Free Certifications Online (2026)
- 75 free certifications
- 8 providers
A certification is free when nothing about it costs money: the course, the graded work and the certificate itself. That rules out most university courses on Coursera and edX, where the material is free to audit but the certificate is not. What remains is smaller and more useful than people expect: product certifications from Google, Microsoft and HubSpot, verifiable badges from IBM and AWS, project-based certifications from freeCodeCamp, and Harvard’s CS50 family.
Every entry below was opened and checked on the provider’s page on the date shown. The table lists only courses with a free certificate; the ones with a paid certificate are on the courses with certificates page.
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| # | Course | Provider | Cost | Certificate | Level | Duration | Open |
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| 1 | A2 English for Developers Certification (Beta) An English course written for software developers and pitched at the A2 level of the Common European Framework of Ref… | freeCodeCamp | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | — | |
| 2 | AEO Fundamentals AEO Fundamentals is a newer HubSpot Academy certification about answer engine optimisation: earning visibility in AI-… | HubSpot Academy | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 2.3 hours | |
| 3 | AI-Powered Performance Ads Certification The AI-Powered Performance Ads Certification focuses on Google's cross-channel, AI-driven campaign types and how to c… | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 4 hours | ||
| 4 | AI-Powered Shopping ads Certification The AI-Powered Shopping ads Certification is the shortest of the Google Ads certifications on Skillshop, with three s… | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 1.3 hours | ||
| 5 | Amazon ECS - Knowledge Badge Readiness Path The Amazon ECS Knowledge Badge Readiness Path is a ten-training Skill Builder learning plan, 12 hours 40 minutes long… | AWS | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Intermediate | 12.7 hours | |
| 6 | Amazon EKS - Knowledge Badge Readiness Path The Amazon EKS Knowledge Badge Readiness Path is a 12-training Skill Builder learning plan, 10 hours 45 minutes long… | AWS | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Intermediate | 10.8 hours | |
| 7 | Amazon Q Developer Knowledge Badge Readiness Path The Amazon Q Developer Knowledge Badge Readiness Path is a ten-training Skill Builder learning plan of 5 hours 25 min… | AWS | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 5.4 hours | |
| 8 | Application Security for Developers and DevOps Professionals Application Security for Developers and DevOps Professionals, course code CS0201EN, is an intermediate Cognitive Clas… | IBM | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Intermediate | 17 hours | |
| 9 | AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner is a game-based learning experience on AWS Skill Builder in which you create an a… | AWS | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 12 hours | |
| 10 | AWS Cloud Quest: Generative AI Practitioner AWS Cloud Quest: Generative AI Practitioner is the second free role in AWS's game-based Cloud Quest and runs about 10… | AWS | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 10 hours | |
| 11 | B1 English for Developers Certification (Beta) The follow-on to freeCodeCamp's A2 course, written for developers and aligned with the B1 level of the Common Europea… | freeCodeCamp | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | — | |
| 12 | Back-End Development and APIs Certification This certification moves JavaScript to the server. | freeCodeCamp | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | — | |
| 13 | Cloud Essentials - Knowledge Badge Readiness Path (includes Labs) The Cloud Essentials Knowledge Badge Readiness Path is a Skill Builder learning plan of 11 trainings that leads to th… | AWS | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 21.9 hours | |
| 14 | College Algebra with Python Certification A one-semester college algebra course taught through Python. | freeCodeCamp | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | — | |
| 15 | Communicating with Presence Communicating with Presence is a one-hour Stanford Medicine course on the Presence 5 model, a set of five practices f… | Stanford | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Advanced | 1 week | |
| 16 | Compute - Knowledge Badge Readiness Path The Compute Knowledge Badge Readiness Path is a Skill Builder learning plan of 14 trainings, 16 hours 20 minutes in t… | AWS | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Intermediate | 16.3 hours | |
| 17 | Content Marketing Certification Course: Grow Better with Content HubSpot Academy's Content Marketing Certification Course is the longest of its marketing certifications, at 8 hours 2… | HubSpot Academy | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 8.4 hours | |
| 18 | Create a Budget in Google Sheets Create a Budget in Google Sheets is a lesson from Google's Applied Digital Skills programme, hosted on the Google for… | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 7 hours | ||
| 19 | CS50's Computer Science for Lawyers CS50 for Lawyers adapts CS50x for lawyers and law students, taking a top-down approach that emphasises high-level con… | Harvard | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 10 weeks | |
| 20 | CS50's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python This course covers the ideas and algorithms behind modern artificial intelligence, from graph search and classificati… | Harvard | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Intermediate | 7 weeks | |
