[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":554},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-ppt-to-scorm-conversion-cost-2026":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"description":536,"draft":537,"extension":538,"meta":539,"navigation":544,"path":545,"publishedAt":546,"seo":547,"stem":548,"tags":549,"updatedAt":546,"__hash__":553},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fppt-to-scorm-conversion-cost-2026.md","How much does PowerPoint-to-SCORM conversion cost in 2026?","Larry \u002F LOST END FOUND LTD",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":522},"minimark",[10,14,19,27,31,98,101,105,114,117,120,133,136,147,151,154,233,240,243,254,256,267,271,274,277,280,348,366,370,373,376,387,390,395,399,402,405,426,429,433,436,478,482,489,495,498,501,505],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Most quotes for PowerPoint-to-SCORM conversion arrive without numbers attached — \"we'll need to scope this first\" — which is unhelpful when you're trying to compare four vendors and an authoring-tool subscription on the same spreadsheet. So here's the whole market in one post, with the prices we could verify in April 2026.",[15,16,18],"h2",{"id":17},"what-does-powerpoint-to-scorm-conversion-cost","What does PowerPoint-to-SCORM conversion cost?",[11,20,21,22,26],{},"PowerPoint-to-SCORM conversion in 2026 costs anywhere from £0 (a free converter that probably won't render on mobile) to £5,000+ per deck (a bespoke agency rebuild). Most paid conversions land in the ",[23,24,25],"strong",{},"£150–£2,000 per deck"," range. The price is driven by slide count, narration, branching logic, accessibility requirements, and whether you need SCORM 2004 or 1.2.",[15,28,30],{"id":29},"the-four-price-tiers-at-a-glance","The four price tiers, at a glance",[32,33,34,50],"table",{},[35,36,37],"thead",{},[38,39,40,44,47],"tr",{},[41,42,43],"th",{},"Tier",[41,45,46],{},"Typical cost",[41,48,49],{},"When it fits",[51,52,53,65,76,87],"tbody",{},[38,54,55,59,62],{},[56,57,58],"td",{},"Free converters",[56,60,61],{},"£0",[56,63,64],{},"Throwaway internal content, prototypes",[38,66,67,70,73],{},[56,68,69],{},"Authoring-tool licence",[56,71,72],{},"£300–£1,500 \u002F year",[56,74,75],{},"DIY, in-house designer, ≥3 decks \u002F year",[38,77,78,81,84],{},[56,79,80],{},"Conversion services",[56,82,83],{},"£150–£2,000+ per deck",[56,85,86],{},"Finished deck, no in-house authoring",[38,88,89,92,95],{},[56,90,91],{},"Bespoke agency rebuild",[56,93,94],{},"£5,000+ per deck",[56,96,97],{},"Multi-course programmes, regulated content",[11,99,100],{},"The right choice is almost entirely a function of volume and complexity. The rest of this post breaks each tier down with concrete numbers.",[15,102,104],{"id":103},"tier-1-free-converters-0","Tier 1 — Free converters (£0)",[11,106,107,108,113],{},"iSpring publishes a free version of its converter. SCORM Cloud has a free tier. PowerPoint itself can technically export to a video that some LMSs will accept. None of these reliably produce a SCORM 1.2 package that works on mobile — for the technical reasons, see ",[109,110,112],"a",{"href":111},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-free-ppt-to-scorm-tools-fail-on-mobile","why free PPT-to-SCORM tools fail on mobile",".",[11,115,116],{},"The headline price is zero. The total cost depends on what you do when the package doesn't track completion in your LMS and IT has to step in.",[11,118,119],{},"When free works:",[121,122,123,127,130],"ul",{},[124,125,126],"li",{},"You're proofing a course internally.",[124,128,129],{},"The audience is a single browser, single OS, single LMS that you've tested against.",[124,131,132],{},"Nobody is being assessed on the result.",[11,134,135],{},"When it doesn't:",[121,137,138,141,144],{},[124,139,140],{},"The course needs to run on mobile.",[124,142,143],{},"The deck has