Coursebox AI Pricing 2026: Every Plan, the Free Tier and the Catch

Coursebox AI pricing, as of 25 September 2026, runs across five tiers: Free at $0, Creator at $30 a month or $300 a year, Pro at $100 a month or $1,000 a year, Pro + LMS at $300 a month or $3,000 a year, and a custom-quoted Enterprise plan with a two-year minimum term. Every plan includes unlimited learners.

What you actually pay for is AI capacity and admin seats. Each tier comes with a fixed allowance of AI page credits, images, video minutes and tutor messages, plus one admin seat. Extra seats on Pro and Pro + LMS cost $100 a month each. The prices below come from the live Coursebox pricing page, which shows local currency by region; these are the USD figures.

This guide covers every plan, what the free tier really gives you, which features sit behind the higher tiers, how prices have moved since 2024, and whether the numbers make sense for a small training team.

How much does Coursebox AI cost per month?

Coursebox AI costs $0 on the Free plan, $30 a month for Creator, $100 a month for Pro and $300 a month for Pro + LMS when billed monthly. Paying yearly gives two months free: $300, $1,000 and $3,000 a year respectively. Enterprise is quoted individually and sold on a signed agreement with a minimum two-year initial term.

The table sets out each plan as listed on the Coursebox pricing page in September 2026.

What do the yearly prices work out to per month?

The annual toggle, which is the default view on the pricing page, displays each plan as a monthly equivalent. Creator shows as $25 a month, Pro as roughly $83 and Pro + LMS as $250, all billed as one yearly payment. That is a saving of about 17% against monthly billing. Extra admin seats follow the same pattern: $100 a month or $1,000 a year each.

What is included in the Coursebox AI free tier?

The Coursebox free tier gives you three mini courses of up to five pages each, 150 AI page credits, 2 AI images, 100 AI tutor messages, 1 minute of AI video and 10 voice minutes. These allowances are one-time, not monthly. Courses carry a “Created with Coursebox” watermark, and learners are unlimited. No credit card is needed.

The free plan is a trial in all but name. Once the one-time credits are spent, they do not refill. The comparison table also shows no SCORM export, no PDF or HTML export and no private publishing on Free, so you cannot take a free course into your company LMS.

You can sell courses on Free through Stripe or PayPal, but Coursebox takes a 30% commission on sales at that tier. The commission line disappears on Creator. Separately, the Coursebox fees and charges page notes that Stripe’s own processing fees still apply to every transaction.

Does Coursebox AI charge per user or per usage?

Coursebox AI charges per usage and per admin, never per learner. Every plan includes unlimited learners. Your bill depends on the tier’s AI credit allowance and how many admin seats you hold. Any person who creates or edits courses, or manages grades, counts as an admin; learners do not.

This model suits organisations with large audiences and small content teams. A compliance course pushed to 5,000 employees costs the same as one pushed to 50. The cost pressure moves to the authoring side: more course builders means more seats, and heavier AI generation means a higher tier.

There is one helpful twist. On Pro and Pro + LMS, the pricing page states that every extra seat “adds a full AI credit allowance” to your account. A second seat at $1,000 a year therefore also doubles your pooled AI capacity, which softens the per-seat cost for teams that generate a lot of content.

What does an AI page credit actually buy?

Coursebox describes Creator’s 6,000 yearly page credits as roughly 120 courses a year, which implies around 50 credits per generated course. The real rate depends on course length and how often you regenerate pages. Pro and Pro + LMS carry 7,000 credits a month, which the vendor frames as 14 times Creator.

Credits come in separate pools for different AI outputs. On Creator you get 500 page credits, 20 images, 1,000 tutor messages, 5 minutes of standard AI video and 50 text-to-voice minutes each month. Pro tiers raise that to 300 images, 10,000 tutor messages, 75 video minutes (including 12 custom-avatar minutes) and 500 voice minutes a month.

The per-credit maths favours Pro. Creator works out at about 6 cents per page credit on monthly billing ($30 for 500), while Pro is about 1.4 cents ($100 for 7,000). If you regularly exhaust Creator’s allowance, Pro is the cheaper route to more capacity.

What is the catch with Coursebox AI pricing?

The main catch with Coursebox AI pricing is that the features most training teams need sit on the upper tiers. Creator’s SCORM export depends on an active subscription, self-hosted SCORM and LTI start at Pro, the branded LMS starts at $300 a month, and SSO is an Enterprise-only add-on costing $3,000 a year on top.

Reviewers raise a second catch. A summary of user feedback on Software Advice notes that users cannot buy extra AI credits mid-tier and must upgrade instead. That same summary flags AI output that needs significant editing on specialised topics, which burns credits on regeneration. Any AI draft still needs SME review; our guide to AI-generated assessments covers what to check in machine-written quiz items.

Does the Creator plan’s SCORM export keep working if you cancel?

No. Creator exports “dynamic” SCORM, a connected package that loads the course from Coursebox, and the pricing page states that an active subscription is required for it to keep running. Cancel Creator and any course running in your LMS through that package stops working.

The self-hosted SCORM package on Pro and above is a standalone copy that keeps working after you cancel. Coursebox is clear about its limits: it drops features that need a live connection, including the AI tutor, listen mode, short-answer questions, assignment submissions and discussions, and it does not update when you edit the course.

