LearnWorlds pricing and fees: count enrollments, not revenue.

Plan comparison

Starter, Pro Trainer, and Learning Center

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CourseProfit Lab's calculator ranks Starter and Pro Trainer. Learning Center is shown here for context because its value depends primarily on features and scale, not a lower transaction fee.

Budget the commitment, not just the headline

An annual equivalent is not a cancel-any-month price.

The annual rates above are billed annually. Multiplying them by twelve gives a subscription commitment of $288 for Starter, $948 for Pro Trainer and $2,988 for Learning Center, before taxes or other charges. Starter's enrollment fees and your payment processor's fees remain additional. Check the billing and cancellation terms before committing; these calculations do not promise a prorated refund.

For a three-month project, Pro Trainer's regular monthly subscription is $99 × 3 = $297, compared with the $948 annual commitment. If you use it for a full year, twelve regular monthly payments are $1,188: $240 more than annual billing. Those are subscription-only comparisons, not an estimate of your total business cost or a recommendation to buy.

A temporary introductory monthly offer can change the first comparison. Confirm whether you qualify, how many billing periods receive the discount and what renewals cost. Our table and calculator use regular prices, not an assumed promotion. Compare the confirmed charges over your intended duration rather than comparing an introductory month with an annual-plan equivalent.

The 11-enrollment tie below uses annual equivalents over the same modeled month. It does not mean Starter and Pro Trainer require the same annual payment, or that paying annually is cheaper for every short project. The calculator averages the annual subscription across twelve months; it is not a cash-flow schedule.

With regular monthly billing instead, the gap is $99 − $29 = $70. Dividing by the $5 enrollment fee gives a tie at 14 paid enrollments: Starter costs $29 + $70 = $99. At 15 enrollments it costs $104, so Pro Trainer is $5 cheaper. Use the same billing basis on both sides; payment processing, taxes, add-ons and introductory offers are excluded.

Capacity limits

Active learners and admin seats can force a different plan

The current pricing page defines an active learner as a learner who accesses the school during the month. Starter includes 1,000 monthly active learners and one admin; Pro Trainer includes 2,000 and five; Learning Center includes 2,000 and 25. Corporate pricing is custom when higher limits or multi-school operations are required.

These are operational limits, not sales-volume estimates. An academy with many registered users but fewer monthly visitors can behave very differently from one with the same total enrollment and high activity.

Examples

The course price does not change this break-even

Starter uses a fixed enrollment charge rather than a percentage, so a $25 sale and a $500 sale add the same $5 LearnWorlds fee.

Refund cost boundary

The enrollment tie is a no-refund comparison

The examples above count original paid enrollments and exclude refunds. We have not verified whether LearnWorlds returns Starter's $5 charge after a refund. A recorded refund does not establish fee return or money transfer. Check the refund record, processor result and learner access separately.

The profit calculator keeps original fees payable by default. Change a fee-return assumption only for confirmed terms; no returned enrollment fee is promised here. The full pricing-audit date remains September 2.

Feature threshold

Pro Trainer can make sense before the twelfth sale

LearnWorlds positions Pro Trainer as the more complete course-business plan, with capabilities such as subscriptions and memberships, certificates, learning paths, and advanced course tools. Starter currently cannot offer free courses.

If a free lead course, subscription, certificate, or richer learning path is part of the launch, those requirements may settle the decision before fee math does.

Do not silently resolve the subscription-program conflict

If a cohort needs attendance evidence, a live-account allowance alone is not enough. Check join-route, duration and replay-completion limits before paying for an automation workflow.

The official pricing-options article limits subscription-based learning programs to Learning Center or higher. The newer subscription guide requires Pro Trainer or higher and describes creating a learning program for recurring access. These are conflicting descriptions, not proof that your intended program works on either tier. Confirm the actual school version, program type and plan entitlement before buying an annual subscription. A fee-only result cannot settle it.

Stripe is required for native recurring sales. A subscription uses a payment section or the default payment page, not the multi-product shopping cart. Also test cancellation: the subscription guide says deleting a product or suspending a learner does not automatically stop recurring charges. Manual enrollment is not proof of a paid Stripe subscription. See the recurring checkout qualifications.

Learning Center should be justified by operations rather than the enrollment fee: Pro Trainer already removes that charge. Full white-label delivery, more admins, client groups, automations, scheduled reports, API access, or single sign-on are the kinds of requirements that can support the jump to $249 on annual billing.

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