Bring the AI you already pay for
No credits, no AI line item. Connect Claude, ChatGPT or a local model over MCP: 32 tools, and nothing changes without your approval.
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Scormbusters charges nothing for AI, because it never provides the AI: it is an MCP server, and the assistant you already use — Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, or any client that speaks the open Model Context Protocol — connects to it and builds, rewrites, audits and exports courses with your approval, on your existing subscription.
Elsewhere, AI is priced per seat with metered credits that expire at the end of the term. Here it is whatever you already pay your AI provider.
- Scormbusters makes no AI calls and stores no AI keys. Authors connect their own assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code or any MCP client, including local models) to the Scormbusters MCP server; the assistant edits courses with the author's approval, billed on the author's existing subscription.
- There are no AI credits, allowances or AI fees in Scormbusters on any plan, and AI is entirely optional: the editor, player and every export work without ever connecting one.
- Articulate 360 AI is priced at $1,449 (for Instructional Designers) to $1,749 (for L&D Teams) per seat per year, as listed on articulate.com, checked 2026-11-14.
- Articulate's advanced AI features (AI avatars, translation, training kits) additionally consume credits sold from $250 per 50,000, in 25,000-credit packs; per Articulate's pricing page, credits expire at the end of the subscription term and do not roll over.
- A Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus subscription is about $20 per month, works across every tool that speaks MCP — not just one vendor's editor — and is the same subscription many authors already pay for.
- The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard; the Scormbusters MCP server exposes 32 documented authoring tools, authorized per user over OAuth and revocable at any time.
Two models, side by side
| Aspect | Scormbusters (bring your own AI) | Articulate 360 AI (published pricing) |
|---|---|---|
| Base cost of AI | $0 from Scormbusters on every plan. Your own assistant subscription (Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus is about $20/month) does the work — or a local model costs nothing at all. | $1,449 (for Instructional Designers) to $1,749 (for L&D Teams) per seat per year. |
| Metering | None. No credits, no allowance, nothing that expires. Your provider's own plan limits are the only limits. | Advanced AI features (avatars, translation, training kits) consume credits from $250 per 50,000, topped up in 25,000-credit packs. |
| What happens to unused capacity | Nothing to lose — there is no balance. | Per Articulate's pricing page, credits expire at the end of the subscription term and do not roll over. |
| Where the AI works | Everywhere MCP works: the same assistant and subscription serve your documents, your code, your other tools — and Scormbusters. | Inside Articulate's applications. |
| Choice of model | Yours: Anthropic, OpenAI, or a model on your own hardware through any MCP client. Swap any time. | The vendor's choice of model, bundled. |
| If you opt out of AI | Full product, nothing grayed out. AI is a door, not a dependency. | The AI plan is the published offering. |
Competitor figures come from Articulate’s own published pricing, checked on the date above; if they change their pricing, this page gets corrected, not quietly deleted.
Why we built it this way
Inference is a commodity that gets cheaper every quarter; course-authoring tools that resell it must meter it, and metering is why credits exist and why they expire. Our position: the intelligence should belong to the author, not the authoring tool. So instead of building a billed AI feature set, we built a surface for your assistant to work on your courses:
- 32 documented tools covering the whole authoring surface — content, quizzes with answer keys, branching, imports, accessibility audits, exports — at /docs/mcp.
- Per-user OAuth: the assistant signs in as you, sees what your role sees, and shows up in Settings → Connected apps where it can be revoked any time.
- Built-in prompts and tutorials the assistant reads itself, so “build me a course from this document” produces the structure Scormbusters expects.
Connecting takes about a minute: Settings → AI assistant has the endpoint and the steps for Claude, Claude Code and ChatGPT, and the connect guide walks through it. Then start with the working recipes — modernizing an imported course is the one most people run first.
The honest limits
- You need an assistant. If you have no Claude/ChatGPT subscription and no local model, there is no AI in Scormbusters — by design, because the alternative is us metering you.
- Your assistant’s quality is your provider’s business, not ours. We give it good tools; we don’t control the model.
- Assistant output is a draft. Review it the way you would review a colleague’s work — it edits real content, and version history exists for a reason.
Frequently asked questions
How can the AI be free? What's the catch?
Because Scormbusters doesn't provide the AI — you do. Scormbusters is an MCP server: your own assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, or any client that speaks the open Model Context Protocol) connects to it and works on your courses through documented tools. The inference runs on the subscription you already pay your AI provider, so Scormbusters has nothing to meter, mark up or expire. The catch, stated honestly: you need an assistant subscription or a local model — Scormbusters ships no built-in generator.
What does the assistant actually do in Scormbusters?
Whatever you ask, through 32 tools: read and write lessons and blocks, draft quizzes with answer keys and per-option feedback, rewrite imported legacy content, propose alt text for images, build branching scenarios, run the same accessibility audit the editor runs, import packages and export SCORM, cmi5 or xAPI. Every change happens in your chat, with your approval, acting as your user with your role's permissions.
How does this compare with Articulate's AI pricing?
As of October 2026, Articulate 360 AI is $1,449–$1,749 per seat per year, and its advanced AI features (avatars, translation, training kits) additionally consume credits sold from $250 per 50,000 — credits that Articulate's own pricing page says expire at the end of the term and do not roll over. The Scormbusters model has no AI line item at all: a $20/month Claude or ChatGPT subscription most authors already have does the work, and it also works in every other MCP tool they use, not just one vendor's editor.
Is my course content sent to an AI company?
Only when you ask your assistant to work on it, only to the provider you chose and already have a relationship with, and only the content the assistant needs to read for your request. Scormbusters itself never sends your content to any model provider — it has no provider to send it to. If your policy requires it, connect a client running a local model and nothing leaves your network.
What if I don't use AI at all?
Then nothing changes and nothing is missing: the editor, the import pipeline, the accessibility checker, the player and every export format are fully functional without an assistant connected. AI is a door, not a dependency.
Can my whole team use one connection?
Each person connects their own assistant with their own Scormbusters sign-in, so every action is attributed to a real user with that user's permissions — a reviewer's assistant can read but not write. Connections are listed in Settings → Connected apps and can be revoked at any time, taking effect on the assistant's next request.
Bring one stuck course. See what comes back.
Upload the published zip and play it rebuilt as an editable course, with the list of anything to rebuild by hand. No account, no card; the private link lasts seven days.