Sikhaku is free. Your teacher sets the price.
No monthly fee, no commission, no revenue share. Creators keep what their courses earn, and the only money a student ever pays is the price a creator chose.
- 0% commission
- No monthly bill
- One ID, unlimited use
Every platform quotes a percentage. Ours is zero, so there is nothing to work out.
Here is the whole path anyway, in rupees
Nobody pays us to be here
Everyone gets the same product. The difference between these three is who you are, not what it costs.
Students
Free
one account, every creator
You only pay a creator
The app and your account cost nothing. You pay only when you buy a course, and that money is the creator’s price — not ours.
- One account across every creator on Sikhaku
- Buy a course once and keep it
- Download lessons and study offline
- Free courses stay free, with no trial
- No subscription and no card on file
- A receipt by email on every purchase
Creators
Most popularFree
no monthly fee, ever charged so far
We take 0% of your sales
No base fee, no commission, no revenue share. You set your prices and keep what your courses earn. Hosting, video, DRM and payouts are on us.
- Unlimited courses, lessons and students
- Unlimited video hosting and bandwidth
- DRM video with per-student watermarks
- Your own storefront and handle
- Full analytics and drop-off reporting
- Coupons and referral links
- Payouts to your bank or wallet
Institutions
Free
with onboarding help
Same product, more hands
For training institutes and creator teams running several instructors. Still free — the difference is how much of the setup we do with you.
- Everything creators get
- Multiple instructor accounts
- A Sikhaku-built website for your brand
- Bulk and cohort enrolments
- Migration help from your current tools
- A named person to talk to
Run your own numbers
Move the sliders. There is no deduction to apply, which is rather the point.
You keep
$4,900
on $4,900 of sales
- Gross sales
- $4,900
- Sikhaku fee
- $0
- Payout charge
- $0
Sikhaku takes no commission and no monthly fee. Any tax due depends on your own registration and is shown at checkout and on every invoice. Store commission does not apply either, because students buy on the web.
A $49 sale, broken down honestly
Most platforms show a percentage and leave you to work out what actually arrives. Here is the whole path, and it is a short one.
$49 reaches you
Paid out on schedule, with a statement, to your bank or your wallet.
$0 is our commission
We do not take a percentage of your sales, and we do not take a cut of tax either.
$0 is hosting and bandwidth
Video is the largest cost the platform carries. It is not passed on to you.
Free to join, free to keep an account
One Sikhaku ID gives you every creator on the platform. There is no membership to buy before you can look, and no card to leave on file. You pay a creator when you want their course, and you pay however you already pay.
One ID, unlimited use
Follow as many creators and study as many courses as you like.
Pay your own way
Your usual wallet, mobile or internet banking, or a card.
Bought once, kept
A purchase is not a subscription. It does not expire.
What that adds up to
Compared with what a creator pays on the alternatives today.
What creators actually pay elsewhere
Approximate and current at the time of writing. Check each provider for their latest terms.
| Typical alternatives | Sikhaku | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform cut | 10–50% depending on who brought the student | None |
| Monthly fee | USD 39–199 on hosted course tools | None |
| App store commission | ~30% if sold in an app | None — checkout is on the web |
| Video hosting | Billed separately or capped | Included, unlimited |
| DRM and watermarking | Usually an add-on | Included |
| Local payments | Often unsupported | Wallets, bank transfer and cards |
| Invoicing | Your responsibility | Issued for you |
There is no feature paywall
We could not hold DRM or analytics back to push you to a higher plan even if we wanted to, because there is no higher plan. The product is the product.
No caps
Unlimited video, unlimited courses
No storage cap, no bandwidth bill, no per-view charge and no limit on how many courses you publish. Video hosting is the biggest cost we carry, and it is included.
DRM and watermarking
Included from the first course, never sold as an upgrade.
Your own storefront
A branded page and a handle you can put in your bio.
Full analytics
Per-lesson drop-off and completion, for every creator.
Coupons and referrals
Run your own promotions on your own terms.
Payout statements
Documented well enough to hand to an accountant.
Analytics are not a premium add-on
Knowing which lesson loses half the class is the most valuable thing this platform gives you, so it is not something we would put behind a tier — and there is no tier to put it behind.
Revenue and refunds
By course, by coupon, by period.
Per-lesson drop-off
The exact point attention falls away.
Completion rates
The number that predicts whether people buy from you again.
Things we will not do
Worth stating plainly, because most of these have happened to creators on other platforms.
Merchant of record
We handle the payment, the invoice and the tax so you do not have to.
Append-only ledger
Every rupee traceable. Nothing edited after the fact.
Idempotent payments
Retried webhooks can never credit or charge twice.
KYC before payout
Statutory, and it protects you as much as us.
The things people check twice
Is Sikhaku really free?
Then what do students pay for?
How does Sikhaku make money?
Are there hidden fees?
Why is there no app store commission?
When do I get paid?
Who pays for refunds?
Can I set my own prices?
Free to teach, while we are onboarding by hand
No commission, no monthly bill, and onboarding help from a person. We keep the cohort small on purpose.
Two working days to a reply.