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Burnalong
Employer wellness platform built around social classes and a wide instructor marketplace
As of 1 September 2026, Burnalong's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Burnalong is a digital wellbeing platform whose distinguishing feature is that members can take a class together remotely, and whose content comes from thousands of independent instructors rather than one studio. Softwr lists it under Employee Engagement. Burnalong is made by Burnalong, Inc., available on Web, iOS, Android, TV and console.
Overview
What Burnalong does
Burnalong is a Baltimore company selling a digital health and wellbeing platform to employers, health plans, health systems and universities. Its library spans fitness, nutrition, mental health, financial wellbeing, chronic condition support and specialist areas such as prenatal, senior fitness and adaptive exercise, sourced from a marketplace of independent instructors and partner organisations rather than produced in house. Members access it on the web, mobile and connected television. Two things distinguish it commercially. The first is the social feature: two or more people can join the same class from different places and see each other, which was designed to address the fact that wellbeing app engagement collapses when it is a solitary activity. The second is breadth of instructor supply. Because content is sourced from many independent instructors rather than one production team, the catalogue covers niches that a studio produced library never reaches, which matters for populations that a general fitness library ignores, such as older adults, people with limited mobility and people recovering from cancer treatment. Buyers are HR and benefits teams, and increasingly health plans and health systems that resell it to their own populations. The trade off is that a marketplace of independent instructors means uneven production quality and inconsistent clinical rigour between classes, and unlike a curated clinical programme, nobody is warranting that a given class is appropriate for a given condition. It is a wellbeing benefit, not a clinical intervention, and pricing it against clinical vendors misreads what it is.
What people use it for
- An employer with a distributed or deskless workforce that cannot use an on site gym subsidy and needs something every employee can actually reach
- A health plan or health system wanting a wellbeing library it can offer its own members under its own brand
- An employer whose population skews older or includes many people with limited mobility, where a general fitness library gets no use
- An HR team running a quarterly wellbeing challenge and needing structured multi week programmes rather than an unstructured content library
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- Nothing is published, so an employer cannot benchmark a Burnalong quote before entering a sales process, and third party estimates of a low single digit per employee per month rate are unconfirmed by the vendor.
- Content comes from a marketplace of independent instructors, so production quality and instructional rigour vary noticeably between classes and there is no consistent standard across the catalogue.
- It is a wellbeing benefit rather than a clinical intervention, so it will not satisfy a plan looking for measurable clinical outcomes, and employers who buy it expecting claims reduction are buying the wrong category.
- Per employee per month pricing across the whole population means an employer with typical wellbeing engagement is paying for the entire workforce to serve the minority who log in more than twice.
- The social class feature only works if colleagues coordinate to attend at the same time, which requires organisational effort HR teams rarely sustain past the launch campaign, and without it the product is a video library like any other.
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Pricing
What Burnalong costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Burnalong
On request
- Per employee per month across the eligible population, quoted not published
- Third party review sites estimate a low single digit dollar rate but Burnalong does not confirm it
- Rate varies by headcount, dependant eligibility and whether it is resold through a plan
- Challenges and campaign support included in most contracts
- No self service purchase
Capabilities
Features
Social classes
Two or more members can take the same class together remotely and see each other, which is the differentiating engagement mechanic
Instructor marketplace
Content from thousands of independent instructors and partner organisations rather than one in house production team
Specialist populations
Classes for prenatal, senior fitness, adaptive and limited mobility, cancer recovery and chronic conditions
Beyond fitness content
Nutrition, financial wellbeing, mental health and mindfulness alongside exercise
Connected television
Playback on television as well as web and mobile, which lifts use among older populations
Challenges and programmes
Structured multi week challenges that HR teams run to create a participation moment
Employer reporting
Aggregate participation reporting by category and cohort
Reseller deployment
Sold through health plans and health systems as well as directly to employers
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Questions people ask
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Does Burnalong publish pricing?
No. It is quoted per employee per month. Third party review sites cite a low single digit dollar rate, but the vendor does not confirm any figure publicly.
Is it a clinical programme?
No. It is a wellbeing content platform. It has content covering chronic conditions, but nobody is warranting clinical appropriateness for a given member, and it should not be compared against clinical vendors.
What makes it different from a fitness app?
Two features: members can take a class together remotely, and the instructor marketplace covers niches such as adaptive, senior and cancer recovery that studio produced libraries do not.
Can health plans resell it?
Yes. Health plans and health systems are a significant channel and often deliver it under their own branding.
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