A price desk, and its working rules

Syllabuy is a one-desk operation that prices course marketplaces for the people buying from them. It exists because pricing a course subscription turned out to be unexpectedly hard, and because almost every page that claims to answer the question quotes a number without saying where or when it got it.

What the desk actually does

Three things, in this order.

It reads the seller's own page. Not a price-tracking site, not an aggregator, not a list compiled last year. If a figure is on Syllabuy, somebody opened the page the seller sells on and read it. Where that page would not open — and three of the six marketplaces covered here blocked or gated an automated read on 24 September 2026 — the page says so, and no number is borrowed from elsewhere to fill the gap.

It writes down the date. Every price here carries the day it was read and the term it is billed on. Course marketplaces change prices by running overlapping promotions rather than by announcing anything, so an undated price is not a fact about the product; it is a fact about a moment, and moments need timestamps.

It says when a promotion is a promotion. If a seller labels a price a discount, so does this site — even when the seller prints no list price for the discount to be measured against, which is a situation this desk has now documented rather than quietly rounded off.

What it refuses to publish

No completion rates, pass rates, salary outcomes or job-placement figures. None of the platforms covered here publishes audited ones, and an invented figure reads exactly like a sourced one to a reader who has no way to check. Where a number of that kind exists from a named official source, it is quoted, attributed and dated; where it does not, this site is silent rather than approximate.

No coupon codes and no promo-code pages. Purchases made with unapproved codes are voided on at least one of these platforms, so a coupon page would be actively bad advice as well as thin.

No claim that a certificate is a certification or that either is accredited. Those three words mean three different things, and the platforms themselves are clearer about the difference than most of the sites writing about them.

No ratings for a product whose price cannot be read. LinkedIn Learning is covered on this site and deliberately carries no score, because a value judgement requires knowing what the thing costs.

Who writes it

One person, writing under the Syllabuy name rather than a byline, with no undisclosed relationship to any platform covered. The desk has no affiliation with Coursera, Udemy, edX, LinkedIn, Alison or FutureLearn, and holds no position in any of them.

How it pays for itself

Some links here are partner links: follow one, buy something, and the desk receives a share of what you paid. Those links are labelled where they sit and carry sponsored and nofollow attributes. Several of the routes recommended most often on this site — auditing a course, applying for Financial Aid, borrowing LinkedIn Learning on a library card — pay nothing at all and are recommended anyway, which is the only real test of whether a page like this is worth reading. The full arrangement is set out in how this desk is paid.

Corrections

Prices go stale, sellers restructure plans, and a page read on one day can be wrong the next. If a figure here no longer matches what you see, that is worth knowing about: write to the desk with the page and what you saw, and it gets checked against the seller's own page and updated with a fresh date.