Skilljar pricing: Skilljar cost, plans and Skilljar vs Docebo

Skilljar does not publish a plan price. Its pricing page says the bill has two parts: an annual subscription plan, Essentials, Professional or Enterprise, and an active user fee based on how many people take lessons in your academy in a year. Every plan card ends in "Let's talk pricing", and the FAQ answer to "How much is each active user?" is tiered pricing, with the per-user cost falling as volume grows, and a referral to sales.

The only buyer data comes from Vendr, which tracks deals it has seen. Vendr reports a median Skilljar contract of $38,972 a year across 233 purchases, with a low of $23,000 and a high of $99,976. Those are Vendr figures, not Skilljar's, and they include whatever add-ons each buyer took. Skilljar does print its add-on prices, which is unusual in this category and useful: they tell you the floor of what an extra capability adds to a quote.

Content Syndication is also listed as a feature of the Professional and Enterprise plans, so if you need it, price the plan upgrade against the add-on before you sign.

This is the part of the quote that decides the bill, and it is easy to misread. Skilljar sells an annual allowance of active users but counts them monthly. An active user is someone who registers and consumes a lesson. Logging in without taking a lesson does not count. Each learner counts once in any month they take a lesson, however many lessons they take that month, and every counted month draws down the yearly allowance.

Skilljar's own example: estimate 5,000 active users for the year, use 100 in January and 400 in February, and you have 4,500 left. There is no monthly cap, and you can buy more allowance mid-term through your account manager. The practical test before you sign: take your monthly unique learners from your current system, or your monthly new customers multiplied by the share you expect to train, and multiply by twelve. That is your allowance, not your customer count.

Skilljar publishes a feature matrix even though it hides the rates. We read it cell by cell. Most of the product is on every plan: unlimited seats and courses, the low-code page builder, learner SSO, the REST API, learner groups, virtual instructor-led training, automations, certifications, custom and scheduled reports, and benchmarks. The plans differ on a short list.

Two rows tend to force an upgrade. Admin SSO sits on Professional, so a security team that requires SSO for every administrator moves you up a tier even when learner SSO was already on Essentials. And the academy site count is the first limit a company hits when it wants separate customer and partner academies. Every plan includes an implementation manager and product support with a 24-hour response commitment.

Neither publishes a rate, so the comparison is about the meter and the contract. Skilljar counts active users monthly against a yearly allowance. Docebo lets you choose: monthly active users, yearly active users, or registered active users, where every active account counts but licenses can be reassigned. Docebo says it is typically best suited to companies training at least 250 learners across customers, partners and employees, that the minimum contract is a single year, and that most customers sign for three to five.

A customer academy where most learners take a course once, in their first month, is usually cheaper on a yearly-active model, because each person counts once for the whole year. On Skilljar's monthly count that learner also counts once, but a customer who comes back for training every month counts twelve times. Model your own return rate on both before you compare quotes. Our Docebo pricing breakdown covers the Docebo side in detail.

CompanyLMS publishes its rate, so the math is short. Business is $6 per active learner a month billed annually. 300 active learners a month comes to $21,600 a year, below the lowest Skilljar deal Vendr reports. 150 a month comes to $10,800. You also get employee onboarding, compliance assignments and certification expiry reminders in the same workspace, which a customer-only academy does not replace.

Be honest about where the math flips. If thousands of customers take a lesson every month, a volume-tiered active user rate like Skilljar's can undercut a flat per-learner price. And if you sell courses, syndicate content into customer LMSs or need three branded academies, Skilljar has features we do not. For a team that needs to onboard customers and certify staff without a sales cycle, customer training on CompanyLMS is live the same day, and the customer onboarding LMS comparison covers nine platforms side by side.

A Skilljar quote is built from plan, allowance size, add-ons and term. Get these answers in writing: