Freedom251 › Virtual IT Labs Software
CourseStack
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Build | No subscription · 25 labs / mo · 100 credits / mo · public course publishing · Co-Author Agent 20 messages / mo · 20 custom images · additional credits $0.05 · 1 Creator seat · Creator Community · transaction fee N/A | Free |
| Small | Up to 100 labs / mo · $1.25 per lab at capacity · $1.44 / lab overage | $125 a month |
| Grow | Per month, billed annually · 25 labs / mo · 500 credits / mo · 10 Creator seats · networks · course bundles and subscriptions · digital certificates · Discord integration · 500 participant events · 0% transaction fee | $200 |
| Medium | Up to 200 labs / mo · $1.10 per lab at capacity · $1.27 / lab overage | $220 a month |
| Large | Up to 500 labs / mo · $0.90 per lab at capacity · $1.04 / lab overage | $450 a month |
| XLarge | Up to 1,000 labs / mo · $0.75 per lab at capacity · $0.86 / lab overage | $750 a month |
| Launch | Per month, billed annually · 25 labs / mo · 250 credits / mo · Bedrock LLM access · 0% transaction fees · 3 Creator seats · custom domain and branding · student VPN access · 100 participant events | $79 |
| Scale | Custom agreement · Custom labs · custom credits · creator seats set by agreement · LTI · SSO · custom academy design · priority support · event limits set by agreement · 0% transaction fee | On request |
As coursestack.com lists them, read 14 Nov 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from CourseStack's own pages
- Co-Author Agent
- The Co-Author Agent drafts lessons, quizzes, exams, and hands-on labs directly in the course editor. · coursestack.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Content and AI
- Creators own content they host, including AI-generated content, and CourseStack says it will not train or fine-tune generative AI models on course data. · coursestack.com, 14 Nov 2026
- CTFs
- CourseStack hosts CTFs with registration, teams, hosted challenge environments, dynamic flags, and live scoring. · coursestack.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Event limits
- Live events run up to 7 days with 25 participants on Build, 30 days and 100 on Launch, 365 days and 500 on Grow, and custom limits on Scale. · coursestack.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Integrations
- CourseStack offers a REST API, webhooks, and LTI, and says availability varies by plan. · coursestack.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Lab counting
- A lab is an active system, code workspace, or Jupyter workspace, and resets or power cycles of the same lab do not add another lab. · coursestack.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Lab environments
- Learners get isolated browser-based Linux and Windows VMs, multi-machine networks, custom images, VS Code, Jupyter, VPN access, and instant resets. · coursestack.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Maker focus
- CourseStack describes itself as a small team bootstrapping the product for technical course creators. · coursestack.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Payments
- CourseStack uses Stripe to process payments and says it never collects or stores sensitive card or bank account information. · coursestack.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Pay what you can
- Creators can publish pay-what-you-can courses, and the minimum price can be $0 so students can enroll free. · coursestack.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Runtime credits
- A 4 GB VM uses four credits per hour, and containers use 1.5 credits per GB-hour, so a 2 GB container uses 3 credits per hour. · coursestack.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Student data
- CourseStack says it will not share individual, non-anonymized student course data except with the student and the course creator or the creator’s organization. · coursestack.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Transaction fees
- Launch, Grow, and Scale have a 0% CourseStack transaction fee, and the connected payment provider’s standard processing fees still apply. · coursestack.com, 14 Nov 2026
- What it does
- CourseStack is a managed platform for creating and delivering hands-on technical courses, workshops, and CTFs with browser-based VMs, code workspaces, assessments, analytics, and payments. · coursestack.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Who it is for
- CourseStack lists cybersecurity training providers, developer education teams, software companies, training businesses, conference organizers, and internal enablement teams as virtual-lab users. · coursestack.com, 14 Nov 2026
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