AI training for businesses in London and the UK: sixteen providers compared, with prices, and the free routes.

Augustova runs AI training for business teams, and it is one of the sixteen providers on this page. We wrote it because training prices are hard to compare: some are per session, some per head, some for twelve people and some for five, and a £3,500 session can be cheaper per person than a £750 course.

We included only providers that publish a price on their own site, and read every figure there on 19 October 2026. The table says whether each price is per session or per head, and the group size where the provider states one. We have no commercial relationship with any of the others.

Prices are each provider’s own, excluding VAT where stated. "Best for" is our summary of what each says about itself, not a ranking.

Read on 19 October 2026 from each provider’s own pages, linked in the method section. Excludes VAT where stated; CodeLeap, Design for Online and Hartz AI’s open place do not state VAT. Wise Owl and Acuity list public dates without saying "per person"; we have read them as per head.

From the UK AI Price Index. Each provider counts once per format, at the midpoint of its published range or its "from" price. Private sessions are priced for the room; public courses per person.

Excludes VAT where stated. Augustova’s half day and full day sit at the medians.

Per session against per head is the whole story. For a team of twelve, Coaley Peak’s half day works out at about £38 a head, Design for Online about £71, Augustova £100 and Point Academy about £208, while public courses run from £275 a head at Acuity to £1,565 at QA. Once six or more people need the same thing, in-house is cheaper per head and uses your own work.

The price follows the room, not the content. The dearest private sessions are the smallest: Practical AI’s £3,500 half day is for about five senior people, while Elansio’s £980 workshop takes up to twenty. Ask for the group size before you compare.

Tool-specific training is mostly Microsoft. Copilot has the widest choice of public courses (QA, Global Knowledge, Wise Owl, Acuity) and in-house options (FiveForward, Ignite, Elansio). ChatGPT has one public course with an exam (Global Knowledge) and several in-house providers. Claude training is in-house only, from Ignite, Practical AI, CodeLeap, Elansio, Design for Online and Augustova.

What attendees keep varies more than price. Point Academy promises templates, prompts and a 90-day plan; Coaley Peak a year of tutorial access and certificates; Insightful AI documented completion for ICO purposes; Practical AI a toolkit to keep. Several say nothing. Ask what is left behind.

Train on the tool your firm already pays for. If you are still deciding which to buy, settle that first; our comparison of the three covers price, data terms and fit.

There is good free material, and for an individual who wants to learn on their own it may be all they need. For a team, the free courses do not use your work, your data rules or your templates, and they rarely get finished without a reason to.

Pay for in-house training when six or more people need the same skill, when the firm has bought seats that are not being used, when staff are pasting work into personal accounts, or when a client or regulator wants evidence of training. In each case the value is in the parts a free course cannot do: exercises on your own documents, the data rules for your firm, shared prompts and workspaces built on the day, and a written policy adopted at the end.

Do not pay for it when one or two people want to learn on their own, or when the firm has not yet chosen a tool. Start with the free routes, choose the tool, then train the team on it.

Five questions separate these providers faster than any ranking.

Augustova’s sessions run on the team’s own work, inside the Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Business or Claude Team workspace the firm already pays for, and staff keep the prompt library, the shared workspace built on the day and a written AI use policy. Our tailored half day (£1,200) and full day (£2,000) sit exactly at the medians of the providers on this page that publish, and our standard AI Team Workshop, £895 for up to 12, is below the half-day median; several providers are cheaper per session. We are one of the sixteen, so this entry is kept apart from the comparison and uses the same terms. We train teams in London and across the UK from 60 Tottenham Court Road. Prices are fixed and exclude VAT.

From our own pricing page, excluding VAT.

Providers were found through the Google results for "AI training London", "AI training courses UK", "AI training for business", "Copilot training for business", "ChatGPT training for teams" and "Claude training for business", and through providers already cited in our training cost guide. A provider qualified only if its own site published a price. Every figure was read on 19 October 2026.

Left out, and why: We Call Shotgun (based in Paris), General Assembly, Learning Tree, Corndel and Innovation Visual (no published AI training price found), STL Training (its site blocked us), and providers seen only on marketplaces. AI Awareness shows £999 in one place and £995 in another for its five-person online session; we use the figure in its price table. Multiverse is listed under the free routes because its fees are levy-funded.

Augustova is on this page. To limit the bias we used the same columns and sources for every provider, put our own entry in a separate section, ranked nobody, and named providers that are cheaper than us. Corrections are welcome by email.