Selling an online course used to mean stitching together a video host, a checkout, an email tool and a membership plugin, then praying they kept talking to each other. LearnWorlds replaces the whole stack with one platform — and the numbers behind it are the reason 13,000+ learning businesses now run on it.

Courses built on LearnWorlds have generated $1 billion+ in customer revenue across 900,000 courses created and 2 million active monthly learners, and the platform holds 4.7 out of 5 from more than 388 reviews on G2. You can start a free 30-day LearnWorlds trial here with full access to the core feature set.

Here is what you actually get, what each plan costs in 2026, and who it fits best.

What LearnWorlds is

LearnWorlds is a complete LMS: you build courses, host them on your own domain, sell them through a built-in commerce engine, and measure outcomes — all inside one dashboard. There is no separate checkout plugin to maintain and no video host to pay for on the side.

• Course builder with AI assistance, assessments, certificates, SCORM uploads, live sessions and 1:1 coaching
• Interactive video with auto-extracted transcripts and in-video questions
• White-label site builder with 50+ industry templates, plus a branded mobile app builder
• Commerce engine for one-off sales, bundles, subscriptions, memberships and payment plans
• Community — discussion forums, private groups and cohort spaces
• Automation engine and advanced analytics, with 50+ native integrations

Interactive video is the LearnWorlds signature feature

Most platforms treat video as a file to stream. LearnWorlds treats it as a lesson you can interact with, and the company reports up to 3x higher course engagement as a result.

• Auto-extracted transcripts — the platform pulls the text out of your video so learners can search and read along, and so you can repurpose it.
• In-video questions and quizzes that pause the lesson and check understanding at the exact moment it matters.
• Clickable overlays, links and navigation that turn a passive watch into a branching lesson.
• Trackable interaction data, so you can see where attention drops instead of guessing.

For anyone whose course is mostly video — which is most course creators — this single feature is the strongest argument for LearnWorlds over a generic host. See the interactive video editor in the free trial before you commit to any platform.

AI that does the heavy lifting

The AI in LearnWorlds is not a novelty chatbot bolted onto a menu. It sits across the whole workflow, from raw source material to finished marketing assets, and the platform ships with 200+ prompts built for course creation.

• Start with what you already know — upload or reference existing .docx, .pdf, .ppt, .xls, images or plain text.
• Generate learning and marketing assets — AI turns that material into a course, ebook, assessment, landing page, email or visual.
• Review and refine in context — update sections, adapt tone, translate materials and improve any part while the structure stays connected.

AI credits are included in every tier: 300 a month on Starter, 500 on Pro Trainer, 1,000 on Learning Center and a custom allowance on Corporate.

Your brand, your website, your app

This is where LearnWorlds separates a course hobby from a course business. You are not renting a page on someone else’s marketplace — the school is yours.

• Site builder with 50+ industry templates — landing pages, sales pages and the school itself, on your own domain.
• Full white-label from the Learning Center plan up: your brand, no LearnWorlds logos anywhere.
• Mobile app builder — publish a branded app so learners study from their phone.
• Custom user roles and permissions, plus up to 25 admin seats on Learning Center and client groups for multi-team training.

A commerce engine built into the LMS

Selling is native rather than bolted on. Connect your own Stripe or PayPal from the entry plan and keep the customer relationship yourself.

• One-off course sales, bundles, subscriptions and memberships
• Payment plans with instalments — and coupons can now be applied to them
• Affiliate programme so other people can sell your courses for you
• Coupons, funnels and marketing pages built in
• 50+ native integrations including HubSpot, Stripe, Shopify and Mailchimp

Automation and analytics that show the money

Two 2026 updates made the business side markedly stronger. The automation engine gained 20+ new conditions — you can now trigger actions on learner activity, course progress, roles, NPS score or subscription status — plus execution logs so you can see exactly what fired and when.

The bigger addition is Sales Analytics, which brings gross and net revenue, refunds, commissions, MRR, churn, retention and trial conversion into the platform itself. Course businesses used to export to a spreadsheet to see those numbers; now they sit next to the course data that produced them.

LearnWorlds pricing in 2026

Pricing is published in full, with a 30-day free trial that includes the core features and functionality — no card gymnastics needed to evaluate it.

