LearnWorlds pricing covers 4 plans, $29, $99 and $299 a month for Starter, Pro Trainer and Learning Center, with Corporate quoted on request. Annual billing drops those 3 to $24, $79 and $249. Only Starter adds a per-sale charge, a flat $5 on every paid enrollment.
Course platform pricing pages are built to make the cheapest plan look like the obvious starting point, and LearnWorlds is good at it. The $29 tier sits right there, it hosts unlimited paid courses, and the $5 enrollment fee runs underneath the price in smaller grey type. That $5 turns out to be the biggest variable in what you actually pay, and it moves in an awkward direction: the better your course sells, the worse that plan gets for you.
I read all 4 plans live at the source, expanded every collapsed row of the comparison table, and did the arithmetic. You will get the real prices on both billing options, the 2 points where the cheap plan turns expensive, and the one limit that decides more than the price does.
Key Takeaways
- LearnWorlds has 4 tiers. Starter, Pro Trainer, Learning Center and a custom-quoted Corporate plan. Only the first 3 have published prices.
- Only Starter charges per sale. $5 lands on every paid enrollment. Pro Trainer, Learning Center and Corporate take nothing.
- Starter and Pro Trainer cost exactly the same at 11 paid enrollments a month on annual billing, or 14 on monthly billing. Sell more than that and Starter is the pricier plan.
- Pro Trainer and Learning Center have the same learner ceiling. Both stop at 2,000 monthly active learners, so the extra $200 a month adds features and seats while the audience limit stays put.
- LearnWorlds’ own FAQ says there are no extra fees. Its answer to “Are there any extra fees?” names the payment processor and never mentions the $5 it charges Starter users.
LearnWorlds pricing in full: 4 plans on 2 billing options
Starter costs $29 a month plus $5 on every paid enrollment, Pro Trainer costs $99 with no per-sale charge, Learning Center costs $299, and paying for the year drops those 3 to $24, $79 and $249 a month.
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | Per sale | Active learners | Team seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $29 | $24 ($288/yr) | $5 per paid enrollment | 1,000 a month | 1 admin |
| Pro Trainer | $99 | $79 ($948/yr) | None | 2,000 a month | 5 admins |
| Learning Center | $299 | $249 ($2,988/yr) | None | 2,000 a month | 25 collaborators |
| Corporate | Custom | Custom | None | Custom | Custom |
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Yearly prices are quoted per month and billed 12 months at a time. LearnWorlds prints the saving next to each one, $240 a year on Pro Trainer and $600 on Learning Center, and both check out against 12 times the monthly rate.
The billing toggle promises “Save 20%”, and that is only true on 1 plan. Pro Trainer saves 20.2%. Starter saves 17.2% and Learning Center 16.7%, because their annual and monthly prices were not set to the same ratio.
There is no free plan. There is a 30-day trial with access to the core features, and prices exclude VAT, which gets added for EU customers who cannot supply a valid VAT number.
A quirk worth knowing before you compare LearnWorlds against anything else: its pricing page shows the yearly rate by default, and its Google result reads “Pricing: Starter $24/m | Pro $79/m | Learning Center $249/m” with no mention that those are annual rates. Flick the toggle to monthly and every number jumps.
The $5 enrollment fee, and the 2 points where Starter loses its advantage
Starter and Pro Trainer cost exactly the same at 11 paid enrollments a month on annual billing, or 14 a month on monthly billing. From the next sale on, Starter is the more expensive plan, and it keeps climbing.
Here is the arithmetic, because it is worth seeing rather than taking on trust. Annual billing puts Starter at $288 a year and Pro Trainer at $948, a gap of $660. Divide that by $5 and you get 132 paid enrollments a year, which is 11 a month.
On monthly billing the gap is $70 a month, so it takes 14.
