Free gets individuals started. Paid proves the team actually learned. Everything else is marketing copy. - Free is genuinely good for one thing: a curious employee learning after hours. It never answers the team question: who finished, who is stuck. - Paid sells proof: completion rates by team, skill assessments, learning paths by role. You are buying evidence the lessons landed, plus who needs a nudge. - Start free for two weeks with five enthusiastic people. If they do not finish the free lessons, paid will not fix that. The problem is motivation, not content. - Tool-specific tutorials age fast. Train workflows: how to review AI output, when to trust it, what never to paste into a public tool. Compare training options by real pricing tier, and PrivateLLM deploy sets up a private LLM on AWS for $50 plus usage when the training covers tools on your own stack.