narration, branching, or embedded video.",[124,145,146],{},"The completion data has to be reportable for compliance.",[15,148,150],{"id":149},"tier-2-authoring-tool-licences-3001500-year","Tier 2 — Authoring-tool licences (£300–£1,500 \u002F year)",[11,152,153],{},"This is the DIY route. You buy an authoring tool, your team learns it, you rebuild each deck inside it, and you publish to SCORM yourselves.",[32,155,156,169],{},[35,157,158],{},[38,159,160,163,166],{},[41,161,162],{},"Tool",[41,164,165],{},"Price (April 2026)",[41,167,168],{},"Notes",[51,170,171,188,202,217],{},[38,172,173,176,179],{},[56,174,175],{},"Articulate 360 — Personal",[56,177,178],{},"$1,449 \u002F user \u002F year (~£1,150)",[56,180,181,182,113],{},"Industry standard. Steep learning curve. Source: ",[109,183,187],{"href":184,"rel":185},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.articulate.com\u002F360\u002Fpricing\u002F",[186],"nofollow","articulate.com",[38,189,190,193,196],{},[56,191,192],{},"Articulate 360 — Teams",[56,194,195],{},"$1,749 \u002F user \u002F year (~£1,390)",[56,197,198,199,113],{},"Adds team review, asset library, shared folders. Source: ",[109,200,187],{"href":184,"rel":201},[186],[38,203,204,207,214],{},[56,205,206],{},"iSpring Suite Max",[56,208,209,213],{},[210,211,212],"del",{},"$970 \u002F author \u002F year (","£770)",[56,215,216],{},"Plugs into PowerPoint, gentler learning curve. Source: industry pricing data via G2 \u002F Capterra, April 2026.",[38,218,219,222,225],{},[56,220,221],{},"Adobe Captivate — Individual",[56,223,224],{},"$33.99 \u002F month (~£320 \u002F year)",[56,226,227,228,113],{},"Cheapest sticker price. Team pricing is quote-only. Source: ",[109,229,232],{"href":230,"rel":231},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.adobe.com\u002Fproducts\u002Fcaptivate\u002Fbuying-guide.html",[186],"adobe.com",[11,234,235,236,239],{},"These look reasonable until you do the seat maths. A team of three on Articulate 360 Teams is over $5,200\u002Fyear before they've published a single course. And the licence is just the entry fee — a PowerPoint deck does not author itself. Plan on ",[23,237,238],{},"4–8 hours of designer time per slide"," for a polished rebuild in Storyline; less in Rise or iSpring, but rarely below 1–2 hours.",[11,241,242],{},"When DIY maths works:",[121,244,245,248,251],{},[124,246,247],{},"You publish at least three courses a year.",[124,249,250],{},"You have (or will hire) someone with authoring-tool experience.",[124,252,253],{},"Each course has a long shelf life, so the rebuild amortises.",[11,255,135],{},[121,257,258,261,264],{},[124,259,260],{},"One-off compliance deck — the licence alone costs more than a one-off conversion service.",[124,262,263],{},"Tight deadline — a new author will not move fast.",[124,265,266],{},"The source is a 200-slide Word document, not a finished deck.",[15,268,270],{"id":269},"tier-3-conversion-services-1502000-per-deck","Tier 3 — Conversion services (£150–£2,000+ per deck)",[11,272,273],{},"This is what we do, and what most readers landing on this post are probably here for. You send us the .pptx, we send you a working SCORM package. No licence, no rebuild, no learning curve.",[11,275,276],{},"Other vendors operate in this band too — typical per-slide rates for straight conversions sit somewhere between £8 and £30 per slide, useful as a sanity check on any quote you receive.",[11,278,279],{},"Our published prices:",[32,281,282,294],{},[35,283,284],{},[38,285,286,288,291],{},[41,287,43],{},[41,289,290],{},"Price (GBP)",[41,292,293],{},"What you get",[51,295,296,309,322,335],{},[38,297,298,303,306],{},[56,299,300],{},[23,301,302],{},"Basic",[56,304,305],{},"£150 + tax",[56,307,308],{},"SCORM 1.2 package, slide-by-slide navigation, completion tracking, self-serve upload — converted and emailed within minutes.",[38,310,311,316,319],{},[56,312,313],{},[23,314,315],{},"Enhanced",[56,317,318],{},"from £450 per deck",[56,320,321],{},"Everything in Basic, plus narration support, embedded quiz, embedded video, branching, mobile-responsive layout.",[38,323,324,329,332],{},[56,325,326],{},[23,327,328],{},"Premium",[56,330,331],{},"from £1,200 per deck",[56,333,334],{},"Full rebuild in Rise or Storyline, WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility pass, SCORM 1.2 + 2004, suspend-data optimisation.",[38,336,337,342,345],{},[56,338,339],{},[23,340,341],{},"Custom",[56,343,344],{},"Quote on request",[56,346,347],{},"Multi-course programmes, translation and localisation, xAPI \u002F cmi5, custom LMS integration.",[11,349,350,351,355,356,360,361,365],{},"USD, EUR, CAD, AUD, and JPY equivalents are listed on ",[109,352,354],{"href":353},"\u002F#pricing","our pricing section",". For a Basic-fit deck the fastest path is the ",[109,357,359],{"href":358},"\u002Fconvert","self-serve converter"," — upload, pay, the SCORM zip arrives by email in a few minutes. For Enhanced or Premium, ",[109,362,364],{"href":363},"\u002Fquote","request a quote"," and we'll price against the actual content.",[15,367,369],{"id":368},"tier-4-bespoke-agencies-5000-per-deck","Tier 4 — Bespoke agencies (£5,000+ per deck)",[11,371,372],{},"Specialist eLearning agencies start around £5,000 per finished deck and go up past £20,000 for a fully scripted, voice-recorded, animated rebuild with custom illustration. The pricing reflects what they do — discovery workshops, learning-design consultancy, scriptwriting, voice-over recording, motion graphics, accessibility audit, often a full SME interview pass.",[11,374,375],{},"When this is the right fit:",[121,377,378,381,384],{},[124,379,380],{},"Regulated content (FCA, GDPR, medical, aviation) where you need a learning-design pass, not just a conversion.",[124,382,383],{},"The deck is the centrepiece of a multi-course programme with shared branding.",[124,385,386],{},"You don't have a source PowerPoint — you have a Word document or a draft script that needs structuring into a course first.",[11,388,389],{},"When it's not:",[121,391,392],{},[124,393,394],{},"You already have a finished PowerPoint and just need it on the LMS. A conversion service is half the price and faster.",[15,396,398],{"id":397},"the-hidden-cost-of-free","The hidden cost of \"free\"",[11,400,401],{},"The sticker price is one part of the story. The other part is what happens when a free or DIY route produces a package that fails in production.",[11,403,404],{},"Three things actually cost money:",[406,407,408,414,420],"ol",{},[124,409,410,413],{},[23,411,412],{},"Internal time diagnosing failures."," A failed SCORM upload becomes an IT ticket. IT escalates to L&D. L&D escalates back to whoever ran the conversion. By the time the loop closes, you've burned a week on a deck you thought was ready.",[124,415,416,419],{},[23,417,418],{},"Rebuilds."," If a free converter produces a package that doesn't track completion on mobile, the deck has to be rebuilt — usually in an authoring tool or by a service like ours. You pay twice, and the second invoice is rarely smaller than the first.",[124,421,422,425],{},[23,423,424],{},"Compliance slippage."," Compliance training has a deadline. A broken conversion that misses the deadline is not a £150 problem; it's a regulator problem.",[11,427,428],{},"This is why the \"obvious\" cheap route often isn't.",[15,430,432],{"id":431},"what-actually-drives-the-price","What actually drives the price",[11,434,435],{},"If you're getting quotes from three vendors and the numbers are wildly different, it's usually because each one is scoping a different job. The drivers are predictable:",[121,437,438,444,450,456,462,472],{},[124,439,440,443],{},[23,441,442],{},"Slide count."," A 20-slide deck and a 200-slide deck are not the same job. Most services charge per slide above a threshold; ours