# Ruzuku review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Course platform with live sessions, community and no sales fee

Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Ruzuku is a platform for coaches, consultants and independent teachers to build, sell and run online courses, including live cohorts. Courses, discussions, Zoom sessions, sales pages and payments sit in one account, and the vendor charges no cut of sales. The free plan allows up to 5 student enrollments at a time; paid plans remove that cap.

- **Category:** Courses & Communities
- **Made by:** Ruzuku, Inc. (since 2011)
- **Website:** https://www.ruzuku.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you teach more than 5 students at once, since the free plan caps enrolments at 5 across all courses.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 12, 2026, Ruzuku has a free plan, and paid plans start at $99 per month, billed monthly ($997 per year).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Up to 5 student enrollments at a time, unlimited courses, community discussions, live meetings, sales pages and payments.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | Up to 5 student enrollments at a time, unlimited courses, live meetings, community, sales pages and payments. Email invitations need a paid plan. |
| Core | $99 per month, billed monthly ($997 per year) | Unlimited students and courses, unlimited course invitations, live meetings, community and discussions, sales pages and payments. |
| Pro | $199 per month, billed monthly ($1,997 per year) | Everything in Core, plus white-label branding and custom domain, multiple instructors, certificates, a storefront, AI captions and 4K streaming. |

Read from https://www.ruzuku.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Ruzuku before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Pay yearly: Core $997, Pro $1,997** (Annual discount): The pricing page shows a yearly option of $997 for Core and $1,997 for Pro, which it describes as about $83 and $166 a month, against $99 and $199 monthly. Source: https://www.ruzuku.com/pricing
- **Nonprofit and education pricing** (Nonprofit): 501(c)(3) nonprofits, NGOs and educational institutions can get 30% off annual plans, purchase order invoicing, or a one-time $4,950 Lifetime Pro grant option. Source: https://www.ruzuku.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Courses and cohorts:** Unlimited courses on every plan, including live group cohorts, with videos up to 2 GB each (4 GB on Pro).
- **Live sessions:** Zoom meetings are scheduled inside a course, and students see them in their own time zone.
- **Community and discussions:** Each course has discussion areas for students, included on every plan.
- **Payments with no platform fee:** Connect Stripe or PayPal and take payment plans or subscriptions. Ruzuku says it takes no transaction fee; the payment processor still charges its own.
- **Certificates and branding:** Pro adds completion certificates, white-label branding with a custom domain, and several instructor accounts.
- **Support for students too:** The vendor says its support team helps students with login and access problems, not only course creators.

## Good for

- Coaches and teachers running live cohort courses
- Starting with a handful of students before paying anything
- Sellers who want no platform cut of each sale

## Worth knowing

- The free plan caps enrollments at 5 students at a time across all courses, and email invitations need a paid plan.
- White-label branding, a custom domain, certificates and multiple instructors need Pro at $199 a month.
- It runs in a browser only; the pages list no mobile apps.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Ruzuku runs courses with live sessions and community and takes no fee on sales. The free plan stops at 5 students at a time and email invitations, custom domain and certificates need paid plans, with white-label branding on Pro at $199 a month.

- **Value for money: C.** Core is $99 a month, or $997 a year at about $83 a month, in the dearer quarter of the courses category. Pro is $199 a month.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan with unlimited courses, community, live meetings, sales pages and payments, capped at 5 student enrolments at a time. You will hit that quickly.
- **Features: C.** Courses, cohorts, live sessions, community, payments and certificates. White-label branding, a custom domain, certificates and multiple instructors need Pro.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You build the course and its pages yourself.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with 4 integrations on record.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Ruzuku's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among course and community platforms

- Ruzuku's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 45 of the 98 other course and community platforms we grade, and level with 20.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 25 of 98) and worst on features (C, above 1).
- Its paid plans start at $99 a month, against a middle price of $36 for the category: 52 of the 65 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 17 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/courses-communities

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Ruzuku you would be making live video to hundreds of people at once. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $1,188 a year.

- You could make: Online courses: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: Live video to hundreds of people at once.
- You could not: A members' space with posts, chat and events that people keep coming back to.
- You could not: People on the other end: coaches and live sessions. No app builder makes those.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Stripe, PayPal, Zoom, Zapier

**Tags:** Online courses, Community, Webinars

## Alternatives

- [Teachable](https://toolgpa.com/tools/teachable): Online course, coaching and membership platform with its own checkout. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ruzuku-vs-teachable)
- [Thinkific](https://toolgpa.com/tools/thinkific): Course, community and membership platform for experts and academies. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ruzuku-vs-thinkific)
- [Kajabi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kajabi): All-in-one platform for selling courses, coaching and communities. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kajabi-vs-ruzuku)
- [Podia](https://toolgpa.com/tools/podia): Website, store, courses, community and email for creators in one place. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/podia-vs-ruzuku)
- [Heights Platform](https://toolgpa.com/tools/heights-platform): Course, challenge and community platform with built-in AI tools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/heights-platform-vs-ruzuku)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026:

- https://www.ruzuku.com/pricing
- https://www.ruzuku.com/integrations
- https://www.ruzuku.com/about
- https://www.ruzuku.com/faq
- https://www.ruzuku.com/terms

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