Thinkific publishes its pricing, so this page puts the two side by side: what each costs, what each does, and where Thinkific wins.
Pricing checked 2026-09-15 · Website
Course37 is priced per organization, not per teacher and not per student.
Course37 takes no cut of your student payments.
Usage past your plan allocation is billed per unit. See the rates
Competitor pricing checked 2026-09-15
per month · $40 per month billed annually
per month · $82 per month billed annually
per month · $164 per month billed annually
per month · Add-on to any plan. Included on select Plus plans
custom · No amount published
Cut on student payments: No platform fee stated when using Thinkific Payments.
Their pricing pageRows marked "not confirmed" are ones we could not verify on Thinkific’s own site. They may well have the feature.
| Feature by feature | Course37 | Thinkific |
|---|---|---|
| Exams and grading | ||
| OMR answer-sheet scanningDesign a bubble sheet, print it on plain paper, and grade the filled copies with an ordinary office scanner. | Ships today | Not available |
| Multi-set A/B/C/D sheets in one passFour shuffled question sets in the same exam, each graded against its own answer key from a single scan run. | Ships today | Not confirmed |
| Online exams with merit list and rankTimed exams, automatic ranking, per-question analytics, and a merit list you can freeze. | Ships today | Not available |
| Question bank with MCQ, CQ and SQOne bank of questions reused across exams, with LaTeX equations that print correctly. | Ships today | Not confirmed |
| AI question generationDraft questions from a chapter using your own Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or Groq key. | Ships today | Not confirmed |
| Tab-switch detection during examsCounts how many times a student left the exam tab, recorded against their attempt. | Ships today | Not confirmed |
| Attendance | ||
| Biometric device attendanceZKTeco fingerprint, face, RFID card or password units push every scan to the system in real time. | Ships today | Not available |
| Per-class attendance registerPresent or late decided against the class schedule, with a grace period you set. | Ships today | Not confirmed |
| Fees and money | ||
| Installment fees with access gatingSplit a course fee into installments. New content locks automatically when an installment lapses. | Ships today | Ships today |
| bKash, Nagad and RocketLocal Bangladeshi payment methods, taken through SSLCommerz alongside card payments. | Ships today | Not available |
| Teacher and branch revenue shareSet each teacher’s share once; the split, expenses and withdrawals are calculated, not estimated. | Ships today | Not confirmed |
| Book sales with courier trackingSell printed books alongside courses, and hand the order to Steadfast without re-typing it. | Ships today | Not available |
| Reaching students | ||
| Drag-and-drop website builderEdit your public site section by section and publish it yourself, without a developer. | Ships today | Not confirmed |
| Your own domainRun the site on your own domain, or on a free subdomain from day one. | Ships today | Ships today |
| White-label mobile appYour own branded Android and iOS app in the stores, not a shared app with your logo inside. | Ships today | Paid add-on |
| Bangla interfaceThe student-facing app runs in Bangla, with the default language set per organization. | Ships today | Not confirmed |
| Built-in SMS to students and parentsSend SMS from inside the platform, or plug in your own gateway credentials. | Ships today | Not confirmed |
| Push notificationsFirebase push to the mobile app and web push to the browser. | Ships today | Not confirmed |
| Platform | ||
| Live classesSchedule a Zoom or Google Meet session once; students get the link in their dashboard. | Ships today | Ships today |
| Video hosting with HLS transcodingLectures transcoded to an adaptive ladder and served from a CDN, so mobile data does not buffer. | Ships today | Not confirmed |
| AI tutor for studentsA tutor that can see the student’s own courses, exams, results and attendance before answering. | Ships today | Ships today |
| MCP server for AI agentsConnect any MCP-compatible AI agent over OAuth2 and let it do admin work inside scopes you grant. | Ships today | Ships today |
| Automation builderBuild reminder and onboarding flows on a visual canvas. They run whether or not anyone is at the desk. | Ships today | Not confirmed |
| Student communityPer-course discussion channels with moderation, reports and accepted answers. | Ships today | Ships today |
| Certificates with public verificationIssue a certificate that anyone can verify from a public link, without logging in. | Ships today | Not confirmed |
| Multiple branches and batchesRun several branches and many batches from one catalog and one login. | Ships today | Not confirmed |
| Open source and self-hostableRun it on your own server, read the source, and owe nobody a subscription. | Not available | Not available |
These are the things we can point at in our own product.
If none of the rows above matter to you, buy the cheaper product. We would rather you did that than churn in three months.
It is written by Course37, so read it accordingly. What we can offer is that every competitor number is linked to the page we took it from and dated, every capability we claim for ourselves is something you can ask us to demonstrate on a call, and every competitor has a section saying where they beat us. Check the linked pages yourself.
Because they do not publish one. Several platforms here require a demo call before they will quote you. That is a real difference between the products, so we report it rather than estimating a number.
Each competitor row carries the date it was last read off their own pricing page. Prices change, so treat the date as part of the fact. If you spot one that has moved, tell us and we will correct it.
Grade paper OMR answer sheets with an ordinary office scanner, take attendance from ZKTeco biometric devices, ship your own branded Android and iOS app, split fees into installments that gate new content when payment lapses, and connect an AI agent over MCP with scoped permissions. Most course platforms on this page do none of those, because they were built to sell courses online rather than to run a coaching centre.
Moodle is open source and we are not, so if you want to host it yourself and read the code, Moodle wins and nothing we say changes that. Kajabi and Teachable have more polished marketing funnels for selling courses to strangers on the internet. Some Bangladeshi rivals start cheaper than we do. Those are on the individual comparison pages.
No. Course37 is priced per organization. What your students pay you is yours, minus whatever your payment gateway charges. Several platforms on this page do take a cut, and the table shows which. Your bill can still vary month to month, but only from usage past your plan allocation, such as SMS or storage, and those per-unit rates are listed on this page.
Bring last term’s student list and a stack of answer sheets. We will set up a trial with your data in it, and you can decide from there.