Comparisons articles, guides, and product updates from the Mini Course Generator blog.
Teachable’s Starter plan takes 7.5% of every sale on top of card processing, so a $100 course leaves you $89.30. Above $533 a month of sales the $40 upgrade to Builder is cheaper than the fee, and below it the cheapest move is no move at all. These eight platforms are compared on the three things that actually differ: the shape of the fee, who controls your buyers’ refunds, and what you can take with you.
An LMS keeps the record of training people must finish; an LXP helps them find training they choose. Here is the side-by-side table, the question that decides the purchase, and a decision table by situation.
Kajabi’s entry plan is $179 a month, and it takes no percentage of your sales when you use Kajabi Payments; route payments elsewhere and its own pricing table charges 2% on that entry plan. At roughly $1,870 a month in sales, Kajabi Basic and Teachable Starter cost the same. Ten platforms compared on what each takes per sale, the plan caps that force the next tier, and which parts of Kajabi’s bundle you would have to rebuild somewhere else.
Two quotes that both say “active user” can differ by more than ten times. One vendor means people simultaneously logged in, another means anyone who touched tracked content, a third means any account with a working password. This guide compares 13 extended enterprise platforms on what each one counts and what a second audience costs.
IT asks who hosts the LMS, and there are three answers: SaaS, vendor-managed hosting and self-hosted. Each one decides who patches it, whose certificate covers it, what uptime is promised and how you leave. A comparison table and a worked cost-line example in hours show which jobs land on your team.
Absorb LMS publishes no platform price at all. Its master terms auto-renew for twelve months unless you give thirty days’ written notice, seat counts cannot be reduced mid-term, and the only dollar figures Absorb prints anywhere are $275 an hour for customization and $200 an hour for consultation. Here are ten alternatives, including the ones that put a number on their own pricing page.
360Learning publishes $8 per user per month and states in its own pricing FAQ that no minimum number of users is required — then caps that rate at 100 users. Above that line most of this market publishes nothing at all: LearnUpon starts at 100 users, Docebo guides from 250. Twelve alternatives, each with its seat floor, its published price and the shape of its contract.
Most Trainn alternatives replace one of Trainn’s three jobs. Here is which cap you are hitting, what each platform asks you to commit to, and which two to shortlist.
Every MeltingSpot alternatives list mixes two products that do different jobs. Here they are separated, with the price, the contract clause and the delivery path for each of the eleven.