For an individual, LinkedIn Learning costs whatever LinkedIn Premium costs, because LinkedIn no longer sells it on its own. The cheapest plan carrying it is Premium Career at US$39.99 a month or US$239.88 a year — that annual figure divided by twelve is US$19.99 a month. In sterling, £29.99 a month or £179.88 a year, about £14.99 a month. Both read from LinkedIn’s own pages on 21 August 2026. Before you pay any of it: if you hold a public library card, or you are at a university, or your employer has a licence, the same catalogue is very likely already open to you for nothing.
LinkedIn no longer sells LinkedIn Learning as a standalone subscription to individuals. What is sold under that name is a LinkedIn Premium subscription, which is why the price you are looking for turns out to be a Premium price. Below: the figure, the LinkedIn pages it came from, and the three routes to the same catalogue that cost you nothing.
The number is the least useful part of that answer. The useful part is why there is no separate LinkedIn Learning price left to quote, and that comes from LinkedIn’s own help pages rather than from a guide.
LinkedIn’s subscription overview article states: “There are two ways to get a LinkedIn Learning subscription: Via individual subscription (Premium) Via your organization (Enterprise).” A second LinkedIn article puts it more bluntly still: “LinkedIn Learning does not offer one-off, a la carte purchases of individual courses, nor does it offer individual LinkedIn Learning subscriptions.” Read those two sentences together and the picture is clear. You cannot buy a course. You cannot buy a Learning-only plan. You buy Premium, or your employer, university or library buys an Enterprise licence and you use theirs.
There is a tell that confirms it. LinkedIn publishes a benefits list for what it calls a Learning Premium subscription, and that list reads: unlimited access to the course library, downloadable certificates of completion, practice quizzes and exercise files, saved course history and notes — and then a Premium badge on your LinkedIn account, salary and job insights, unlimited profile viewing, and InMail credits. Those last four have nothing to do with watching a video course. They are the Premium Career feature set. If you buy “LinkedIn Learning” from the Learning site, what arrives in your account is a Premium subscription, which is exactly why the price matches Premium Career to the cent.
Before you pay anything, check three things. Do you already have a LinkedIn Premium plan, through your own subscription or your employer? Does your public library offer LinkedIn Learning to card holders? Does your university or workplace already hold a licence? If any of those is a yes, the correct amount to spend on this is nothing, and the rest of this page is a description of a bill you do not need to pay. Those routes are set out in full further down.
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There are five kinds of route in: a library card, an institutional licence, the trial, a paid Premium subscription, and an Enterprise agreement. Two are free to you, one has no published price at all, and the paid one is broken out by tier below because the tiers do not all include Learning.
| Route | What you pay | What you get | Where the figure comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public library card | Nothing to you | LinkedIn Learning for Library. Card number and PIN only, no LinkedIn profile needed. Certificates carry no name. | LinkedIn library patron FAQ and LinkedIn’s for-libraries page, read 22 August 2026 |
| University or employer licence | Nothing to you | Full Learning access under an institutional agreement, usually for current students, faculty and staff | LinkedIn’s higher education page. No price published — institutions are told to contact sales. |
| Free trial | Nothing for one month | A Premium trial, not a Learning-only trial. Payment details taken up front; it converts unless cancelled. | LinkedIn: “Your free trial for a Premium subscription only lasts a month.” |
| Premium Career — the cheapest paid route | $39.99/mo · $239.88/yr £29.99/mo · £179.88/yr |
Unlimited Learning access plus the Premium Career features | LinkedIn’s own Premium Career page, read 21 August 2026 |
| Premium Business | $69.99/mo · $539.88/yr £49.99/mo · £359.88/yr |
Unlimited Learning access plus the Business features | LinkedIn’s own Premium Business page, read 21 August 2026 |
| Sales Navigator Core | $119.99/mo · $1,079.88/yr £94.99/mo · £959.88/yr |
Includes Learning. An expensive way to buy it if Learning is all you want. | LinkedIn’s own pricing pages, read 21 August 2026 |
| Sales Navigator Advanced and Advanced Plus | $159.99/mo · $1,799.88/yr for Advanced | Does not include Learning. LinkedIn states this explicitly. | LinkedIn help: only Sales Navigator Core users have Learning access |
| Recruiter Lite | $170/mo, USD only | Learning is not listed on LinkedIn’s plan comparison for this tier. Treat it as not included until you see it in your own account. | LinkedIn’s Recruiter Lite pricing; feature list from LinkedIn’s plan comparison article |
| Enterprise / team licence | Not published | Organisation-wide Learning with admin reporting and custom content | LinkedIn directs buyers to its sales team. Any per-seat figure you read elsewhere is somebody’s estimate. |
LinkedIn’s own footnote applies to every price above: listed prices “may exclude Value-Added Tax (VAT), Goods & Services Tax (GST), and/or promotional discounts.” We are not printing a tax-inclusive total, because LinkedIn does not print one and working it out for you would be inventing a figure. Your checkout will show it. Fuller working on all of these sits on our LinkedIn Premium cost breakdown.
