Overview
Totara is an enterprise learning platform with an open-source foundation, focused on workforce learning, compliance and performance.
Key Features
✓Open-source foundation✓Workforce learning✓Compliance✓Learning paths✓Performance✓Reporting✓Integrations
Pricing
Totara uses partner-based and customized pricing. Total cost can include platform licensing, hosting, implementation and partner services.
MyPass provides another open-core alternative with unlimited registered users and a free Community Edition.
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 “Request a demo”.
- AI features shipped
- 5 of 12: Course generation, Quiz generation, Content translation, Recommendations, Admin assistant. Announced but not shipped: Learner assistant, Semantic search. Vendor's AI page
- AI pricing
- Paid add-on · Native AI features 'available as an add-on to your Totara site' from v19.1 using the customer's own OpenAI API account ('Totara does not add...
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
✓Flexible architecture
✓Enterprise learning
✓Open-source foundation
✓Workforce development
－ Cons
✕Partner implementation
✕Technical complexity
✕Custom pricing
Conclusion
Totara is a strong option for organizations wanting an open-source foundation. MyPass LMS is worth comparing for its open-core and managed-hosting model.