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Canvas LMS vs RELATE: catalog facts
Canvas LMS	RELATE
Freemium Self-hosting the AGPL code is free; Instructure's hosted Canvas is sold to institutions.	Free Free and open source.
Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Widely used LMS with a large ecosystem Integrates with more than 1000 external tools	Course content as plain YAML and Markdown under git version control Auto-graded code questions with sandboxed execution
Self-hosting a production instance is complex Product website focuses on the paid hosted service	No packaged releases; installed from source Content authoring assumes comfort with text files and git
Self-hosted, Hosted service	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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