Every figure below is what you pay for that month, on the billing option in the column heading. Starter and Pro Trainer land on the same number at 11 sales on annual billing and 14 on monthly, then Starter climbs and Pro Trainer stays flat.
| Paid sales a month | Starter, paid monthly | Pro Trainer, paid monthly | Starter, on annual billing | Pro Trainer, on annual billing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | $54 | $99 | $49 | $79 |
| 11 | $84 | $99 | $79 | $79 |
| 14 | $99 | $99 | $94 | $79 |
| 25 | $154 | $99 | $149 | $79 |
| 50 | $279 | $99 | $274 | $79 |
Notice what the fee does at the bottom of that table. At 50 sales a month you are handing LearnWorlds $250 in enrollment fees on top of the plan, to use the version of the product with the fewest features.
The fee is also blind to your price. $5 on a $497 course is 1%. $5 on a $19 workbook is 26%.
Sell anything cheap and Starter is the wrong plan on day 1, whatever your volume works out to. The same goes for a tripwire, or a low-priced entry offer in front of the real thing.
I have fallen for the small-number blind spot myself, on gelato. A few years back we took the kids out for my daughter’s birthday, and there was a gelato place next to the restaurant. Large was about a dollar more than Regular for a much bigger scoop, so all of us got Large.
We were already full. I could not finish mine. I build checkout software and think about this tactic all day, and a $1 gap still walked me straight up a tier.
That is the whole mechanism here, running the other way. $5 does not feel like a decision when a sale comes in. It only becomes one when you multiply it, and by then you have been paying it for months.
One more thing worth saying plainly. LearnWorlds’ pricing FAQ has an entry called “Are there any extra fees?” and the answer reads: “There are no hidden or extra fees. The pricing you see is what you pay, allowing you to plan your budget effectively.”
The only extra charge it goes on to name is the payment processor’s, quoting Stripe and PayPal at 2.9% plus $0.30. The $5 LearnWorlds charges on every Starter enrollment appears nowhere in that answer. It is printed on the plan card, so a buyer can find it. They will just not find it in the place they went looking.
LearnWorlds’ own pricing cards, switched to monthly billing. Read the small line under each price: Starter carries $5 per paid enrollment, the other 2 say no enrollment fees.
Both mid plans stop at 2,000 monthly active learners
Starter caps out at 1,000 monthly active learners while Pro Trainer and Learning Center both stop at 2,000, so paying triple gets you more features and more seats, and the same 2,000-learner ceiling.
| Plan | Monthly active learners |
|---|---|
| Starter | 1,000 |
| Pro Trainer | 2,000 |
| Learning Center | 2,000 |
| Corporate | Custom |
LearnWorlds defines the metric in its comparison table as “learner users who access the school during the month”, which means the meter runs on logins in that month. A buyer who never returns drops out of the count.
Run a course with a lively community, or a membership, or anything where people come back weekly, and active learners is the number you will hit before any other limit. Once you hit it on Learning Center there is no self-serve plan left to buy, so you are into a sales conversation for a custom quote.
The 4 third-party guides on page 1 of Google for this keyword are Ruzuku, Software Finder, Mihael Cacic and Learning Revolution. 3 of them never mention the cap. The fourth, Ruzuku, reaches the 2,000 figure only by quoting a Trustpilot reviewer complaining about it, and never breaks out that Starter’s ceiling is half that.
The people who actually run these schools do think about it. In an r/elearning thread on choosing an LMS, someone who had run LearnWorlds across several clients for 3 years sized the plans purely on this metric: “For 250 users, you could probably get by on the mid tier which is only around $1000 per year for up to 2500 monthly active users. If you really need all the reporting or you have lots of SCORM packages, the Pro Tier gives you 5000 monthly active users for $3k / yr.”
Read the dollar figures and the caps separately there. His prices line up almost exactly with what LearnWorlds charges today, $948 and $2,988 a year. His caps do not. He described 2,500 and 5,000 where the live comparison table now says 2,000 and 2,000.
