How much does Moodle cost?

Moodle publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Self-Hosted up to $200/year for MoodleCloud Starter. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Moodle have a free plan?

Yes. The Self-Hosted tier costs nothing and covers full feature access. Paying starts at $200/year for MoodleCloud Starter.

What is the difference between Self-Hosted and MoodleCloud Starter on Moodle?

MoodleCloud Starter costs $200/year against Free, and adds 50 users, managed hosting.

What am I actually paying for with Moodle?

The record lists 18 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for online learning, blended learning, corporate training.

Does Moodle 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 Moodle 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 Moodle against before paying?

Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Moodle to make a useful price comparison.

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Moodle pricing

Moodle 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.

Entry price: Free, then $200/year
Model: Not recorded
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Moodle 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.

Moodle pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Self-Hosted	Free	1	Entry tier
MoodleCloud Starter	$200/year	2	+$200/year, 2 more features

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 full feature access.

MoodleCloud Starter

$200/year

Over Self-Hosted, this tier adds:

50 users
Managed hosting

Where Moodle stops being free

Self-Hosted, Free

Full feature access

MoodleCloud Starter, $200/year

The first thing you pay for:

50 users
Managed hosting

What the product covers

The full Moodle 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.

Core

Course management
Quiz builder
Forums
Assignments
Gradebook
Badges
Competencies
Mobile app

Integrations

H5P
BigBlueButton
Zoom
Microsoft 365
Google Workspace
LTI tools

Platform

Web support
IOS support
Android support
Desktop support

People bring Moodle in for online learning, blended learning, corporate training, compliance training. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Moodle are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

Before you pay for Moodle

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 $200/year, 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.

Moodle runs on web, and is published by Moodle Pty Ltd of Perth, Australia. The full record is on the Moodle review.

Moodle pricing on the vendor's own site

Moodle pricing questions

How much does Moodle cost?: Moodle publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Self-Hosted up to $200/year for MoodleCloud Starter. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Moodle have a free plan?: Yes. The Self-Hosted tier costs nothing and covers full feature access. Paying starts at $200/year for MoodleCloud Starter.
What is the difference between Self-Hosted and MoodleCloud Starter on Moodle?: MoodleCloud Starter costs $200/year against Free, and adds 50 users, managed hosting.
What am I actually paying for with Moodle?: The record lists 18 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for online learning, blended learning, corporate training.
Does Moodle 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 Moodle 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 Moodle against before paying?: Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Moodle to make a useful price comparison.

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