What each week held
Withheld: something was read in 1 week of the last 12. A series needs at least 2 to say anything a single reading does not.
What it declares
- AI-powered course creation
- drag-and-drop course/site builder
- built-in payments (TCommerce/Thinkific Payments)
- community with private feed and DMs
- live cohorts and coaching (Zoom integration)
- completion certificates and quizzes
- memberships and subscriptions
- B2B group orders and invoicing
As the company’s own pages describe it. Forge did not test any of these.
What users raised
- no permanent free plan
- transaction fees on non-native payment processors
- limited site-builder design flexibility (few themes)
- email automation limited to student-side only
- pricing jumps quickly from Basic to Grow
- 10,000-student cap on named plans
Themes people raised in public. A complaint is somebody’s opinion, not a measurement of the product.
Everything on record
2 observed claims, and 3 inferences counted apart from them. Newest first; the tag on each row is what kind of claim you are reading.
- PRODUCTCOMPANY CLAIMSep 30, 2026
Thinkific markets AI-powered course creation tools that let a user describe their product and have Thinkific generate the outline, content, and landing page, alongside its drag-and-drop course and site builder.
Baseline positioning note on AI as a lead capability for course creation speed.
www.learningrevolution.net/thinkific-review/ - PRODUCTCOMPANY CLAIMSep 30, 2026
Thinkific has rolled out a new Course Builder (available by default on sites created on or after January 28, 2026) offering a blank-canvas lesson format mixing text, images, video, PDFs, and quizzes, plus live preview of the learner view.
Baseline product capability note; affects how new vs. existing sites build course content.
support.thinkific.com/hc/en-us/articles/37547732533655-Introducing-Thinkific-s-New-Course-Builder - PRICINGINFERENCESep 30, 2026
Thinkific no longer offers a permanent free plan as of 2026, replacing it with a free trial (cited as 14 or 30 days depending on the source) on paid plans.
Removes the free entry point that previously let creators test the platform without payment, a baseline packaging fact.
www.gappsy.com/tools/thinkific/ - PRICINGINFERENCESep 30, 2026
Reports converge that Thinkific charges a transaction fee on paid tiers unless creators use Thinkific's own payment system (Thinkific Payments/TCommerce), with figures cited variably as a flat ~2.9% or as a tiered 5%/2%/1% by plan when using Stripe/PayPal, while Thinkific Payments carries 0% platform fee.
Affects total cost calculus for creators depending on payment processor choice; figures conflict across sources and could not be confirmed against Thinkific's own live pricing page directly.
casrai.org/guides/thinkific-pricing - PRICINGINFERENCESep 30, 2026
Multiple third-party pricing trackers report Thinkific raised its Basic, Start, and Grow subscription prices by roughly 10% effective August 13, 2026, moving annual-billing rates from $36/$74/$149 to about $40/$82/$164 per month (and monthly-billing rates to $54/$109/$219), with the increase applying to new customers immediately and to existing customers at renewal.
Raises cost for prospects and existing customers comparing Thinkific against Podia, Kajabi, Circle, and similar platforms; this is a baseline observation since no prior pricing was on record.
freshlearn.com/blog/thinkific-pricing/
A record of what Forge read in public about Thinkific — its own pages and what people wrote about it. Nothing here is a test of the product, a ranking or a score, and Forge has no relationship with this company.