Look. We know.
Eighteen months ago we wrote a whole blog post about how seats and subscription models in eLearning were outdated and inefficient. We stand by every word of it. The 800-seat enterprise contract you renew every year because nobody can find the cancel button? Still bad. The "per-active-user" pricing that punishes you for having an HR department that actually onboards people? Still bad.
But here's the thing we kept running into: a small Canadian business with 12 employees just needs to get AODA and Health & Safety done. They don't want a sales call. They don't want an "implementation partner." They definitely don't want to pay $4,000 upfront for a platform that ships with cheerful US content about workplace harassment laws that don't exist in Ontario.
So we built the Xpresso Learning LMS, and we put a Free tier on it. Actually free. Up to 100 learners. AODA and Canadian Health & Safety pre-loaded. Zero dollars, zero credit card, zero sales calls, forever. If you run a small Canadian business and that's all you need, We mean it.
The paid tiers exist for the people who want more — SCORM and xAPI upload to bring their own content, certifications, event scheduling, the full Xpresso catalog. They start at $299/month, the pricing is published right on our site in plain Canadian dollars, and there's a 21-day free trial on every one of them. You can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel yourself in two clicks. No retention specialist will call you. We promise.
So yes — technically, we now sell a subscription. But the version most small businesses actually need? Still free. The thing we were against was making compliance training expensive and confusing. That part hasn't changed.
Spin up a Free org today and get your team trained before lunch.
