TalentLMS alternativeA TalentLMS alternative for selling courses to the public and to companies.
TalentLMS is a cloud LMS for training staff, partners and customers, priced by the number of users who log in each month. Cademy is built for training providers who sell scheduled courses, with booking, payments, company invoices and certificates included.
A public classroom course on TalentLMS and Cademy.
TalentLMS steps are as its help center describes them.
Its help center covers Stripe and PayPal checkout, coupons, credits, buyer invoices, instructor-led sessions and expiring certificates, but not a company buying places and naming attendees later, or a PO number on the invoice.
Pricing by monthly logins.
TalentLMS says “pricing is based on the number of unique users who log in to your portal each month.” Its Core, Grow and Pro plans each cover a set number of users, billed monthly or yearly. Users above a plan's limit are charged at a per-user rate, and Pro lists “$6 per additional user.”
A company training its own staff knows roughly how many people will log in. A provider selling to the public sees that number move with every course date, because each learner who logs in during a month counts toward that month's total.
Cademy's paid plans include a set number of registrations a year, 1,000 on Pro and 5,000 on Teams, and the plan price stays the same in a busy month. Pro also includes 1 admin and 10 facilitators, Teams 5 admins and 50, and neither takes a platform fee on bookings.
Where TalentLMS fits best.
Stay on TalentLMS if
- You train your own employees, partners or customers rather than selling courses to them.
- You rely on learning paths, or on recertification that reassigns a course before a certificate runs out.
- You need single sign-on on every paid plan, or content in Tin Can or cmi5 as well as SCORM 1.2.
Cademy is built for you if
- Individuals and companies book your dated courses, in person or live online.
- Bookers buy places for their team and send the names later.
- Clients pay by invoice with a PO number, and on Teams those invoices go to Xero.
- You plan your year in registrations, 1,000 on Pro or 5,000 on Teams.
- You want an AI course builder on every plan, Free included, that drafts lessons and quiz questions from your own PDFs.
Plans, usage and selling courses.
TalentLMS details come from talentlms.com/pricing and its help center.
| Cademy | TalentLMS | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Professional training providers | Training staff, onboarding partners and educating customers |
| Free plan | The whole platform with no time limit and no card needed. 1 admin, 2 facilitators, 1,000 registrations a year, 5 published courses. 5% platform fee on payments | Up to 5 users and 10 courses |
| What a plan includes | Course builder, booking, LMS, certificates, training CRM and scheduling on every plan. Invoices with PO numbers from Pro. Xero and SCORM 1.2 on Teams | Core, Grow and Pro, each for a set number of active users, with SCORM 1.2, Tin Can and cmi5 on all plans. Enterprise by quote |
| Building courses | Lessons, video, downloads and quizzes with pass marks and retakes, plus an AI course builder that drafts sections, lessons and quiz questions from your PDFs for you to review. All on every plan | TalentCraft, its generative AI tool, on paid plans |
| How usage is counted | Registrations a year, 1,000 on Pro and 5,000 on Teams | Unique users who log in to the portal each month |
| Selling courses | Stripe, PayPal or Klarna, with Apple Pay and Google Pay where available. Discounts, vouchers, gift cards and memberships. Deposits and installments come with Teams | Stripe or PayPal checkout, credits, coupons and discounts. Learners sign in to buy |
| Company clients | Contacts link to their organization by email domain, with parent companies and subsidiaries. A booker buys places for the team and names attendees later | Branches, each a sub-portal with its own URL, branding, catalog and admins |
| Classroom and live dates | One calendar of dates with venues and facilitators, a Zoom meeting per online date and attendance registers | Instructor-led units with in-person or online sessions. The built-in conference tool hosts up to 40 users |
| Certificates | Issued and emailed automatically on attendance or completion, with an optional expiry date and bulk issue. Templates and CPD points from Pro | Custom certificates on course completion, with expiry and recertification |
Checked November 3, 2026 on TalentLMS's own pages: TalentLMS pricing, How subscription plans work, Purchasing a course, Invoices, Branches, Instructor-led training units, Certifications.
Moving your learners, courses and sessions.
TalentLMS exports portal data as CSV or Excel. Cademy takes those files on every plan, Free included, and Teams adds our team's help with the migration. Enterprise customers have the migration run by us.
Export from TalentLMS
Export your portal data as a CSV or Excel (XLSX) file. It comes with a separate tab for each set of data.
Import into Cademy
Load those files as contacts, organizations, courses, dates, registrations and orders. On Teams our team works through the import alongside you, and on Enterprise you get a hands-on migration.
Rebuild courses and sessions
Upload SCORM 1.2 packages on Teams, or rebuild lessons, video and quizzes in the course builder, where the AI course builder can draft them from your PDFs. Each instructor-led session becomes a course date with a venue or a Zoom meeting.
Move payments and links
Connect Stripe, PayPal or Klarna, then add Cademy's booking embeds to your website.
TalentLMS bills monthly or yearly (Enterprise yearly only), so plan the move around your renewal date.
Before leaving TalentLMS.
What does Cademy include for the price?
Pro is £99 ($129) a month billed yearly. It covers 1,000 registrations a year, 1 admin and 10 facilitators, with booking, the LMS and AI course builder, certificates with expiry dates, the training CRM, scheduling and pay by invoice with PO numbers, and no platform fee. Teams, at £499 ($649) a month billed yearly, raises that to 5,000 registrations and 5 admins and adds Xero and SCORM 1.2. Every plan comes with live chat answered by a real person.
Can a company book places for its staff on Cademy?
Yes. After buying the places, the booker adds or removes attendees and can follow each person's progress and certificates. From Pro, they can pay by invoice with their PO number printed on it.
Can I move my SCORM courses from TalentLMS?
SCORM 1.2 packages upload into Cademy courses on Teams. Other lessons, video and quizzes are rebuilt in the course builder. You import learners and records yourself on Free and Pro. Teams includes help from our team, and Enterprise includes a hands-on migration.
Does Cademy run classroom and live online courses?
Yes. Courses can be in person, live online on Zoom, on demand, blended or on request. Learners get reminder emails a week, a day and an hour before each date, and a follow-up the day after.
Book a call about moving from TalentLMS.
Bring your course list and a rough count of learners a year to the call. We will go over what the import looks like on each plan.
No card needed. See every plan on the pricing page.