Simple and Powerful Plans for Your Learning Platform

Here is how it works. First and foremost, we are assuming that you have done your research and have selected edX or rather Open edX for your learning management system and course authoring.

In this journey, you have noticed that there are two main options and some in between. In one hand, there is on-premise deployment of Open edX. You need to invest on hardware and technical know how and fully deploy and customize a fully functional platform for your institute.

On the other side, there is SaaS based and fully managed deployment. edSPIRIT is this. You do not need any hardware or know how investment in order to deploy Open edX. edSPIRIT takes care of all these and creates a fully functional instance in the cloud in at most 20 minutes. It takes care of  updates and technical support.

edSPIRIT instances are offered on a subscription basis.  You will start by selecting a plan. There are two plans with varying number of features. These are called Starter and Premium. The third plan, Enterprise, is for large institutions such as a Ministry of Higher Education or a School Board who might require lots of features and customizations.

As far as we are concerned a Starter plan is sufficient for most small to medium size institutes. If you are mid to large size institution or need some of our extra features, then you can opt for the Premium plan.

Both plans offer monthly or Annual subscription which also determine your billing cycle. The billing cycle starts on the day your instance is created. You can always cancel your subscription before your billing cycle ends.

edSPIRIT distinguishes between “registered users” and “active users”. Your learning system can take any number of registered users who can login and browse list of courses. Active users are those users who have registered in one or more courses in a billing cycle. These are considered as active users in that cycle.

We have tiered number of active users as shown in the slider on top of the plans. So they start from 50, then go up. You will need to decide how many active users you will have when you choose a plan. To be clear, a tier such as 50 means number of active users up to and including 50.

Our billing has two parts: a plan based billing, and a surcharge billing.

Plan based billing is a prepayment of a flat fee at the beginning of each cycle (month or year). If you are on a monthly plan,  your credit card will be charged a flat fee for your plan starting from beginning of month 1, and so on. Similarly, if you are on an annual plan, you will pay for your annual subscription at tthe start.

Surcharge billing is a post payment of a variable fee, if any, for any overage during a month. In both plans you may be charged a fee for an overage in any month. The surcharge of each month is billed at the end of that month, in both monthy and annual plans.

The surcharge fee is currently $2.5 per overage active user per month

Yes, our starter plan with a maximum of 50 active users is free of charge. You can use this indefinitely.

When you use the starter plan with up to 50 active users, it is free and so long as you do not exceed this limit, it will stay free.

However, if you exceed the max allowed active users in the free plan, then similar to all other cases, we will bill you for the overage at the end of each month.

Our customer success team are there to make sure you have simple and easy onbiarding and use your instance well.

However, if for any reason you decide not to use your free plan, here is what is going to happen to it: