🆚 edX vs. Skool
- 📈 Skool is five times more popular than edX.
- 🌎 Skool is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Australia.
- 🌍 edX is more popular in Japan, Afghanistan, and Belgium.
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About
edX is an online learning platform founded by Harvard and MIT in 2012 that offers massive open online courses (MOOCs), professional certificates, boot camps, and fully online degrees in collaboration with universities and organizations.
It connects over 86 million learners globally, provides more than 4,600 programs from over 260 partner institutions, offers free auditing of most courses with optional paid verified certificates, and includes credit-bearing MicroMasters, expert-designed Professional Certificate programs, and AI-powered learning assistants.
Skool is an all-in-one online community platform that enables creators, coaches, and educators to build private or public groups, deliver structured courses, and monetize expertise through memberships.
It provides discussion forums, course modules with video and resources, paid subscriptions and one-time purchases, event scheduling, and engagement gamification with points and leaderboards.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🔥 13rd most popular in the United States in the Membership Management category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in the United States in the Subscriptions category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.


