WhichLMS

Independent LMS buying guides

Which LMS fits how you actually sell training?

Who pays you, what your content requires, and how separate each client must be: answer those three and the shortlist writes itself. We keep every price and cap in a sourced registry, and we tell you what still needs a demo.

Get your yearly costFind your shortlist

5 platforms tracked · prices and caps from official pages · unknowns marked, never guessed

Best for selling B2B seats

Group selling and invoicing at a published price from the Grow plan, so you can sell seats to companies without an enterprise sales cycle.

From $40/mo

See pricing →

Best for SCORM on a budget

20 SCORM uploads on Pro Trainer at a self-serve price: the only way in this comparison to run SCORM without a quote conversation.

From $24/mo

See pricing →

Best for full ownership

One yearly license, unlimited courses and learners, on a WordPress site you control end to end. You run the ops, you keep the margin.

From $259/yr

See pricing →
Illustration: a trainer studies a large open register while paper learning paths from learners, a company and a home desk lead into it, with one clear path leading out to a lit doorway

The platforms we track, side by side

Every claim on this site comes from a sourced registry of official pricing pages and documentation. Here is where each platform starts, and what it is really built for:

PlatformBuilt forFromTrial
Hosted course platform with real B2B group selling on published plansFrom $40/moFree trial availableSee pricing →
Interactive hosted LMS with client groups and self-serve SCORMFrom $24/moFree trial availableSee pricing →
Simple course and digital product selling, with fees that decide the planFrom $29/mo7-day free trial, 30-day money-back guaranteeSee pricing →
Courses, community, coaching and email in one simple storefrontFrom $42/moFree 30-day trial, no card requiredSee pricing →
The WordPress LMS plugin: low license cost, full control, your opsFrom $259/yrLive demo availableSee pricing →

Start from your situation, not from feature lists

Thinkific published home page with course and community screens

Sell training seats to companies

Groups, invoicing and per-client reporting, separated from marketing promises.

Start here →

LearnWorlds interactive learning page showing a structured course outline

Train your product's customers

Identity mapping, progress exports and onboarding paths that survive a demo.

Start here →

Teachable course setup guide with curriculum preview and enrollments chart

Scale an established course business

Fees, admin seats and product caps priced in before you commit.

Start here →

Podia published pricing page with three plans and a 30-day trial headline

Get a yearly budget number

Learners, admins, sales and fees turned into one comparable total per platform.

Start here →

What you actually get

Real interfaces and real published pages, not mockups. Captions say exactly what you are looking at.

LearnWorlds published home page with course manager screen
LearnWorlds' published home page, with the course manager interface front and center.
LearnWorlds interactive learning feature page
The published interactive learning page: structured outlines mixing video, ebooks and self-assessments.
LearnWorlds published pricing page
The published plan grid (shown here in euros for a European visitor): Starter, Pro Trainer, Learning Center, Corporate.
Podia lesson editor with a video lesson
Podia's published product visual: the lesson editor with video, visibility and preview options.
Podia course sales page builder visual
Podia's published course page visual: storefront and checkout handled by the platform.
Podia published pricing page
The published plan grid: Mover, Shaker and Earthquaker, with the 30-day trial headline.

The distinction most buyers miss: brand versus portal

White label means the platform stops showing its own brand on your school. A client portal means each corporate client gets its own separate space: catalog, users, admins, reporting. Marketing pages blur the two, contracts do not. If you sell to companies, read white label versus client portals before any demo, then test the cost calculator with your own numbers.

How we work

WhichLMS is a documentary comparison site. We read official pricing pages and documentation, keep every fact in a sourced internal registry, and rebuild pages from that registry when something changes. We do not claim tests we have not run: when a capability is not published, we say so and tell you what to verify in a demo. Details on the method page.