There are three classes of CD-i players: consumer, professional and development. Consumer players are players for home use and are sold through retail outlets. Professional players have specific features, such as connectivity, floppy disk drive, or portability, and are more expensive than the consumer player. Development players have features that enable title development, such as debugging tools and the ability to connect to an emulator.

The CD-i 220 player, which is designed for consumers, is available at major home electronics outlets around the world. Professional and development players are sold by Philips Interactive Media Systems and their VARs. Philips currently markets several CD-i player models. The CD-i 605 is designed for professional applications and for software development. It contains a floppy disk drive and can connect to a keyboard and other computer peripherals. It can also be connected to an emulator and has software testing and debugging features. The CD-i 360 player is a portable player that is sold in the professional market and is not currently available to home consumers. It is particularly useful for point of sale presentations, such as those used by pharmaceutical companies to provide product information to physicians, because it can be carried by the sales representative.

Companies besides Philips for example, Sony, Samsung, Goldstar, Matsushita, Sanyo, and Kyocera also manufacture various CD-i players.