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VanVed vs Thinkific
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Why businesses choose VanVed over Thinkific
Everything VanVed has is available on every tier — certificates, the full REST API, recurring access plans — where Thinkific gates certificates, assignments, memberships, email automation and the API across three price steps and puts its AI assistant on Plus. VanVed's analytics report the real completion rate computed from actual lesson progress, and there is no monthly video bandwidth ceiling because there is no video hosting to meter.
Capability by capability
Every row below is what our 2026 research found — including the rows we lose.
| Capability | VanVed | Thinkific |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price for a usable course product | Courses sit on the ₹3,999/month Scale tier, alongside coaching, consulting, CRM, HR and AI | $54/month Basic has no certificates, no assignments, no memberships and no API; a usable tier is $109–$219 |
| Video hosting and bandwidth | No hosting at all — an external link per lesson | Native hosting, metered at 100GB to 400GB of bandwidth per month by tier |
| Graded assignments | None. Quizzes are multiple-choice only; there is no file submission and nothing for an instructor to grade | Assignments with instructor grading, from the Start tier |
| Certificates | Real PDF, auto-issued at 100%, on every tier | From the Start tier up |
| Course analytics | Enrolment count, true completion rate and average quiz score per course — real numbers, no fabricated figures | Progress and engagement analytics plus unified quiz and survey reporting |
| Community and discussion | Nothing. There is no discussion model for a course anywhere in the module | Communities with spaces on every tier |
| AI teaching assistant | None in this module | Thinker, grounded in your own course content and embedded in lessons — but Plus tier only |
| API access | Every course, lesson, quiz and enrolment operation is a REST endpoint on any tier | API only from the $219/month Grow tier; SSO and SCORM only on Plus |
| Recurring course access | Access plans that cover one course or every course in the tenant, renewed through the same verified-payment pipeline as everything else | Memberships and subscriptions from the Start tier |
Where Thinkific is ahead of us today
Thinkific is a real LMS and VanVed's courses module is a competent course skeleton. Native video hosting, graded assignments a human marks, communities, SCORM and learning paths all exist there and none exist here. A VanVed lesson video is an outbound link; a Thinkific one streams inside the course. Thinkific's AI assistant answers a stuck learner from the course's own content, which VanVed has no equivalent of.
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, Thinkific 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.