The video course platform for technical content creators

Indie Courses helps you sell technical video courses in the highest quality and with the best tooling for an affortable and transparent price.

How we compare to others

We bring you advanced tooling for a lower price than elsewhere. See below what this means in practice.

Indie Courses Udemy Gumroad Teachable Thinkific Kajabi Podia
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Max Video Quality 4K
(max 5GB)
720p
(max 4GB)
1080p
(max 16GB)
4K
(max 2GB)
4K
(max 2GB)
4K
(max 4GB)
1080p
(max 5GB)
Monthly Price $0 - $69 $0 $0 $0 - $249 $0 - $210 $149 - $399 $0 - $89
Transaction fee 10% - 0% 63%
(3% for
referral links)
10%
(really ~12.4%)
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You bring the material.
We bring the tools.

Our video course platform provides all the tools you need to market and distribute your video course with ease.

Auto-Transcription and Chaptering
Good video content becomes great with accurate subtitles. That's why we auto-generate subtitles, searchable transcripts, and lesson chapters with human-level accuracy using the latest AI models. We support English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Dutch.
Web Traffic Analytics
Once you start advertising your video course, you'll want to know where you can best focus your marketing efforts. You'll want to know where your students found it, how likely they are to buy it depending on their origin, and if your marketing is actually working. We give you advanced web traffic analytics that help you answer to all these questions.
Lesson Comments
Maximise the learning outcome of your students through lesson comments. Comments allow students to ask you for help and your answers will improve the course for future students. You can also use them to alert students if something you explain in the lesson changed after you published the course.
Transparent Pricing
We hate hidden fees. You should get what you paid for and only pay what you chose for. No hidden fees. Unlike on other platforms, you'll know exactly how we calculate our fees. Learn more about our pricing.
Flexible Course Pricing
Coming in Q3 2024
Customers like options. We let you package your video course however you want. You can bundle videos from one or multiple courses or sell them individually. You can offer team plans! We don't stop you from making the exact right offer to your customers.
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Viewer Insights
Coming in Q3 2024
After a student buys your video course, how do you know they actually watched it? Did they watch all videos or just some? How far did they watch them? Where did they drop off? We provide answers to all these questions and more!
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Video Gists
Coming in Q4 2024
Creating whole video courses takes a lot of time, but creating individual videos does not. With Indie Courses, you can easily upload and sell individual videos too. This format is great for topics that are too small to be a course, but still interesting enough to talk about. For example: 'How do I set up library A?', 'How do I use product B?', 'What does the term C mean?'
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Pricing

Our pricing is simple and transparent. No hidden fees. Cancel anytime.

Basic

Sell your video course without a monthly commitment but still get all the tools you need.

$0.00 /month

  • 10% Transaction Fee + Stripe Fee
  • Upload 1080p videos
  • Upload up to 10h of video

Standard

Upload high-quality videos and sell as many courses with as many lessons as you like.

$29.00 /month

  • 5% Transaction Fee + Stripe Fee
  • Upload 1440p (2K) videos
  • Unlimited video upload
  • API Access
  • Import previous students

Premium

Sell your video course without fees and in the highest-possible video quality.

$69.00 /month

  • 0% Transaction Fee + Stripe Fee
  • Upload 2160p (4K) videos
  • Unlimited video upload
  • API Access
  • Import previous students
Learn more about our pricing here.

What all plans include

  • Auto-generation of subtitles, chapters and transcript
  • Automatically collected and remitted sales tax
  • First-class Web Analytics via Plausible.io
  • Video comments and replies
  • Transparent fee breakdown per sale
  • Coupons and Waitlists

Frequently asked questions