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Blackboard pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for Blackboard. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the education tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, Blackboard pricing is $10/year. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- $10/year
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Not on record
What is on record
The Blackboard catalogue entry carries a starting price of $10/year, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the Blackboard review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full Blackboard feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Course management
- Assessment tools
- Discussion boards
- Virtual classroom
- Gradebook
- Mobile app
- Analytics
- Accessibility
Integrations
- SIS systems
- Turnitin
- Zoom
- Microsoft 365
- Google Workspace
- LTI tools
Platform
- Web support
- IOS support
- Android support
- API support
People bring Blackboard in for course delivery, student engagement, assessment, virtual learning. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Blackboard are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Education
Too few education tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackboard (this page) | $10/year | - | - | |
| Anki | Free | Open source, no licence fee except a paid iOS app | - | vs Blackboard |
| Busuu | Free | Free with a Premium subscription | - | vs Blackboard |
| PictureThis | On request | Per year, sold via a short free trial that auto-renews | - | vs Blackboard |
| Stellarium | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Blackboard |
| Lumosity | Free | Free with a subscription | - | vs Blackboard |
| Star Walk 2 | Free | Freemium, low-cost ad-free subscription upgrade | - | vs Blackboard |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Blackboard badges page.
Before you pay for Blackboard
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: not published on the record we hold. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Blackboard against the tools that do have one before committing.
Blackboard runs on web, and is published by Anthology Inc of Boca Raton, Florida. The full record is on the Blackboard review, and the rest of the category is under best education tools.
Blackboard pricing questions
- How much does Blackboard cost?
- Blackboard starts at $10/year. No tier-by-tier breakdown is published on the record we hold.
- Does Blackboard have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- Which education tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 education tools listed alongside Blackboard have a free tier: Anki, Busuu, Stellarium, Lumosity, Star Walk 2.
- What am I actually paying for with Blackboard?
- The record lists 18 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for course delivery, student engagement, assessment.
- Does Blackboard charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Blackboard prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Blackboard against before paying?
- The closest education tools in this directory are Anki, Busuu, PictureThis, Stellarium. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Blackboard covering price, platforms and features.