| 21 | CS50's Introduction to Computer Science CS50x is Harvard's entry-level course in computer science and programming, open to people with or without prior codin… | Harvard | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 11 weeks | |
| 22 | CS50's Introduction to Cybersecurity CS50's Introduction to Cybersecurity is written for technical and non-technical learners alike. | Harvard | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 5 weeks | |
| 23 | CS50's Introduction to Databases with SQL CS50's Introduction to Databases with SQL teaches relational databases from the ground up. | Harvard | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 7 weeks | |
| 24 | CS50's Introduction to Programming with Python CS50P teaches programming through Python alone, for people with or without prior experience. | Harvard | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 10 weeks | |
| 25 | CS50's Introduction to Programming with R CS50's Introduction to Programming with R teaches programming through R, the language widely used for statistical com… | Harvard | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 7 weeks | |
| 26 | CS50's Introduction to Programming with Scratch CS50's Introduction to Programming with Scratch teaches the fundamentals of programming through Scratch, the block-ba… | Harvard | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 9 weeks | |
| 27 | CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript continues from CS50x into building and deploying web applications. | Harvard | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Intermediate | 9 weeks | |
| 28 | Cybersecurity Fundamentals Cybersecurity Fundamentals is one of the digital credentials on IBM SkillsBuild, IBM's free learning site for adult l… | IBM | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 7.5 hours | |
| 29 | Data Analysis with Python Certification freeCodeCamp's data analysis certification teaches the open-source Python toolkit that has replaced expensive proprie… | freeCodeCamp | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | — | |
| 30 | Data Science 101 Data Science 101, course code DS0101EN, is an orientation course rather than a technical one. | IBM | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 11 hours | |
| 31 | Data Visualization with Python Data Visualization with Python, course code DV0101EN, teaches how to turn tables of numbers into charts that people c… | IBM | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 10 hours | |
| 32 | Deep Learning Fundamentals Deep Learning Fundamentals, course code ML0115EN, is a concept-only crash course produced by DeepLearning.TV and host… | IBM | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 3 hours | |
| 33 | Digital Advertising Certification: Develop a Winning Online Advertising Strategy HubSpot Academy's Digital Advertising Certification covers paid media from planning to reporting. | HubSpot Academy | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 3.8 hours | |
| 34 | Digital Marketing Certification Course: Get Certified in Digital Marketing The Digital Marketing Certification Course is HubSpot Academy's introduction to marketing online with an inbound-firs… | HubSpot Academy | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 3.4 hours | |
| 35 | Docker Essentials: A Developer Introduction Docker Essentials: A Developer Introduction, course code CO0101EN, is a compact, lab-driven introduction to containers. | IBM | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 3 hours | |
| 36 | Email Marketing Certification HubSpot Academy's Email Marketing certification course approaches email as a strategic channel rather than a set of t… | HubSpot Academy | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 4 hours | |
| 37 | Empowering Teens with Healthier Sleep Empowering Teens with Healthier Sleep is a recorded Stanford Medicine talk, originally given on March 16, 2023 and of… | Stanford | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 1.5 hours | |
| 38 | Foundational C# with Microsoft Certification A certification developed with Microsoft and listed by freeCodeCamp under its professional certifications. | freeCodeCamp | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | — | |
| 39 | Frictionless Sales Course: Learn How to Remove Friction From Your Sales Organization The Frictionless Sales Course is a short HubSpot Academy certification for sales leaders, 1 hour 46 minutes across fi… | HubSpot Academy | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 1.8 hours | |
| 40 | Front-End Development Libraries Certification The third certification in freeCodeCamp's Full-Stack Developer curriculum covers the libraries developers use to buil… | freeCodeCamp | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | — | |
| 41 | Full-Stack Developer Certification The capstone of freeCodeCamp's current curriculum. | freeCodeCamp | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | — | |
| 42 | Fundamentals of Digital Marketing Fundamentals of Digital Marketing is Google's entry-level marketing course on Skillshop, published in January 2025 to… | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 40 hours | ||
| 43 | Fundamentals of Encryption & Quantum-Safe Techniques Fundamentals of Encryption & Quantum-Safe Techniques, course code SE0101EN, is a short beginner course on Cognitive C… | IBM | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 3 hours | |
| 44 | Google Ads Apps Certification The Google Ads Apps Certification is for people who promote mobile apps with Google App campaigns. | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 2.8 hours | ||
