Udemy
Impact
Global
10-15% per sale, up to 20% for top performers
Udemy is an online course marketplace where instructors sell video courses on a wide range of topics, from software development to personal development, and learners buy individual courses or subscriptions.
Udemy pays 10-15% per sale (up to 20% for top performers), via Impact.com, ~7-day cookie — not a flat 12% via PartnerStack, through Impact. The referred customer gets udemy runs monthly, time-boxed course promotions and distributes exclusive coupons to accepted affiliates to share, so a buyer who purchases through an affiliate link during an active promotion gets a discounted price; outside a running promotion there is no separate referral discount stated. Verified 24 Aug 2026 from Udemy's own published material.
Paid when
A referred visitor completes a paid course purchase (or a Personal Plan…
Payment delay
Commissions are held until the 30-day refund window on the underlying sale has fully cleared — e.g. sales made in a given month are invoiced the following month and paid out the month after that
Minimum payout
$50
Click counts for
7 days — purchases made after the 7-day cookie expires are not credited
Your commission
10-15% per sale (up to 20% for top performers), via Impact.com, ~7-day cookie — not a flat 12% via PartnerStack
Customer incentive
Udemy runs monthly, time-boxed course promotions and distributes exclusive coupons to accepted affiliates to share, so a buyer who purchases through an affiliate link during an active promotion gets a discounted price; outside a running promotion there is no separate referral discount stated.
The terms that decide whether you get paid
Paid whenA referred visitor completes a paid course purchase (or a Personal Plan subscription signup) through the affiliate tracking link within the 7-day cookie window.
DurationOne-time commission per sale — not a recurring commission
Attribution window7 days — purchases made after the 7-day cookie expires are not credited
Payment delayCommissions are held until the 30-day refund window on the underlying sale has fully cleared — e.g. sales made in a given month are invoiced the following month and paid out the month after that
Payment scheduleMonthly — sales from a given month are invoiced the following month and paid the month after that
Minimum payout$50
Payout formPayPal, direct deposit, or check — set through the affiliate network account, not a Udemy-run payout
ClawbackNo published clawback clause — Udemy's approach instead withholds affiliate commission payout until the underlying sale's 30-day refund window has passed, so a refunded sale is generally excluded before it is ever paid rather than clawed back afterward
Important
The stated 12% recurring headline is undercut by mechanics that describe a 10-15% flat per-course model instead, suggesting the terms are inconsistent or vary by network — worth verifying directly. The 7-30 day cookie window is on the short-to-moderate side and explicitly varies by network. PartnerStack enrollment and global availability are pluses, and the free tier can help pad signups.
Confirmed via multiple independent sources (getlasso.co, cuelinks, referly.so, commissiondex): 10-15% per sale (up to 20% for top performers) via Impact.com, ~7-day cookie — not PartnerStack, not a flat 12%. Newer Personal Plan subscription rates run ~14% monthly signups, ~7% annual.
What you would be selling
A modest 10-15% per-course commission via PartnerStack for Udemy's mainstream course marketplace, with mechanics that contradict the program's own 12% headline rate.
Udemy is one brand with 1 product, bought by different people. What one converted customer is worth cannot be worked out for any of them: that needs a rate, a plan price and a commission window, and this program does not publish all three.
Not published
Not every figure needed is published.
Everything Udemy publishes about how the commission is earned and paid. A term shown as not researched is one Udemy does not publish, not one that does not apply.
How it pays
Route inAffiliate link/tracking pixel via the Impact.com network — Udemy's own affiliate page states the program is run on Impact
DurationOne-time commission per sale — not a recurring commission
Attribution window7 days — purchases made after the 7-day cookie expires are not credited
Payment delayCommissions are held until the 30-day refund window on the underlying sale has fully cleared — e.g. sales made in a given month are invoiced the following month and paid out the month after that
Payment scheduleMonthly — sales from a given month are invoiced the following month and paid the month after that
Minimum payout$50
Payout formPayPal, direct deposit, or check — set through the affiliate network account, not a Udemy-run payout
ClawbackNo published clawback clause — Udemy's approach instead withholds affiliate commission payout until the underlying sale's 30-day refund window has passed, so a refunded sale is generally excluded before it is ever paid rather than clawed back afterward
Where it paysGlobal
ApprovalApply via Impact.com through Udemy's affiliate page; Udemy manually reviews each applicant and requires a live website, blog, or social page with at least 500 unique monthly visitors (or 500 followers) — it does not accept applicants who only talk about Udemy or who are paid-search/incentive affiliates
Restrictions
·Headline 12% rate conflicts with mechanics' 10-15% flat model
·Cookie window varies 7-30 days by network
·Single product to promote, limited catalog breadth
·Network-dependent enrollment via PartnerStack
Verified
Read from Udemy's own published material on . Figures change without notice — quote this date alongside any figure.
Sources
network ↗
Affiliate program details from official sources.
Researched 24 August 2026.
How this programme compares to its rivals was written on August 26, 2026, from the verified terms above.
Company description corrected on August 26, 2026 — it previously held commission terms.
On September 27, 2026, the payment-delay, clawback, self-referral, customer-requirement, and approval-criteria fields were filled or corrected against Udemy's own partner support help center, and the source field — which had held descriptive prose instead of a link — was replaced with an actual URL throughout.
On September 27, 2026, the customer-incentive field, which had wrongly held a copy of the commission-rate text, was corrected using Udemy's own promotion support article: it now describes the monthly discount coupons Udemy issues to affiliates for buyers.
On the same date, the payout-form field was corrected to include direct deposit and check alongside PayPal, and the qualifying-event field was corrected from a subscription sign-up story to a paid course purchase, both per Udemy's own payment and commission support pages.
On the same date, the route-in, duration, attribution-window, and payment-schedule mechanics rows were re-sourced from a third-party aggregator to Udemy's own affiliate and partner support pages, which state the same facts directly.
Read, and not published
Udemy’s own material was read on these and says nothing. That is the answer: a program that does not state a term is not bound by one.
Self-referral
Must you be a customer
Citing this page
Ancaster, “Udemy affiliate terms”. Verified 24 August 2026. https://ancaster.io/offers/udemy
How this was verified
Verified
Read from Udemy's own published material on . Figures change without notice — quote this date alongside any figure.
Who buys this
Tagged at product level, not brand level. Udemy's products sell to educators & courses.
Who else does this
Other advertisers with a product in the same category as Udemy.
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