Maven vs Coursera for Business
Coursera for Business gives your team a course library. Maven for Business puts them in live cohorts for the AI skills they have to use at work.
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Maven or Coursera for Business?
Coursera for Business is a self-paced course library. It’s a good fit when a lot of people need the basics on many topics, or want a recognized certificate. Maven for Business is live training. It’s for teams that want to use AI in their own work, with an instructor, a cohort and deadlines to help them get there.
You can use both. Keep Coursera for self-paced basics, and add Maven for the skills your team will use at work. A Maven for Business subscription starts with a 3-month pilot you can cancel with no penalty.
At Lattice, course licenses went unused.
Lattice saw under 5% usage on its Udemy licenses. Udemy is another course library, so this isn’t a Coursera number. In Lattice’s Maven pilot, 47 employees enrolled and 87% reported higher confidence using AI at work.
Every role needs different AI skills, so every seat includes the full catalog.
At Lattice, 47 people picked 28 different courses, even inside one function. A Maven for Business seat includes all 500+ live courses across engineering, product, design, marketing and sales, operations and leadership.
Maven is built for skills people use at work.
After a 3-day private cohort, 81% of participants on Notion’s sales team said they could apply what they learned to customer conversations. Maven courses take 3 to 5 hours a week for 2 to 4 weeks, and most include a hands-on project.
Maven course data and our private cohort with Notion.
From Lattice’s Head of L&D
“People learn best when they get information… they can try out in real time, and not have to watch videos.”
Mollie West DuffyHead of L&D, LatticeMaven vs Coursera, by goal
Everyone in the company needs the basics of AI.
With Coursera for Business
A license for everyone
Each person gets the catalog of 9,000+ courses, short clips and Guided Projects, and learns on their own schedule.
Buying licenses doesn’t get them used. Lattice saw under 5% usage on its licenses for Udemy, another course library, before its Maven pilot.
The Team plan, at $399 per user a year for 2 to 499 users, as of November 2026. Enterprise covers 500+ users and is priced on request.
With Maven for Business
A live course for each role
Each person picks from a catalog curated for your company. There’s a schedule and a cohort to show up for, and instructors update the material every cohort.
We reply within 1 to 2 business days.
Why teams choose Maven over a course library
Notion ran a private Maven cohort for its global sales team, and within the first week the team was sharing workflow and architecture diagrams on customer calls.
87%
of Lattice’s learners reported higher confidence using AI at work.
Read the Lattice story68%
of Lattice’s learners said they reach for AI more often day to day.
Read the Lattice story81%
of participants on Notion’s sales team said they could apply what they learned to customer conversations.
Read the Notion story
“I came to the course with an intermediate understanding of how agentic AI works, and I’ve walked out feeling like a true expert. I could build anything now.”
Solutions Engineer, LatticeAfter Hands-on Agentic AI for Leaders 
“We needed to quickly increase the technical aptitude of our customer facing teams. By partnering with Maven, we shifted from talking about workflows to actually building them for CTOs & CPOs.”
Sam WenerGTM Enablement Leader, Notion 
People show up
Weekly live sessions, deadlines and a cohort give people a reason to come back.
Updated every cohort
Instructors update the material each cohort. A recording changes only when it’s redone.
Questions get answered live
People bring problems from their own work and ask the instructor during the session.
It runs alongside your library
Keep Coursera for self-paced basics. A Maven course takes 3 to 5 hours a week for 2 to 4 weeks.
What you’ll be able to show leadership In beta
When leadership asks what the budget bought, you’ll have the answer for every person and every team.
See usage, attendance, projects and reviews on a live dashboard, down to each person.
Every pilot includes a skills assessment before and after, so you can show how AI fluency grew on each team.
A certificate of completion for everyone who finishes a course.
Coursera reports skills learned, proficiency and time to mastery. Maven shows attendance at live sessions, projects and reviews for each person.
Coursera for Business and Coursera for Teams: quick answers
How much does Coursera for Business cost?
$399 per user a year on the Team plan.
As of November 2026, Coursera for Business pricing is $399 per user a year on the Team plan, billed annually, with a 14-day refund. The Team plan is also sold as Coursera for Teams and covers 2 to 499 users. Enterprise is for 500+ users and is priced on request. One live course on Maven typically costs $699 to $1,500 a seat, and Maven for Business subscriptions start at 30 seats, priced on request.
What is the difference between Coursera for Teams and Coursera Enterprise?
Coursera for Teams and Coursera Enterprise differ in team size, integrations and support.
As of November 2026, Coursera for Teams, also called the Team plan, is for 2 to 499 users. Coursera Enterprise is for 500+ users and adds Skill Tracks, single sign-on and APIs. Larger Enterprise contracts also get a dedicated customer success manager.
What are the alternatives to Coursera for Business?
Coursera’s competitors include other course libraries, practice platforms and live cohorts.
LinkedIn Learning is a course library like Coursera, and so is Udemy Business, which has been part of the same company as Coursera since May 2026. DataCamp and Pluralsight are practice platforms for technical teams. Maven for Business is the live option. With a subscription, each person picks a live course for their role from a catalog curated for your company, and it starts with a 3-month pilot.
Keep Coursera and add Maven
Maven runs alongside the library you already pay for. Tell us how many people you’re training and we’ll send a plan with courses, dates and a price.
Live cohorts
Maven for Business
Live courses over Zoom with hands-on projects and Q&A, taught by practitioners.
- Subscriptions start at 30 seats. One seat is one live course a year, and you can reassign seats between people.
- Every subscription starts with a 3-month pilot you can cancel with no penalty. 10+ companies have started one.
- A Maven partner maps a learning plan within a week, and first cohorts start within 30 days.
With 20 people, you can buy seats in public courses or book a private training for your team. Subscriptions start at 30 seats.
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