--- title: "Chamilo Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026" description: "Review of Chamilo Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs." source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/chamilo-profile/" page_type: "product" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Learning Management System Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/) / Chamilo Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/chamilo-profile/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/chamilo-profile/alternatives/) # Chamilo Review Custom quote Free version Free trial 1 plan Wondering if Chamilo is right for your organization? Our Learning Management System Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - Integrations - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview Chamilo 4.7 [(50)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/chamilo-profile/reviews/) Pricing Pricing available upon request ### About Chamilo Chamilo is a cloud-based learning management solution that enables businesses of all sizes to develop virtual campuses for semi-online and online training. Created as an open-source platform with GPLv3/GNU license, Chamilo is used primarily by SMBs, large enterprises, public administrations and freelancers. Chamilo’s key features include certificate generation, SCORM support, courses catalog, configurations, compliance training, synchronous virtual classroom, blended learning and user authentication. The solution allows users to install web hosting solutions, create web content, manage learning methodologies, leverage auditive, visual and practical e-learning tools and handle staff selection. Additionally, Chamilo extends services such as document management to manage training cycles and SOAP web services for remote management. With cloud compatibility, Chamilo can be accessed from Android or iOS applications and support is extended via email and documentation. Wondering if Chamilo is right for your organization? Our Learning Management System Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. ## Chamilo User Interface ## Popular Chamilo Alternatives Main Product Chamilo 4.7 [(50)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/chamilo-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.56Ease of use - 4.75Value for money - 4.15Customer support - 4.53Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [Absorb](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/absorb-profile/) 4.6 [(358)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/absorb-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.50Ease of use - 4.40Value for money - 4.56Customer support - 4.34Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [iSpring LMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/ispring-learn-profile/) 4.7 [(195)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/ispring-learn-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.65Ease of use - 4.48Value for money - 4.84Customer support - 4.35Functionality Pricing Starting at $3.58 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Moodle](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/moodle-profile/) 4.3 [(3387)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/moodle-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.13Ease of use - 4.43Value for money - 4.04Customer support - 4.25Functionality Pricing Starting at $130.00 per year Get Price Alternative Product [Forma LMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/forma-lms-profile/) 4.6 [(192)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/forma-lms-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.48Ease of use - 4.63Value for money - 4.52Customer support - 4.56Functionality Pricing Starting at €98.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Thinkific](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/thinkific-profile/) 4.4 [(206)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/thinkific-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.36Ease of use - 4.17Value for money - 4.17Customer support - 4.18Functionality Pricing Starting at $40.00 per month Get Price ## Chamilo Pricing and Plans Starting price: Connect with an advisor for pricing Free Trial Free Version Basic Pricing available upon request No plan information available Confused about pricing? 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Get a personalized pricing breakdown tailored to your specific needs—no guesswork, no generic estimates. ## Chamilo Features - Popular features found in Learning Management System Assessment Management Asynchronous Learning Blended Learning Built-in Course Authoring Certification & Licensing Gamification Learner Portal Learning Paths/Tracks Mobile Learning SCORM Compliance Synchronous Learning Training Management - More features of Chamilo Academic/Education Access Controls/Permissions Activity Dashboard Alerts/Notifications API Assignment Management Collaboration Tools Compliance Management Corporate/Business Course Authoring Course Management Course Tracking Customizable Branding Data Import/Export Document Management eCommerce Management For Schools Learning Management Self-paced Learning Social Learning Surveys & Feedback Tests/Assessments Third-Party Integrations Video Conferencing ## Chamilo Integrations WordPress Integration rated undefined from -1 review Drupal Integration rated undefined from -1 review Meta for Business Integration rated undefined from -1 review PrestaShop Integration rated undefined from -1 review ## Chamilo User Reviews ## Chamilo customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.7/5 - Total reviews: 50 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 37 reviews (74%) - 4 stars: 10 reviews (20%) - 3 stars: 3 reviews (6%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.6/5 - Value for money: 4.8/5 - Customer support: 4.2/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 --- ### Best open source LMS - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Maria G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have used it to complement face-to-face training and it is excellent, I recommend everyone to give it a try #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It's open source so is free. It's easy to use and its interface is very intuitive. It supports SCORM. The support community is very big and helpful. #### Cons It is complicated to install and configure, and takes a lot of memory, but once you start using it it's worth the effort --- ### Chamilo is good and free - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Chamilo is a breeze, easier to set up and use than most FOSS and proprietary systems. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Free AND easy to use! Not common for a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) #### Cons Not enough compatibility with third-party systems. (Mostly falls on third party's responsibility) #### Reasons for choosing Chamilo Cost. Admittedly a larger project might require a different evaluation rubric. #### Reasons for switching to Chamilo Cost, technical overhead, ease of use - training expenses #### Vendor response Thanks for your review. Replied March 2021 --- ### A very clean and easy to use educative platform (compared to others...) - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We set up our own installation of Chamilo and set up a virtual classroom for thousands of users. The experience was successful. We also had to fix some bugs that came with the platform. