Coursebox
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveGenerates full courses from documents and hosts them itself
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $30/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Prices are localised by visitor country and load client-side; the pricing page's structured data lists the entry Creator plan at $30 USD a month, with yearly billing giving two months free. Free covers 3 mini courses with a watermark, learners are unlimited on every plan, and Pro + LMS charges per extra admin seat; Enterprise is quote-only.
Use tool ↗About Coursebox
Coursebox takes a prompt, PDF or slide deck and drafts a structured course with sections, quizzes, assessments and presenter-style video, then hosts and delivers it through its own learner-facing LMS. Assessment grading, a course-trained tutor chatbot and certificate issuing run inside the same product, and finished courses can be exported as SCORM or LTI into Moodle, Canvas or TalentLMS instead. Everything is metered in separate AI credit pools for pages, images, tutor messages, video minutes and voice minutes.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page structured data lists an Offer at price 30, currency USD; plans shown are Free (3 mini courses, watermark), Creator, Pro + LMS and Enterprise, with unlimited learners on every plan (15 October 2026)coursebox.ai ↗
- Pricing page: Creator's dynamic SCORM needs an active subscription; Pro + LMS adds self-hosted SCORM, LTI 1.3, own domain and per-seat admin billing; Enterprise lists API, SSO as a $3,000 USD/year add-on and data hosted in France by default (15 October 2026)coursebox.ai ↗
- Australian company, co-founded by Travis Clapp and Alex Hey, launched 2023starterstory.com ↗
Is Coursebox legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Sep 2, 2019 (7 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar NameCheap, Inc., looked up Sep 16, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 1, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2023The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Coursebox, AustraliaOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Coursebox
Best value here is the unlimited-learner pricing: if you are training hundreds of people, Coursebox undercuts seat-priced LMSs badly. The generated first draft is a scaffold, not a finished course, and you will spend real time editing it.
Pros
- Unlimited learners on every plan including free, so cost does not scale with audience
- Authoring, hosting, grading, certificates and ecommerce in a single tool
- Self-hosted SCORM and LTI 1.3 export on Pro + LMS means you are not fully locked in
- Free tier is usable for evaluation: 3 mini courses, no card required
Cons
- Five separate credit meters (pages, images, tutor messages, video minutes, voice minutes) make real usage hard to forecast
- Free plan stamps a Coursebox watermark on course pages
- Extra admin seats on Pro + LMS are billed per seat each month, so the cheap headline price only holds for a one-person team
- SSO is a $3,000 USD a year add-on, and the API sits on the Enterprise tier
Best for
- Compliance and onboarding training where headcount is large and content is routine
- Turning existing PDFs, SOPs and slide decks into structured, trackable courses
- Solo creators who want authoring plus a branded storefront in one subscription
Not for
- Courses whose value is the instructor's voice and original explanation
- Anyone who only needs authoring and already has a good LMS — you pay for both halves
Watch out: The dynamic SCORM export on the Creator plan stops working if the subscription lapses; only Pro + LMS adds a self-hosted SCORM copy that keeps running, and that copy drops the AI tutor and other live features.
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