Compare the available options for your educational platform
Examine in detail the five main solutions on the market. Discover the advantages and disadvantages of each option, and see which one fits your business best.
Subscription-based solutions
e.g.: Thinkific, Teachable
~€250-400 /month
- Lowest monthly cost.
- No installation fees.
- No additional operational costs.
- Doesn’t require technical knowledge.
- Instant use.
- Not suitable for all businesses.
- Not flexible (design, settings, etc.); it’s a globally offered service
- Functionalities are not customizable, and you can’t add specific modules.
- You need to learn the platform yourself and solve technical issues independently.
- Support is only available via email.
Hybrid solutions
Connecting multiple existing applications/services
~€500 /month
~€5.900 /installation fee
- Cheaper than building a custom platform.
- You can customize client-facing pages to a certain extent.
- Developers are easier to find than for a custom platform.
- Quick implementation.
- Multiple applications, modules, and services combined into one system, leading to higher risk of frequent issues.
- Requires an internal expert or collaborator for ongoing maintenance.
- Different support for each app, mostly via email, sometimes nonexistent.
- Not as customizable as a fully custom platform.
- Strong dependence on the teams behind the integrated modules, with delayed or missing responses to legal changes.
LET Platform - Rental
Lifelong Education Tech Platform
€899 /month
€5.900 /installation fee
- Long-term professional maintenance
- Support via email, phone, Slack, etc.
- Cheaper than building a platform from scratch.
- Future-proof: transfer users, subscriptions, orders, and history anytime after 6-12 months.
- Stable: processes over 250,000 orders and €11M, serving 80,000 users by July 2024.
- Know-How Transfer: 8 years of platform refinement saves testing time and costs
- Quick implementation: Fully operational in 2 weeks.
- More expensive than hybrid or subscription platforms.
- The platform isn’t owned by the client.
- Customization and module additions not available.
- The monthly rent is a cost, not an investment towards ownership.
LET Platform - Leasing
Lifelong Education Tech Platform
€2.499 /month
€5.900 /installation fee
- The platform is fully customizable to the business's needs and allows for the future development and integration of personalized modules, built from scratch according to the client's specific requirements.
- Long-term professional maintenance.
- Support via email, phone, Slack, etc.
- You have dedicated experts to help you make the best platform decisions.
- It's much cheaper than building a platform from scratch.
- Future-proof: transfer user data anytime.
- Quick scalability: Beyond the core module, you can instantly activate additional pre-made modules when your business needs them.
- Stability: Our platforms have been running flawlessly for years, processing over 250,000 orders and more than €11 million by July 1, 2024, managing 80,000 users.
- Knowledge transfer: We have spent the last eight years perfecting educational platforms. Iterative testing with clients helps us understand what works and what doesn't, saving you months of testing and tens of thousands of euros.
- Quick implementation: The fully equipped platform will be operational within a month, allowing you to focus on your business immediately.
- Risk reduction: When you work with us, you avoid the uncertainty of investing in an unknown business. Say goodbye to the risk of realizing after months that you chose the wrong development team, saving precious time that could determine your success or failure.
- After the 36-month leasing period, you own the platform.
- You can pay the remaining leasing amount early to become the platform's owner. It’s more expensive than hybrid or subscription-based platforms.
- More expensive than hybrid or subscription models.
Custom-built Solution
Platform development from scratch
Starting at €100.000
- 100% customizable to your business needs.
- Allows for future addition of tailor-made modules.
- Long-term professional maintenance.
- Support via email, phone, Slack, etc.
- Dedicated experts to guide platform decisions.
- The most expensive option, starting at €100,000 + VAT in under a year.
- Development takes 8-10 months.
- Requires a dedicated expert to plan and work with the development team.
- Results only visible after months, with a risk of needing to restart if the wrong team is chosen.
- Loss of focus on sales: If the client needs to focus on software development for a minimum of 8-10 months, it may divert attention from other important business aspects, like sales.
