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ThriveCart pricing

By Dana Rourke, Lead reviewer. Reviewed by Campaign Buyer Editorial. Verified 8 September 2026.

The plans

Paid plans start at $37/mo, after a 30-day trial.

Standard $37/mo billed annually or $47/mo monthly; Pro+ $67/mo annual or $87/mo monthly (30-day trial). Lifetime Standard still sold at checkout.thrivecart.com/thrivecart-standard-account/ (commonly $495). Pro+ annual add-on for affiliates, dunning, multiple bumps, custom domains. 0% platform fees on sales.

Prices as of 12 Oct 2026

Is it worth the money?

ThriveCart is the checkout to pick if you sell courses or digital products and want a capable cart at a flat, buy-once price. It leans on whichever processor you connect for the actual money, so it cannot route payments to a second account, cannot serve high-risk sellers, and only adds its own dunning on the Pro+ tier.

What works

  • A lifetime licence has long been the draw, so nothing recurring lands on your bill once you have bought in
  • Creator-focused cart features are strong: order bumps, one-click upsells, split-tested checkouts and a built-in affiliate centre
  • Connects Stripe, PayPal or Authorize.Net and adds nothing of its own on top of the processor's fee
  • Once on Pro+ it adds its own reminder emails, subscription analytics and deeper reporting

What to watch

  • The money runs through the one processor you connect, so a declined card has no second account to fall back to
  • No high-risk support either. The big gateways all bar those categories, and ThriveCart cannot work around the ban
  • How hard a failed payment is retried is the processor's job. Authorize.Net does not retry at all, and ThriveCart's own reminders need the Pro+ tier
  • Disputes sit with the processor, not with ThriveCart, so it brings no dedicated chargeback tooling to lean on

Pricing FAQ

How much does ThriveCart cost?
The entry plan is $37 a month.
Does ThriveCart have a free trial or free tier?
There is a 30-day trial that asks for a card, and no free tier after it.

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3 discussions and reviews read for this page. Quotes are excerpts; open a link to read the original in context.

  1. [tc-impressed] Do any of you really use thrivecart? Reddit
  2. [tc-notcart] Do any of you really use thrivecart? Reddit
  3. [tc-proplus] Thoughts on ThriveCart? Reddit