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    ContentBuilder.ai
    Free interactive tool

    The free cost per course calculator

    See the real cost to build a course by hand — your team's hours plus any agency fees — and how much AI saves on every one. Drag the sliders, get your number. No sign-up.

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    $40 hrs / course$$60 / hour$+ agency feesAIWith ContentBuilder90%lower cost per course10× faster

    Your numbers

    40 hrs
    $60
    $0

    Totals your team's build hours at their blended rate plus any external production, and assumes AI cuts that cost by roughly 90% — your figure depends on course length, team rate and how much you outsource.

    Live estimate

    Estimated saving per course

    $2,160

    Building by hand$2,400
    With ContentBuilder$240

    90%

    lower cost per course

    10×

    faster to launch

    hours

    not weeks

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    The method

    How it's calculated.

    The cost to build a course by hand is your team's time — the hours to script, design, record and assemble it, at their blended hourly rate — plus anything you pay an outside agency. This calculator totals both, then shows the ~90% you save when AI turns your existing documents and recordings into a finished course in hours, not weeks.

    01

    Cost of building by hand

    Hours to build one course × your team's blended hourly cost, plus any external production or agency fee. That total is what one finished course costs you today.

    02

    Cost with AI

    ContentBuilder structures your existing docs, slides and recordings into a course with video, narration, images and quizzes — cutting production time and cost by roughly 90%.

    03

    Your saving per course

    The difference is what you save on every course you build, and it compounds with volume: the more courses you ship a year, the larger the annual saving.

    Why the numbers hold up

    The savings are real.

    ~90%

    lower production cost, reported by teams

    10×

    faster to launch a course

    3×

    more content, same headcount

    100+

    languages, no reshoot

    Aggregate customer results. Your cost per course depends on length, team rate and production — use the calculator above for your own estimate.

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    Cost Per Course Calculator FAQ

    The cost to build a course is mostly people-time: the hours to script, design, record and assemble it multiplied by your team's blended hourly rate, plus any external production or agency fees. A single professional course often runs from a few hundred dollars of internal time to $10k–$50k when outsourced — this calculator prices yours from your own inputs.

    AI does the heavy production. You upload existing documents, slides or recordings and ContentBuilder structures them into a course with video, narration, images and quizzes — so a course that took weeks of specialist time is ready in hours. The saving is the production time and cost you no longer spend.

    Yes. The 'external production per course' slider covers anything you pay outside your team — video agencies, freelance instructional designers, voiceover or translation. Set it to zero if you build fully in-house, and the estimate is your internal time only.

    Any structured course — onboarding, product training, compliance, sales enablement or a customer academy. The build model is the same; only the length and complexity change, which you capture with the 'hours to build one course' slider.

    Yes, and it's not gated — use it as many times as you like without signing up. Your work email is optional and only sends a PDF with your numbers. Book a demo and we'll build one course from your own materials, live, so you can see the real cost.

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