We build Prolaud, so we're not neutral — but everything below is verifiable, and we've flagged where Skolasti is genuinely the better pick. Decide for yourself.
Skolasti is a genuinely India-first course platform — UPI-era pricing in ₹, white-label, course content locked down with DRM, and a built-in AI assistant that answers students from your material. Two things send teams our way: it's priced per coach (so a team of five pays five times), with no free tier to start, and it's built around hosting + protecting course videos rather than the whole live-teaching-plus-community loop. If you want a free tier, flat pricing no matter how many co-teachers, live classes and a cohort community built in, and more than one product type — here it is. Where Skolasti is genuinely stronger, we say so below.
Skolasti
Today
Prolaud
From day one
The honest verdict
Prolaud is the stronger Skolasti alternative if you teach live, sell more than self-paced courses, or want a free tier. Both are India-built with UPI and ₹ pricing — but Skolasti is priced per coach with no free tier and centers on hosting and protecting course videos with DRM and an AI assistant, where live cohorts, a community feed and a whiteboard are the center of ours. We charge a flat fee (free to start, ₹1,499/month on Pro) regardless of team size, ship live classes, eight product types and marketing automation, and settle to your own Razorpay at 0% commission. Skolasti is genuinely better if hard content DRM (right-click/copy/print lockdown) or a 24/7 student AI assistant is your top requirement, or a single solo coach wants the cheapest white-label at ₹999/month.
Why teachers and creators move on
We've onboarded teachers from every category of platform. These are the same complaints, again and again.
Plans run ₹999–₹2,999 per coach per month, and the trial only opens from the Pro tier. A solo coach can start cheaply, but a small team multiplies the bill by headcount — and there's no free plan to test a real launch on first.
The core is unlimited courses with strong DRM (right-click / copy / print blocking, watermarking, domain lock). That's great for a video-course seller — but live classes, a cohort community feed, and a whiteboard aren't the center of the product the way they are here.
Courses and cohorts are first-class; memberships, 1:1 sessions, webinars, digital downloads, license keys and bundles — the other ways creators package and sell — aren't the focus.
Skolasti's pages don't publish a per-sale commission or a bring-your-own-gateway flow. We're explicit: connect your own Razorpay, money settles to your bank, and the platform takes 0% — verifiable against your processor's dashboard.
Selling the course is on you — there's no contacts CRM, no 'inquiry/purchase → email + WhatsApp' automation, and no abandoned-checkout win-back baked in.
What you get instead
Skolasti hosts and protects courses well. We run the whole loop around them: live classes, a cohort community with a feed + leaderboard, a whiteboard, quizzes, certificates and an analytics view — one login, one student record, one bill — plus seven more product types beyond the self-paced course.
Both of us are India-built — UPI, ₹ pricing, GST invoicing, Hindi/Tamil portals. The difference isn't India-ness; it's a free tier, flat (not per-coach) pricing, and a deeper live-teaching + community surface.
Your students, courses and orders export to CSV or JSON in one click on every plan, including the free tier. No upgrade-to-export gate.
Skolasti doesn't publish a per-sale commission, but it also doesn't publish a bring-your-own-gateway payout flow. We do: your own Razorpay keys, money settles straight to your bank, platform takes 0% — and you can verify it against your processor.
Free Starter plan, no time limit · No credit card
Side by side
Each cell reflects the rival's public pricing and feature pages when this page was last reviewed; dated figures say when. Hover any “partial” row for the caveat.
| Feature | Skolasti | Prolaud |
|---|---|---|
Free tier to start Launch and sell before you pay anything. | ||
Flat pricing regardless of team size Add co-teachers / TAs without the bill scaling per head. | ||
Content DRM (block copy/print, watermark, domain lock) Stop right-click, text-copy, download and printing of course content. | ||
Student-facing AI assistant (24/7 Q&A from your content) A bot that answers learners from your own course material around the clock. | ||
Live classes built into the platform Schedule, host and record without renting a third-party seat. | ||
Cohort community (feed, leaderboard, @-mentions) A social layer per cohort, not just a course shell. | ||
Whiteboard with templates Multi-cursor whiteboard with K-12 + brainstorm scaffolds. | ||
Product types beyond courses Memberships, 1:1 sessions, webinars, downloads, license keys, bundles. | ||
White-label / own brand + domain Your brand, your domain, no platform badge. | ||
Marketing automation + CRM Contacts auto-captured; purchase/tag → email + WhatsApp; abandoned-checkout win-back. | ||
Zero commission, payouts to your own gateway Bring your Razorpay keys; money settles to your bank; platform takes 0%. | ||
Workspace export (CSV / JSON) Per-entity + full dump on every plan. |
Free Starter plan, no time limit · No credit card
Straight talk
Pick Skolasti if content DRM — blocking right-click, copy, print and downloads with watermarking — is your single most important requirement, or you want its built-in 24/7 student AI assistant, and a solo coach can start at ₹999/month. Those are real Skolasti strengths and our content protection is deterrence, not full DRM. We're the better fit when you want live teaching and community, a free tier, and flat pricing across a team.