scales with deck size, and longer or more complex decks land in Enhanced or Premium rather than Basic.",[124,445,446,449],{},[23,447,448],{},"Narration."," Recorded voice-over multiplies cost. Synthetic narration is much cheaper but isn't appropriate everywhere — accents, pronunciation of jargon, emotional tone all matter for compliance and customer-facing training.",[124,451,452,455],{},[23,453,454],{},"Branching."," Linear courses are cheap. Branching adds authoring time and often pushes you out of pure conversion into rebuild territory.",[124,457,458,461],{},[23,459,460],{},"Multilingual."," Each language is effectively a new build. Translation memory helps; it doesn't make it free.",[124,463,464,467,468,113],{},[23,465,466],{},"SCORM version."," SCORM 1.2 is the default and works almost everywhere. SCORM 2004 (3rd or 4th edition) costs more because the testing surface is larger. We cover the trade-off in ",[109,469,471],{"href":470},"\u002Fblog\u002Fscorm-1-2-vs-2004-for-powerpoint","SCORM 1.2 vs 2004 for PowerPoint",[124,473,474,477],{},[23,475,476],{},"Accessibility."," A WCAG 2.2 AA pass is its own piece of work — alt text, focus order, captions, keyboard navigation, screen-reader testing. Build it in from the start; retrofits are expensive.",[15,479,481],{"id":480},"what-wed-recommend","What we'd recommend",[11,483,484,485,488],{},"If you have one finished PowerPoint deck and you need it on the LMS this week, a conversion service is the right answer. ",[109,486,487],{"href":358},"Upload it on \u002Fconvert"," — Basic at £150 + tax fits a straightforward, linear deck and is returned by email in minutes.",[11,490,491,492,494],{},"If the deck has narration, branching, or needs to be mobile-responsive, ",[109,493,364],{"href":363}," and we'll price Enhanced or Premium against the actual content.",[11,496,497],{},"If you're publishing several courses a year with an in-house designer who already knows Storyline or iSpring, an authoring-tool licence will pay for itself by the third deck.",[11,499,500],{},"If you're commissioning a regulated multi-course programme from a blank Word document, a bespoke agency is the right tool. We are not that tool, and we'll tell you so.",[15,502,504],{"id":503},"tldr","TL;DR",[121,506,507,510,513,516,519],{},[124,508,509],{},"Free converters cost nothing up front and a lot when they break on mobile.",[124,511,512],{},"Authoring tools (Articulate 360, iSpring, Captivate) cost roughly £300–£1,500 per author per year, plus the time to use them.",[124,514,515],{},"Conversion services like ours run £150 for a straightforward deck up to £2,000+ for a full rebuild.",[124,517,518],{},"Bespoke agencies start at £5,000 and are worth it when the job is \"design a course\", not \"convert a deck\".",[124,520,521],{},"Pick the tier that matches the deck in front of you, not the one that matches your budget.",{"title":523,"searchDepth":524,"depth":524,"links":525},"",2,[526,527,528,529,530,531,532,533,534,535],{"id":17,"depth":524,"text":18},{"id":29,"depth":524,"text":30},{"id":103,"depth":524,"text":104},{"id":149,"depth":524,"text":150},{"id":269,"depth":524,"text":270},{"id":368,"depth":524,"text":369},{"id":397,"depth":524,"text":398},{"id":431,"depth":524,"text":432},{"id":480,"depth":524,"text":481},{"id":503,"depth":524,"text":504},"An honest, sourced breakdown of the four price tiers for PPT-to-SCORM in 2026 — from free converters to £5,000+ bespoke agencies — and what actually drives the cost.",false,"md",{"relatedPages":540},[541,543],{"path":111,"title":542},"Why free PPT-to-SCORM tools fail on mobile",{"path":470,"title":471},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fppt-to-scorm-conversion-cost-2026","2026-04-25",{"title":5,"description":536},"blog\u002Fppt-to-scorm-conversion-cost-2026",[550,551,552],"scorm","powerpoint","pricing","QPmM3gjQpY_pScXknNLKjtKP8d4n0babKeQJctQVfW8",1777204339547]