I cannot verify what the limits were when he wrote that, so treat it as his own account rather than a price history. What is checkable is today’s number, and today both tiers stop at the same 2,000 monthly active learners.
What the Starter plan cannot do
Starter blocks free courses, private courses, landing pages, bundles, payment plans, subscriptions with trials, affiliate marketing, SCORM uploads and Zoom, and caps your whole website at 3 pages.
| Capability | Starter | Pro Trainer and above |
|---|---|---|
| Free courses | Not available | Unlimited |
| Landing pages | Not available | Included |
| Bundles and learning paths | Not available | Unlimited |
| Payment plans and trials | Not available | Included |
| Affiliate program | Not available | Basic, then Advanced |
| Website pages | 3 pages | Unlimited |
Read that first row twice. A course business without a free course has no lead magnet, no mini-course funnel and no way to let anyone sample the teaching before paying. That is the standard playbook for selling a course, and the entry plan cannot run it.
The 3-page cap causes the same problem in a different place. You get a home page, a course catalogue page and an after-login page, which LearnWorlds calls “3 customizable pages” in its own table. There is no room for a sales page for a specific offer, an about page, or a free resource page.
Starter also gives you 1 admin seat and no instructor role at all, so it is a genuinely solo plan. Bring in a VA or a co-teacher and you are on Pro Trainer.
The 11-enrollment crossover shown here is on annual billing. On monthly billing it is 14.
What the extra $200 a month buys on Learning Center
Learning Center adds full white-label branding, 25 collaborator seats instead of 5, unlimited SCORM packages instead of 20, and double the AI credits, for $200 a month more than Pro Trainer.
White-label is the one people upgrade for. Pro Trainer still shows LearnWorlds branding on your school and there is no way to remove it on that tier. If you sell training to corporate clients who expect your logo and nobody else’s, that alone decides the plan.
The rest is scale for teams: scheduled course reports, running training for up to 10 client groups, 1,000 AI credits a month instead of 500, and 2 hours of setup with a specialist. Useful for a training company. Close to irrelevant for a solo course seller.
At $2,988 a year, Learning Center has stopped competing with the plans below it. The comparison a buyer is really making at that price is against hiring a part-time person.
How LearnWorlds pricing compares to Kajabi and Teachable
LearnWorlds is the only one of these 3 course platforms that charges a flat amount per sale instead of a percentage, and that changes which sellers it hurts.
On the same basis, a full year billed annually, LearnWorlds Starter costs $288, Teachable Starter $348, Kajabi Basic $1,716 and CartMango $10.
| Platform | Cost for a year, billed annually | Per-sale cut its pricing page states | Hosts the course |
|---|---|---|---|
| LearnWorlds Starter | $288 | $5 on every paid enrollment | Yes |
| Teachable Starter | $348 | 7.5% transaction fee | Yes |
| Kajabi Basic | $1,716 | 0% on Kajabi Payments, 2% on your own Stripe | Yes |
| CartMango | $10, and free until October 2026 | None on any tier | Not yet, planned for October 2026 |
3 notes before anyone uses that as a shortlist. Kajabi keeps a cheaper plan off its public pricing page, so $1,716 is the least it shows rather than the least it sells, and our Kajabi pricing breakdown covers the tier it hides. CartMango has no monthly option, which is why its row is a yearly figure. And I run CartMango, which is a checkout rather than a course host today, so the last column reads the way it does.
A percentage grows with your price and a flat fee does not, so the 2 swap places at a product price of about $67. Below that, Teachable’s 7.5% takes less per sale: on a $19 workbook Teachable takes $1.43 where LearnWorlds takes $5.
Above it, the flat fee wins. On a $497 course Teachable takes $37.28 and LearnWorlds still takes $5. Kajabi takes nothing per sale on its own payment processing, 2% if you bring your own Stripe, and charges roughly 6 times as much for the plan itself.
