9 Teachers Pay Teachers Alternatives (And Their Fee Stacks)

The best Teachers Pay Teachers alternatives are Etsy, Made By Teachers, Classful, Amped Up Learning, Tes and Teach Simple if you want a marketplace to bring buyers, and Payhip, Gumroad or a Whop checkout if you can bring your own. On a $10 resource, TPT's Basic plan leaves you $5.20, and the alternatives below leave between $6.00 and $9.43. One thing changed this month: TPT's new Exclusive plan bars its sellers from listing digital educational resources anywhere else, so your TPT plan decides which of these you can use at all.

Checked on 11 October 2026 against TPT's Seller Fees and Payout Rates page and Exclusive Seller announcement, Etsy's fees policy and digital listings help page, Made By Teachers' seller plans and FAQ, Classful pricing, Amped Up Learning's Sell With Us page, the Tes selling FAQ, Teach Simple's contributor terms, Payhip pricing, Gumroad pricing and Whop's fee documentation.

This page is about where to sell, and what each place keeps. For what to make in the first place, from worksheets to escape rooms, start with our guide to making teacher resources to sell.

Teachers Pay Teachers alternatives at a glance

Pick by where your buyers will come from, then by fee. The short version:

• Pick Etsy if your resources double as printables parents search for, and you want the largest general marketplace.
• Pick Classful, Made By Teachers or Amped Up Learning if you want another teacher marketplace that keeps a smaller share than TPT Basic.
• Pick Tes if your resources fit UK or international curricula.
• Pick Teach Simple if you want subscription income from a back catalogue without pricing each item.
• Pick Payhip, Gumroad or Whop if you have a Pinterest account, an email list or a classroom following to send.

Read that chart with one warning in mind. It shows what each sale leaves, not how many sales each place produces. A marketplace that keeps 45% and sends you ten buyers still beats a store that keeps 6% and sends none.

First, check your TPT plan: the exclusivity rule

Only TPT Basic Sellers are free to list the same resources elsewhere. TPT rebuilt its seller plans on October 1, 2026, and the higher-paying plan now comes with a condition.

• Basic: a one-time $29, a 55% payout and $0.30 per resource. No exclusivity.
• Exclusive: $59.95 a year, a 77.5% payout (80% until January 1, 2027) and $0.15 per resource only on orders under $3. Digital educational resources must be sold only on TPT.
• Premium: closed to new sign-ups. Existing Premium Sellers choose one of the two.

That makes the real choice a fee question. Exclusive keeps $7.75 of a $10 sale from 2027; Basic keeps $5.20 but lets you earn a second income from the same file elsewhere. Our Teachers Pay Teachers fees explained has the full Basic-against-Exclusive math and the payout schedule, and selling lesson plans online shows how packaging lessons into units changes it.

Sites like Teachers Pay Teachers: six marketplaces

These six list your resources next to other sellers and bring at least some of their own traffic. Fees are from each site's own page, checked October 2026.

1. Etsy

Etsy charges a US shop $0.20 per listing, a 6.5% transaction fee and 3% plus $0.25 payment processing, so $1.40 on a $10 resource. Sales that come through Etsy's Offsite Ads add 15%, or 12% for shops past $10,000 in a 365-day period. Strength: the largest general audience, strong for planners, classroom decor and printables. Limit: it is a general marketplace, not one organised by grade and standard, and each instant-download listing takes up to five files of 20MB each. Our Etsy digital products guide covers setup.

2. Made By Teachers

Made By Teachers offers basic and premium seller accounts and says sellers earn up to 80% royalties depending on the plan, paid monthly by PayPal minus commission and PayPal fees. Its plans page, as indexed this month, lists the basic account at 55% with a one-time sign-up fee and premium at 80% for a yearly fee; confirm both at sign-up, because we could only read the 80% figure directly. Strength: it states that you can sell your resources elsewhere and that it collects and remits sales tax. Limit: it currently accepts sellers from the United States, Canada and Australia only.

