Custom eLearning pricing
Use our eLearning project estimator to get a realistic starting range based on your content, course length, interactivity, accessibility, and delivery requirements. No mystery pricing—and no sales call required just to understand the ballpark.
How pricing works
We price custom eLearning based on the effort required to design, build, test, and deliver it properly. That gives you a more useful estimate than charging a flat amount per slide or guessing from course duration alone.
Approved, organized content is faster to convert than rough notes, duplicated slides, or material that still needs subject-matter review and restructuring.
A direct content conversion requires less design work than a course that needs learning objectives, storyboarding, scenario design, assessment strategy, or a completely new structure.
Standard interactions and knowledge checks are efficient to produce. Branching scenarios, software simulations, custom animation, voiceover, and advanced interactions require more development and QA.
Accessibility, localization, SCORM packaging, LMS testing, reporting requirements, and stakeholder review rounds all affect the final production effort.
Project estimator
Answer five practical questions about your project. We’ll calculate a planning range based on typical production effort and our standard $110 CAD hourly rate.
Choose the option that most closely matches the work you need.
Choose the expected learner seat time, not the length of the source material.
Think about what learners need to do—not merely what would look impressive.
Be honest. Rough material is completely workable—it simply requires more design time.
Select everything that applies. You can also continue without adding an extra requirement.
This is a preliminary planning range based on typical production effort. We’ll need to review the source material, technical requirements, and timeline before confirming a formal quote.
Example project scopes
These are practical examples rather than fixed packages. Your final scope depends on the source material, learning requirements, technical complexity, and delivery needs.
Best for approved source material that needs to become a clear, professional, LMS-ready course without extensive learning redesign.
A more complete build involving instructional design, a tailored visual approach, and interactions designed around the learner’s job.
Intended for longer or multi-module programs with complex decision-making, technical simulations, multiple deliverables, or broader rollout requirements.
Pricing questions
Clear expectations make for better projects. Here is how estimates, payments, revisions, and changes generally work at Hiveminds.
It is designed to provide a realistic planning range based on common production effort and our standard hourly rate. It is not a formal quote. Final pricing is confirmed after we review your source material, technical requirements, expected deliverables, and timeline.
We can work either way. Clearly defined projects are often quoted at a fixed amount based on the approved scope. Projects with evolving content, uncertain requirements, or ongoing production support may be billed at our standard rate of $110 CAD per hour.
The quote identifies the deliverables, responsibilities, production assumptions, review process, technical outputs, timeline, and payment schedule. If SCORM packaging, accessibility, LMS testing, voiceover, or localization is included, it will be listed directly rather than hidden inside vague wording.
Most fixed-scope projects begin with a 50% deposit, with the remaining balance due at completion. Larger engagements may be divided into milestone payments. The payment schedule is confirmed in the proposal before work begins.
Small clarifications are part of normal collaboration. If a request materially changes the approved content, functionality, timeline, or deliverables, we will identify the impact before proceeding. Additional work is either approved as a scope change or billed at the agreed hourly rate.
Third-party costs are not automatically included. Professional voice talent, licensed stock media, translation services, or other external expenses are shown separately when required. Integration, formatting, and technical production performed by Hiveminds can be included directly in the project scope.
Have a pricing question that is specific to your project?
Ask us directlyReady for a formal quote?
Send us what you have—even if it is rough. We’ll review the material, identify the work involved, and provide a clear recommendation and formal project quote.