Which features are locked to Pro + LMS and Enterprise?

Pro + LMS unlocks the hosted learning platform: your own domain with full white label, learner and group management with bulk CSV invites, learning pathways, points and badges, a resource library and calendar, advanced reporting with CSV export, and announcements. Pro alone gets your logo and colours but explicitly excludes the branded LMS.

Enterprise adds single sign-on (a paid $3,000-a-year add-on), API access, multiple portals, a 99.9% uptime SLA, a choice of hosting region (data sits in France by default) and contract paperwork such as MSAs, DPAs and security reviews. If your IT team requires SSO or a vendor security questionnaire, the self-serve plans are not an option. Our LMS white-labeling guide explains which branding controls matter when you compare tiers like these.

Has Coursebox AI changed its pricing recently?

Yes. Coursebox has restructured its plans at least twice since 2024. The white-label LMS tier moved from $99 a month in 2024 to $300 a month (or $250 billed yearly) in September 2026, and the entry paid plan rose from $19 to $30 a month. Plan names and credit allowances have changed each time.

Here is the documented trail:

• A Coursebox review updated in April 2024 listed Basic at $19 a month, Expert at $39, Expert Plus at $59 and a white-label LMS plan at $99, with course caps rather than credits.
• Coursebox’s own LMS pricing comparison from September 2024 said plans started at $34 a month billed annually.
• A May 2026 review of the free plan listed Creator at $30, Plus at $100, Pro at $300 and Business at $700, with only 30 one-time page credits on Free.
• The live pricing page in September 2026 shows Free, Creator, Pro, Pro + LMS and Enterprise. Plus and Business no longer appear, and the free allowance is now 150 page credits.

Directory listings have not kept up. In September 2026, Capterra’s Coursebox pricing listing still shows Creator at $40, Pro at $300 per user, Business at $750 and Enterprise at $30,000 a year. G2 quotes prices in Australian dollars. Treat the vendor page as the source of truth and check it on the day you buy.

How does Coursebox AI pricing compare with other AI course builders?

Coursebox AI pricing is low at the entry level and competitive for teams because it bundles hosting and unlimited learners. Rival authoring tools charge per author and usually need a separate LMS. Creator at $300 a year undercuts every per-author tool below, but it is a single-seat plan with tethered SCORM.

Published starting prices, checked on each vendor’s pricing page in September 2026:

Sources: Mindsmith pricing, Easygenerator pricing, iSpring Suite pricing and Articulate 360 pricing. For a fuller breakdown of the iSpring tiers, see our iSpring Suite pricing guide, and for features beyond price, our roundup of the best AI course creation tools tests each builder on output quality.

Is Coursebox AI worth the price for a small team?

For a small team that wants AI drafting and a place to host courses, Coursebox AI is good value at Pro + LMS. Three authors cost $5,000 a year with unlimited learners included. For a solo author feeding an existing LMS, Pro at $1,000 a year is the safer buy than Creator, because its SCORM survives cancellation.

Run the numbers for three authors on annual billing. Pro + LMS plus two extra seats comes to $5,000 a year, and each seat adds credits. Three Articulate 360 AI Teams seats cost $5,247, and three iSpring Suite AI licences cost $3,870, before you pay for an LMS to host the output. Three Mindsmith Business authors cost $2,340, again without an LMS. Our breakdown of LMS pricing models and total cost of ownership shows how to add hosting, admin time and migration into that comparison.

The weak points are real, though. Capterra rates Coursebox 4.7 out of 5 from 99 reviews, yet reviewers there mention limited design customisation, occasional quiz-builder bugs and, in one October 2025 review, no refund for unused months after cancelling. If pixel-level design control matters more than drafting speed, compare it against per-author tools in our AI course authoring tools compared guide.

How do you choose the right Coursebox AI plan?

Choose by delivery route first, then by volume. If courses must run in your existing LMS after you stop paying, you need Pro or higher. If you want Coursebox to host training, you need Pro + LMS. Creator only fits solo creators who are happy to stay subscribed, and Free is only for testing.

Step 1: Decide where learners will take the course
If they will use your current LMS, shortlist Pro for self-hosted SCORM and LTI 1.3. If Coursebox will be the platform, go straight to Pro + LMS.

Step 2: Count everyone who edits content
Every person who creates, edits or grades is an admin seat. SMEs who only review can work from a PDF export rather than holding a seat.

Step 3: Estimate yearly AI volume
Use the vendor’s rough figure of 50 page credits per course. Around 100 new courses a year fits Creator; anything heavier needs Pro.

Step 4: Check IT requirements early
If you need SSO, an SLA, API access or a DPA, you are an Enterprise buyer with a two-year minimum term. Ask for the quote before building on a self-serve plan.

Conclusion

Coursebox AI pricing is cheap to start and fair for teams that want a hosted, white-label platform with unlimited learners. The catches sit in the details: tethered SCORM on Creator, a $300-a-month jump for the branded LMS, SSO only on Enterprise, and credits you cannot top up without upgrading.

Your next step: open a free account, build one course from a real source document, and track the credits it uses. Then pick Pro if you deliver through your own LMS or Pro + LMS if Coursebox will host training, and pay annually only once the pilot course has survived SME review.