Best Scrimba Alternatives in 2026

Scrimba has been around for almost a decade now and offers 71 different tech training programs at a fairly cheap $45 a month, or $294 a year. 

However, they’re not the only training platform option out there, as there are literally hundreds of places to learn to code online, each with its own pros and cons. 

So how do you decide which is the best option for you?

Well, you could spend hours scouring the internet looking at every platform, or you can keep reading, and I’ll break down the best Scrimba alternatives that I recommend that are all in a similar price point.

Let’s get into it…

Mile-High Overview

Before we look at each course platform, here’s a quick comparison table for the skimmers in the audience:

With that out of the way, let’s get into each review and go through them alphabetically.

Codecademy

Codeacademy has been around for over a decade now, and have helped literally millions of people get their start in tech:

Trustpilot score: 2.4/5

They offer both free and paid courses, all focused on specific areas of programming such as Front-End, Back-End, Machine Learning, and more, with a HUGE course catalogue of over 800 courses!

Pricing

As for pricing, they have a number of options:

• They have student rates

• Team rates

• As well as a monthly membership for everyone else, with the price varying depending on what tier of access you choose

I’m going to guess that you’re probably the single-user option, so let’s break that down:

There are 3 tiers of access, with different courses and features available.

Free tier

The free level is $0 and gives access to a small section of their course catalog, some projects, and access to their community. However, you don’t get access to their information on how to get hired and lose out on some other features and more in-depth support.

Still, not too bad for free!

Plus tier

The plus level is billed at $29.99 a month, or $14.99 a month if you pay for the year in advance.

This gives you everything from the free tier, as well as access to the paywalled courses and roadmaps of what to learn to get X role, certificates, and more responsive support. You still don’t have access to the content on how to get hired, though, which kind of sucks.

Pro tier

The Pro level is $39.99 a month or $19.99 if you pay in advance. This then gives you access to all the career features.

With that out of the way, let’s weigh this all up.

Pros

• Some free courses to help you get started

• Price is pretty good

• Active community support (if on a paid plan) but still some community

• Programming focused content

• Skill paths and career paths to help you not just learn but also get hired

Cons

• Skill paths and projects are only available when you become a paid member. This is an issue as actively building projects not only helps you to learn more easily and more effectively, but it also helps you stand out to prospective employers while getting hands-on experience. Ideally, you want courses that not only teach but also get you to build at the same time

• Career training for getting hired is only at the top-tier price point. It’s such a vital part of the process, it sucks to gate it like this

• Their large library can mean some courses don’t get updated as often as they should

• Some students state that lessons can feel overly basic, asking you to just copy and paste code as a way of learning, so you don't get enough context to really understand what you’re doing. While other students say that as topics get more complex, the course structure starts to fall apart

• Even with the paid community options, students complain that it can take days to get feedback

Again, though, I would take some of these negative comments with a pinch of salt and do your own research. It’s impossible to get millions of users and not have some unhappy people. Likewise, it can be hard to have community support and stay up to date when you have 800+ courses and so many students. 

However, I will give one word of warning!

The vast majority of negative feedback about Codecademy comes from people taking free trials and then being charged for a year with no option to refund, so be careful to cancel if you take a trial and it’s not the right option for you!

Code with Mosh

Trustpilot score: 4.7/5

Code with Mosh has been around for a while now, and he’s a super nice guy with an absolutely huge following on YouTube.

He also has a private community and offers courses on popular languages and frameworks, as well as learning paths for specific roles such as front-end, back-end, mobile, or game development.

Pricing

As for pricing, he offers 3 options:

• You can pay a one-off price for some of his courses, which can be anywhere from $50 to $400 dollars each

• Or, you can purchase a membership for $29 a month

• Or $199 for the year 

Or, you can purchase lifetime access to all his courses and future ones for $678 (although he does sometimes have deals on this).

Pros

• Low cost

• Supportive community

• Multiple courses, broken down into set levels of comprehension

• Skill paths for careers

• Game development, which isn’t something many course platforms cover

• Training around passing the tech interview

• Great Trustpilot score

Cons

• Less support than some other options. Due to the high demand (and low course cost), Mosh isn’t able to provide direct support himself all the time. Instead, he fosters a community, so that each of the members helps each other on a private forum

Educative

Trustpilot score: 3.7/5

Educative is another great option with entirely tech-focused courses and a built-in code editor inside the browser to help you code along with the course. (In fairness, you can just open an IDE and do this with any other platform, but it’s a cool feature!).

