TinyPages vs Podia
To get started, Podia asks $49/mo and caps your list at 100 contacts. TinyPages starts free, with no cap on contacts, and Claude builds your pages for you.
On Podia, you do everything yourself. On TinyPages, Claude does it.
Pricing and features verified on podia.com, October 2026. Podia prices on monthly billing.
TinyPages as a Podia alternative: why switch?
Templates, and someone to fill them in
Podia wins people over with polished templates. TinyPages has them too, with one difference: you don’t have to fill them in. You describe your offer to Claude, it builds the sales page, the emails and the course, and you review.
To get started: $49 or €0
Podia’s first plan costs $49/mo, caps your list at 100 contacts and takes 5% of every sale. TinyPages’ free plan puts no cap on your contacts and lets you sell a first product, with a 15% commission and up to 10 web pages. Sending emails comes with Pro.
Same price, twice the contacts
At 99 a month, Podia includes 500 contacts and 150 products. TinyPages Pro includes 1,000 contacts, unlimited products and 0% commission. To lift every product limit on Podia, you have to move up to $179/mo.
On Podia, you build everything yourself
People like Podia for its polished templates and its all-in-one approach: your courses, your emails and your pages in one place.
But a template is still a page to fill in. Every sales pitch, every email sequence, every course module: you write it and set it up, screen by screen. And every step up costs more: more contacts, more products, lower fees, one plan at a time.
TinyPages comes at the problem from the other end. You describe your offer to Claude, in your own words, and Claude builds everything: the sales page, the checkout, the email sequence, the course. You read it over and tweak it with a single word. On Podia, that work is yours; on TinyPages, Claude does it.
The comparison by category
Courses, coaching and community
Your courses and member area live on both platforms, and coaching sells on both, with booking through Calendly, TidyCal or Cal.com. TinyPages adds qualification forms to screen your leads before your calls. Podia puts its built-in community front and center; TinyPages doesn’t have one. If community is the heart of your business, that counts for Podia.
Email marketing and contacts
Both send your newsletters and sequences. On Podia, the size of your list depends on your plan: 100 contacts at $49/mo, 500 at $99, 1,000 at $179. TinyPages includes 1,000 contacts from €99/mo, then bills for the extra without making you change plans. Your emails go out through Postmark, ActiveCampaign’s email infrastructure, so they reach the inbox, not the spam folder.
Selling: pages, upsells and fees
On the selling side, Podia handles checkout, upsells and an affiliate program, but it takes 5% of every sale on its first plan until you upgrade. TinyPages charges 0% on Pro, from day one. Above all, your sales page isn’t a blank page waiting for you: Claude writes it for you, pitch and objections included, then you adjust it.
AI: the difference that settles it
On Podia, every page, every email and every course module is built by hand. TinyPages was built around Claude: you describe your offer in a few sentences, Claude builds the sales page, the email sequence and the course, and you approve the result.
Podia pricing vs TinyPages, honestly
Podia advertises $49/mo for its first plan: 100 contacts, 50 products, and 5% taken from every sale. With 100 contacts, your list is full before your business has really started.
TinyPages starts at €0: no cap on contacts, a first product to sell with a 15% commission, up to 10 web pages and the Claude connection. Sending emails comes with Pro.
At 99 a month, the comparison is straightforward: Podia includes 500 contacts and 150 products, TinyPages Pro 1,000 contacts, unlimited products and 0% commission. On Podia, the plan with no product limit costs $179/mo.
And on TinyPages, the work is included too: you describe your offer, Claude does it.
They switched to TinyPages
« As a beginner, I moved from Podia to TinyPages to host my first course, and I don’t regret it. I’m building a minimalist business without getting lost in complicated tools. We have better things to do than fight with tech: marketing our offer and selling it. »
Mélanie, coach · Trustpilot« On TinyPages I built a dead-simple opt-in page, an AI-generated email sequence, and got my first leads without the headache. It took me less time to set it all up than I used to waste getting lost in settings. »
Issa, course creator · Trustpilot« TinyPages let me build my site in under five hours while learning everything from scratch. I love having it all in one place: opt-in page, sales page, course hosting and newsletters. »
Marvin, French teacher · TrustpilotSo, Podia or TinyPages?
Choose Podia if:
- a built-in community under your brand is central to your business
- you’d rather build every page and email yourself
Choose TinyPages if:
- you want Claude to build and run your marketing
- you want 1,000 contacts and 0% commission from the first paid plan
- you’d rather spend your time creating than setting everything up yourself
Already on Podia? We handle the migration for you, free with an annual plan. Migrate my business →
Frequently asked questions
To get started, TinyPages: the free plan costs nothing, with no cap on contacts and a 15% commission on your sales. Podia starts at $49/mo, with 100 contacts and a 5% commission. At 99 a month, TinyPages Pro includes 1,000 contacts, unlimited products and 0% commission; Podia’s plan at the same price includes 500 contacts and 150 products. And on TinyPages, Claude builds your pages and emails.
Yes. Our team moves your pages, your courses and your email sequences over, free with an annual plan. Write to us at hello@tinypages.co.
Coaching, yes: you sell it on TinyPages, booking runs through Calendly, TidyCal or Cal.com just like on Podia, and your qualification forms screen your leads. A built-in community, no. If that’s the heart of your business, Podia has one; for pages, courses, email and sales, Claude does the work for you.
No. On Podia, you write every sales page, build every email sequence and structure every course module in the interface yourself. On TinyPages, you describe your offer to Claude and it does it in a few minutes. You review and approve.
No — Claude’s free tier is enough to get started: it comes with the Sonnet model, which is more than capable of running TinyPages. A paid Claude plan unlocks more usage and the most advanced models, but you don’t need one to start.
Yes. On TinyPages, your emails go out through Postmark, ActiveCampaign’s email infrastructure: your newsletters land in your subscribers’ inbox, not in the spam folder.
Yes — your contacts, your content and your pages stay yours. You can export your email list whenever you want, and nothing stands in your way. We don’t hold on to you with technical lock-in: if you stay, it’s because you like the tool, not because you’re stuck.
TinyPages has a real free plan, with the Claude connection included: you start with your site, your pages and a first product to sell, and move to Pro for emails, your own domain and 0% commission. Podia has no free plan: after a 14-day trial, you have to pick a paid plan.
On Podia, you do everything yourself. On TinyPages, Claude does it.
Free plan, Claude connection included. See the difference for yourself.