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Having used different platforms in the past, I can say Chamilo is very simple to use and understand by the end user. #### Cons At the team, we are not 100% happy with the architecture behind Chamilo. It's not easy to make modifications since the html code is distributed in hard to follow chunks all over the place. The fact that it's using an unsafe language like PHP doesn't make it easier. --- ### Friendly and reliable e-learning platform - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: María José M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We use chamilo to offer our researchers and teachers a place to create their learning courses, collaborative areas and support materials for very different uses. Right now we have over 30000 users enrolled. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The best thing of Chamilo is its usability. The great majority of our users require little or no support in setting their online courses and start using them. Both teachers and students. It has all the basic options you could expect from a flexible e-learning platform, regarding communication tools, authoring, testing, statistics...of course there are other platforms with far more options in each of these tools, but in my experience most users don't use them anyway. #### Cons It would be desirable to count on more plugins to integrate external tools. #### Reasons for choosing Chamilo The three of them were born from original Claroline and we loved its philosophy, but relied in the team that is running Chamilo, which, besides, has local support in our country and region. #### Vendor response Thank you so much for your feedback Maria Jose Replied March 2021 --- ### It is a very useful platform for learning and handling. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jennifer F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. App to be used more if you want to use it as a means of learning and more information to use in updates for seniors. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Super easy to use, it allows a quick learning in addition to the fact that the people who use it, are older, it allows it to be easier to handle. #### Cons With the updates, older people have had to be trained in its use, although afterward they no longer have problems. #### Vendor response Thanks Jennifer for your comments. We try to include everybody in opur design process when preparing updates. The old ones are always also on our roadmap so we tend not to do massive cnages in our interface to slowly move to new functions withou causing a massive breakdown. Replied April 2022 --- ### Chamilo work fine - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Benjamin R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Good alternative to systems like moodle, simpler to admin and easy to learn #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros - Free - Easy to learn - Easy to understand by students - Intuitive administration #### Cons - There are functions that do not work very well - I have not been able to get the email notifications to work #### Reasons for choosing Chamilo I thing that is better that others #### Reasons for switching to Chamilo To try other system than moodle #### Vendor response Thank you Benjamin. Regarding e-mail notifications, do not hesitate to ask for help in our public forum or reach a provider to solve. IT is probably related to your mail provider. Replied March 2021 --- ### A true blue alternative for Moodle that is just so underrated ... Deserves better recognition - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Akhilesh K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Well , I liked almost everything about Chamilo . 1) Open source and so completely free 2) Has an in built authoring tool that is so comprehensive that you will need to seriously plan your content before you start using its authoring tool . 3) Supports SCORM content 4) The look is minimal and yet with enough customisations to give a very elegant polished finish . Chailo is very easy to use and you will almost require no customisations . It works beautifully out of the box. #### Cons Although it supports SCORM content , some of the SCORM files I tried on Chamilo didn't work . That was the reason I had to move away . However , its internal authoring tool developed content functioned very smoothly. --- ### User friendly open source project - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jurgen G. - Industry: Education Management - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: October 2016 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Chamilo is really easy to use as a student. As a teacher it is intuitive but very broad. You can create simple basic courses (text courses with multiple choice quizzes) or really advanced courses (conditional questions, wiki, assignments, group collaboration, forums, ...) It offers a huge set of features to organize students in classes, work with sessions (date based set of courses) or single courses. It fully pulls the card of open source and is thus invested in reaching out to open source solutions like Big Blue Button or OpenMeetings for webinar features. Support could be better - while you have a very active (Spanish but also English) community, response from the developers is limited and happens if you're lucky. If you pay for support (which is cheaper than the paid providers), you get premium service though. I guess it's not really fair to expect premium service on a free product. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It's open source - you can tweak the code if you are inclined to Its very easy user interface Its very friendly community The social features in the LMS #### Cons Cluttered code - it's a fork of a fork. They are working on this though. Huge (both in number of files as in size of download) Lack of English certification/training --- ### We used Chamillo as a learning management system for our client - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Very short set up time for a quick e-learning project. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Perhaps it is important to mention our case: we needed not the "best" but "good enough" system for host a post-face-to-face training e-learning module and Chamillo just hit the bill. It is free, works almost out of the box and has a nice interface. #### Cons It's considered to be used in educational environments, so out of the box set up is typical for a school or university. --- ### Amazing! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tito C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Arts and Crafts - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The platform is really amazing. Easy to use and accesible through mobile devices. #### Cons Nothing. Right now everything Is working perfectly. #### Vendor response Waw, your review sound like music for our ears :) Thanks for your super positive feedback. Hope future versions of Chamilo keep providing you such a good experience. 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