Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Moodle

The 20 closest learning management system alternatives to Moodle, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 20 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Moodle? The closest matches are Coursera, Schoology and Odoo. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Moodle

Moodle moodle.com

Discover Moodle — the world's most popular LMS

Build an effective, engaging learning ecosystem with Moodle, the most customisable and popular LMS for education, enterprise, and public sector organisations.

Top 10K · #2,522 English 20 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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Summary by Claude

Moodle is an open-source learning management system for creating and delivering online courses, with Moodle LMS for education and Moodle Workplace for corporate training, deployable in the cloud or self-hosted.

Who it’s for
Schools, universities, businesses and public sector organisations
Business model
Hosting, subscriptions and partner services

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Moodle’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

Khan AcademyMasterClassWordPressInstructureDrupalBlackboardD2LUdemyOdooCoursera

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Moodle

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Moodle, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    Coursera coursera.org Top 10K English

    Coursera | Online Courses, Certificates, & Degrees

    Learn job-ready skills with online courses, Professional Certificates, Specializations, and degrees from Google, Meta, Anthropic, DeepLearning.AI, Stanford, and more. Start learning today.

  2. 02
    Odoo odoo.com Top 1K English

    Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo

    From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.

  3. 03
    Udemy udemy.com Top 10K English

    online learning platform

  4. 04
    D2L brightspace.com Top 10K English

    D2L | Online Learning Platform | Creators of the Brightspace LMS Software

    Created by D2L, Brightspace is the best LMS software for online learning and teaching. Discover how our online learning platform for schools and companies can help your organization today.

  5. 05
    Blackboard blackboard.com Top 10K English

    AI-Powered LMS for Transformational Teaching & Learning | Blackboard

    Discover Blackboard's AI-powered LMS designed for higher education, businesses, and government - enabling personalized learning, accessibility, and better outcomes worldwide. Contact us!

  6. 06
    Joomla joomla.org Top 10K English

    Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!

    Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.

  7. 07
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

  8. 08
    Instructure instructure.com Top 1K English

    Instructure: Leading EdTech for K–12, Higher Ed & Business

    Empower learning with Instructure’s LMS and edtech solutions for K–12, higher education, and businesses. Discover Canvas, Impact, and Mastery to drive success.

  9. 09
    WordPress wordpress.org Top 100 English

    Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org

    Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

  10. 10
    MasterClass masterclass.com English

    online education platform

  11. 11
    Khan Academy khanacademy.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    non-profit educational organization

  12. 12
    edX edx.org Top 10K English

    edX | Online Courses, Certificates & Degrees from Leading Institutions

    Find the online learning path for you, delivered by world-class institutions like Harvard, Google, Amazon, and more.

  13. 13
    RustDesk rustdesk.com Top 10K English

    RustDesk: Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions

    RustDesk is open-source remote desktop software for your own self-hosted server, a TeamViewer and AnyDesk alternative for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.

  14. 14
    MySQL mysql.com Top 1K English

    MySQL

    Open-source relational database management system

  15. 15
    Zotero zotero.org Top 10K English

    Zotero | Your personal research assistant

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

  16. 16
    Teachers Pay Teachers teacherspayteachers.com Top 10K English

    Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans | TPT

    World’s most popular online marketplace for original educational resources with more than four million resources available for use today.

  17. 17
    Quizlet quizlet.com Top 10K English

    Captcha Challenge…

    online studying platform

  18. 18
    Codecademy codecademy.com Top 10K English

    Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy

    Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).

  19. 19

    online learning platform

  20. 20
    phpMyAdmin phpmyadmin.net Top 10K English

    phpMyAdmin

    database administration tool

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to moodle.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Moodle uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Moodle is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

CMS
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://moodle.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
CSS & UI
  • Font Awesome asset https://moodle.com/wp-content/cache/asset-cleanup/1/css/item/thetheme__fonts__fontawesome…
Tag managers
Live chat & support
  • Intercom page source: widget.intercom.io
Cookie consent
  • OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
A/B testing
  • VWO page source: dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com
CDN
Hosting
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-includes/)
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:am…
  • Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:am…
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:am…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=W7_99ji-VWKb-PP3W8aCBPWzWRqZ1sZMubmTfz2BsnM
  • Miro TXT miro-verification=841f7413d07d8b6749fc00834046e0d1ef0514b8
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-eT5DYIzEdztUXrqqxPbGGmJY
  • Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:am…

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