6 Best LLM Courses for Beginners
We compared 6 LLM courses currently listed on Coursera, Udemy and edX, priced from $9.99 to $49.00. 2 come from a named university or institution, including Duke University and Institute of Product Leadership (IPL). They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 6
- Price range
- $9.99 – $49.00
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy, edX
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 6 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, edX, matched to this topic by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $9.99 to $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Introduction to Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Offered by Duke University
In this 2-hour project-based course, you will learn how to import data into Pandas, create embeddings with SentenceTransformers, and build a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) system with your data, Qdrant, and an LLM...
$9.99listed price -
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Prompt Engineering Bootcamp: From Beginner to Expert
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.Demand for AI fluency — the ability to effectively use and work with AI tools — has grown nearly sevenfold in U.S. job postings in just two years.Whether you’re usi...
$19.99listed price -
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Introduction to Generative AI with Snowflake
Offered by Snowflake
This course introduces learners to generative AI and how to implement common AI use cases using Snowflake. The course starts with an introduction of important concepts, the setup of the learner environment, and the build...
$49.00listed price -
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Introduction to Large Language Models - Español
Offered by Google Cloud
Este es un curso introductorio de microaprendizaje en el que se explora qué son los modelos de lenguaje grandes (LLM), sus casos de uso y cómo se puede utilizar el ajuste de instrucciones para mejorar el rendimiento de l...
$49.00listed price -
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Introduction to Large Language Models
Offered by Google Cloud
This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also cove...
$49.00listed price -
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AI Prompt Engineering Fundamentals
Offered by Institute of Product Leadership (IPL)
ChatGPT Beginner Course in LLM Engineering. Master the Prompting Techniques to Build and Direct Powerful Agentic AI
$40.00listed price
Best LLM Courses for Beginners compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Introduction to Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) | Coursera | Duke University | $9.99 | View → |
| 2 | Prompt Engineering Bootcamp: From Beginner to Expert | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
| 3 | Introduction to Generative AI with Snowflake | Coursera | Snowflake | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Introduction to Large Language Models - Español | Coursera | Google Cloud | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Introduction to Large Language Models | Coursera | Google Cloud | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | AI Prompt Engineering Fundamentals | edX | Institute of Product Leadership (IPL) | $40.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 6 priced courses on this page run from $9.99 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $39.01. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera, Udemy and edX. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 2 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Duke University and Institute of Product Leadership (IPL) — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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