Intellum vs Thought Industries (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Intellum if

• Fits if you run large learning programs for customers, partners and staff
• Works for enterprises that want AI connectors on top of their LMS

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want a price, as none is published and the site directs you to request a demo
• Too light on small-team options, as the pages describe only enterprise programs
• Skip it if you want to try first, since no free plan or trial is listed
• Watch out: every audience shares one instance, so access rules need setting per audience

Pick Thought Industries if

• Fits if you run a customer academy and want an AI answer layer over it
• Works for programs sized to the 500, 2,000 or 5,000 learner tiers

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you want Lens beyond Free, at $499 or $999 a month billed monthly
• Not for you if you want a published Academy price, as Starter, Professional and Enterprise are quoted
• Watch out: conversational AI is billed per query on every Academy plan
• Tight if you want the API or adaptive paths, as they are add-ons on Professional

Intellum

• No pricing is published; the site directs visitors to request a demo.
• Built for enterprise programs, with named customers such as Meta, Google and Stripe; the pages do not describe a small-team plan.
• Each audience runs inside one shared instance rather than separate accounts, so access rules need configuring per audience.

Thought Industries

• Academy has no published price: Starter, Professional and Enterprise are sized per program, with learner caps of 500, 2,000 and 5,000.
• Lens is priced separately: Free, $499 a month (Pro) and $999 a month (Pro+), billed monthly; the page calls Lens Early Access.
• Adaptive paths, gamification and custom reports are add-ons on Professional; the API, webhooks and SFTP are add-ons there too.
• Conversational AI learning is billed per query on every Academy plan.

Intellum

One instance, many audiences

Customers, partners and employees each get their own catalog, sign-on, access rules and administrators, run from a single platform.

Creator Agent

Given a goal, an audience and up to ten PDF or video files, it drafts learning objectives, a lesson plan, pages and assessment questions for a team to revise.

Learner Agent

Learners ask in their own words and are pointed to courses they can access; answers stay within each person's approved content.

Manager Agent and MCP connectors

Admins can ask who is overdue or who registered, in Intellum or from Claude, Gemini or Copilot, and approve the change before it applies.

Evolve course studio

A browser-based studio for building interactive courses and publishing them to the LMS with no export step.

Standards and integrations

SCORM and LTI content, single sign-on, a data API for BI tools, and syncing of learning records with CRM and customer tools.

Thought Industries

AI-assisted authoring

Academy drafts courses, images and quizzes from a prompt or your own files, and keeps reusable templates and snippets across courses.

Branded audience sites

Panoramas are separate branded academies for each customer, partner or region: 3 on Starter, 10 on Professional and 25 on Enterprise.

Certifications and live training

Learning paths, assessments and certifications, plus in-person and virtual instructor-led sessions that are tracked like any course.

Selling courses

Professional and Enterprise add a course storefront with Stripe checkout, subscriptions and bulk team purchases.

Lens answer layer

Lens reads connected knowledge sources, such as a website or PDFs, and returns cited answers through a widget, an API or MCP.

Reporting

Content-level and scheduled reports come on every Academy plan; custom reports and a BI connector are add-ons on Professional.

Intellum

Pricing could not be confirmed. See intellum.com.

Thought Industries

Pricing could not be confirmed. See thoughtindustries.com.