Comparisons

Thinkific vs LearnWorlds: the answer depends on three things

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Our pick for most B2B sellers

Room to 10,000 students, group selling and invoicing from Grow, and zero platform fees with Thinkific Payments.

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Choose LearnWorlds if

You need SCORM without a quote (20 uploads on Pro Trainer), client groups, or 25 admin seats on Learning Center.

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Side by side

The published plans that matter for this decision, priced on annual billing. Read the caps and fees, not just the headline price.

The decision lines

SCORM. LearnWorlds publishes SCORM from Pro Trainer ($79 per month on annual billing) with 20 packages, and unlimited packages from Learning Center ($249 per month). Thinkific lists SCORM on the quote-based Plus plan only, so there is no published SCORM price below custom pricing. If a SCORM catalog is a hard requirement, LearnWorlds gives you a number today.

Client groups and B2B selling. LearnWorlds includes 1 client group on Pro Trainer and up to 10 on Learning Center. Thinkific opens group and B2B selling plus invoicing from Grow ($164 per month on annual billing). Both keep groups inside one shared school rather than separate client environments, so match the group count to how many companies you serve, and confirm delegated per-group admin rights in a demo because neither itemizes them publicly.

White label. LearnWorlds includes full white label from Learning Center ($249 per month). Thinkific removes its branding from Grow ($164 per month). Branding removal is not the same as a separate client portal, so see the white label versus client portals matrix before you promise a client their own space.

Admin seats. LearnWorlds gives 1 admin on Starter, 5 on Pro Trainer and 25 on Learning Center, against Thinkific's 1 on Basic, 2 on Start and 6 on Grow. If you need many staff logins, LearnWorlds Learning Center's 25 seats is the outlier here.

Learner caps. LearnWorlds counts monthly active learners: 1,000 on Starter, 2,000 on Pro Trainer and 2,000 on Learning Center. Thinkific counts 10,000 current students on Basic, Start and Grow. A large audience on a budget bumps into LearnWorlds' 2,000 cap long before it troubles Thinkific's 10,000.

Fees and entry price. LearnWorlds Starter ($24 per month on annual billing) adds a $5 fee per course sale; Pro Trainer and above charge no per-sale fee. Thinkific Basic ($40 per month on annual billing) takes no platform fee with Thinkific Payments, but adds a surcharge if you bring your own gateway: 5% on Basic, 2% on Start, 1% on Grow. Starter is the cheaper door, yet the $5 per sale and the 1,000-learner cap decide whether it lasts.

Which one for your situation

• You run a SCORM catalog: LearnWorlds. It publishes SCORM from Pro Trainer at $79 per month; Thinkific's SCORM sits behind quote-based Plus. Still test playback with your own package before committing.
• You sell B2B seats with invoicing on a mid budget: compare Thinkific Grow against LearnWorlds Learning Center by the two numbers that bind you, admin seats and client groups. Grow gives 6 seats and group selling at $164 per month; Learning Center gives 25 seats and up to 10 groups at $249 per month.
• You have a very large learner base on a budget: Thinkific. Its 10,000 current-student cap is far roomier than LearnWorlds' 2,000 monthly active, and Thinkific Payments avoids any platform fee.
• You are just starting and sales are light: LearnWorlds Starter is the cheapest entry at $24 per month, but budget the $5 per-sale fee; Thinkific Basic at $40 per month takes no fee with its own payments.

What neither publishes

Confirm these in a demo before you rely on them, because neither vendor commits to them in public documentation:

• Delegated per-group or client-admin rights below enterprise tiers, on both platforms.
• Per-client or per-group data separation. Neither makes a public commitment, so avoid the word isolation until a two-account test proves it.
• SSO terms and protocols by plan for LearnWorlds; SSO is listed only on Thinkific Plus.
• Exact API endpoints per LearnWorlds plan. Thinkific publishes API access from Grow.

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