Free vs paid LMS: what is the catch with free options?

A free LMS can work for a tiny team or a pilot, but the catch is limits: users, features, support, integrations and compliance.

Open-source or free tiers often need technical setup and maintenance you provide yourself, lack enterprise security, reporting and SLAs, and cap scale. For anything beyond basics, especially compliance, integrations and a growing workforce, a paid platform's capabilities, support and reliability are what you are really paying for.