It is great for educational structures but lacks the built-in marketing funnels of all-in-one platforms.
A simple, creator-friendly platform for downloads and courses. It’s affordable and easy, but lacks the advanced automation needed to scale to 7-figures.
The heavyweight plugin for WordPress. Powerful if you want total control, but requires significant technical setup and maintenance.
Focuses heavily on community first, courses second. Great if engagement is your primary goal, but the course builder is less featured than others.
A rising star focusing on gamified communities. It is extremely simple and engaging but arguably lacks the marketing feature depth of a full platform.
Excellent for communities. Circle integrates well with other tools but, like Skool, requires a separate stack for email marketing and funnels.
A marketplace, not a platform. Great for exposure, but you don‘t own the customer data and you have very little control over pricing or branding.
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