LinkedIn states it in one line: “With LinkedIn Premium subscriptions, you get free access to LinkedIn Learning, where you can take courses on business, software, technology, and creative skills to reach your professional goals.”
If you pay for Premium Career, Premium Business, Premium All-in-One or Sales Navigator Core, LinkedIn Learning is already sitting in your account. You reach it from the Work icon at the top right of the LinkedIn homepage, then Learning. Nobody sends you an email about it, no banner announces it, and it does not appear in the main navigation, which is the entire reason people who are already paying for it go and search for the price.
The exceptions matter more than the rule, because they are where money gets wasted:
If you already pay for Premium, do not buy anything. Not from LinkedIn, not from us, not from anyone. Open the Work menu, click Learning, and confirm the courses load. That takes thirty seconds and it is the correct first action for a large share of the people who arrive at a page like this one. If it loads, you are done, and you were never a customer for anything.
LinkedIn runs a dedicated product called LinkedIn Learning for Library, sold to library systems, and a separate higher education product sold to universities. In both cases the institution pays and the individual does not.
This is the least known and most useful route on the page. LinkedIn’s patron FAQ says patrons need only “a library card number and PIN to access content” — no LinkedIn profile at all. You go to LinkedIn’s learning login page, add your library’s identifier to the address it gives you, and enter your card number and PIN. LinkedIn’s own page for libraries describes a catalogue of “16,000+ Professional courses for your patrons” with “60+ courses added a week”, in seven languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Mandarin and Portuguese.
It is the same catalogue, but it is not an identical product, and the differences are worth knowing before you decide it is good enough:
How many library systems offer it: LinkedIn does not publish a count on its own for-libraries page, and we are not going to repeat the numbers that circulate in other guides because we could not verify them. What you can verify in a minute is the only number that matters to you — whether your library does. Search your library service’s site for “LinkedIn Learning” or ask at the desk.
LinkedIn sells a higher education version to institutions, describing the same 16,000-plus course library and 60-plus new courses a week, with access for students, faculty and staff, and administrative tools for tracking outcomes. LinkedIn publishes no price for it; the page ends at a contact-sales form. LinkedIn also documents an academic credit arrangement, where some learning paths have been reviewed by university partners and can count towards a programme — that is institution-specific, so ask your own registry rather than assuming.
Two practical notes. Alumni access is not standard and varies by institution, so a degree from ten years ago is not a route in by itself. And access follows enrolment: when you graduate or leave, it usually stops.
Many employers hold Enterprise licences and never announce them. Before you spend anything, search your intranet, or ask whoever administers your Microsoft or LinkedIn accounts. This costs one message and it is the second most common way people discover they have been about to buy something they already have.
Go and check your library before you read any further. If your library card gets you in, close this page and go and use it — you would be paying roughly $240 or £180 a year for something sitting behind a card you already own, and the only things you would gain are a name on your certificates and a Premium badge you may not want. That is a real trade-off for some people, and for most it is not.
LinkedIn’s wording is short and worth quoting exactly: “Your free trial for a Premium subscription only lasts a month.” Note the noun. There is no Learning-only trial, for the same reason there is no Learning-only subscription.
What that means in practice. You start the trial from the Learning site or from a Premium page; either way you are starting a Premium trial. Payment details are taken at the start, so the trial converts to a paid subscription on its own unless you cancel before the last day. There is no grace period and no reminder you should rely on. If you are trialling to answer a specific question — is there a decent course on the thing I need — put the cancellation date in your calendar on day one, not day twenty-five.