Other options worth a look
We compare honestly against each of these too — so you can hold Skolasti up against the whole field, not just against us.
How to switch
Most teams are fully migrated inside a weekend. You don't lose your roster, your courses, or your branding.
Step 1
Export your student roster from Skolasti (most platforms ship a CSV under "Students" or "Members"). Map the columns to name + email + WhatsApp.
Step 2
Bulk-import the CSV into /dashboard/students. We dedupe by email so re-running the import is safe.
Step 3
Recreate your courses — the curriculum builder lets you drag modules + lessons, paste video embed URLs, and upload PDFs without a wizard. Most teams get 5 courses across in an afternoon.
Step 4
Apply your brand — logo, primary color, custom domain. The portal-template picker has 7 starting points if you want to refresh the look while you're at it.
Step 5
Send a one-shot announcement to your students that you've moved, with the new portal URL. The in-app + email + WhatsApp dispatcher fires once; reminders auto-schedule if you want.
Stuck mid-migration? Email us — we'll walk through the CSV mapping or migration scripts with you on a call. No upsell.
The switching framework
Score each tool yourself, Skolasti and us included — these are the questions that actually decide it.
Questions to ask before you switch
Does it ship live cohort tooling that respects classroom dynamics?
Is my data exportable on every plan, including the free tier?
Will my bill stay flat as my sales grow, with no per-sale cut?
Am I paid into my own payment account, or does the platform hold the money?
Can I migrate over a weekend without losing my roster?
Start free — keep 100% of what you earn.
Launch your academy freeCommon questions
The dividing line is where the class happens. Skolasti is built to sell and deliver what you teach; the live class itself runs in another tool, so the record that took the payment never learns whether the student turned up. Prolaud runs the live room inside the platform — attendance, questions and progress land on the same student record as the purchase, which is what lets attendance weight an overall score and trigger a re-engagement nudge automatically. See the whole loop at prolaud.com/loop. This page also spells out where Skolasti is genuinely the better buy.
If your top priority is locking down course videos — blocking right-click, copy, print and downloads with watermarking and domain restriction — Skolasti's DRM is genuinely strong and central to their product, and a single solo coach can start at ₹999/month. If you also want a built-in 24/7 AI assistant that answers students from your content, that's a real Skolasti feature. We're the better fit when you want live teaching + community in the same place, a free tier, flat pricing across a team, and more than one product type.
Yes — both ship ₹ pricing, GST invoicing and Indian-language portals. The difference isn't India-ness. It's that we have a free Starter tier, flat pricing instead of per-coach, live classes and a cohort community built in, eight product types, and a marketing-automation/CRM engine — and we publish a 0%-commission, bring-your-own-Razorpay payout model.
Skolasti is ₹999 (Basic) / ₹1,999 (Pro) / ₹2,999 (Growth) per coach per month, with no free plan. We have a free Starter tier, then flat ₹1,499/mo Pro (2 seats) and ₹3,499/mo Studio (5 seats) — so for a team, you're not multiplying a per-coach price by headcount. Run your own numbers: a solo coach who only needs DRM-protected video may pay less on Skolasti Basic; a team that teaches live usually pays less here.
Partially, honestly. We watermark recordings and serve video through signed, expiring playback URLs, which deters casual re-sharing. We do not currently do full right-click / copy / print lockdown or domain-restriction DRM the way Skolasti does. If hard content-DRM is your single most important requirement, weigh that carefully.
Yes — export your student roster as CSV and bulk-import (we dedupe by email). Recreate courses by pasting your existing video embed URLs and uploading PDFs; you keep your current video hosting. Most teams move five courses across in an afternoon.
Nothing to start — open a free Starter workspace, rebuild a course or two, point a custom domain, and run both in parallel until you're confident. There's no setup fee and no annual lock-in.
Compare other alternatives
Each comparison is built the same way, so you can hold Skolasti up against the rest.
Live classes, a cohort community and your courses in one workspace, with 0% of your sales taken and payouts into your own account.
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See comparisonSame creator-mobile-first focus — with the deeper teaching surface and zero-commission commitment Indian educators ask for.
See comparisonClassWalla gives coaching institutes a branded Android/iOS app from ₹4,999/mo or revenue-share. We're the open-web alternative: a free tier, flat 0%-commission pricing, a cohort community and 8 product types — no app install to browse or buy.
See comparisonSkool is a strong paid community with live calls. Prolaud is for when the class is the product: a whiteboard, quizzes, certificates and a storefront, with 0% of your sales taken.
See comparisonCircle is the best-designed community tool here, with live metered at 10 hours a month and a 15-person room on its $89 plan. Prolaud is built for teaching live, with 0% of your sales taken.
See comparisonMaven is built for live cohorts and keeps 10% of sales, with a marketplace attached. Prolaud runs the same cohort at 0%, on your own domain, for teachers who already have an audience.
See comparisonFree Starter forever. No credit card. Cancel any day. The export button still works.