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Claroline pricing
Claroline 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, Claroline 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
Claroline 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.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claroline Connect | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Hosted distribution | On request | 4 | 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.
Claroline Connect
FreeThe entry tier. It covers gpl licence, no fee, full source on github, you provide symfony and php hosting and operations, community support only.
Hosted distribution
On requestOver Claroline Connect, this tier adds:
- Managed hosting, maintenance and updates
- Support from the commercial operator
- Quoted by user count
- European hosting
Where Claroline stops being free
Claroline Connect, Free
- GPL licence, no fee
- Full source on GitHub
- You provide Symfony and PHP hosting and operations
- Community support only
No paid tier on record
Claroline lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Claroline 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
- Workspaces
- Resource model
- Learning paths
- Quizzes and evaluation
- Competency framework
- Planning and events
- Self-hosting
- SaaS option
People bring Claroline in for a french or belgian training organisation that needs a francophone platform where the interface and support are french-first rather than translated., a public body required to keep learner data on european infrastructure under an open licence it can audit., a training provider assembling learning paths from a shared library of reusable resources across many client workspaces rather than duplicating courses., an institution already running the abandoned claroline 13 line that needs to plan a migration onto the maintained connect codebase before its dependencies become unsupportable.. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Claroline 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.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claroline (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Weet | Free, then $24/month | Per creator per month | - | vs Claroline |
| Whatfix | On request | quote | - | vs Claroline |
| Skilljar | On request | quote | - | vs Claroline |
| Chamilo | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Claroline |
| Sana | On request | quote | - | vs Claroline |
| Degreed | On request | quote | - | vs Claroline |
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 Claroline badges page.
Before you pay for Claroline
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.
Claroline runs on web, linux, and is published by Claroline community, commercial distribution by Sinfony Digital of France. The full record is on the Claroline review, and the rest of the category is under best lms tools.
Claroline pricing questions
- How much does Claroline cost?
- Claroline publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Claroline Connect up to On request for Hosted distribution. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Claroline have a free plan?
- Yes. The Claroline Connect tier costs nothing and covers gpl licence, no fee, full source on github, you provide symfony and php hosting and operations.
- What is the difference between Claroline Connect and Hosted distribution on Claroline?
- Hosted distribution costs On request against Free, and adds managed hosting, maintenance and updates, support from the commercial operator, quoted by user count, european hosting.
- Which lms tools can I use without paying?
- 2 of the 8 lms tools listed alongside Claroline have a free tier: Weet, Chamilo.
- What am I actually paying for with Claroline?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a french or belgian training organisation that needs a francophone platform where the interface and support are french-first rather than translated., a public body required to keep learner data on european infrastructure under an open licence it can audit., a training provider assembling learning paths from a shared library of reusable resources across many client workspaces rather than duplicating courses..
- Does Claroline 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 Claroline 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 Claroline against before paying?
- The closest lms tools in this directory are Weet, Whatfix, Skilljar, Chamilo. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Claroline covering price, platforms and features.