Their course selection is currently over 500 combined courses and projects, with some being indepth programs you might find elsewhere, as well as short 1-2 hour courses covering a specific feature or problem:

Pricing

As for pricing, membership starts at $59 a month and then caps out at $129 a month for their ‘Premium’ tier. This has additional features to help you get hired, such as projects and career/skill paths:

They also offer mock interview questions thanks to an AI tool.

Pros

• Fairly cheap

• Huge volume of content. Some super niche which can be very helpful

• New courses made regularly

• Built-in assessments to test your knowledge and retention

Cons

• Courses are text-based vs videos

• Price gating projects and skill paths isn’t great, as we’ve said before, you need these to both learn and follow a structured path to success

EggHead

Trustpilot score: 0/5 (No reviews on the platform)

With a focus on full-stack programming training for Web Developers and over 400+ courses, Egghead is a great training platform.

Pricing

Their pricing model is also nice and simple at either $25 a month, $70 for 3 months, or $150 for the year. Better still, each price point gives access to all the same features.

They also have a lot of small, niche lessons around specific trending tasks, which is very helpful.

Pros

• Some free courses

• Low-price recurring membership

• A wide range of full-stack courses across multiple languages and frameworks

Cons

• Web dev focused. (So no cybersecurity training, etc, although there are some smaller courses around security issues)

• No community, but you can leave comments on each course video and ask questions

• No career roadmaps or skill paths

• No advice for getting hired

• No lifetime purchase option (not a huge deal but worth mentioning)

FreeCodeCamp

Trustpilot score: 3.2/5

FreeCodeCamp is an open-source, non-profit platform with courses covering a HUGE range of topics. They also have an active community, great blog content, and more!

Pricing

It's 100% free, and my choice for the best free learning option.

They have an active community, great blog content, and more! It sounds too good to be true right? So let’s weigh up any pros and cons.

Pros

• It’s free

• A large array of courses covering Web Design, Algorithms and Data Structures, Full-stack development, Machine Learning and more

• An active and helpful community

• Over 9,000 tutorials (varying between actual courses, blog posts, and YouTube videos)

Cons

• Some of the tutorials focus on you simply copying what's on the screen, instead of teaching you how it works, so that you can then apply it

• Free isn’t always a good thing

So what do I mean by this?

Well, the problem with something being free is that there’s no pain point of inaction, so you might never achieve what you set out to.

For example

It’s kind of like the difference between having a gym membership and having weights at home. 

At the start, you can be super motivated and start lifting and exercising in your garage, but unless you’re super strict, it can be easy to start forgetting that those weights exist. But because the gym costs you money, you’re more likely to go each week and hit your goals. 

Add in the fact that everyone else at the gym is motivated, and you’re more likely to push yourself harder and achieve your results instead of doing small bits now and then.

Don’t get me wrong, free is awesome, just as long as you can push yourself to use it and see it through. Our lead instructor was entirely self-taught with free materials and taught himself to code in a few months.

We also get a LOT of students who try this though and struggle and wish they had joined a paid program earlier so be aware. Maybe give it a try and then if you struggle to follow through on your own, look at the other options.

Frontend Masters

Trustpilot score: 4.7/5

Frontend Masters is my top pick if you already can code and are looking to upskill into a more senior dev role, as that's a large part of their curriculum.

Their main focus, as you might have guessed, is on front-end development, but they do offer some full-stack and back-end training courses to supplement this, along with beginner courses to help you get started.

Pricing

As for pricing, it's fairly simple at either $39 a month or $390 a year.

Pros

• A lot of fantastic content

• Great pricing

• Set career and skill paths

• Private community

• Good for people wanting to move into more senior roles

Cons

• Front-end focused, so it’s missing a few topics you might find elsewhere i.e., they teach app security but not a cyber security roadmap

Zero To Mastery 

Trustpilot score: 4.9/5

ZTM is my #1 recommendation if you’re looking to learn to code and get hired asap. That being said, we are ZTM, so I can understand how you might think we’re slightly biased, but let me break down why I think we deserve this (along with a few customer reviews).