Starter — $24/month billed annually ($29 monthly)

• 1,000 active learners per month · 1 admin · 300 AI credits per month
• $5 per paid enrolment
• Build and host courses on your own domain
• AI course builder and quizzes
• Sell with your own Stripe or PayPal
• Live 1:1 and group sessions · 24/5 email support

Pro Trainer — $79/month billed annually ($99 monthly, saves $240/year)

• 2,000 active learners per month · 5 admins · 500 AI credits per month
• No enrolment fees at all
• Subscriptions, memberships and payment plans
• Unlimited courses and learning paths
• Course certificates and up to 20 SCORM uploads
• 50+ built-in integrations

Learning Center — $249/month billed annually ($299 monthly, saves $600/year)

• 2,000 active learners per month · 25 admins · 1,000 AI credits per month
• Full white-label — your brand, no LearnWorlds logos
• Run training for up to 10 client groups
• Automate repetitive tasks with triggers, conditions and delays
• Course reports you can schedule and send

Corporate — custom pricing

• Custom learners, admins, client groups and AI credits
• 99.95% uptime on premium servers
• Daily backups plus optional SLA and data processing agreements
• Higher limits on auto-transcription and video/audio responses
• Flexible invoicing

The jump from Starter to Pro Trainer is the one most creators make quickly, because the $5 per-enrolment fee disappears — at roughly 11 paid enrolments a month the higher plan already pays for itself. Compare the current LearnWorlds plans here against your own enrolment numbers.

Who LearnWorlds is built for

Solo course creators launching a first paid course

Starter at $24 a month gets you a course on your own domain with AI help, quizzes and your own Stripe account. That is a real business from day one, not a locked-down marketplace listing.

Coaches and trainers running live work

Live 1:1 and group sessions are included from the entry plan, so coaching and cohort programmes sit alongside self-paced content instead of in a separate calendar tool.

Training academies and course businesses

Pro Trainer removes enrolment fees and unlocks unlimited courses, subscriptions and learning paths — the tier where LearnWorlds stops being a course host and starts being the engine of the business.

Agencies and multi-client training operations

Learning Center runs training for up to 10 client groups under full white-label, with 25 admin seats, automations and scheduled reports. Corporate extends that to multi-school operations with an SLA behind it.

Enterprises and NGOs training internally

SCORM support, custom roles, advanced analytics, ROI reporting and 99.95% uptime on premium servers cover the compliance-and-procurement checklist that internal L&D teams have to satisfy.

Getting started with LearnWorlds

• Start the 30-day free trial — full core features, no commitment.
• Pick a template from the 50+ industry designs and point it at your domain.
• Bring your material in — upload existing documents and slides and let the AI turn them into a first course draft.
• Add interactivity — transcripts, in-video questions and an assessment at the end.
• Connect Stripe or PayPal, set your price, and open enrolments.

Verdict: is LearnWorlds worth it?

Yes, and the case is unusually clear. LearnWorlds gives you the three things a course business actually needs in one subscription: a genuinely superior course experience (interactive video with 3x engagement), a real storefront you own (white-label site, branded app, native commerce), and the business layer that tells you whether it is working (Sales Analytics with MRR, churn and retention, plus a 20+ condition automation engine).

Add AI that starts from your existing material, 50+ integrations, 13,000+ learning businesses already on the platform and a 4.7/5 G2 rating, and the entry price of $24 a month looks modest for what it replaces. Start your free 30-day LearnWorlds trial and build the first course this week.

Rating: 4.5/5

Weighing a marketplace against your own school? Our Udemy review looks at the trade-offs of listing on someone else’s platform instead.

LearnWorlds FAQ

Is there a free trial?

Yes — 30 days with access to all the core features and functionality, so you can build and test a real course before paying anything.

Does LearnWorlds take a cut of my sales?

Only on the Starter plan, which charges $5 per paid enrolment. Pro Trainer, Learning Center and Corporate have no enrolment fees at all; you pay only the usual payment-gateway charge from Stripe or PayPal.

Can I use my own domain and branding?

Yes. Hosting courses on your own domain is included from Starter, and full white-label with no platform logos comes with Learning Center and above.

Does it support SCORM and certificates?

Both. Course certificates and up to 20 SCORM uploads are included from the Pro Trainer plan, which is what most corporate and compliance training needs.

Can I build a mobile app for my school?

Yes — the mobile app builder lets you publish a branded app so learners can take courses from their phone under your own name.

What integrations are available?

More than 50 native integrations, including HubSpot, Stripe, Shopify and Mailchimp, so the platform slots into a marketing stack you already run.