Online course platforms 21 tools listed

Platforms to build, host and sell online courses. We list 21 online course platforms; 5 of them have a free plan.

Entry prices for paid plans run from $5 a month (sensei) to $599 (Disciple), across 19 tools that publish prices. Units differ (per user, per account, flat), so compare the plan tables.

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Tools listed: 21
With a free plan: 5
Ranked: 19

Data checked Oct 14, 2026 against the vendors' own pages. How we verify

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Top ranked

From the online course platforms scorecard: sensei (100/100), Tutor LMS (99/100) and GetResponse (89/100).

Rank 1
sensei
100/100
Based on 5 of 7 criteria
Rank 2
Tutor LMS
99/100
Based on 6 of 7 criteria
Rank 3
GetResponse
89/100
Based on 6 of 7 criteria

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A to Z, with entry prices and free plans as each vendor publishes them.

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All online course platforms
Tool	From, billed monthly	From, billed yearly	Free plan	Integrations	Public API
Circle	Not offered	$89/mo	No	–	Yes
classroomio	$35/mo	Not offered	Yes, 20 members	–	Yes
ClickFunnels	$97/mo	$81/mo	No	–	Yes
Disciple	Not offered	$599/mo	No	100	Yes
Disco	Not offered	$399/mo	No	–	Yes
EaseLMS	$99/mo	Not offered	No	–	Yes
GetResponse	$19/mo	$15.58/mo	No	170	Yes
Heartbeat	$49/mo	$40/mo	No	–	Yes
Heights Platform	$29/mo	$19/mo	No	–	Yes
Kartra	$59/mo	$52/mo	No	–	Yes
learnhouse	Contact sales	Contact sales	No	80	Yes
LearnWorlds	$29/mo	$24/mo	No	50	Yes
LifterLMS	Not offered	$16.58/mo	Yes, unlimited members	–	Yes
Marketsy.ai	Not offered	Not offered	No	–	Yes
MemberPress	Not offered	$16.63/mo	No	–	Yes
Mighty Networks	$79/mo	Not offered	No	2,000	Yes
paidtier	$49/mo	Not offered	Yes, 10 transaction fee percent	–	–
SamCart	$79/mo	Not offered	No	–	Yes
sensei	Not offered	$5/mo	Yes	–	–
Teachable	$39/mo	$29/mo	No	–	Yes
Tutor LMS	Not offered	$16.58/mo	Yes, unlimited members	–	–

– = not published by the vendor, or not verified yet.

How we rank

Every one of these online course platforms is scored on the same 7 weighted criteria (scorecard v1), from the vendor's published data. 19 of the 21 listed have enough verified data to be ranked; a tool with under 60% of the weight covered is listed but not ranked. Nobody gets custom weights, including our own products.

Every criterion and score Methodology

Heaviest criteria

Entry price · Core25%
Price per month of the cheapest paid plan, against the prices of other online course platforms on the same billing basis (monthly-billed prices against monthly, annual-billed against annual).
Free plan or trial · Core15%
Whether you can use the tool before paying: a free plan, or failing that a free trial, as shown on the vendor's pricing page.
Verified features · Core15%
How many of the 4 features we track for this category the vendor's own pages verifiably show (analytics, team access, templates, ai assistant). This counts verified features only: a tool that documents less scores lower here, and only here.
Fee on sales · Category15%
The percentage of each sale the platform keeps, as the vendor states it (the cheapest paid plan that states a fee).
Pricing transparency · Core10%
How much of the pricing is public: the share of plans with a published price ("contact sales" counts against), and whether there are at least 3 published tiers.