Ilios vs OpenCurriculum
Ilios
iliosproject.orgOpenCurriculum
opencurriculum.orgSide by side
| Figure | Ilios | OpenCurriculum |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $850/mo | $5/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 8 | 14 |
| Spec score · Curriculum Management Software | 8.5 (#3) | 8.6 (#2) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | Sacramento, California, USA |
| Integrations | The project describes integrations with Moodle, Canvas, XML/web services and external data sources through its API. | The plan matrix lists Google Drive and Google Calendar integration, while district pages also mention Dropbox links and LMS use. |
| Self-hosting | Ilios can be downloaded or cloned and installed on an institution's own infrastructure. | The public OpenCurriculum Flow repository documents running the Flow application locally or on a server with Node.js and Firebase. |
| What it does | Ilios is a curriculum-management web application for health-professions education that collects, manages, analyzes and delivers curricular information. | OpenCurriculum provides web-based K–12 lesson, unit, course planning, curriculum mapping, standards alignment, and resource sharing. |
Plans
Ilios
- Custom DevelopmentPriced on request
- LTI Component Activation$500, paid once
- Hosted Ilios$1,000 a month
- Virtual Online training$8,500, paid once
- Mirror test / stage environment$10,200 a year
- Core Hosting Services$12,000 a year
- Onsite training$13,800, paid once
- One-time Implementation fee$15,000, paid once
OpenCurriculum
- FreeFree
- TeacherFree
- TeacherFree
- TeamFree
- TeamFree
- School$5 a month
- School$5 a month
- Personal$15 a month
- Bronze implementation$500, paid once
- District$1,250 a month
In their own words
Ilios
Ilios is an open-source curriculum management platform for health professions education. It collects, organizes, analyzes, and delivers curricular information for programs, departments, schools, and institutions, with controls for data integrity, security, and intellectual property. Program tools support year-by-year tracking, competency domains, content review workflows, and historical audits. Calendar functions include mobile views, search, synchronization, downloads, and real-time alerts about schedule, location, or content changes. Reporting covers curriculum mapping, teaching and content hours, trends, archiving, and accreditation support. An API connects external systems, and Ilios complements learning platforms such as Moodle and Canvas. The software uses a Symfony PHP/SQL backend; Linux with a LAMP stack is recommended, though Windows IIS deployments are also possible. Authentication defaults to native credentials, with Shibboleth 2.4, CAS, or LDAP configurable. Hosted Ilios starts at $1,000 a month per school; implementation, customization, and deployment fees are separate. The project offers a live demo by request.
OpenCurriculum
OpenCurriculum is a curriculum planning tool for creating lessons and units with an editor and a library of teaching materials. Its library includes hundreds of lessons, strategies, activities, formative assessments, discussion questions, and worksheets contributed by teachers, researchers, and publishers. Plans can be viewed by course, unit, or lesson in planner, calendar, and semester or academic-term views. A standards picker supports national and state standards as well as school-created learning targets. Sharing permissions, department or PLC Groups, Libraries for organizing materials, and school-wide search support collaboration. The plan comparison lists Google Drive and Google Calendar integrations, along with reporting on standards, planning processes, vocabulary, learning objectives, and assessments. School leaders can use custom templates, learning outcomes, course catalogs, and activity templates. The free Teacher plan is for one user and up to 10 courses; the free Team plan supports up to 10 users and 50 courses. School costs $5 per user per month with a 10-user minimum and unlimited courses. Network pricing is custom. OpenCurriculum describes itself as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.