NextThought 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

NextThought

4.8

(12)

Pricing

Starting at $119.00 per month

About NextThought

Designed for customer, employee, and partner training, NextThought is a learning management platform built for teams. NextThought empowers team leads to implement training programs to support learning, upskilling, and reskilling within teams. NextThought delivers consistent learning outcomes by incorporating seamless course creation tools, social learning communities, and learning analytics.

With NextThought, teams can quickly design courses and embed additional learning material within a matter of minutes. Users can view all assigned lessons and assignments, as well as course information in an intuitive learning dashboard. With NextThought's conversation boards, conversations and learning can all happen in the same place. NextThought also provides participation, habits, engagement, and attention insights to help teams continuously improve learning programs.

NextThought also integrates with different third-party software applications such as Salesforce, Stripe, Google, Zapier, and more. With support reps based in the U.S., NextThought can resolve any software issue within 24 hours of when the ticket was submitted.

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NextThought Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $119.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$119.00

per feature, per month

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NextThought 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 NextThought
Academic/Education
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Certificates
Content Sharing
Corporate/Business
Course Authoring
Course Management
Course Tracking
Customizable Branding
eCommerce Management
eLearning Companies
Employee Engagement
Employee Portal
Gradebook
Learning Management
Microlearning
Multi-User Collaboration
Onboarding
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Self-Service Content Curation
Single Sign On
Skills Tracking
Social Learning
Tests/Assessments
Third-Party Integrations
Video Conferencing

NextThought Integrations

Kaltura Video Platform

Vimeo

GoTo Webinar

Stripe

Wistia

Google Drive

NextThought User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

75%

25%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.8

Value for money

4.9

Customer support

5.0

Functionality

4.5

Have you used NextThought and would like to share your experience with others?

Jennifer V.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2020

NextThought Review

Overall our experience with NextThought was great! The team was phenomenal - Always kind and helpful. We went through three project managers during our implementation: [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] All three of them were on top of things and readily available to help us with whatever questions we came up with. Our project included some very specific integrations with our own software, and the NextThought programming team was easy to work with. I think our learners have really enjoyed using the platform, and we are pleased with the final product!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

My favorite part of this software is how simple it is to use. We were able to get our online courses created quickly. It's easy to re-enter courses and edit them if needed. We were also able to integrate NextThought into our own software and make a seamless login transition for our current users. The NextThought team was really great to work with throughout the entire process, and we are happy with the end result!

Cons:

The only con is that we are not able to choose the order in which our courses display for our learners. I understand that this is something that the NextThought team is working on developing, so we are hoping this will be a possibility in the future.

Lindsey J.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

2-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2020

Great Platform with Reasonable Cost

NextThought allowed us the ability to shift quickly to a virtual event with the staff skill set we currently have without breaking the budget. They were quick to respond, willing to adapt and listened to our feedback. Great experience!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Our small team was able to build out and implement our virtual conference quickly and easily from the administrator side. The learner experience was seamless for the most part with NextThought receiving very high ratings in the post-conference survey. The scalability of the platform is brilliant giving us the ability to build one simple course or a multi-day virtual conference with 80+ sessions. Learners are able to track progress and download certificates within the platform which is critical for our audience.

Cons:

The discussion feature on videos is not a real time chat therefore losing engagement and we can't track CEUs for individual sessions when using the platform as a multi-session conference module. Surveys were a little tricky. We look forward to the full Zoom integration, but we will utilize the LTI in the meantime.

Reasons for choosing NextThought

cost, user interface, scalability, CEU tracking, certificates

Paige K.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

Great Team to Work With

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Simple to navigate. Lots of options. Great support.

Cons:

Just the learning curve of moving training to a virtua platform

Lynne L.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2021

NextThought LMS Is our Choice for a Statewide LMS

The support during the evaluation and now that we have started rolling it out has been stellar. Quick responses to any questions.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Everything about this system was easy during the evaluation period. Easy to build courses, easy to take them, easy to track results. We needed an LMS that allowed for unlimited users as we are promoting a CDC healthcare initiative to every healthcare worker in Maryland. Many of these learners will return in the future for additional training. NextThought offered everything we needed at a very reasonable price.

Cons:

I have yet to encounter any functionality problems.

Reasons for choosing NextThought

NextThought and Coassemble both offered unlimited users. Accord and Canvas would have required monthly adjustments on invoices based on users. NextThought is a small US business and we did not encounter any problems during the evaluation. Their customer service from sales to support remains amazing.

Heidi S.

Verified reviewer

Human Resources

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

Looking for best quality for investment in an LMS?

Working with Next Thought's team has been truly wonderful. They listen, and help us figure out the optimal ways to accomplish what we need or want to within the LMS. Sometimes what we desire is "outside of the box," and they collaboratively partner with us to help us provide the learner experience we are after.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The fact that Next Thought very easily allows us to integrate learning assets from a variety of sources has been terrific. We can grow our catalog of courses pretty rapidly as we bring them in to this environment. It is very straightforward and easy to use.

Cons:

A missing feature is the ability for learners to keep a repository of documents they develop or work on associated w courses in the LMS. This would allow learners to continually access and work on a project (doc or slides) over the duration of a course - and choose when to have a course facilitator review and provide feedback.

Reasons for choosing NextThought

I chose Next Thought over others due to its simple functionality (it wasn't trying to be everything...just a solid LMS). The price point also made it a great system for our organization to use an LMS for the first time. I know we can continue to grow using Next Thought as the underlying framework for our learning experiences we develop and provide.

Ben H.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2020

A Great Partner

Excellent

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The collaboration component is easy and fosters spontaneous conversation and teamwork and increases information sharing throughout the organization

Cons:

The reporting features could be better but there has been much improvement and the responsiveness to request more functionality has been great

Reasons for switching to NextThought

More flexibility and capability with the product

Justin S.

Verified reviewer

Public Safety

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2020

Cutting Edge Technology Powered by Great People

We conceptualized a new product not found in our industry. NextThought helped us making our concept a reality through a custom adaptation of their existing platform. While their platform was instrumental in our success, the relationship we developed during the process was even more vital. NextThought went above and beyond to ensure our launch was a success. We hope our relationship continues well into the future.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The platform is user-friendly, modern, and is backed by a world-class support team.

Cons:

We would like additional user access controls and permissions.

Patrick S.

Verified reviewer

Sports

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2020

Nothing but good things to say about NextThought

My experience with NextThought has been tremendous. The software is great. The customer service is even better.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love being able to communicate with other learners/teachers from directly within the app. It allows learners to ask questions about the lesson as they are going through the lesson.

Cons:

I don't have any complaints about the software.

Carolyn L.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

E-learning made fun and functional!

They have a great help guide that included most of what I had questions about, but their team has also been fast and supportive as we launched our online learning during a pandemic. We are grateful that their platform was easy to use as it made it that much more possible for us to pivot and continue connecting with our students and barely skip a beat.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We love how easy it is to get content on there! We can use Youtube or Vimeo just by adding the link and everything populates itself. It's also a colorful and customizable site which makes it appealing for our students (11-17). The platform also has built-in analytics which is very useful for us to see what students are gravitating to versus not, which helps us continue to shape our lessons to be the best that they can be. We've seen students just intuitively start using the site and we rarely get questions on how to use the platform.

Cons:

I wish I could embed pictures directly to assignments, but knowing the NextThought team, they're probably already working on this!

Brandon T.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

Love it!