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Alternatives to Thought Industries
21 lms tools sit alongside Thought Industries in this directory. Below is what separates each from Thought Industries on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 21
- With a free tier
- 6
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Thought Industries starts at
- On request
Why people look past Thought Industries
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Thought Industries entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Thought Industries carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 6 of the 21 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
Thought Industries publishes a single plan, Thought Industries at On request. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Create and sell online courses your way
- Publishes an entry price of $36/month, where Thought Industries does not.
- 3 tiers to Thought Industries's 1.
Create and sell courses online
- Publishes an entry price of $29/month, where Thought Industries does not.
- 4 tiers to Thought Industries's 1.
AI-powered learning platform
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Thought Industries's 1.
Asynchronous training video with AI avatars, quizzes and a searchable knowledge library
- Can be used without paying; Thought Industries cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $24/month, where Thought Industries does not.
- Sold on a Per creator per month model rather than quote.
- 2 tiers to Thought Industries's 1.
Open source French-language learning platform, now developed as Claroline Connect
- Can be used without paying; Thought Industries cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of Free, where Thought Industries does not.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
- 2 tiers to Thought Industries's 1.
Open source learning management system with no licence fee and a Latin American and francophone user base
- Can be used without paying; Thought Industries cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
- 2 tiers to Thought Industries's 1.
Every Thought Industries alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thought Industries (this page) | On request | Quote | 1 | |
| ThinkificCheaper to start and adequate until course revenue makes a flat platform fee the better arithmetic. | $36/month | - | 3 | vs Thought Industries |
| TeachableFor individual creators and small teams selling courses, where enterprise tenancy and licence management are not needed. | $29/month | - | 4 | vs Thought Industries |
| DoceboWhere internal employee learning and external customer training must sit in one platform run by one team. | On request | Subscription | 3 | vs Thought Industries |
| Weet | Free, then $24/month | Per creator per month | 2 | vs Thought Industries |
| Claroline | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Thought Industries |
| Chamilo | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Thought Industries |
| Sakai | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Thought Industries |
| Moodle | Free, then $200/year | - | 2 | vs Thought Industries |
| Nearpod | Free, then $159/year | - | 3 | vs Thought Industries |
| Degreed | On request | Quote | 2 | vs Thought Industries |
| Skilljar | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Thought Industries |
| Sana | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Thought Industries |
| Echo360 | On request | Quote | 4 | vs Thought Industries |
| Schoox | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Thought Industries |
| Tovuti LMS | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Thought Industries |
| Whatfix | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Thought Industries |
| Totara | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Thought Industries |
| LearnDash | $199/year | Per site per year | 3 | vs Thought Industries |
| CYPHER Learning | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Thought Industries |
| LearnUpon | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Thought Industries |
| LinkedIn Learning | On request | Subscription | 3 | vs Thought Industries |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Thought Industries badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Thought Industries is most often brought in for a software company whose customer certification programme has grown past what a creator platform can administer, professional bodies selling continuing education with certification renewal cycles, manufacturers training distributor and dealer networks who each need their own branded environment, any training business where a percentage of revenue model has become more expensive than a flat platform fee. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Thought Industries is broadly right and the question is cost, the Thought Industries pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the LMS category lists everything the directory holds, and best lms tools ranks them.
Thought Industries runs on web, ios, android. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Thought Industries alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Thought Industries?
- 21 other lms tools are listed in this directory, led by Thinkific, Teachable, Docebo, Weet. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Thought Industries?
- 6 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Weet, Claroline, Chamilo, Sakai, Moodle.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Thought Industries?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: there is no free tier; there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Thought Industries?
- Thought Industries is most often brought in for a software company whose customer certification programme has grown past what a creator platform can administer, professional bodies selling continuing education with certification renewal cycles, manufacturers training distributor and dealer networks who each need their own branded environment, any training business where a percentage of revenue model has become more expensive than a flat platform fee. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Thought Industries?
- None of the lms tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Thought Industries alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, LMS, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Thought Industries against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Thought Industries covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every lms tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the LMS category, 21 tools beside Thought Industries. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.