# Skilljar review (2026): is it worth it? > External LMS for customer and partner training academies Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Skilljar is a learning management system for companies that train customers and partners rather than employees. A team builds a branded academy with courses, learning paths, certifications and live sessions, and can sell training through Stripe, PayPal or Salesforce. Pricing combines an annual subscription with a fee for active learners, and none of it is published. - **Category:** Courses & Communities - **Made by:** Skilljar - **Website:** https://www.skilljar.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a price before a sales call, as every plan says Let's talk pricing. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing Skilljar's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Branded academy:** Academy sites use custom themes and a low-code page builder, with HTML and CSS available for teams that want to go further. Essentials includes one site, Professional two, Enterprise three. - **Certificates and certifications:** Completion certificates, proctored exams and accredited certifications, with integrations named for LinkedIn, Credly, Accredible and Caveon. - **Selling training:** Courses, paths, subscriptions or training credits can be sold, with promo codes and Stripe, PayPal and Salesforce integrations named on the home page. - **Reporting and benchmarks:** Custom and scheduled reports on enrollments and engagement, benchmarks against other Skilljar customers, and training data that can be sent to Salesforce. - **Automations and live sessions:** Automated learner emails for registrations, reminders, completions and group assignments, plus virtual instructor-led training through Zoom, Webex and GoTo. - **API and SSO:** A REST API and learner single sign-on come with every plan. Admin SSO and content syndication to customers' own LMSs start at the Professional plan. ## Good for - Software companies running a customer or partner academy - Teams that want to sell training and tie it to Salesforce data - Programs that need several branded academy sites ## Worth knowing - No price is published: every plan says 'Let's talk pricing', so cost can only be learned from sales. - The price has two parts: an annual plan plus a fee per active learner per year, and the per-learner rate falls as volume rises. - Content syndication starts at $10k, the Data Connector at $25k and a five-language pack at $10k, as add-ons. - Aimed at external audiences (customers and partners); the page does not position it for employee training. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Skilljar builds a branded academy for customers and partners, with certificates, selling training, reporting and an API with SSO. No price is published: every plan says to talk to sales, and the bill is an annual plan plus a fee per active learner. It is aimed at external audiences, not employee training. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published. Cost is an annual plan plus a per-learner fee, and add-ons start at $10k, so we put it in the middle with no number to check. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan or trial is listed on the pricing page. - **Features: B.** Branded academy, certificates, selling training, reporting, automations, live sessions, API and SSO. The listing shows no gap in the core job for external training. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and building an academy means setting up content and branding. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with an API and integrations such as Salesforce, Gainsight, Zoom, Webex and Zendesk. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Skilljar's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among course and community platforms - Skilljar's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 23 of the 98 other course and community platforms we grade, and level with 21. - It stands best on features (B, above 56 of 98) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/courses-communities ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Skilljar you could make: online courses and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 54 of the 98 other course and community platforms grade higher. - You could make: Online courses and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Salesforce, Gainsight and Google Analytics among them, and has an API. - You could not: People on the other end: live sessions. No app builder makes those. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Salesforce, Gainsight, Google Analytics, Zoom, Webex, Zendesk, Stripe, PayPal **Tags:** Online courses, Public API, Reports ## Alternatives - [Thought Industries](https://toolgpa.com/tools/thought-industries): Customer learning platform with an AI knowledge layer. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/skilljar-vs-thought-industries) - [Docebo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/docebo): AI-powered learning platform for employees, customers and partners. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/docebo-vs-skilljar) - [LearnUpon](https://toolgpa.com/tools/learnupon): LMS for employee, customer and member training, priced by quote. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/learnupon-vs-skilljar) - [TalentLMS](https://toolgpa.com/tools/talentlms): Cloud LMS for employee, partner and customer training. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/skilljar-vs-talentlms) - [Intellum](https://toolgpa.com/tools/intellum): Enterprise learning platform for customers, partners and staff. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/intellum-vs-skilljar) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.skilljar.com/customer-lms-pricing - https://www.skilljar.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/skilljar Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).