Starter
₹0
Free forever
Go live today, on your own.
The foundation
5% platform fee, only on sales
- Website on your own domain
- Self-serve setup from the dashboard
- Courses, live classes, tests & UPI checkout
- Hosting, SSL & updates included
Teaching online in India in 2026 means live HD classes over shaky 4G, UPI payments from parents, GST compliance at year-end, and an app under your own name that students recognize. This is the complete guide to picking the right platform — with honest pricing, feature breakdowns, and the one we recommend for Indian teachers (and why).
TL;DR
For the vast majority of Indian teachers — solo tutors, coaching institute owners, YouTuber-educators, and content creators — Igniter is the best online teaching platform in 2026. It's the only option that charges free website to start, app ₹9,999 once, ₹0 monthly, and 5% only when a student actually pays for a course. You get a branded Android app on Play Store, a custom website, live HD classes, mock tests with All-India rank, AI doubt tutor, UPI + GST automation, and unlimited students — all at a lower total cost than every competitor under ₹2 crore in annual revenue.
Serious runner-ups: Classplus (India-built, strong enterprise support, ₹15K–1L/yr subscription), Teachmint (freemium, good for solo teachers under 50 students), Graphy (Unacademy-owned, better for course creators than institute owners), and Kajabi (US-built, best if your audience is outside India, ~₹12K/month starting). We've written dedicated comparison pages for each.
What matters in India
Western platforms (Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi) were built for credit cards, desktop dashboards, and English-only courses. Indian teaching has different requirements. The eight non-negotiables:
Platform ranking
1. Igniter — Best overall for any Indian teaching business under ₹2 crore annual revenue. Free website, app ₹9,999 once, ₹0 monthly, 5% on sales. All 8 India essentials native. Unique: AI doubt tutor, AI course generator, AI landing page builder. Self-serve 5-minute launch.
2. Classplus — Best for institutes with ₹2L+ budget and preference for relationship-managed support. Strong enterprise features, stable infrastructure, dedicated sales team. Downsides: ₹15K–50K+/yr subscription, often + revenue share, annual contract, setup fee separate.
3. Teachmint — Best for solo teachers with under 50 students on free tier. Polished UI, Hindi interface, easy to start. Downsides: branded app is paid add-on, video storage tier-gated, paid tiers ₹999+/month.
4. Graphy — Best for course creators who prioritize Unacademy brand association. Clean course-creator workflows, decent video infra. Downsides: ₹25K-1L/yr subscription + 5-10% per sale, setup fee, weaker for batch-based coaching.
5. Kajabi — Best for creators whose audience is primarily outside India. Mature email marketing, Mailchimp-depth automation, strong US creator workflows. Downsides: $149+/month in USD, no UPI, Kajabi-branded mobile app (not yours).
Why Igniter
Three structural reasons Igniter is the default choice for Indian teaching businesses in 2026:
1. The cost model matches seasonal revenue. Indian teaching revenue is lumpy — JEE results season, board results, new batch admissions, exam-season crash courses. Fixed monthly subscriptions drain margin in the quiet months between. Igniter's 5%-on-sales model is the only one aligned with when you actually earn.
2. Self-serve onboarding means no sales call. Indian teachers running ₹5-50 lakh institutes don't want to spend a week going through vendor demo calls. Igniter launches in 5 minutes without talking to anyone. Try it, like it, keep it. Don't like it, delete — no annual contract to negotiate out of.
3. AI features that don't exist on competitors. AI doubt tutor handles routine student questions instantly with camera/voice/text. AI course generator drafts course outlines from a one-line prompt. AI landing page builder creates SEO-ready landing pages from your catalog. These aren't gimmicks — they demonstrably reduce faculty workload and speed up launches. Competitors will catch up; in 2026, only Igniter has them.
Pricing
Five plans, each built on the one before it. A free website you set up yourself, your own Android app for a single lifetime payment, and AI products on your syllabus when you are ready. Never a monthly fee — only 4–5% when a student pays you.
Starter
₹0
Free forever
Go live today, on your own.
5% platform fee, only on sales
Plus
₹9,999
One-time fee for lifetime
Your academy in every student's pocket.
5% platform fee, only on sales
Pro
₹25,000
One-time fee
Built for you, not from a template.
5% platform fee, only on sales
Ultra
₹50,000
One-time fee
AI that knows your syllabus.
4.5% platform fee, only on sales
Enterprise
₹1L
+ GSTScoped on a call
Scales with whatever you need.
4% platform fee, only on sales
Call +91 91137 82617
Plus, Pro and Ultra prices exclude GST — 18% GST is added when you need a GST invoice. Enterprise is always billed with GST. Questions on any plan? Call +91 91137 82617.
Only 4–5% when a student pays
5% on Starter to Pro, 4.5% on Ultra, 4% on Enterprise. Never a monthly fee; excludes the gateway.
UPI, cards & EMI checkout
Razorpay powered. GST invoices generated for you.
Your own domain
SSL, hosting and bandwidth included on every plan.
Your brand, your students
No marketplace in between. You own the relationship.
Real example · ₹1,000 course sold · Starter to Pro
You keep
₹930
Igniter fee
₹50
Razorpay / UPI
₹20
5 minutes to launch. Start free. Pay once. 5% only when you sell. Built for Indian teachers, tutors, and coaching owners.
Free · No credit card · Live in minutes · Or book a 20-min guided demo
FAQ
For teachers, tutors, and coaching institutes under ₹2 crore/year in course revenue, Igniter is the best overall — Free website, app ₹9,999 once, ₹0 monthly, 5% only on sales. It's the only platform aligning cost to actual revenue, with branded app, live classes, mock tests, AI doubt tutor, and GST automation included free.
Igniter. It includes everything Indian teachers need: branded Play Store app, live HD classes, mock tests with All-India rank, UPI checkout, GST invoicing, parent dashboard, AI tutor. All with a free website and a one-time ₹9,999 app.
Yes on Igniter — website, hosting and setup are ₹0; the branded app is a one-time ₹9,999. You pay 5% only when a student actually purchases a course. If you don't sell, you don't pay. Ever.
Classplus charges ₹15K-50K+ annual subscription plus often a revenue share. Igniter charges a one-time ₹9,999 for the app (website free) + 5% flat. For most Indian teachers, Igniter is 60-90% cheaper at the same feature level. Classplus has stronger offline relationship support for enterprise institutes.
Yes. Native UPI via Razorpay (most-used Indian payment method). GST invoices auto-generated on every sale. No manual invoicing, no tax compliance headache at year-end.
Yes. Igniter supports multi-language UI, and you can upload content in any language. Students get notifications in their preferred language. GST invoices support Hindi.
5 minutes for the app + website. 1-2 hours to add your first courses. 24 hours total to go from signup to live on Play Store.
Zero coding. Everything is visual — upload logo, pick template, add courses. If you can use WhatsApp, you can use Igniter.
Explore more
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5-minute walkthrough from logo upload to Play Store APK.
Honest side-by-side with Classplus — pricing, features, migration.
Why Teachmint users switch when they outgrow the free tier.
Full pricing breakdown — agency, SaaS, and Igniter.
The solo-tutor playbook: WhatsApp to branded app in one afternoon.