Free certifications
31 free certificates and badges from reputable providers. Our team checks every listing before it appears here. You sign up on the provider's own website.
Introduction to IoT
A free self-paced course on how the Internet of Things connects sensors, data, AI and security to transform industries. Passing the final exam earns a Cisco digital badge.
Cisco Networking Academy · IoT & Embedded
Introduction to Cybersecurity
A free self-paced course on common cyber threats, how to protect yourself and organisations, and careers in security. Completing it earns a Cisco digital badge.
Cisco Networking Academy · Cybersecurity & Digital Trust
Kaggle Learn: Time Series
Forecast sales and demand with trend, seasonality and machine learning, in hands-on Kaggle notebooks. The skills behind retail, energy and supply-chain forecasting. Finish the exercises for a free certificate of completion.
Kaggle · Retail, E-commerce & Consumer Goods
Kaggle Learn: Computer Vision
Build image classifiers with convolutional networks and transfer learning, the skills used for defect inspection, crop disease and medical images. Finish the exercises for a free certificate of completion.
Kaggle · Manufacturing, Robotics & Industry 4.0
Reinforcement Learning Onramp
A free interactive course on training agents with reinforcement learning to control systems such as robots, run in the browser with MATLAB Online. Completing it earns a certificate of completion.
MathWorks · Robotics & Automation
Circuit Simulation Onramp
A free interactive course on building and simulating electrical circuits in Simulink, run in the browser. Completing it earns a certificate of completion.
MathWorks · VLSI & Semiconductors
Hugging Face Deep Reinforcement Learning Course
A free course on deep reinforcement learning, from Q-learning to policy gradients, where you train agents in games and robot simulations. Passing the hands-on assignments earns a free certificate of completion.
Hugging Face · Robotics & Automation
FAO eLearning Academy: Agriculture and Food Courses
Hundreds of free self-paced courses on agriculture, food security, nutrition, climate and data for farming. Passing a course's final assessment earns a free digital certificate and badge.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations · Agriculture & Food
Scientific Computing with Python Certification
Learn Python from the ground up in interactive, browser-based lessons, then build the required projects. Completing them earns a free verified certification you can link from your CV.
freeCodeCamp · Python & Foundations
Data Analysis with Python Certification
Work with NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib and Seaborn to read, clean and chart real datasets. Build the five required analysis projects to earn a free verified certification.
freeCodeCamp · Data Analysis
Machine Learning with Python Certification
Learn TensorFlow and neural networks, then build five machine learning projects such as an image classifier, a book recommender and a text classifier. Completing all five earns a free verified certification.
freeCodeCamp · Machine Learning
Kaggle Learn: Python
Short lessons with hands-on exercises in Kaggle notebooks, covering the Python you need for data science. Finish every exercise to receive a free certificate of completion.
Kaggle · Python & Foundations
Kaggle Learn: Intro to Machine Learning
Build your first models with decision trees and random forests, and learn how to check them on data they have not seen. Complete the exercises for a free certificate of completion.
Kaggle · Machine Learning
Kaggle Learn: Intro to SQL
Write SQL queries against real public datasets: selecting, grouping, ordering and joining. Finish the exercises to earn a free certificate of completion.
Kaggle · Databases & SQL
Kaggle Learn: Intro to Deep Learning
Build and train neural networks with Keras, and learn about overfitting, dropout and batch normalisation. Complete the exercises for a free certificate of completion.
Kaggle · Deep Learning
Kaggle Learn: Intro to AI Ethics
Practical lessons on designing AI systems that are fair and transparent: human-centred design, bias, fairness and model cards. Complete the exercises for a free certificate.
Kaggle · Responsible AI
Hugging Face AI Agents Course
Learn how LLM agents plan and use tools, and build agents with frameworks such as smolagents, LlamaIndex and LangGraph. Complete the assignments and final project to earn a free certificate.
Hugging Face · AI Agents
Elements of AI
A free introduction to what AI is, what it can and cannot do, and how machine learning and neural networks work, with no programming needed. Complete the exercises to receive a certificate.
University of Helsinki and MinnaLearn · Machine Learning
Microsoft Applied Skills (AI, data and cloud)
Scenario-based credentials earned by completing tasks in a live lab, for example building AI solutions with Microsoft Foundry or working with data in Microsoft Fabric. Prepare with the free Microsoft Learn modules, then take the lab assessment.
Microsoft · Microsoft Azure
IBM SkillsBuild: Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals
Self-paced courses on AI concepts, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision and AI ethics. Pass the quizzes and final assessment to earn a free IBM digital badge.
IBM SkillsBuild · Machine Learning
Databricks Fundamentals Accreditation
Free on-demand training on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and the lakehouse. Pass the short quiz at the end to earn a badge you can share on LinkedIn.
Databricks · Data Platforms
Databricks Generative AI Fundamentals
About an hour of free videos on large language models and how organisations use generative AI. Pass the quiz to earn a shareable badge.
Databricks · Generative AI & LLMs
Databricks AI Agent Fundamentals
Free training on what AI agents are, how they are built and how businesses use them. Finish the course and quiz to earn a badge for your résumé or LinkedIn.
Databricks · AI Agents
Neo4j Certified Professional
A free one-hour online exam of 80 questions on graph databases: Cypher, graph data modelling, importing data and indexes. Score 80% to pass. The free GraphAcademy courses prepare you for it.
Neo4j · Databases & SQL