You can access select content and features without a paid subscription or license. This article details what you can access for free.
Note: Free accounts don’t include access to hands-on labs or sandboxes. To access these features, purchase a paid plan (opens in new tab).
Without an account
- Our online Resources (opens in new tab) include blog posts, video series, and webinars that you can view without signing up for a Pluralsight account. Some resources do require you to register with your email in order to access.
- Sign up for emails (opens in new tab) to be first to know about announcements, news, and promotional offers.
With a free Pluralsight account
If you used to have an individual subscription, limited library benefit, or you created a free Pluralsight account in the past, your account and data remain intact.
Note: If you leave a team plan, you may lose access to your account. See Leaving a team plan to learn more.
Here's what you can do with a free Pluralsight account:
- Watch a selection of always-free video content. Some paid courses also include course overview clips that you can view for free.
- Take Skill IQ assessments to measure your proficiency in specific tech skills.
- Explore Role IQ to learn what skills are required for certain job roles.
- Personalize your profile.
- View your history.
Tip: If you've forgotten your password, request a password reset.
If you started watching a course while you had a paid individual subscription and your subscription then ended, you won't be able to finish that course with a free account. To finish in-progress courses or view more courses than those included with your free Pluralsight account, you must have a subscription.
There's more you can access with a free trial of Skills—see Free trial for individuals to learn more. To purchase a subscription, check out our pricing page (opens in new tab).
With a migrated A Cloud Guru account
All A Cloud Guru users are migrating to Pluralsight. If you had a personal ACG membership that was canceled or expired, or you created a free ACG account in the past, your account is migrating to Pluralsight in 2025. No action is required on your part to migrate.
Signing in
Continue to sign in with your ACG credentials on the ACG sign-in page (opens in new tab). When your account is migrated, you’ll be directed to Pluralsight upon signing in.
Tip: If you've forgotten your password, request a password reset.
Account and history
Your account data and history will migrate with you. See the migration FAQ for full details on what data is being migrated to Pluralsight.
Content and features
With a migrated free account, you can access all the free Pluralsight content and features listed above. To access expanded course libraries, hands-on labs and sandboxes, and more, upgrade to a paid subscription (opens in new tab).
Cloud+ Essentials
In March 2025, customers who purchased access to now-retired individual ACG courses were given a one-time offer to access Pluralsight for free with the Cloud+ Essentials plan. See Free access to Cloud+ Essentials for details.