/00Kavieo vs Gumroad

Kavieo vs Gumroad, without the marketing talk.

Gumroad is built around letting you list a digital download and collect cash. That's it, mostly. Kavieo is built around running a whole creator business — courses, community, coaching, subscriptions, automations, analytics. Here's how that plays out on the things that move revenue.

/01Top-line verdict

Gumroad is a marketplace. Kavieo is an OS. The distinction costs you money.

Kavieo wins

Your cut is materially higher on Kavieo.

Gumroad charges up to 10% per sale on top of payment-processor fees. Kavieo's platform fee is 2–5% depending on plan — roughly half as much on most transactions.

Gumroad wins

Gumroad wins on 'list one file, walk away'.

If you're selling one PDF once, Gumroad is simpler. No monthly fee. We're not going to pretend otherwise.

Kavieo wins

Courses, community, coaching — Kavieo owns them.

Gumroad has weak course hosting, no real community, no coaching booking. Kavieo has all three, first-class, in the same buyer database.

/02Price, side by side

What you'd actually pay, in a typical month.

The Kavieo line
Kavieo
Monthly platform fee$0 — $179/mo
Per-sale platform fee1% — 5%
Payment-processor feestandard
On $10,000/month revenue, what you keep≈ $9,200–9,500
The competitor line
Gumroad
Monthly platform fee$0/mo
Per-sale platform feeup to 10%
Payment-processor feestandard
On $10,000/month revenue, what you keep≈ $8,700
Figures are public-list-price snapshots at the time of writing. Always verify on the competitor's site before committing.
/03Feature matrix

Every feature. Every row. No marketing wand-waving.

Feature
Kavieo
Gumroad
Products you can sell
Digital downloads
Online courses (proper LMS)
Paid community (Discord-grade)
Coaching bookings
Software license keys
Recurring subscriptions
Brand & storefront
Custom domain (buyer-facing)
Yes, on Studio
Limited
Hide platform branding
Multi-sales-page templates
4+
1
AI sales page writer
Money
Direct payouts to your account
Payout delay
instant
up to 7 days
Multi-currency checkout
Itemised platform fee per order
Automation & marketing
Visual automation builder
Branded transactional email
Social attribution (per-post revenue)
Built-in AI assistant
Data & exit
Full export (buyers + orders + emails)
Partial
Exit fee
none
none
Row-level security on all data
Thinking about moving?

Migrate from Gumroad in an afternoon.

Import your buyer list as CSV. Re-upload products (we store files up to 2 GB each). Connect your payment account. You'll be live on Kavieo in one sitting — and keeping roughly 5% more of every sale the next day.

/07FAQ

Questions we hear most.

Don't see yours? Email contact@kavieo.com — a human replies within 4 hours.

You do. Every rupee flows through your Razorpay account — we never touch it. Every buyer sits in your database, yours to export the day you want to leave. Your list is not our growth lever.
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