A lot of people in security remember Cybrary as the place you could learn for free. That was true years ago, and the brand still gets around 4,400 searches a month in the US. The current product is different. A free account gives you the first course of each career path, an introductory lab and access to the community.
Everything else, the full paths, most labs, practice tests and completion certificates, sits behind Insider Pro, which third-party listings put at roughly $49 to $59 a month depending on billing. The core of what you pay for is certification prep. The paths for exams like CompTIA Security+ and CySA+ and ISC2's CISSP are organised sensibly and include practice tests, and if you learn well from video lectures and want to pass a specific exam, they do the job. The career paths are useful for people moving into security from elsewhere who need to know what order to learn things in. My problem is value. TryHackMe Premium costs a fraction of this and is hands-on from the first minute.
Hack The Box Academy goes deeper. Both have serious AI security content now, while Cybrary has very little on LLM or AI system security, which is the fastest growing topic in the field. For readers of this site, that gap matters. The search data tells the same story. dataforseo shows US interest in Cybrary down about 56% year on year.
I read that as the market moving to lab-first platforms and away from video libraries. My take: fine for exam cramming if you like videos, but hard to recommend at this price, and not a place to learn AI security.