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VanVed vs Teachable
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Why businesses choose VanVed over Teachable
VanVed takes no cut of course sales and issues real PDF certificates on every tier, where Teachable charges 7.5% on its entry plan and locks certificates behind the $189 tier. Its drip gate is enforced on the server, not just hidden in the UI, and quiz scoring cannot be forged by the client. And a VanVed tenant is genuinely their own brand on their own domain, which Teachable only approaches on a custom contract.
Capability by capability
Every row below is what our 2026 research found — including the rows we lose.
| Capability | VanVed | Teachable |
|---|---|---|
| Video hosting | None. A lesson holds a URL, and the learner screen shows an 'Open lesson video' link that leaves the site — there is not even an embedded player | Native hosting, unlimited uploads, 1TB storage on every tier |
| Quizzes with server-side grading | Multiple-choice quizzes scored entirely on the server; a client can never submit its own score or borrow a correct option from another question | Quizzes, including AI-generated ones |
| Certificates | Real PDF certificates with a unique number, issued on genuine 100% completion, on every plan | Only from the $189/month Growth tier |
| Drip content | A locked lesson stays visible in the outline but the server refuses to serve its content or accept progress until it unlocks | Yes |
| Checkout, order bumps, upsells, abandoned cart | One-time purchase or a recurring access plan through the shared orders pipeline, with coupons. No order bumps, no upsells, no cart recovery | Order bumps, upsells, coupons, buy-now-pay-later, abandoned-cart recovery |
| Affiliate program | None anywhere in the codebase | Affiliates from the Builder tier up |
| Transaction fee | None — the tenant's own payment gateway, no platform cut | 7.5% on the $39 Starter tier; 0% only from $89/month up |
| Multi-tenant resale | Built as a white-label multi-tenant platform: one deployment, many branded tenants on their own domains | One school per subscription; branding removal starts at Growth and white-label only on the Custom tier |
| Learner mobile app | No mobile app for this module | Teachable-branded iOS and Android learner apps on every plan |
Where Teachable is ahead of us today
Teachable is a course business in a box and VanVed is not. The gap that matters most is video: Teachable hosts and streams your videos, while a VanVed lesson is a link that sends the learner off to someone else's player — no embed, no progress from the player, no protection. Teachable also has the whole revenue apparatus VanVed lacks: order bumps, upsells, abandoned-cart recovery, affiliates, and a learner app on every plan.
We publish this because a comparison that only flatters us is worth nothing to you. If one of these gaps is the thing you actually need, Teachable may well be the better buy.
What VanVed's Courses module does
- Modules and lessons
Structure a course the way you actually teach it.
- Enrolment and progress
See who is enrolled and how far they have gotten.
- Quizzes
A pass mark per quiz, scored automatically.