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Selling digital products: what 7 tools cost

Taking payment for downloads, courses and subscriptions. Every price is the plan a buyer actually lands on to get this capability — not the headline figure on the pricing page, and not the free tier that leaves it out.

7 tools, 8 plans pricedfrom $35 more with no published priceread 2026-09-27

Subscriber Memberships Buy Me a Coffee Recurring monthly or yearly memberships with supporter-only posts, run from the same page as one-off tips. $3/mo Membership Details → Ko-fi Creator Platform Ko Fi Creator monetization $5/mo Free tier + Ko-fi Gold subscriptionReferral commission on Gold subscriptions Details → Digital Products Gumroad Creator platform for selling digital products and subscriptions $8.29/mo Creator Pro Details → Digital Products Kit Sells downloads, courses and paid subscriptions straight to the list. $39/mo CreatorSelling works on free; the sellers who scale end up paying. Details → Podia Memberships Membership communities and gates $39/mo StandardCommunity features Details → Security Features SendOwl Anti-piracy toolkit for digital sellers — stamps each PDF download with the buyer's identifying details, caps download attempts, sets link expiration windows, locks documents against copying, and issues/manages software license keys. $39/mo Launch Details → Affiliate & Upsell Management SendOwl Built-in affiliate program tooling — generates unique tracking links and auto-calculates commissions per affiliate — plus checkout upsells, cross-sells, and discount codes to increase average order value. $39/mo Launch Details → Digital Products Sellfy Sell digital downloads, courses, and subscriptions $59/mo Business (annual) Details →

This page compares what each tool does and what it costs. It does not name a winner: picking one honestly needs a researched verdict for every option, and the corpus does not carry those yet — so nothing here is ranked by anything but price.

When these prices change, we send a note

Vendors change plans and quietly move capabilities between tiers. We re-read the terms and send one note a week with what moved — including selling digital products.

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