Worth reading next if you are shortlisting: what Teachable actually costs, Podia’s current plans, and Kajabi against Thinkific if those 2 are your finalists.
Is LearnWorlds worth the money?
LearnWorlds is worth it when you sell a small number of higher-priced courses to a group under 2,000 people a month, and it is a poor fit when your catalogue is cheap, high-volume, or growing past that ceiling.
The product itself is strong. Unlimited video hosting is included on every plan, which is unusual at this price, and the interactive video and assessment engine are genuinely good. SCORM support arrives on Pro Trainer. More than 13,000 learning businesses use it, by LearnWorlds’ own count.
The pricing is where it gets awkward, and it is awkward in a specific place. Starter is priced like an entry plan and gated like a demo, and it charges you more the better you do. Pro Trainer is the plan most solo course sellers actually need, which makes $948 a year the honest entry price rather than $288.
Before you sign up, it is worth knowing what a course costs to produce in the first place and how course sellers price and launch, because the platform is rarely the biggest line.
FAQ
How much does LearnWorlds cost?
LearnWorlds costs $29, $99 or $299 a month for Starter, Pro Trainer and Learning Center, dropping to $24, $79 and $249 a month if you pay for the year. Corporate is quoted individually. Starter adds $5 to every paid enrollment. There is no free plan, only a 30-day trial.
Does LearnWorlds take a percentage of my sales?
No. LearnWorlds charges no percentage on any plan. The only per-sale charge anywhere in its pricing is the flat $5 per paid enrollment on Starter. You still pay your payment processor separately, which LearnWorlds itself quotes at 2.9% plus $0.30.
What counts as an active learner?
LearnWorlds counts a learner user who accesses your school during the month. Someone who bought 2 years ago and never logs in does not count. Someone who logs in twice in the same month counts once. The caps are 1,000 a month on Starter and 2,000 on both Pro Trainer and Learning Center.
How many schools can you have in LearnWorlds?
As many as you are willing to pay for. LearnWorlds’ help centre states that “each school needs its own subscription”, and gives the example of owning 2 Learning Center schools, 1 Pro Trainer and 2 Starter schools at the same time. The only cap is on unpaid schools: you can hold up to 3 trial schools at once.
Is there a free LearnWorlds plan, or a free course builder that is any good?
No, and the same is true of the platforms it competes with. LearnWorlds runs a 30-day trial. Thinkific answers the question on its own pricing page with “No, instead, you can explore the whole platform with a 30-day free trial”, and Teachable says it “is a paid service that includes a 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee”. Free trials are the norm in this category, free plans are not.
Can I cancel or downgrade at any time?
You can change plans or cancel before your subscription renews, so the change takes effect at the next billing term rather than immediately. Paying annually means committing for the year, which is worth weighing against a saving that runs between 16.7% and 20.2% depending on the plan.
If hosting the course is not the part you need
Everything above is the price of a bundle: the course host, the website, the community and the checkout, sold together. That bundle is worth paying for when you need all of it. Plenty of sellers do not. If you already teach inside Circle or Notion or a private podcast feed, and the only piece you are actually renting is the thing that takes the payment, LearnWorlds pricing starts at $948 a year for a checkout button you could get for far less.
CartMango is that piece on its own. CartMango is free while the beta runs and $10 a year after that, with no platform commission and no per-sale fee on any tier. Payments land straight in your own Stripe or PayPal account.
CartMango does not host courses yet, and course hosting and community are planned for October 2026, so today it is the checkout half rather than the whole bundle. That is the point if the rest is already sorted.
About the Author
👋 I’m Welly, founder of CartMango (the site you’re on), a checkout platform for digital product sellers. We’ve previously processed $179M+. I also run BirdSend (email marketing tool, 3.1B+ emails sent). On the side I show other non-techie digital sellers how I use AI workflows to automate 50%+ of my operations. Find me on LinkedIn.
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