11 Best NLP Courses for Beginners
We compared 11 NLP courses currently listed on Coursera, Udemy and edX, priced from $19.99 to $199.99. 7 of them teach the subject directly and 4 are built around a certification exam. 1 comes from a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder. 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
- 11
- Price range
- $19.99 – $199.99
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy, edX
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 11 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 $19.99 to $199.99, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
The field of natural language processing (NLP) aims at getting computers to perform useful and interesting tasks with human language. This course introduces students to the 3 pillars underlying modern NLP: probabilistic...
$49.00listed price -
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Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
(More E-Content will be added on regular basis). Quiz Topics covered in this courseWhat is artificial intelligence?Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially compute...
$19.99listed price -
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Azure AI Fundamentals and Machine learning
This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn about artificial intelligence (AI) and MLThis course introduces fundamentals concepts related to artificial intelligence (AI), and the services in Microsoft Azure tha...
$199.99listed price -
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Hugging Face Tutorial for Beginners
Welcome to the Hugging Face course. Hugging Face is a company and open-source community that focuses on natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI). It is best known for its Transformers library, w...
$19.99listed price -
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Introduction to Transformer for NLP with Python
Interested in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP)? Then this course is for you!Ever since Transformers arrived on the scene, deep learning hasn't been the same.Machine learning is able to generate text e...
$199.99listed price -
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Introduction to Transformer Models for NLP
Offered by Pearson
This course provides practical instruction on transformer architectures such as BERT, GPT, and T5. You will learn about attention mechanisms, transfer learning, and model fine-tuning through coding exercises and case stu...
$49.00listed price -
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Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Offered by CodeSignal
Build a practical foundation in natural language processing using Python. Learn to explore, preprocess, vectorize, and classify text data with common machine learning techniques.
$75.00listed price -
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AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals Exam
Ace the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam with 225 carefully crafted practice questions built to match the real exam — in structure, difficulty, and domain weightage.This course includes 5 full-length practic...
$39.99listed price -
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AI-901: Microsoft Certified - Azure AI Fundamentals Exams
Prepare confidently for the Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) certification exam with this comprehensive practice test course designed for beginners, students, and IT professionals who want to build fou...
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AI-901 Azure AI Fundamentals: Complete 2026 Exam Prep
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.Prepare for the Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-901) exam with this completely rebuilt 2026 edition focused on Microsoft Foundry. This course covers...
$109.99listed price -
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AI-900: Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals [Exam]
Your Path to AI-900 SuccessGet ready to prepare smarter, not harder. This study journey isn’t about memorizing random facts — it’s about building real understanding of AI concepts and Microsoft Azure services so you walk...
$49.99listed price
Best NLP Courses for Beginners compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
| 3 | Azure AI Fundamentals and Machine learning | Udemy | — | $199.99 | View → |
| 4 | Hugging Face Tutorial for Beginners | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
| 5 | Introduction to Transformer for NLP with Python | Udemy | — | $199.99 | View → |
| 6 | Introduction to Transformer Models for NLP | Coursera | Pearson | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Introduction to Natural Language Processing | edX | CodeSignal | $75.00 | View → |
| 8 | AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals Exam | Udemy | — | $39.99 | View → |
| 9 | AI-901: Microsoft Certified - Azure AI Fundamentals Exams | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
| 10 | AI-901 Azure AI Fundamentals: Complete 2026 Exam Prep | Udemy | — | $109.99 | View → |
| 11 | AI-900: Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals [Exam] | Udemy | — | $49.99 | 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 11 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $199.99, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $180.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. 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. 1 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Courses versus exam preparation
4 of the entries here are built around a certification exam rather than teaching this topic from scratch. They are the right choice only if you already know the material and want to pass a specific exam; if you are starting out, pick one of the taught courses first and come back to exam preparation afterwards.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 18 September 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.