Sakai pricing

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.

Where Sakai stops being free

What the product covers

The full Sakai 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.

People bring Sakai in for a university whose data protection policy or national regulation requires student coursework to stay on institution-controlled infrastructure inside a specific jurisdiction., an institution that has been repriced twice by a commercial lms vendor after ownership changes and wants a platform with no owner to sell it., a university with an existing java and tomcat operations team, where the marginal cost of running one more java application is genuinely low., a consortium of institutions sharing one deployment and one set of local integrations rather than each paying separate per-student licences.. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Sakai 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.

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 Sakai badges page.

Before you pay for Sakai

Sakai pricing questions

How much does Sakai cost?

Sakai publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Sakai up to On request for Commercial hosting and support. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Sakai have a free plan?

Yes. The Sakai tier costs nothing and covers educational community licence, no licence fee, full source on github, community support through apereo lists and jira.

What is the difference between Sakai and Commercial hosting and support on Sakai?

Commercial hosting and support costs On request against Free, and adds provided by apereo affiliates such as longsight, hosting, upgrades, backups and support, quoted per institution, commonly by student headcount, custom development and migration services.

Which lms tools can I use without paying?

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

What am I actually paying for with Sakai?

The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a university whose data protection policy or national regulation requires student coursework to stay on institution-controlled infrastructure inside a specific jurisdiction., an institution that has been repriced twice by a commercial lms vendor after ownership changes and wants a platform with no owner to sell it., a university with an existing java and tomcat operations team, where the marginal cost of running one more java application is genuinely low..

Does Sakai 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 Sakai 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 Sakai against before paying?

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

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