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Prices read 24 September 2026

The course catalogue, priced honestly

The subscription page

One price, then everything it is allowed to open.

  • Coursera Plus, billed monthly$35/mo
  • Coursera Plus, billed annually$239/yr

Both figures carried the label “Save 40%” on the day. Degrees and MasterTrack™ programmes are outside the subscription, and so are certain courses, Specializations and Professional Certificates.

The single entries

What the same shelves cost bought one at a time.

  • Coursera Individual Courses & Programs$29/mo
  • edX verified certificatefrom $50
  • FutureLearn Unlimited, monthly$27.99/mo
  • Alison course, certificate extrafree

Every price read on 24 September 2026 on the seller’s own page, in US dollars where the seller showed dollars.

No list price printed

What Coursera Plus costsCompare six platforms

A price desk for people buying courses, not selling them. Every figure read off the seller's own page, dated, and called a promotion when it is one.

Learner side only · no coupon codes · no invented outcome figures

Read off the seller's page

Every figure here was taken from the page the seller sells on, not from a price-tracking site. Where the page would not load to an automated read, this site says so and prints nothing.

Dated, with the term attached

A price without a date is a rumour. Each one here carries the day it was read and what it is billed on, and a sale is called a sale even when the seller shows no list price to compare it against.

The free route gets named

Audit tracks, Financial Aid and a public-library card are the right answer more often than a subscription is. They pay this desk nothing and they are on the page anyway.

The catalogue

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Syllabuy prices course marketplaces for the people buying them. Every figure on this site was read off the seller's own page, is quoted with the day it was read, and is labelled a promotion when the seller called it one — which, in this corner of the internet, is most of the time.

That discipline produced the finding this site was built around. On 24 September 2026, Coursera's own page offered Coursera Plus at $35/month or $239/year, and marked both "Save 40%". It printed no list price at all. On the same day, a second Coursera page advertised 20% off a year and 40% off three months, ending on two different dates. Coursera's other subscription, Individual Courses & Programs, was $29/month. Four numbers, one seller, one day, and not one baseline to judge any of them against.

Read the rest of the catalogue and the pattern holds. edX publishes a real structure — a free audit track, and certificate upgrades that start at $50 — but the figure varies by course and institution. FutureLearn lists Unlimited at US$27.99 a month at full price. Alison is free to study and charges for the certificate without publishing what. Udemy's plan page and support articles refuse an automated read entirely, and Udemy's own pricing FAQ says different buyers are shown different promotions. LinkedIn Learning keeps its price behind a sign-in.

What this desk does

Three things, and only three.

It reads the seller's page rather than a price tracker, and says so when a page will not open. It writes the date next to every number, because a price without one is a rumour. And it names the free route wherever the free route is the honest answer — auditing, Coursera's Financial Aid, a public library card, Alison's free Learner Record — knowing perfectly well that those earn nothing here.

What it will not do

It will not print a completion rate, a salary figure or a job-placement number that no platform has audited; call a certificate of completion a certification or an accreditation; or publish a coupon code, which would void the purchase on at least one of these platforms and is thin bait on all of them.

Where to start

Start with what Coursera Plus costs and what it excludes if you are weighing the big subscription, or with six platforms compared on price if you have not decided which shop you are in yet.

Frequently asked questions

Is a course subscription cheaper than buying courses one at a time?
Only if you finish more than one or two of them. A subscription is a bet on your own attendance: it is cheaper per course the more courses you actually complete, and worse than useless if you complete none. The arithmetic is not hard — take the yearly price the seller quotes you today, divide it by the number of courses you honestly expect to finish this year, and compare that to what those courses cost singly. Most people buying their first subscription overestimate the number badly, which is why a month-to-month plan you can cancel is usually the safer first purchase even though it costs more per month.
Why is it so hard to find out what Coursera Plus actually costs?
Because Coursera does not print a list price. On 24 September 2026 its Coursera Plus page showed $35/month and $239/year, both carrying the label “Save 40%”, with no struck-through or “regularly” figure anywhere to say what they were 40% off. On the same day its own discounts page advertised two different offers at once — 20% off a year, ending 2 December 2026, and 40% off three months, ending 12 February 2027. A discount with no visible baseline is a price, not a saving, and the price you are quoted depends on which page you arrived through. Quote the figure you personally see at checkout, on the day, and ignore the percentage.
Are Coursera and Udemy the same company now?
They have the same owner and they are still two separate shops. Coursera completed its all-stock combination with Udemy on 11 May 2026; each Udemy share was exchanged for 0.8 Coursera shares and former Coursera investors hold about 59% of the combined company. Both platforms continue to run separately: existing accounts, subscriptions and instructor agreements stay where they are on coursera.org and udemy.com, and no integration timeline has been published. For a buyer today that means two catalogues, two prices and two refund policies — a Coursera Plus subscription does not open anything on Udemy.
Is a Coursera or Udemy certificate accredited?
No, and the platforms do not claim it is. A certificate from either is a certificate of completion issued by the platform or the company that made the course. It is not a certification — that word belongs to awards from bodies like PMI, ISC2, CompTIA or AWS, which run their own exams — and it is not accreditation. Some Coursera content carries an American Council on Education credit recommendation, and Coursera's own help material is explicit that ACE Learning Evaluation “is not an accreditation”: a recommendation may help you claim credit at a participating institution, but there is no guarantee and each institution decides for itself.
What can I learn here for nothing?
More than most buyers realise, and none of it pays this desk a penny. Coursera lets you audit many courses free and runs a Financial Aid programme for individual courses. edX has a free audit track that gives you the course materials without the graded assignments or the certificate, and you can upgrade later if the deadline has not passed. Studying on Alison is free, with the certificate as the optional extra. LinkedIn Learning is offered through many public libraries on nothing more than a card number and a PIN. Every one of those is named on this site wherever it is the better answer, and none of them earns us anything.