3. Classful

Classful's pricing page lists a 5% transaction fee on products plus 2.9% and $0.30 processing through Stripe, with no fee to join. That is $1.09 on a $10 resource. Strength: among the lowest published takes of the teacher marketplaces here. Limit: international buyers add 1.5% to processing and currency conversion adds 1%, and courses are charged 20% rather than 5%.

4. Amped Up Learning

Amped Up Learning says its teacher contributors earn 80 to 90% commission on all sales, 90% during site sales, with no monthly or yearly fee. Strength: a high stated commission and room for Boom Cards, Google Forms and physical goods. Limit: you apply by email rather than opening a store yourself, and its page does not publish processing or payout terms, so ask before you upload a catalogue.

5. Tes

Tes pays authors by tier: 60% at Bronze, 70% at Silver once your 12-month sales reach £1,000, and 80% at Gold from £6,000, calculated on the price before VAT. Resources priced under £3 or $3 carry a 20p or 20c transaction fee. Strength: a UK and international teacher audience, pricing in pounds or dollars, and withdrawals from a £10 or $10 balance. Limit: a new shop starts at 60%, and prices are capped between £1 and £300.

6. Teach Simple

Teach Simple is a subscription library, so there is no price per resource. Its contributor terms, dated to take effect on October 19, 2026, put 100% of net subscription revenue from members who download that month into a royalty pool, split by points: each resource carries 1 to 10. You keep the copyright, the distribution licence is non-exclusive, and a payout is due once your balance reaches $50. Strength: income from older resources without discounting. Limit: you cannot predict what a download is worth, because the rate per point changes every month.

Sell teaching resources without TPT: your own store

Your own store keeps the most per sale and brings the fewest buyers. All three options below host the files and the checkout, so you do not need a website.

7. Payhip

Payhip's free plan takes 5% plus Stripe or PayPal processing, about $1.09 on a $10 resource. Paid plans cut the 5% to 2% for $29 a month or to zero for $99. Strength: no monthly cost to start, and Payhip says it collects and remits EU and UK VAT. Limit: no marketplace at all.

8. Gumroad

Gumroad charges 10% plus $0.50 per direct sale and 2.9% plus $0.30 for card processing, so $2.09 on a $10 resource, with no monthly fee. Strength: it acts as merchant of record and handles sales tax worldwide. Limit: the fixed $0.80 is heavy on a $4 worksheet, where you keep $2.68. The full breakdown is in Gumroad fees explained.

9. Whop

Whop's fee documentation lists 2.7% plus $0.30 on a domestic card, which is $0.57 on a $10 resource. Strength: the lowest per-sale cost of the nine. Limit: payouts carry their own fees, from $2.50 for a next-day bank transfer, and tax collection is an optional 2% extra.

To compare the own-store options at your real price and monthly volume, use the free platform break-even calculator. It includes Etsy, Gumroad, Payhip and Whop, and every rate is editable, so you can add a TPT-style 45% row for comparison. The same platforms sit on one table in our digital product platform fees comparison.

A TPT alternative for sellers, or an addition?

For most Basic Sellers the answer is an addition, not a replacement. The useful number is how many more sales TPT has to deliver to justify its larger cut.

• Against Etsy: $8.60 kept versus $5.20, so TPT Basic needs about 1.65 times the sales to leave you the same money.
• Against your own Payhip store: $8.91 versus $5.20, so about 1.7 times.
• Exclusive against your own store: $7.75 versus $8.91, so about 1.15 times.

If TPT sends you several times the buyers anything else would, its fee is cheap. If your sales mostly come from your own Pinterest pins and email list, you are paying a marketplace rate for traffic you produced.

Moving an audience from a marketplace to a store you control is a marketing job more than a fee decision, and it is the part our Digital Products program teaches: product pages, pricing and bringing your own buyers.

Before you list anywhere else

Start with one alternative and ten of your best resources, not the whole catalogue. Run it for a term, compare what each place actually paid out, and expand the one that earned its fee. For the wider field beyond teaching, see where to sell digital products in 2026.

Teachers Pay Teachers alternatives: FAQ