We build The Big Class, so we're not neutral — but everything below is verifiable, and we've flagged where Teachmint is genuinely the better pick. Decide for yourself.
Teachmint started as a live-teaching app for tutors and has grown into strong school-operations software — attendance, fees, admissions, the institute back office. That's genuinely good if you mainly need a school ERP. But coaches, creators, and coaching centres who want to actually SELL — a discoverable storefront, 0% commission, payouts to their own bank — and to teach with depth (whiteboard scaffolds, entrance-prep quizzes, AI lesson prep) and keep learners engaged tell us that side is thinner. Here's a workspace built for teach-and-sell, not just operations.
Teachmint
Today
The Big Class
From day one
The honest verdict
The Big Class is the stronger Teachmint alternative if your goal is to SELL what you teach, not just administer a school. Teachmint is genuinely good at school/institute management — a generous free tier, attendance, fee tracking and class administration — but it's built for running an institution, not for packaging and selling courses, memberships, 1:1 sessions and digital products to the public on your own brand. We give you a storefront on your own domain, eight product types, a checkout that settles to your own Razorpay with 0% commission, live cohorts with a community and whiteboard, and a CRM + marketing automation to actually fill batches — free to start, ₹1,499/month on Pro. Teachmint remains the better choice if you're a school or coaching institute whose core need is administration — attendance, fees, report cards — rather than selling to an audience.
Cost example
Numbers below use public pricing. Plug in your own revenue on the pricing page to see your specific math.
Your Teachmint bill
Today₹16,500
per month
Scales linearly with your sales
Double your revenue → roughly double the bill.
Your Big Class bill
After switch₹2,500
per month, Studio plan · flat
Stays flat regardless of sales
Hit ₹50 lakh / month → still the same bill.
Your monthly swing
+₹14,000
≈ ₹1,68,000 back in your pocket every year — at this revenue level.
See full pricingWhy teachers and creators move on
We've onboarded teachers from every category of platform. These are the same complaints, again and again.
The product centre of gravity is institute administration — attendance, fees, admissions. If your job is to package and sell courses to the open market, the storefront + monetization tooling is secondary, not the headline.
A discoverable, SEO-indexable course storefront on your own custom domain — the thing that brings you new students from Google — isn't the focus the way it is for a creator-business platform.
0% commission, bring-your-own-Razorpay payouts straight to your bank, coupons, early-bird windows, multiple product kinds (course / membership / digital download) — these are first-class for us and an afterthought when the product is an operations suite.
Live exists (it's where Teachmint started), but K-12 whiteboard scaffolds, entrance-prep quiz templates, and AI lesson prep / slide generation aren't the product's centre.
Operations software records attendance and marks. Turning that into an at-risk early-warning system, an engagement leaderboard, and a re-engagement nudge loop is a different product — and it's ours.
What you get instead
Most Teachmint sellers we've talked to wanted a flat subscription with no per-sale percentage. That's what we ship — payments settle from your own gateway account straight to your bank, and the platform never sees the money.
Your students, your courses, your orders — all exportable to CSV or JSON in one click on every plan (including the free Starter tier). No "upgrade to export" gate.
Teachmint typically covers 2-3 surfaces and assumes you'll bolt the rest with other subscriptions. We ship live classes + courses + community + whiteboard + quizzes + certificates + the analytics view — one login, one student record, one bill.
UPI native, WhatsApp notifications built in, Hindi and Tamil portals out of the box. INR pricing without the FX dance. Indian coaching centres and creators don't have to retrofit a US-built platform.
Side by side
We checked the rival's current public pricing + feature pages before publishing every cell. Hover any “partial” row for the caveat.
| Feature | Teachmint | The Big Class |
|---|---|---|
Live classes built into the platform Schedule, host, record without renting a third-party seat. | ||
Recordings with chapters + transcript Auto-chapter markers parsed from the transcript; chat persists alongside the video. | ||
Whiteboard with 25+ templates K-12 grade-band scaffolds, brainstorms, SWOT, mind maps. Multi-cursor. | ||
Quizzes with 18 ready templates Including entrance-prep scaffolds (JEE / NEET / GMAT) + code review + essay rubrics. | ||
Cohort community with @-mentions Post types (Announcement / Question / Win / Discussion), member directory. | ||
Certificates with designer + verify 17+ templates, drag-drop designer, bulk-issue from CSV, public verify URL. | ||
Zero commission on creator earnings Flat subscription, no per-transaction skim by the platform. | ||
Workspace export (CSV / JSON) Per-entity + full-workspace dump on every plan, free tier included. | ||
India-native (UPI + WhatsApp + INR) Native UPI checkout, WhatsApp notifications, Hindi / Tamil portals. | ||
Creator storefront + checkout (built to sell) A public, SEO-indexable storefront with course pages, coupons, early-bird windows, and multiple product kinds. | ||
Money settles to YOUR Razorpay → your bank, 0% Your own gateway keys; the platform never holds funds and takes no per-sale cut. | ||
At-risk analytics + engagement leaderboard Turns attendance + quizzes + community activity into who's slipping and who's thriving — plus parent/faculty PDF reports. | ||
AI lesson prep + presentation generator Topic → slide deck with smart diagrams + outline in minutes; kid-mode for LKG–UKG. | ||
CRM + marketing automation Contacts auto-added on enquiry/purchase, tag segments, automations (→ email + WhatsApp) with follow-ups, abandoned-checkout recovery. |
Straight talk
Pick Teachmint if you run a school or coaching institute and your core need is administration — attendance, fee collection and reminders, report cards, timetables and class management for an enrolled student body — rather than selling courses and digital products to the public. Teachmint's free tier and school-management depth are a real fit for that institutional use case. If you're a creator or independent educator whose job is to package and sell what you teach to an audience, that's where we're built to win instead.