You can check out all 700+ reviews (with 94% 5 star rating) here.

For now, though, let's break down what I think are our biggest benefits, starting with our pricing.

Pricing

As you can see, we have 4 options:

• You can purchase courses individually, starting at around $199 for in-depth courses

• Then we have our monthly membership at only $49 a month or you can join for the year at $299 and save 49% 

• We have team rates if yo uwant to sign up multiple members

• As well as a one-time purchase option for $1,299 that gives you access to all courses now and in the future.

That alone is better than most platforms, but then we take it one step further by offering a unique lifetime challenge.

It’s not a cost but a 100% discount.

Here's how it works:

If you login and complete 1 lesson per month, for 30 months straight, then you no longer have to pay for us and get lifetime access.

We even gamify it to help you stay on track:

Pretty cool right? 

This way we know you’ll follow through and complete lessons and get hired. Because that’s the other thing about us, in that we want to take you from absolute zero experience to getting hired as soon as possible. 

This is why each course that we teach is picked based on student requests and potential in the marketplace. i.e. training for languages that people are actively hiring for, have a future, and will get you paid well.  

It’s also why we don’t have a huge volume of courses like some sites, because it’s pointless teaching random dead languages that no one is hiring for. Sure, we want you to learn to code and all that cool stuff, but more importantly, we want you to get paid for it ASAP!

Because of this focus, we cut out any excess information from our courses that can waste your time. Instead, we teach you everything you need to do the job with confidence. 

No joke, but we’ve had people hired in 3-6 months, while others have gone from waiting tables to 6-figure tech salaries.

How do we know what to cut and what to keep?

Simple! 

Our instructors work in the industries that they teach, so their courses are designed to take someone with no skill and turn them into the perfect employee that they want to hire.

This is why employers are often amazed at the portfolios that our students share during interviews, and some of them even start training the team they just joined!

Not only that, but every single course is updated each year, or when a major change has occurred in the industry. So you can be confident that you’re always getting up-to-date information.

Simply click across to any course to see when it was last updated.

Beginner

Prompt Engineering Bootcamp (Working With AI & LLMs): Zero to Mastery

32 Hours •290 Lessons

Stop memorizing random prompts. Instead, learn how Large Language Models (LLMs) actually work and how to use them effectively. This course will take you from being a complete beginner to the forefront of the AI world.

Scott Kerr

It doesn’t end there, though!

A huge factor in being able to stick to a goal and learn something new is being able to get support and have people around you. This is why we have an incredibly active and supportive community, with a private Discord server with over 500,000 members.

That server is then broken down by topics and careers so you can ask specific questions and get replies from your instructors, fellow students, and other working tech professionals.

We also run live events, cohort sprints, private AMA calls, and more. All the benefits of boot camps or in-person events, without the price tag!

TL;DR

If you want to get a job in tech asap, then we believe we have everything in place to help you get there fast, which is why we’ve had students hired at Amazon, Tesla, Google, Oracle, and many, many more - some as their very first tech job!

Check out some of their stories here and more testimonials here.

Pros

• Low price

• One-off purchase offer

• Lifetime free access upon completing the lifetime challenge

• Designed to help you get hired asap with zero prior experience

• Thriving community

• Frequently updated

Cons

• We don’t offer a free plan, although we have released some introductory courses over on our YouTube channel

For example

Here’s the first 8 hours of our complete Python developer course:

This way, you get an idea of our courses and can get started for free!

So which will you choose?

Hopefully this guide has helped you clear up some questions you might have about the best Scrimba alternatives, so you can decide the best coding platform for your needs.

Still not sure which to choose?

Well, these 3 are my best choice depending on your situation:

• ⭐ Best free platform: FreeCodeCamp

• ⭐ Best for beginners who want to get hired ASAP: Zero To Mastery

• ⭐ Best for upskilling: Frontend Masters

Don’t just take my word for it, though. Check out each option and give them a trial, and see which you prefer.

You’ll be amazed at how fast your life can change once you join any of these platforms!