How much does Chamilo cost?

Chamilo publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Self-hosted up to On request for Hosting and support from partners. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Self-hosted and Hosting and support from partners on Chamilo?

Hosting and support from partners costs On request against Free, and adds managed hosting, upgrades and support sold by beeznest and other official providers, priced per deployment, quoted.

Which lms tools can I use without paying?

2 of the 8 lms tools listed alongside Chamilo have a free tier: Weet, Claroline.

Does Chamilo charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, 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 Chamilo 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 Chamilo against before paying?

The closest lms tools in this directory are Weet, Claroline, Whatfix, Skilljar. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Chamilo covering price, platforms and features.

LMS · pricing

Chamilo pricing

Chamilo publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 31 August 2026, Chamilo pricing is free across 2 published tiers. 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: Free
Model: Open source, no licence fee
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Chamilo plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Chamilo pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Self-hosted	Free	4	Entry tier
Hosting and support from partners	On request	2	Priced on request

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Self-hosted

Free

The entry tier. It covers gnu gpl licence, no per-learner fee, full source code, community support in spanish, french and english, you provide hosting, upgrades and security patching.

Hosting and support from partners

On request

Over Self-hosted, this tier adds:

Managed hosting, upgrades and support sold by BeezNest and other official providers
Priced per deployment, quoted

Where Chamilo stops being free

Self-hosted, Free

GNU GPL licence, no per-learner fee
Full source code
Community support in Spanish, French and English
You provide hosting, upgrades and security patching

No paid tier on record

Chamilo lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.

What the product covers

The full Chamilo 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 and learning paths
Assessments
Gradebook and certificates
Attendance tracking
Sessions and multi-tenancy
Wide interface translation
Plugins
Low hosting requirements

People bring Chamilo in for a latin american university that needs an lms with no per-student licence fee and spanish-language support from people in a compatible time zone, a ministry or ngo delivering vocational training over poor connectivity, where a lightweight php application on cheap hosting beats a heavyweight platform, a francophone institution in west africa or belgium where french interface and documentation quality decides adoption more than feature count, an organisation that requires the lms to run entirely on its own infrastructure with no data leaving the country. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Chamilo are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in LMS

Too few lms 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.

Chamilo entry price against other LMS tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Chamilo (this page)	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-
Weet	Free, then $24/month	Per creator per month	-	vs Chamilo
Claroline	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Chamilo
Whatfix	On request	quote	-	vs Chamilo
Skilljar	On request	quote	-	vs Chamilo
Sana	On request	quote	-	vs Chamilo
Degreed	On request	quote	-	vs Chamilo

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 Chamilo badges page.

Before you pay for Chamilo

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: 2 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Chamilo runs on web, self-hosted, linux, and is published by BeezNest Belgium (Chamilo governance since January 2026) of Brussels, Belgium. The full record is on the Chamilo review, and the rest of the category is under best lms tools.

Chamilo pricing on the vendor's own site

Chamilo pricing questions

How much does Chamilo cost?: Chamilo publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Self-hosted up to On request for Hosting and support from partners. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Chamilo have a free plan?: Yes. The Self-hosted tier costs nothing and covers gnu gpl licence, no per-learner fee, full source code, community support in spanish, french and english.
What is the difference between Self-hosted and Hosting and support from partners on Chamilo?: Hosting and support from partners costs On request against Free, and adds managed hosting, upgrades and support sold by beeznest and other official providers, priced per deployment, quoted.
Which lms tools can I use without paying?: 2 of the 8 lms tools listed alongside Chamilo have a free tier: Weet, Claroline.
What am I actually paying for with Chamilo?: The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a latin american university that needs an lms with no per-student licence fee and spanish-language support from people in a compatible time zone, a ministry or ngo delivering vocational training over poor connectivity, where a lightweight php application on cheap hosting beats a heavyweight platform, a francophone institution in west africa or belgium where french interface and documentation quality decides adoption more than feature count.
Does Chamilo charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, 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 Chamilo 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 Chamilo against before paying?: The closest lms tools in this directory are Weet, Claroline, Whatfix, Skilljar. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Chamilo covering price, platforms and features.