Thinkific fee calculator

Enter your course price to see what Thinkific takes. With Thinkific Payments, you pay 0% platform fee — just card processing. Bring your own Stripe and Thinkific adds a surcharge from 0.5% to 5% depending on your plan.

Sale price

Thinkific Payments charges 0% platform fee — just 2.9% + $0.30 card processing. Available on all plans.

Platform fee

$0.00

Processing

$3.17

You keep

$95.83

Effective rate

3.2%

Thinkific fees at scale

How much Thinkific takes at different monthly revenue levels on the Thinkific Payments rate.

Monthly gross	Total fees	You keep	Eff. rate
$100	$3.20	$96.80	3.2%
$500	$16.00	$484.00	3.2%
$1,000	$32.00	$968.00	3.2%
$2,500	$80.00	$2420.00	3.2%
$5,000	$160.30	$4839.70	3.2%
$10,000	$320.30	$9679.70	3.2%

Rates as of June 2026. Thinkific is not a merchant of record — tax compliance is your responsibility. The Expand plan ($199/month) charges 0.5% on own-Stripe; Plus and above charge 0%. The surcharge drops to 0% automatically once you cross $1M in annual revenue on any plan.

For the full breakdown including plan comparisons and subscription break-even math, read Thinkific fees: why '0% transaction fees' isn't the whole story.