Arlo alternativeAn Arlo alternative where registrations come with the plan.
Arlo is a mature training management system, and many of the providers who join Cademy come from it. Arlo prices each administrator license separately, adds a fee on every registration and requires an implementation package. Cademy is one subscription with registrations included, and it runs several businesses from one login.
Arlo and Cademy serve the same providers, so it comes down to the details.
Arlo is the better pick if
- Your trainers work from Arlo's mobile app on the day.
- You take payments through Authorize.net or Windcave.
- Your team knows Arlo well and the registration fees stay small at your volume.
Cademy is the better pick if
- You run several brands, regions or businesses and want them all under one login.
- Salesforce, HubSpot or NetSuite should connect through a native app.
- Different courses bill from different entities, with their own tax rates and invoice details.
- You would rather pay one subscription than a license per administrator plus a fee on each registration.
- Waitlists, multi-day courses and automatic certificates should be there on the plan you start with.
What providers moving from Arlo use first.
Switch Account in the account menu moves you between business accounts without logging out. Each business account is its own workspace, so a group with several brands or regions runs them all from one place.
Native apps for Salesforce, HubSpot and NetSuite connect Cademy to your CRM or finance system on custom plans. Xero comes with Teams and Zapier with Pro.
On Teams, each course can carry its own tax profile, with its own rate and label such as VAT, GST or Sales Tax. Additional invoice profiles put a different company name, address, logo and invoice prefix on the courses that need them.
Every plan, Free included, comes with live chat answered by a real person. Teams adds premium support, and Enterprise a dedicated engineer as your account manager.
One three-day course on Arlo's entry plan and on Cademy Pro.
Arlo Simple covers booking and checkout. The other steps sit on higher Arlo plans or an add-on.
Arlo plan placement comes from the plan cards on its pricing page. Its feature table also lists printable certificates without naming a plan. On Cademy Pro, all five steps are included.
Year one for a provider with one admin and 1,000 paid registrations.
Arlo's entry plan is priced per administrator license, with a fee for each registration and an implementation package on top. We used its lowest published figures.
Arlo Simple
- One administrator license, $121 a month billed annually
- $1,452
- 1,000 paid registrations at $2.15
- $2,150
- Implementation, Basic package
- $695
Year one$4,297
Cademy Pro
- Subscription, $129 (£99) a month billed yearly
- $1,548
- Up to 1,000 registrations a year
- Included
- Setup
- Self-serve
Year one$1,548 (£1,188)
- One administrator and 1,000 paid registrations, the most Cademy Pro includes. Arlo counts a registration as paid when it has an order (invoice).
- The $2.15 fee is what Arlo's calculator shows with annual billing. Without implementation, year two on Arlo Simple is $3,602.
- Arlo lists waitlists and multi-session courses on Professional, $207 per license a month billed annually ($2,484 a year), and automated certificates on Enterprise, $278 ($3,336).
- Card fees from your payment provider apply to both and are left out.
Sources: Arlo pricing, Arlo implementation packages
Pricing model, setup and what each plan carries.
Arlo figures are the US dollar prices on its pricing and implementation pages.
| Cademy | Arlo | |
|---|---|---|
| How the price is built | One subscription per plan. Registrations included, 1,000 a year on Free and Pro and 5,000 on Teams | A license per administrator, plus $2.15 per paid registration and $1.07 per free one. Annual billing takes 10% off both |
| First paid plan | Pro covers booking, the LMS, automatic certificates, waitlists, invoices with PO numbers, the CRM and the calendar. No platform fee | Simple covers course scheduling, email automation, the Arlo website and checkout, basic CRM and reporting, and dashboards |
| Trying it first | A Free plan that does not expire, and a free trial of Pro or Teams | Free trial. Arlo's FAQ says 14 days is usually long enough |
| Setup | Self-serve setup. Imports on every plan, help from our team with the migration on Teams, a hands-on migration on Enterprise | Implementation package "required with all plans". Basic $695, Standard $1,395, Premium $3,995 |
| Online learning and AI authoring | Lessons, video, quizzes and drip release on every plan, and an AI course builder that drafts a course from your PDFs. SCORM 1.2 is added on Teams | AI-assisted authoring as an add-on, $99 a month (+$50 per extra author). SCORM add-on $99 a month (+$0.30 per enrollment). Both for $149 |
| Billing terms | Monthly or yearly billing | No long-term contract, monthly or annual billing |
Checked November 4, 2026 on Arlo's own pages: Arlo pricing, Implementation packages.
Taking your Arlo records to Cademy.
Imports are self-serve on every plan. Teams includes help from our team with the migration, and Enterprise gets a hands-on migration.
Export from Arlo
Select your courses and choose Actions, then "Export registrations (CSV)". Contact and organization lists export 200 records at a time, so use Arlo's reports for longer ones.
Load the spreadsheets
Contacts, organizations, courses, dates, registrations and orders import from those files. Contacts arrive attached to their companies.
Add back the parts Arlo sold separately
Put lessons, video and quizzes into each course, choose when its certificate is issued and, on Teams, upload SCORM 1.2 packages.
Replace the booking pages
Swap the Arlo website or WordPress plugin for Cademy's course list, calendar embed or booking site. Payments go through Stripe, PayPal or Klarna once you connect them.
Arlo's FAQ says there is no long-term contract, so plan around your next billing date. Cademy courses stay unpublished until you open them.
Before leaving Arlo.
Is Cademy cheaper than Arlo?
For one administrator and 1,000 paid registrations a year, Arlo Simple comes to $4,297 in year one at its published prices, including the $695 Basic implementation package. Cademy Pro is $1,548 (£1,188) billed yearly, with those registrations included.
Can I run several training businesses from one Cademy login?
Yes. Each business is its own account with its own courses, branding and checkout, and Switch Account in the account menu moves between them without logging out. You can add a new business account from the same menu.
Can I bring my Arlo registrations across?
Yes. Arlo exports registrations and contacts as CSV files. Import them as contacts, organizations, courses, dates, registrations and orders on any plan. Teams includes help from our team with the migration, and Enterprise gets a hands-on migration.
Do I need Teams for eLearning?
No. Lessons with video and files, plus quizzes that need a pass mark, come with every Cademy plan. Teams adds SCORM 1.2. On Arlo, SCORM is an add-on at $99 a month plus $0.30 per enrollment.
How do company bookings work on Cademy?
Each contact joins their company's record by email domain. The booker buys the places, can change attendee names until attendance or progress is recorded, and follows each attendee's progress and certificates. On Pro and above, the company can ask for an invoice and add its PO number.
Run the sums on your own Arlo bill.
Tell us how many administrator licenses you pay for and how many registrations you took last year, and we will run the same comparison on your figures.
No card needed. See every plan on the pricing page.