Overview
Chamilo is an open-source LMS for online education and training.
Key Features
✓Open source✓Course management✓Assessments✓Certificates✓Learner management✓Self-hosting
Pricing
Chamilo is open source and can be self-hosted. Organizations primarily pay for infrastructure, implementation and support.
From our research · checked 25 October 2026
- Publishes a price
- No
- 100 users, per month
- Not computable: no dollar figure on the vendor's site; the pricing page says “a free and Open Source e-learning platform”.
- Free plan
- Yes
- AI features shipped
- 1 of 12: Quiz generation. Announced but not shipped: Course generation, Learner assistant, AI analytics, Admin assistant.
- AI pricing
- Included · Free open-source software; no pricing page. The AI helper 'incorporates in Chamilo all the power of OpenAI/ChatGPT' (own API key implied, no...
Source: our LMS Pricing Index and AI in the LMS index, both read from the vendor's own website and re-checked quarterly.
Pros & Cons
＋ Pros
✓Open source
✓Free software
✓Self-hosting
✓Simple deployment
－ Cons
✕Smaller ecosystem
✕Technical administration
Conclusion
Chamilo is a practical open-source LMS. MyPass provides a broader commercial path with managed hosting.