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A SCORM authoring tool has two jobs: build what you need, and produce a package your LMS will accept. Sixteen tools sorted by those two, with prices read from the vendors themselves and the free tiers’ export limits named.
Every platform in this category is hosted now, so “cloud-based” no longer narrows a shortlist. What the word still decides is where your training records sit, what uptime you are promised, whose security certificate is whose, and how you get your content and completion history back out. Sixteen platforms, graded on all four from their own published pages.
Ten branching scenario tools with real prices, plus the three different things vendors mean by AI authoring and which one actually saves you the week.
We checked every education MCP server we could verify. Almost all of them read your LMS and none of the community ones build a course. Here is the full picture.
Six AI roleplay tools we could verify from vendor pages, the four we excluded and why, and the question none of these roundups answer: where does the score go?
Every healthcare LMS roundup lists features. None of them answers the three questions that decide the purchase. We read the accreditation claims, the security pages, and the contracts for all ten.
Every other answer to this question is a range. We opened 20 vendor pricing pages on the same day and wrote down what they actually charge, including the seat floors and the implementation fees nobody quotes.
Canvas discontinued its free tier. Thinkific says outright it has no free plan. We checked every free LMS still standing and wrote down the exact cap on each one.
Every LMS is priced per seat and assumes employees. Nonprofits run a churning volunteer roster. We checked what each vendor actually publishes, and found the one free option most nonprofits already qualify for.