Trial eligibility is not unlimited. LinkedIn restricts who can start one and does not promise a second one later; the offer you see is tied to your own account, so the only reliable answer to “can I get another trial” is what your account shows you when you look. We are not going to state a fixed re-eligibility window here, because we have not verified one from LinkedIn.
Refunds: LinkedIn’s position is a flat no. Its cancellation article states, in as many words, “We don’t offer refunds for LinkedIn Learning subscriptions.” Cancelling stops the next renewal rather than returning money; changes take effect at the end of the current monthly period, or at the end of the year for an annual subscription. That is the single strongest argument for taking the annual price seriously before you click it: $239.88 up front with no refund route is a different decision from $39.99 you can stop next month. Our cancellation walkthrough covers the mechanics.
One more consequence of the trial being a Premium trial: if you burn it to look at Learning, you have also spent the trial you might have wanted later for a job search. If a Premium job-search trial is on your horizon, and your library offers Learning, use the library for the courses and keep the trial.
Search this question and you get several different monthly prices, all published under a 2026 headline, none of them citing where the figure came from. Most of the disagreement has ordinary explanations.
The only authoritative price for you is the one on your own LinkedIn checkout screen, in your own country, on your own account, before you confirm. Everything on this page — ours included — is a reading of LinkedIn’s public pages on a particular date, and LinkedIn changes them without notice.
We have no data on outcomes and are not going to invent any. What follows is a way of deciding, not a claim about results.
Paying is reasonable when three things are true at once. You have looked at the actual catalogue and found more than one course you intend to finish. You need certificates with your name on them, or you want the profile-linked completion record. And no free route is open to you — no library, no institution, no employer licence, and no Premium plan you already hold.
Paying is not reasonable in three cases that come up constantly. If you want one specific skill, a single course elsewhere usually costs less than a year of anything, and specialist platforms often go deeper on narrow technical subjects than a general catalogue does. If you are buying because a certificate seems like it will impress someone, be honest about whether the person you have in mind has ever mentioned one. And if you are already paying for Premium for other reasons, the marginal cost of Learning to you is zero, which makes the whole question moot.
The strongest argument for the annual price is also its weakest point. $239.88 against $479.88 for twelve monthly payments is a genuine saving of half, and it is the reason most people click annual. It is also non-refundable, and course platforms are the classic subscription people stop opening in week five. If you are not sure you will still be using it in March, a month at a time costs more per month and less in total.
For the adjacent question of whether the Premium subscription that carries Learning earns its keep on its own merits, we wrote that up separately: is LinkedIn Premium worth it.
We want to be unambiguous about this, because the rest of our site sells activation support and you would be entitled to assume this page is leading somewhere.
Searcora Digital Ltd does not offer LinkedIn Learning as a product. There is no Learning package, no Learning price, and no Learning order to place with us. If that is the only thing you came for, this page is the whole of what we have for you, and you should use one of the free routes above or buy Premium directly from LinkedIn.
What we do provide is activation support for LinkedIn Premium Career, Premium Business, Sales Navigator Core and Advanced, and Recruiter Lite: a licence seat assigned to your own email address, accepted on your own account, no password ever requested, and thirty days of support after activation. Our terms start at $25 for two months of Premium Career and $30 for two months of Premium Business.
The honest caveat, since Learning rides on Premium. LinkedIn’s documentation says Premium subscriptions include Learning access, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. But we do not sell, support or guarantee Learning access, our thirty days of support covers the Premium activation only, and if Learning is your reason for buying then we are the wrong shop — go and check your library card first. We are not a LinkedIn partner, reseller or affiliate, we cannot change what LinkedIn puts in which tier, and LinkedIn can move Learning between tiers whenever it likes.
Related reading on this site: Premium Career in detail, Premium Business, the free routes to Premium, Sales Navigator Core and how LinkedIn’s discounts actually work.
Sources: LinkedIn’s Learning subscription overview, Learning access with a Premium subscription, Learning Premium subscription benefits, Learning for library patron FAQ, cancellation article, and the for-libraries and higher education pages, all read 22 August 2026; LinkedIn’s own plan pricing pages read 21 August 2026. LinkedIn changes these without notice — check them yourself rather than trusting this page. LinkedIn is a trademark of LinkedIn Corporation. Searcora Digital Ltd is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially partnered with LinkedIn unless stated otherwise.