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Coursera pricing
Coursera publishes 3 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 30 August 2026, Coursera pricing is free, then $59/month across 3 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, then $59/month
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Coursera 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Audit | Free | - | Entry tier |
| Professional Certificates | $39/month | - | +$39/month |
| Coursera Plus | $59/month | - | +$20/month |
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.
Free Audit
FreeThe entry tier. The record does not itemise what it includes.
Professional Certificates
$39/monthNothing on the record separates this tier from Free Audit on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.
Coursera Plus
$59/monthNothing on the record separates this tier from Professional Certificates on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.
Where Coursera stops being free
Free Audit, Free
The record does not itemise what the free tier includes.
Professional Certificates, $39/month
The record lists no feature the paid tier has and the free one does not, which usually means the paid tier lifts limits rather than unlocking capability. The vendor's page is the place to confirm which limits.
What the product covers
The full Coursera 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
- Video lectures
- Quizzes
- Peer assessments
- Certificates
- Mobile learning
- Offline access
- Specializations
- Degrees
Integrations
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- SSO providers
- HRIS systems
Platform
- Web support
- IOS support
- Android support
- API support
People bring Coursera in for skill development, career advancement, professional certificates, degree programs. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Coursera 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coursera (this page) | Free, then $59/month | - | - | |
| Weet | Free, then $24/month | Per creator per month | - | vs Coursera |
| Claroline | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Coursera |
| Whatfix | On request | quote | - | vs Coursera |
| Skilljar | On request | quote | - | vs Coursera |
| Chamilo | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Coursera |
| Sana | On request | quote | - | vs Coursera |
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 Coursera badges page.
Before you pay for Coursera
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: 3 tiers between Free and $59/month, with the jump not itemised on the record. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Coursera runs on web, ios, android, and is published by Coursera Inc of Mountain View, California. The full record is on the Coursera review, and the rest of the category is under best lms tools.
Coursera pricing questions
- How much does Coursera cost?
- Coursera publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free Audit up to $59/month for Coursera Plus. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Coursera have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free Audit tier costs nothing. Paying starts at $39/month for Professional Certificates.
- Is the Coursera Plus plan on Coursera worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is not itemised separately from the tier below it. It costs $59/month against $39/month for Professional Certificates. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which lms tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 lms tools listed alongside Coursera have a free tier: Weet, Claroline, Chamilo.
- What am I actually paying for with Coursera?
- The record lists 16 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for skill development, career advancement, professional certificates.
- Does Coursera charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 Coursera 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 Coursera against before paying?
- The closest lms tools in this directory are Weet, Claroline, Whatfix, Skilljar. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Coursera covering price, platforms and features.