TalentLMS vs 360Learning: pricing, SSO and plan limits compared

It flips depending on where you sit inside a TalentLMS band, and that is the whole point of band pricing. TalentLMS charges per plan, not per user, so the marginal user is free until you cross a band edge. 360Learning charges $8 per user per month in a straight line up to 100 users. Below roughly 25 users 360Learning is cheaper. Above that TalentLMS wins, and the gap widens as you fill a band.

Two caveats keep this honest. TalentLMS bills on the monthly number of users who log in, not on registered accounts, so a company with 200 people where only 60 train in a given month may sit in a lower band than headcount suggests. And the "+ $6 per additional user" line on Pro does not state a billing period on the pricing page, so do not multiply it out without confirming.

The 360Learning number in the last row is unknowable, because Team stops at 100 users. Above that you are on a custom quote and no published comparison is possible. That is true of almost every vendor in this market, which is why the enterprise LMS pricing breakdown focuses on billing units rather than rates.

For most companies with an IT function, this decides the comparison before price does.

TalentLMS ships SAML 2.0, LDAP, Active Directory and OpenID Connect single sign-on on Core, its cheapest paid tier at $119 a month. So do the API, custom domain with SSL, custom reports, LTI 1.3, analytics, automations and remove-branding. That is unusually generous, and it is the strongest thing about TalentLMS as a product decision rather than a price.

360Learning does the opposite. On its feature matrix, single sign-on carries an asterisk and appears only in the Business and Enterprise columns. So does the Microsoft Teams or Zoom webinar integration. Neither is on the $8 Team plan. A 70-person company that budgets $6,720 a year on the published rate and then learns that every tool has to sit behind Okta is not saving money, it is starting a custom-quote process it did not plan for.

This pattern is not unique to 360Learning. Continu includes SSO on its entry tier but holds the API and webhooks back to Enterprise at 5,000 monthly active users. SAP Litmos keeps SSO above its Foundation tier. We mapped where every major platform sets its gate in LMS integrations by plan. The habit worth building is simple: find the plan that contains your identity provider, your HRIS connector and your API, and price that plan, not the one on the pricing page.

Price aside, these two products assume different companies.

TalentLMS assumes an admin. Someone in HR or L&D builds courses, assigns them by branch and role, and reads the reports. TalentCraft adds AI authoring credits (5,000 one-time on Core, 10,000 a month on Grow, 15,000 on Pro), and content libraries are available as separate subscriptions if you would rather buy than build. It is a conventional model and it works, which is why 70,000-plus teams use it.

360Learning assumes contributors. Its bet is that the best training in a company is written by the people doing the work, so course requests, expert review queues, co-authoring and feedback loops are core features. When that culture exists, the platform is genuinely differentiated. When it does not, you have bought collaboration machinery that nobody uses, and you are paying $8 per user per month for a course player.

The test is uncomfortable but useful: name three people outside L&D who will write and maintain a course this year. If you cannot, buy the platform that assumes an admin. If you can name ten, 360Learning is worth the premium and the SSO tier step.

There is a third shape neither covers well. If the job is proving that every person in a role completed mandatory training before a deadline and holds a certificate that has not expired, that is a records problem, not an authoring problem. See certification tracking software and the best compliance training software for platforms built around it.

Pick TalentLMS if you want the most capability for the least money with no sales call, your headcount lands near the top of a band, and your HR system is not Workday. It is the most transparent vendor in the category and its entry tier is genuinely complete. Watch the SCORM gap: it supports 1.2, xAPI and cmi5 but not SCORM 2004, which matters if a content vendor ships 2004 packages.

Pick 360Learning if authoring is your bottleneck, you have willing internal experts, and you are under 100 users. The monthly no-commitment billing is the lowest-risk way to start a program you are still proving. Budget for the Business tier from the outset if SSO is non-negotiable, and ask for that quote early rather than after the pilot.

Pick neither if you are a 100 to 1,000 person US company whose driver is compliance and certification. TalentLMS Pro tops out at 100 included users and 360Learning Team stops there entirely, so both push you into a quote at exactly the size where a published rate is most useful. CompanyLMS publishes $4 and $7 per active learner right through that range.

For the underlying rate cards, see TalentLMS pricing and 360Learning pricing. Broader shortlists are in TalentLMS alternatives and 360Learning alternatives. Head to head against the enterprise field, see Docebo vs 360Learning and Absorb LMS vs 360Learning, or the full LMS comparison chart.