BricksMembers vs Masteriyo
Honest. Table-driven. No fluff. Bricks-native LMS + membership vs. the budget LMS with AI course generation.
Verified May 2026 by AI · please confirm with the vendorWhich one is right for you?
Budget LMS with AI authoring
Choose Masteriyo if you don't use Bricks Builder, want a free tier to start (its WordPress.org version covers course creation, quizzes, and payments at no cost), and need built-in AI course generation that drafts outlines, lessons, and quizzes from a topic. It's also the better fit if you're building a Udemy-style course marketplace with multiple instructors and automatic revenue sharing/payouts, or if you need extra regional payment gateways like Razorpay or Mollie. Just note it's an LMS with course-access gating, not full membership plus community.
- Works with Elementor, Divi, vanilla WP, any theme
- Drag-and-drop course builder + AI course generation
- Lifetime tiers: Elite $499 (1 site) or $1,299 (10 sites)
Full membership and community, not just LMS.
Choose BricksMembers if you want complete control over how your membership and LMS site looks. Because it's built natively for Bricks, membership, courses, payments, drip and access all run on Bricks' own dynamic data and conditions, with custom elements added only where there's no native way, so every member-facing page is yours to design, with no fixed templates or locked layouts. It's a true all-in-one (membership, LMS, payments, community, automation) available on annual plans or a one-time lifetime license if you'd rather not pay every year.
- All-in-one: membership, LMS, payments, community, drip, certificates, chat, gifting, automation. No add-ons needed
- Because it's native to Bricks Builder, you design every member-facing page yourself, with full control over the layout and styling, with no fixed templates or locked layouts in the way.
- Lifetime $497 one-time for 100 sites instead of forever-recurring yearly fees (60-day money-back guarantee, no free trial)
Every feature, side by side
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3 things this comparison can't match
- Masteriyo ships only two Bricks elements (a course grid + a category list) with no Bricks-native conditions or dynamic-data tags; BRM exposes native conditions + dynamic data across every membership, course, payment and access state
- $497 one-time lifetime for 100 sites vs. Masteriyo Elite Lifetime $499 for 1 site or $1,299 for 10 sites
- Multi-instructor, assignments, and automation in core (Masteriyo gates these to Pro+; certificates ship lower down its tiers)
Builder & Design
Membership & Access
Payments & Checkout
LMS & Courses
Community & Engagement
Migration & Portability
How the plans line up
Approximate prices.
The Migration Center handles the heavy lifting
A guided, dry-run-first wizard at BricksMembers › Migration Center in wp-admin. It scans your site, builds an import plan, runs in safe chunks, and offers rollback if anything looks off.
What it migrates automatically
- Course, lesson, and topic structure (with hierarchy preserved)
- Post content, titles, excerpts, and status
- Custom post meta fields (carried as-is)
- Required-level assignments (creates matching access rules)
- User level assignments and progress tracking
- Generic CSV exports of users, levels, courses, and progress
What you'll rebuild manually
- Quizzes from the source plugin (rebuild in BricksMembers' quiz module)
- Certificates and certificate issuance records
- Drip schedules from the source plugin
- Email automations (use BricksMembers' automation tab)
- For Masteriyo specifically: courses, sections, lessons, and quizzes import as structure. Membership data, subscription tokens, and engagement settings don't transfer. Masteriyo's membership tiers and subscription state live in its own Pro tables, tied to its payment add-ons, so they don't map cleanly to BRM levels and access rules are net-new in BRM.
From Masteriyo
Masteriyo follows a courses → sections → lessons hierarchy. The Migration Center imports the course and lesson post types and the section relationships. Quiz structure imports; quiz attempts and Masteriyo Pro certificates do not transfer.
If you used Masteriyo Pro's automation triggers or Zapier integration, rebuild those in BRM's automation tab. Masteriyo's membership tiers and subscription state live in its own Pro tables, tied to its payment add-ons, so they don't map cleanly to BRM levels: paywalls and access rules will be net-new in BRM's level system.
Common questions: BricksMembers vs Masteriyo
It depends on the tier. Masteriyo has a free core plugin (basic course delivery), so against a free LMS BricksMembers can't win on price. BRM has no free tier. On paid plans, year one is close: Masteriyo Basic is $99 vs BricksMembers Creator $97 (both 1 site). Renewals diverge: Masteriyo Basic renews at $199/yr vs BRM $97/yr. Lifetime, BRM is $497 for 100 sites vs Masteriyo Elite $499 (1 site) or $1,299 (10 sites).
Yes. The Migration Center imports Masteriyo courses, sections, and lessons with hierarchy preserved. Quiz structure imports; quiz attempts, Pro-tier certificates, and Pro-tier automation triggers don't transfer. Masteriyo has no membership layer, so any access rules will be net-new in BRM.
Yes: Masteriyo has a free core plugin with basic course delivery. The Basic / Pro / Elite tiers add certificates, drip, multi-instructor, automation, and integrations. BricksMembers has no free tier.
Masteriyo ships two native Bricks elements (a Course block and a Course Categories block) for styling course and archive layouts, but no Bricks-native conditions or dynamic data tags for membership or course state. BricksMembers, by contrast, is Bricks-native throughout: it exposes dynamic data tags and conditions for membership, LMS, payments and access, adding custom elements only where there’s no native way, so far more of the member-facing site is editable directly in Bricks.
Yes, in its paid tiers. Masteriyo Pro adds native subscriptions (monthly, quarterly, annual), tiered content gating and drip, and markets itself as an all-in-one that replaces a MemberPress-plus-LMS stack, so it does not require a separate membership plugin. The free core is LMS-only (courses, orders, payments). BricksMembers includes the membership layer in core alongside the LMS.
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Last reviewed May 2026. This comparison reflects our own assessment based on publicly available information. Features, pricing, and availability change often. Please verify current details on each vendor's official website before purchasing.
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