Stepik

What it is

Spec sheet

What it does

Stepik is a cloud platform for creating and distributing interactive educational content, especially computer-science learning, with automatically graded assignments and real-time feedback.Read 15 Oct 2026 · support.stepik.org

Product

Stepik is an educational platform and online-course builder with automatic assignment checking.Read 5 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

Audience

Stepik says authors can run contests, training and professional development programs, and courses for employees or customers.Read 5 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

Platforms

Stepik's requirements page lists Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, and Android as supported software platforms.Read 5 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

Free plan

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · help.stepik.org

API

Stepik states its site works through an API and links to its API information on GitHub.Read 5 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

Integrations

Courses can be embedded with an iframe, connected through OAuth 2, or integrated with external learning platforms through LTI 1.1.Read 5 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

Mobile apps

Stepik says learners can study on its website or in its mobile app.Read 5 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

Security

Stepik describes OAuth 2 as a way to exchange personal information without giving an application the user's password and to grant limited permissions.Read 5 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

Support

Stepik says its team can help authors create courses and provide help after launch and publication, including promotion.Read 5 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

Headquarters

The company information page lists a legal address in Saint Petersburg at 2 Kantemirovskaya Street, office 202.Read 15 Oct 2026 · stepik.usedocs.com

Maker

Stepik identifies ООО «Цифровые образовательные решения» as the owner of the Stepik trademark and platform.Read 5 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

API authentication

The API documents OAuth2 authorization-code, implicit, password and client-credentials flows with bearer tokens.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

API documentation

Official API documentation and examples are published in the StepicOrg/Stepik-API GitHub repository.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Automated grading

Programming and other supported tasks can be graded automatically and return immediate feedback to learners.Read 15 Oct 2026 · support.stepik.org

Company address

The company page lists its legal address in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.Read 5 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

Company size and founding

LinkedIn lists Stepik as an 11–50 employee educational e-learning company founded in 2013.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Content licensing

Stepik encourages educators to publish open educational content under Creative Commons licenses.Read 15 Oct 2026 · support.stepik.org

Course authoring

Registered users can create public courses for free using videos, texts, and automatically checked assignments.Read 5 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

Course formats

Stepik supports public MOOCs, private small online courses and paid courses.Read 15 Oct 2026 · support.stepik.org

Documentation and support

The Help Center covers learner setup, course authoring, assignment types, mobile apps, payments, privacy and troubleshooting; support is offered through help-center requests and email.Read 15 Oct 2026 · support.stepik.org

Embedding

Lessons and courses can be embedded on other websites with an iframe; login is optional for attempting tasks but required to save progress.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

Enterprise availability

Stepik says its Enterprise plan has been unavailable for new subscriptions since May 2023.Read 5 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

Enterprise limits

The Enterprise plan page states a limit of 1,000 learners in each private course.Read 5 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

Interactive assignments

The platform offers more than 20 assignment types, including programming, data-analysis and Linux challenges.Read 15 Oct 2026 · support.stepik.org

Limit: Apple app complaints

An App Store reviewer reports a crash when rotating video from portrait to landscape and another reports unexpected Russian-language course display.Read 15 Oct 2026 · apps.apple.com

Limit: G2 administration

One G2 reviewer says course and learner management is not a priority and suggests larger institutions consider alternatives.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Limit: G2 authoring curve

G2 reviewers describe a learning curve for content creation and say customization and editing can be difficult for beginners.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Limit: Otzovik catalog breadth

One Otzovik reviewer complains that the platform has too few courses for a desired subject.Read 15 Oct 2026 · otzovik.com

Limit: reported outages

The independent SaaSHub monitor currently reports Stepik unreachable, 85.0% uptime over 30 days and seven outages in that period.Read 15 Oct 2026 · saashub.com

LMS compatibility

Stepik names Moodle, Open edX, Coursera, Blackboard LMS, Canvas, and Sakai among platforms that can integrate through LTI.Read 5 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

LTI integration

Stepik supports IMS LTI 1.1 as a learning tool for integrating paid courses with external learning systems.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

Mobile offline use

The iOS listing says learners can download course content for offline viewing.Read 15 Oct 2026 · apps.apple.com

Notable news: Samsung course

Samsung Newsroom reported on 23 December 2025 that more than 93,000 people had viewed its Stepik neural-network and computer-vision course and over 10,000 had completed it.Read 15 Oct 2026 · news.samsung.com

OAuth integrations

External services can authenticate Stepik users through OAuth2, with Stepik supporting VK, Google and GitHub sign-in.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

Peer review

Course authors can use peer-review assignments in addition to automated checking.Read 15 Oct 2026 · support.stepik.org

Praise: G2 coding and usability

G2 reviewers praise auto-graded coding tasks, a clean responsive interface, scalability and mobile apps.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Praise: G2 learning design

G2 reviewers praise varied quizzes and interactive learning strategies as engaging for learners.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Praise: Otzovik value

Otzovik reviewers repeatedly describe courses as useful, accessible, high quality and often free, with feedback and certificates.Read 15 Oct 2026 · otzovik.com

Privacy and legal entity

Stepik's privacy policy identifies the operator as ООО «Цифровые образовательные решения».Read 15 Oct 2026 · welcome.stepik.org

Product licence

The hosted Stepik platform itself is proprietary; public repositories expose selected clients and tools rather than the complete service.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Public API

Stepik exposes a JSON REST API used by its own single-page web interface; most content and access operations are available through API endpoints.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.stepik.org

Rating on Apple App Store

4.9 out of 5 from 907 ratingsRead 15 Oct 2026 · apps.apple.com

Rating on G2

4.8 out of 5 from 3 reviewsRead 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Rating on Google Play

4.8 out of 5 from 71.7K reviewsRead 15 Oct 2026 · play.google.com

Rating on Otzovik

4.6 out of 5 from 157 reviewsRead 15 Oct 2026 · otzovik.com

SDK and extensibility

Stepik's public GitHub organization includes Android and iOS clients, a JetBrains plugin, API examples and a sandbox component for running untrusted code.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Self-hosting

The official material describes Stepik as a hosted cloud service and provides no supported self-hosting distribution.Read 15 Oct 2026 · support.stepik.org

System requirements

Published minimums are a 1 GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM, 1280x800 display and internet access, with support listed for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android.Read 15 Oct 2026 · support.stepik.org

Plans and prices

Every Stepik plan and price →

Strong points and limits

Who it suits

Verdict

Where Specifiction places it

• Online Course Marketplaces#4 of 1389.3
• MOOC Platforms#11 of 678.7