| 45 | Google Ads Creative Certification The Google Ads Creative Certification is about the ads themselves rather than campaign settings: how to make effectiv… | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 3.9 hours | ||
| 46 | Google Ads Display Certification The Google Ads Display Certification covers planning and running visual ad campaigns on the Google Display Network. | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 2.9 hours | ||
| 47 | Google Ads Measurement Certification The Google Ads Measurement Certification tests whether you can measure and optimise digital ad performance with Googl… | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Intermediate | 2.7 hours | ||
| 48 | Google Ads Search Certification The Google Ads Search Certification is Skillshop's credential for building and optimising Google Search campaigns. | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Intermediate | 3.7 hours | ||
| 49 | Google Ads Video Certification The Google Ads Video Certification is Skillshop's credential for advertising on YouTube and Google's video inventory. | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 4 hours | ||
| 50 | Google Analytics Certification (2026) The 2026 edition of the Google Analytics Certification validates the ability to go beyond basic setup and pull action… | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Intermediate | — | ||
| 51 | Grow Offline Sales Certification The Grow Offline Sales Certification covers Google's Grow Offline Sales marketing objective: using online advertising… | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 2.6 hours | ||
| 52 | Identifying Early Signs of Psychosis in Adolescents and Young Adults Identifying Early Signs of Psychosis in Adolescents and Young Adults is a two-hour continuing-education course from S… | Stanford | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Advanced | 1 week | |
| 53 | Inbound Certification Course: Attract, Engage, and Delight Your Customers The Inbound Certification Course is HubSpot Academy's shortest methodology certification, at 2 hours 45 minutes, and… | HubSpot Academy | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 2.8 hours | |
| 54 | Inbound Marketing Certification Course: Attract Customers Through Valuable Content and Tailored Experiences HubSpot Academy's Inbound Marketing Certification Course covers the customer-centric approach HubSpot calls inbound… | HubSpot Academy | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 4.9 hours | |
| 55 | Inbound Marketing Optimization Course The Inbound Marketing Optimization Course follows on from HubSpot Academy's Inbound Marketing certification and is ai… | HubSpot Academy | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 4.6 hours | |
| 56 | Inbound Sales Certification Course: Get Certified in Inbound Sales The Inbound Sales Certification Course applies HubSpot's inbound methodology to selling. | HubSpot Academy | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 3.1 hours | |
| 57 | Information Security Certification A practical introduction to protecting people's information online, in three blocks. | freeCodeCamp | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | — | |
| 58 | Introduction to Cloud Introduction to Cloud, course code CC0101EN, gives the vocabulary of cloud computing from both a business and a pract… | IBM | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 6 hours | |
| 59 | Introduction to Food & Health Introduction to Food & Health is a short Stanford Medicine continuing-education course hosted on edX, where it is off… | Stanford | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Advanced | 1 week | |
| 60 | JavaScript Certification The second certification in freeCodeCamp's Full-Stack Developer curriculum and, at 235 blocks, its largest. | freeCodeCamp | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | — | |
| 61 | Machine Learning with Python Machine Learning with Python, course code ML0101EN, introduces the main families of machine learning algorithms using… | IBM | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 20 hours | |
| 62 | Machine Learning with Python Certification This certification uses the TensorFlow framework to build several neural networks and to explore more advanced techni… | freeCodeCamp | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | — | |
| 63 | Microsoft Excel 2010 An older but still-listed Alison course on Excel 2010, and one of the few on the platform whose digital certificate i… | Alison | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | — | |
| 64 | Prompt Engineering for Everyone Prompt Engineering for Everyone, course code AI0117EN, teaches non-specialists how to write prompts that get useful a… | IBM | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 5 hours | |
| 65 | Python Certification freeCodeCamp's current Python certification, one of the six that make up its Full-Stack Developer curriculum, teaches… | freeCodeCamp | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | — | |
| 66 | Python for Data Science Python for Data Science, course code PY0101EN and long known as Python 101, is Cognitive Class's entry-level Python c… | IBM | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 18 hours | |
| 67 | Relational Databases Certification The fundamentals of relational databases, taught alongside the command-line tools developers use with them. | freeCodeCamp | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | — | |
| 68 | Responsive Web Design Certification freeCodeCamp's entry point to web development and the first certification in its current Full-Stack Developer curricu… | freeCodeCamp | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | — | |
| 69 | Revenue Operations Certification The Revenue Operations Certification introduces RevOps: running marketing, sales and service operations as one revenu… | HubSpot Academy | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 6.9 hours | |
| 70 | Sales Enablement Training: Get Certified in Sales Enablement Sales Enablement Training is HubSpot Academy's certification on aligning marketing and sales. | HubSpot Academy | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 7.3 hours | |
| 71 | Scientific Computing with Python Certification A project-led Python course in which every concept is taught by building something. | freeCodeCamp | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | — | |
| 72 | Social Media Marketing Certification Course: Get Certified in Social Media Strategy The Social Media Marketing Certification Course teaches how to build and run a social strategy for a business. | HubSpot Academy | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 5.3 hours | |
| 73 | SQL and Relational Databases 101 SQL and Relational Databases 101, course code DB0101EN, is a short introduction to querying data with SQL and to the… | IBM | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Beginner | 5 hours | |
| 74 | Unconscious Bias in Medicine Unconscious Bias in Medicine is a one-hour online activity run directly on Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Edu… | Stanford | Free | IncludedCertificate included | — | 1 hour | |
| 75 | z/OS Networking Security Foundations z/OS Networking Security Foundations, course code MF0202EN, is an IBM Systems course hosted on Cognitive Class for us… | IBM | Free | IncludedCertificate included | Intermediate | 8 hours |
By provider
Provider Google 12 free certifications Free Google certifications from Skillshop and Google Skills, with notes on what is free and what is a paid subscription. Provider HubSpot 13 free certifications Free HubSpot Academy certifications in inbound marketing, sales, service and content, all free to earn and verifiable. Provider AWS 7 free certifications Free AWS training and Knowledge Badges from AWS Skill Builder and AWS Educate, and how they relate to paid AWS Certification exams. Provider IBM 13 free certifications Free IBM credentials from SkillsBuild and Cognitive Class with free Credly badges, and where IBM's paid professional certificates differ. Provider Harvard 9 free certifications Free Harvard certificates: which Harvard courses issue a certificate at no cost and which charge for it through edX.
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Skill IT 28 free certifications Free IT certifications from Microsoft, AWS, IBM, Google and non-profits: badges and credentials you can earn and verify at no cost. Skill Marketing 21 free certifications Free marketing certifications from HubSpot, Google and other company academies, covering inbound, advertising, analytics and content. Skill Digital Marketing 19 free certifications Free digital marketing certifications in search, paid advertising, analytics, social media and email from platform vendors. Skill Cyber Security 6 free certifications Free cyber security certifications and badges from technology vendors and non-profits, and how they relate to paid industry certifications. Skill AI 15 free certifications Free AI and machine learning certifications from Microsoft, IBM, AWS, Google and non-profits, from literacy courses to model building. Skill Data Analytics 17 free certifications Free data analytics certifications in spreadsheets, SQL, statistics and BI tools from vendors and non-profits, verifiable at no cost. Skill Project Management 7 free certifications Free project management certifications and badges from company academies and non-profits, and how they relate to PMP and similar exams. Skill Healthcare 5 free certifications Free healthcare certifications and certificates of completion in public health, nutrition and health topics, and their limits for clinical work.
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Audience Free Certifications for Jobs 63 free certifications Free, verifiable certifications that help with job applications, with a plain account of what employers can and cannot check. Audience Free Certifications for Remote Jobs 36 free certifications Free, verifiable certifications relevant to remote work, and how remote hiring changes what employers look for and can check. Audience Free Certifications for Veterans 14 free certifications Free, verifiable certifications for veterans and service members changing careers, and how they complement formal benefit programmes. Audience Free Certifications for Your Résumé 74 free certifications How to choose and list free, verifiable certifications on a résumé or CV, and what to leave off.
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Questions about free certifications
What counts as a free certification here?
A course you can take in full at no cost whose certificate is also free and can be checked by someone else, usually through a public link or a badge on a credential platform. Courses whose material is free but whose certificate is paid are listed on the certificates page, not here.
Are free certifications worth putting on a CV?
They show initiative and a verified skill, and they are most convincing when the issuer is the company whose product the skill concerns or a university. Employers can check most of them online. They are not equivalent to accredited qualifications or proctored professional exams, which are paid.
Why is a well-known course missing?
Either its certificate is paid, its free access covers only a preview, or we have not verified it yet. Every entry here was checked on the provider’s page on the date shown, and the list grows as verification continues.
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