Other options worth a look
We compare honestly against each of these too — so you can hold Teachmint up against the whole field, not just against us.
How to switch
Most teams are fully migrated inside a weekend. You don't lose your roster, your courses, or your branding.
Step 1
Export your student roster from Teachmint (most platforms ship a CSV under "Students" or "Members"). Map the columns to name + email + WhatsApp.
Step 2
Bulk-import the CSV into /dashboard/students. We dedupe by email so re-running the import is safe.
Step 3
Recreate your courses — the curriculum builder lets you drag modules + lessons, paste video embed URLs, and upload PDFs without a wizard. Most teams get 5 courses across in an afternoon.
Step 4
Apply your brand — logo, primary colour, custom domain. The portal-template picker has 7 starting points if you want to refresh the look while you're at it.
Step 5
Send a one-shot announcement to your students that you've moved, with the new portal URL. The in-app + email + WhatsApp dispatcher fires once; reminders auto-schedule if you want.
Stuck mid-migration? Email us — we'll walk through the CSV mapping or migration scripts with you on a call. No upsell.
The switching framework
Score each tool yourself, Teachmint and us included — these are the questions that actually decide it.
Questions to ask before you switch
Does it ship live cohort tooling that respects classroom dynamics?
Is my data exportable on every plan, including the free tier?
Will my bill stay flat as my sales grow, with no per-sale cut?
Does it speak Indian-first (UPI, WhatsApp, INR, vernacular)?
Can I migrate over a weekend without losing my roster?
Start free — keep 100% of what you earn.
Start freeCommon questions
Yes — and strong on it. The difference is what the product is FOR: Teachmint centres on running an institute (attendance, fees, admissions), while we centre on teaching with depth AND selling — a discoverable storefront, 0% commission, payouts to your own bank, AI lesson prep, and an engagement/retention loop.
We ship batches, attendance, fee collection through your own Razorpay, and engagement + progress reports you can send to parents. If you need a deep admissions/ERP suite with formal report cards, Teachmint goes further there — and plenty of institutes run their teaching, selling, and engagement on us alongside it. We're honest about the line: we're a teach-and-sell + engagement platform, not a full school ERP.
No — everything runs in a responsive web portal on your custom domain: storefront, live classes, quizzes, community. Works on any mobile browser, no install.
You sell from an SEO storefront on your domain, set coupons + early-bird pricing, and collect via your own Razorpay with money settling to your bank at 0% commission. Selling is a first-class surface here, not a bolt-on to an operations product.
Yes — export your roster to CSV and bulk-import (deduped by email). Rebuild courses by pasting existing video embed URLs and uploading materials; your current video hosting stays as-is.
That's the core difference. Beyond the storefront, you get a built-in CRM and automation engine: contacts auto-added on enquiry/purchase, tag-based segments, and automations that send email or WhatsApp on a purchase or a tag (with scheduled follow-ups), plus automatic abandoned-checkout recovery and at-risk re-engagement. An operations suite records what happened; this also goes and grows the next batch.
Compare other alternatives
Each comparison is built the same way, so you can hold Teachmint up against the rest.
All-in-one workspace for live + cohort + community — without per-transaction fees on lower tiers.
See comparisonSame all-in-one promise — now including the marketing automation — without the steep starting price or the missing live-class primitive.
See comparisonSame course-builder polish — with the live cohort room, the whiteboard, and India-native checkout that Thinkific doesn't.
See comparisonSame simplicity — with deeper teaching tooling and India-native payments that Podia doesn't ship.
See comparisonWhen you outgrow the link-in-bio checkout — and need courses, classes, community, and a real student record.
See comparisonSame interactive-learner ambition — with the live cohort, native whiteboard, and India-first plumbing LearnWorlds doesn't quite ship.
See comparisonSame India-built ambition — without the per-transaction commission ladder and with a deeper teaching surface.
See comparisonSame creator-mobile-first focus — with the deeper teaching surface and zero-commission commitment Indian educators ask for.
See comparisonSame India coaching-centre focus — on the open web instead of locked inside a branded app, with transparent flat pricing and 0% commission.
See comparisonSame India-built, creator-friendly start — without a fee on your free-plan sales, and with live, community and the whole business in one place.
See comparisonSame India focus — but built around the whole teaching business and zero commission, not just secure, app-first content delivery.
See comparisonBoth India-built. Skolasti is course-hosting with strong content-DRM and a per-coach price; we add live teaching, community, a free tier, broader product types and flat 0%-commission pricing.
See comparisonClassWalla gives coaching institutes a branded Android/iOS app from ₹4,999/mo or revenue-share. We're the open-web alternative: a free tier, flat 0%-commission pricing, a cohort community and 8 product types — no app install to browse or buy.
See comparisonFree Starter forever. No credit card. Cancel any day. The export button still works.