Pricing
Every feature on every plan. Nothing taken from what learners pay.
Pick a plan by how many people learn with you. Admissions, cohorts, fees, attendance, certificates, community, live rooms and WhatsApp are included in all of them.
Pilot
Free for 90 days
One intake, up to 50 learners
- 20 GB of video
- Live rooms up to 25 people
- 200 AI questions a month on our key
Try one cohort before you commit.
Starter
$49a month
or $490 a year ($41 a month)
Up to 150 active learners
- 100 GB of video
- Live rooms up to 50, with recording
- 1,000 AI questions a month on our key
A small academy with one programme.
Growth
Most popular$199a month
or $1,990 a year ($166 a month)
Up to 1,000 active learners
- 500 GB of video
- Live rooms up to 150
- 5,000 AI questions a month on our key
- An onboarding call
A training organisation running several programmes.
Scale
$499a month
or $4,990 a year ($416 a month)
Up to 5,000 active learners
- 2 TB of video
- Live rooms up to 300
- 20,000 AI questions a month on our key
- Your data moved in for you
- Replies the same working day
Several programmes and an alumni network in the thousands.
Enterprise
From $999 a month
Above 5,000 learners, or several communities
- One invoice for a network of chapters or country offices
- An uptime commitment
- A dedicated server if you need one
Large organisations and networks.
Prices in US dollars, invoiced in your currency. 0% on learner payments on every plan.
Included in every plan
No feature tiers. A small academy and a large school use the same Kohortly.
- Unlimited programmes, intakes and courses
- Applications with a review queue, join links and registration
- Attendance online and in person, certificates with a check page
- Fees and instalments, employer and sponsor payers, receipts
- Members paying online through your own Stripe, Paystack, Pesapal and more, at 0% to us
- Community feed, chats, channels, squads, points and badges
- Live rooms with breakout groups and recording
- WhatsApp, SMS and email announcements and reminders
- Your address on kohortly.com or your own domain, your logo and colours
- The phone app and an installable web app under your name
- The AI helper, free on your own Anthropic or OpenAI key
- Public API, webhooks, MCP server and CLI
What the same programme costs elsewhere
One organisation: 500 learners a year in 3 cohorts of about 170, 5 staff, applications for every cohort, and a $400 fee per learner ($200,000 a year). Yearly billing, from each vendor's own pricing page. The fee column applies only if learners pay through that platform's checkout; when they pay by M-Pesa or bank transfer it's $0 everywhere. Card processing is left out, because every option pays it to the card processor.
| Platform | Plan you'd need | Cost a year | Fee if learners pay through it | Still done by hand or another tool | Total a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kohortly | Growth: up to 1,000 active learners | $1,990 | $0 | Nothing on this list | $1,990 |
| Mighty Networks | Scale, for cohort programmes | $2,148 | 1%: $2,000 | Applications, offline fee records, attendance, WhatsApp | $2,148–$4,148 |
| Disco | Create (250 active members), or Scale once alumni stay active | $4,788 · from $11,988 | $0 | Offline fees and instalments, employer invoices, in-person attendance, WhatsApp | $4,788–$11,988+ |
| AcceleratorApp + Circle | AcceleratorApp for applications, Circle Professional for courses and community | $5,988 + $1,068 | Circle 2%: $4,000 | Fee records, attendance, certificates, WhatsApp | $7,056–$11,056 |
| Arlo + e-learning add-on | Professional for 2 administrators, 500 paid registrations, authoring and SCORM | $4,896 + $1,075 + $1,788 | Gateway fees only | Community, live rooms, WhatsApp; set-up is required and priced separately | $7,759 + set-up |
| EducateMe | Scale, 200 users (100 is too few for a cohort of 170 plus staff) | $10,789 | No learner checkout | Applications, fees and a checkout, attendance, WhatsApp | $10,789 |
| Teachfloor | Full Features (Startup stops at 50 users) | Quote | $0 | Applications, offline fees, in-person attendance, WhatsApp | Quote |
Checked November 2026. Prices change, so check each vendor before you decide. Each name links to a full comparison with sources.
Add-ons
More learners
$15 per 100 a month ($10 on Scale)
Counted at the month's peak and added to the next invoice. Nobody is cut off mid-cohort.
More video storage
$5 per 100 GB a month
WhatsApp and SMS on Kohortly's number
The provider's rate + 20%, in prepaid bundles
Free when you connect your own WhatsApp number or Africa's Talking account.
Moving your data in
$300 once
Free on Scale and on Growth billed yearly.
Questions
What counts as an active learner?+
Someone enrolled in an intake that's open or running, or a member who signed in that month. Your staff are free, and so are alumni who don't sign in. If you go over your plan, the extra is added to the next invoice; nobody is locked out mid-cohort.
Is there a fee on what learners pay us?+
No. Learners and sponsors pay you directly: through your own Stripe, Paystack, Pesapal or other account, or by bank transfer, M-Pesa, UPI, Pix, cheque or cash. That money never passes through Kohortly, so there is nothing to take a cut of.
How do we pay for Kohortly?+
By invoice, monthly or yearly, in your currency at the day's rate. Pay by bank transfer, card or a local option we agree, such as M-Pesa or UPI. Yearly billing gets two months free.
Are any features locked to bigger plans?+
No. Every plan has every feature: admissions, cohorts, fees, attendance, certificates, community, live rooms, WhatsApp, your own domain and the API. Plans differ only in how many learners, how much video and how large the live rooms are.
Do you have discounts?+
Registered non-profits, schools and universities get 30% off yearly plans. The first 20 organisations on a paid plan keep their price for as long as they stay.
Can we try it first?+
Yes. Request a community and ask for a Pilot: one intake of up to 50 learners, free for 90 days, with every feature.
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