Docebo vs 360Learning: pricing, SSO gates and integrations compared

At small scale 360Learning is cheaper and it is not close, because it is the only one of the two that will sell you anything without a call. Its Team plan is $8 per user per month up to 100 users, billed monthly with no annual commitment. A 60-person company pays $480 a month and can cancel. Docebo has no self-serve entry point at all and its own pricing page carries two dollar signs, neither of them attached to a plan.

Above 100 users the comparison stops being a comparison and becomes two quotes. 360Learning Business and Enterprise are custom, described on its own FAQ as differing mainly at the Enterprise level on advanced integrations, premium onboarding, dedicated support and strategic guidance. Docebo quotes Elevate or Enterprise on yearly active users. Third-party reports put Docebo total cost of ownership from around $25,000 a year, with $50,000 to $200,000 typical at scale, and those are worth treating as directional only.

The honest answer for most US buyers: if you fit under 100 users, 360Learning is cheaper and faster to buy. If you do not, neither vendor will give you a number this quarter without a discovery call, and you should budget three to six weeks per vendor for that process. Our enterprise LMS pricing breakdown models what those quotes tend to land at.

This is the single most consequential detail in the comparison and it is easy to miss. On the 360Learning feature matrix, single sign-on and the Microsoft Teams or Zoom webinar integration both carry an asterisk and appear only in the Business and Enterprise columns. They are not on Team.

Work through what that means. A 70-person US company sees $8 per user per month, calculates $560 a month, and puts it in a budget. Then IT says every SaaS tool has to sit behind Okta or Entra ID, which is standard policy at most companies with an IT function at all. The company now needs Business, which is custom-quoted, and the $8 anchor was never a price it could have paid.

Docebo does not have this problem, because it does not publish a price to contradict. SSO is included in a quoted contract at either tier. That is a different kind of unhelpful, but it is at least consistent: you were always going to find out the price in a meeting.

The general lesson applies well beyond these two vendors. A published LMS rate tells you what the entry tier costs, not what your configuration costs, and identity is the requirement that most often moves a buyer up a tier. We mapped where every major platform sets that gate in LMS integrations by plan, and it varies more than anyone expects: TalentLMS ships SAML SSO on its cheapest paid tier, Continu ships SSO on its entry tier but holds the API back to Enterprise, and SAP Litmos keeps SSO above Foundation entirely.

Docebo bills on yearly active users. Its pricing page states that onboarding and support have flexible options to match your YAU, and that unit is the widest active-user window anywhere in this market.

For a company where learning is voluntary and adoption is patchy, YAU is genuinely favorable: you pay for the people who showed up, and a large dormant population costs nothing. For a compliance program it inverts completely. If every employee has to complete one mandatory course a year, then every employee is active within the year, and yearly active users converges on total headcount. You end up paying registered-user prices under an active-user label, and nobody misrepresented anything.

360Learning uses a different structure on its custom tiers: its own page describes combining registered and monthly active users in a single contract to support internal and external learners. That is more flexible, and also harder to model, because two variables move at once.

Three questions settle this before you sign either contract. What exactly counts as an active user, in writing. What window is it measured over. And what happens when the count rises mid-term: does it bill monthly, trigger a tier move, or wait until renewal. The third question is where surprise invoices come from. We work through the difference in detail in active versus registered user pricing.

Choose Docebo if you are training more than one audience at real scale, employees plus customers plus partners, ideally across multiple brands or regions. Elevate already covers certification and compliance tracking, multilingual delivery and the Harmony AI copilot, and Enterprise adds extended enterprise across ten domains, a dedicated database and a real API ceiling. Budget for AI credits as a running cost, and read the add-on list carefully, because Microsoft Teams and Salesforce are on it.

Choose 360Learning if your training bottleneck is authoring rather than distribution. If your best people know things nobody has written down, and some of them will actually write, the collaborative model earns its keep. Under 100 users the monthly, no-commitment Team plan is the lowest-risk way to buy any LMS in this comparison, as long as you can live without single sign-on.

Choose neither if you are a 50 to 500 person US company that needs onboarding, compliance and certification tracking on a rate you can see today. That is a large group of buyers and both platforms fit it awkwardly: Docebo will quote enterprise money for a mid-market problem, and 360Learning stops publishing at 100 users and excludes the one feature IT will insist on. Published per-seat pricing usually wins up to somewhere around 1,500 to 2,500 employees.

For the numbers behind each, see Docebo pricing and 360Learning pricing. If Docebo is on your list, Docebo vs Absorb LMS compares the two deepest quote-only platforms and Docebo alternatives covers the rest of the field. If 360Learning is, 360Learning alternatives and Absorb LMS vs 360Learning are the natural next reads. For the whole field at once, the LMS comparison chart sets fifteen platforms side by side.