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A Podia alternative: courses and downloads on your own site
Podia sells courses, downloads, coaching, community and email from $42 a month billed yearly, with a 5% fee on its Mover plan and email included up to 100 to 1,000 subscribers. OneCraft writes a course and downloads website around your teaching, with lessons and buyers in its own database, from $8 a month.
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Nuwan Madhusanka · Co-founder
2 min read · Published
The short verdict
Podia is the better pick for a creator who wants courses with quizzes and certificates, coaching, community, events, email marketing and a website in one product, with PayPal and sales tax across 230 countries handled. OneCraft suits a creator who wants a course and downloads site written to their own structure, paid through their own Stripe account, for a lower monthly price.
| Feature | Podia | OneCraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Mover $42, Shaker $84, Earthquaker $150 a month billed annually checked 2026-10-21 | Free $0 with 100 credits a month (about 3 AI projects), Starter $8 with 500, Pro $25 with 1,500, Pro+ $125 with 7,500 |
| Transaction fees | 5% on Mover; no Podia fees on Shaker or Earthquaker; Stripe or PayPal charge 2.9% + 30 cents checked 2026-10-21 | Stripe Checkout as a direct charge on your own connected Stripe account; platform fee Starter 2%, Pro 1%, Pro+ 0.5%, Stripe fees on top; the free plan cannot take payments |
| Trial | Try everything free for 14 days, no credit card checked 2026-10-21 | Free has no cap on sites (build and preview with its credits); Starter 3, Pro 10, Pro+ no cap |
| Courses | Drip lessons, quizzes, certificates, unlimited students checked 2026-10-21 | 65 capability guides the agent builds from scratch into the site's own database, nothing pre-made |
| Podia Email free up to 100, 500 or 1,000 subscribers by plan checked 2026-10-21 | An admin can send a newsletter to confirmed subscribers, at most 500 per send and 5 sends an hour, from OneCraft's address with the site's name | |
| Community | Topic based spaces, group chats, DMs, free or paid tiers checked 2026-10-21 | Comments, a community feed and messaging are among the capability guides |
| Payments | Built-in checkout; PayPal from Shaker; 20+ currencies checked 2026-10-21 | Stripe only: no PayPal and no cash on delivery flow |
| Sales tax | Sales tax in 230 countries checked 2026-10-21 | Sales are direct charges on your own connected Stripe account |
| Website | Website and blog, custom domain, landing pages checked 2026-10-21 | An agent plans the pages, builds them in steps with a green build each time, then a fresh agent reviews screenshots at 375, 768 and 1280 and sends up to 12 fixes |
Where Podia is better
Quizzes and certificates
Podia's courses include quizzes and certificates. OneCraft does not list certificates, and quizzes would need to be written by the agent from your brief.
Email and community in one
Podia includes email marketing and a community with spaces, group chats and DMs. OneCraft's newsletter caps at 500 recipients per send.
PayPal and sales tax
Podia takes PayPal from Shaker and handles sales tax in 230 countries. OneCraft takes Stripe only and lists no tax collection.
Where OneCraft is different
Lower monthly price
OneCraft Starter is $8 a month and Pro $25, against Podia's $42 to $150 billed yearly; card payments add Stripe's fees and a 2%, 1% or 0.5% platform fee.
Your course, your structure
The agent writes lessons, progress tracking, downloads and a booking page the way your brief describes them, rather than in a fixed course layout.
Data in your own database
Students, progress and purchases live in the site's own Supabase database with row level security, and the code downloads as a zip.
Two pricing models
Podia's Mover plan is $42 a month billed yearly with a 5% fee on sales; Shaker at $84 drops the fee. OneCraft Pro is $25 a month with a 1% platform fee and a hosted database, which every plan includes. A creator selling $2,000 of courses a month pays $100 in Podia fees on Mover, against $20 on OneCraft Pro, plus card fees either way.
What a generated course site holds
From a brief like a six lesson pottery course, the agent writes lesson pages, a progress table per student, a one-off Stripe Checkout purchase that unlocks the lessons, downloads in the private bucket and a booking page for studio sessions. Students sign in with email or Google, and the agent checks that a student who has not paid cannot read a paid lesson.
Video lessons
Podia allows 500 videos on Mover and more on higher plans. OneCraft lists no video hosting, and the private bucket holds files up to 25 MB, so lesson videos would be hosted elsewhere and shown on the lesson page.
Who should stay with Podia
Stay with Podia if you want quizzes, certificates, email marketing to a large list and a community in one product, or need PayPal and sales tax handled. Move if you want a lower monthly cost and a course site written around how you actually teach, with payments to your own Stripe account.
Questions people ask
Can students track their progress?
Yes, when the agent builds progress into the course. Each completed lesson is a row tied to the signed in student, protected by row level security so students see only their own progress. The agent checks those rules as a visitor and as a signed in student before generation finishes.
Can I sell a course and a membership together?
Yes. Stripe Checkout handles one-off purchases, and subscriptions run from a plans table with the Stripe billing portal for members. Describe which purchase unlocks which lessons and the agent writes the rules. Prices are read from the database, never the browser.
Can I drip lessons over time?
Drip release is not listed among OneCraft's features, but the agent can write a rule that unlocks lessons by date or by purchase. Ask for it in the brief, then check it in the preview with a test student. Podia includes drip lessons in its courses.
Can I move my Podia students?
There is no Podia importer. You can export customer emails from Podia and invite students to sign up on the new site; purchases do not move automatically. Podia's own migration help works the other way, moving products into Podia, so plan the move with your list exported first and each student told how to sign up again.
Can I try it free?
The free plan has 100 credits a month to generate and preview a course site. Publishing and taking payments need a paid plan from $8 a month. The 100 monthly credits cover about 3 AI projects, enough to see a full course site in the preview before paying.
Try the website side of OneCraft
The button opens the generator with a starting prompt already filled in. Change the wording to match your own work before you run it.
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