LearnWorlds

LearnWorlds suits sellers and trainers whose lessons need to do more than play a video. Interactive video puts questions, buttons and pop-ups inside the lesson, exams carry passing grades and attempt limits, and Pro Trainer accepts up to 20 SCORM or HTML5 packages. The same school can sell to the public or train staff and customers with no checkout at all, and Learning Center runs training for up to 10 client groups under full white-label branding, which fits a consultant or training company selling to businesses.

Some of that depth relies on workarounds. Cohorts aren't a course type: LearnWorlds' own guide builds one from dated sections, an enrollment deadline and a switch to Private. Due dates are soft, so a late learner shows as overdue but keeps access unless an expiry is also set. Starter is thin, with no certificates, SCORM, subscriptions, payment plans, landing pages or affiliates. And the pricing page caps monthly active learners at 1,000 on Starter and 2,000 on the next two plans without saying what happens above that, while LearnWorlds' cost guide calls learners unlimited.

Starter costs $29 a month, or $24 a month billed yearly, plus $5 for every paid enrollment. The fee adds up: $2,000 of monthly sales from a $100 course is 20 enrollments and $100 in fees, so Starter costs $129 that month against Pro Trainer's flat $99. The two plans cost the same at 14 paid enrollments a month on monthly billing, or 11 on yearly billing. Pro Trainer, at $99 a month or $79 billed yearly, is the plan most sellers need, with no enrollment fee, 5 admins, 500 AI credits a month, certificates and subscriptions. Learning Center costs $299 a month, or $249 billed yearly. Stripe and PayPal fees, currently 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction, apply on every plan, and the branded app adds $149 a month.

Choose LearnWorlds for interactive or SCORM-based courses, or to train several client companies from one school. A business training only its own staff may do better with TalentLMS, whose free plan covers 5 users and which accepts SCORM, xAPI and cmi5 packages on every plan. Sellers who'd rather not deal with sales tax should look at Teachable, which collects and remits sales tax, VAT and GST in more than 45 countries.