Absorb LMS vs 360Learning: Pricing and Integrations

Last updated August 2026. Both vendors' pricing and integration pages were read first-hand on 30 August 2026, not taken from listing sites.

Absorb LMS and 360Learning solve different problems and price themselves in opposite ways. Absorb publishes no rates at all and quotes per active learner across eight size bands, but names the deeper connector list: Workday, ADP, UKG Pro, SAP SuccessFactors, Dayforce, Salesforce and a REST API with webhooks. 360Learning publishes one rate, $8 per user per month on its Team plan up to 100 users, billed monthly with no annual commitment, and builds everything around courses your own subject experts write. The catch on the published price is that SSO is not in it. If you need single sign-on, you are buying the custom-quoted Business plan, and the number on the pricing page no longer applies to you.

That asymmetry is the whole comparison. One vendor makes you ask for a price and then gives you a deep integration estate. The other shows you a price and then puts the enterprise plumbing a tier above it. Here is what each actually charges, what each connects to, and which one fits which shape of company.

What Absorb LMS and 360Learning each actually are

Absorb LMS is a full corporate learning platform aimed at mid-market and enterprise buyers, with a strong administrative console and a reputation for handling large, messy learner populations. It scores 4.6 out of 5 on G2. Its bet is breadth: employees, customers, partners and franchisees in one system, with prebuilt connectors into whatever HR and CRM software you already run.

360Learning is a learning platform with a specific ideology. It argues that the best training in a company is written by the people who do the work, not bought off a shelf, so course requests, expert review queues, co-authoring and feedback loops are first-class product features instead of bolt-ons. It calls this collaborative learning, and the product is genuinely built around it rather than marketed around it.

Neither is wrong. They are answers to different questions. If your problem is "we have 4,000 people across six systems and nobody can prove who finished safety training," that is Absorb. If your problem is "our best engineers know things nobody has written down," that is 360Learning.

Absorb LMS vs 360Learning pricing compared

Only one of the two publishes a number, and the number it publishes covers a narrower product than most buyers assume.

Work a realistic example. A 400-person company evaluating both will land in Absorb's 251-500 band, where the marginal learner is free until you cross 500, and will be quoted after a discovery call. The same company cannot buy 360Learning's Team plan at all, because it caps at 100 users, so it is quoted on Business regardless. Neither vendor gives you a number you can put in a budget without a meeting. The difference is that Absorb never pretended otherwise, while 360Learning's public $8 sets an anchor most mid-market buyers will never actually pay.

The band structure has one consequence worth planning around. On Absorb, the 51st learner and the 150th learner cost the same, so sitting one seat above a band edge is the most expensive place to be. If you are at 505 people, ask what the 501-1,000 band costs against holding at 500 for a year.

Integrations: the deeper list versus the published price

This is where the two separate most clearly, and it is the section that decides the shortlist for anyone with a real HR system.

Absorb's integrations page names ADP in three flavors (Vantage, Next Gen and Workforce Now), BambooHR, Namely, Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, UKG Pro, Dayforce and Deputy for HR, plus Salesforce, HubSpot and Zendesk Sell for CRM, and NetSuite ERP, ServiceNow, Google Workspace, Zoom, WebEx, Credly, Eventbrite, Marketo and Intercom elsewhere. It ships a no-code Salesforce Connector with single sign-on built in, a RESTful API, and webhooks that fire on events like course completion and user signup. Notably absent from that page: Microsoft Teams, Okta and Zapier. If any of those three are load-bearing for you, confirm them directly rather than assuming.

360Learning's pricing FAQ names Workday, SAP SuccessFactors and BambooHR for HRIS, and Microsoft Teams, Slack and Zoom for collaboration, described as available out of the box. But two rows in its feature matrix carry an asterisk and sit only on Business and Enterprise: single sign-on, and the Teams or Zoom webinar integration. That is the sharpest plan gate in the category. A published rate that excludes SSO means any company running Okta or Entra ID is shopping a tier whose price is not published.

If completion data has to reach a warehouse or a BI tool, Absorb's webhooks are the more direct route and they are documented publicly. We compare how every major platform gates this in our LMS integrations by plan breakdown, which is worth reading before either sales call, because the same gate exists at Docebo, Continu and SAP Litmos in different shapes.

Compliance and certification tracking

Absorb is the stronger fit here, and it is not close. Compliance buyers need dated per-employee records, automatic re-enrollment on an expiry schedule, and an export an auditor will accept. Absorb's admin console and reporting were built for exactly that population, which is why it shows up on so many regulated shortlists. Its HRIS connectors also matter more than they look: an employee who leaves and is not deprovisioned keeps appearing in your compliance reports as overdue, which quietly corrupts every completion percentage you report upward.

360Learning can run compliance training, and it supports SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004 and xAPI so imported courses work fine. But its product energy goes into authoring, peer feedback and course quality loops, not into recertification schedules and audit exports. Buying it primarily for OSHA or HIPAA tracking means paying for a collaborative engine you will barely use. If compliance is the driver, our comparison of the best compliance training software covers the platforms built for it, and certification tracking software covers the expiry-date problem specifically.

What the reviews actually tell you

Absorb holds 4.6 out of 5 on G2, consistently praised for the admin experience and consistently criticized for the same thing every quote-only enterprise vendor gets criticized for: you cannot find out what it costs without a call. 360Learning reviews cluster around the collaborative features being genuinely good and the platform being a poor fit when nobody internally wants to author anything, which is a culture problem the software cannot solve.

Aggregate scores only get you so far. What actually moves a decision is a reference call with a company your size in your industry, and both vendors will arrange one if you ask. That request is also a useful filter: a vendor that cannot produce a comparable reference in two weeks is telling you something. It is the same reason software teams put real effort into collecting structured customer proof rather than relying on a star rating, because a specific account saying a specific thing is worth more than an average.

Which one should you buy?

Buy Absorb LMS if you are above roughly 300 employees, your HR system is Workday, ADP, UKG or SuccessFactors, and the program is compliance-led or spans customers and partners as well as staff. You will wait three to six weeks for a quote and you will pay enterprise money, but the connector estate is real and the reporting will survive an audit.

Buy 360Learning if your training problem is that expertise lives in people's heads, you have subject experts willing to author, and you are under 100 users so the published $8 rate genuinely applies. The monthly billing with no annual commitment is a real advantage for a program you are still proving out.

Buy neither if you are a 50 to 500 person US company that needs onboarding, compliance and certification tracking on a price you can see today. That is a large group of buyers and both of these platforms handle it awkwardly: Absorb will quote you enterprise pricing for a mid-market problem, and 360Learning's visible plan stops at 100 users and excludes SSO. Published per-seat platforms are usually cheaper up to somewhere around 1,500 to 2,500 employees, which we work through in enterprise LMS pricing.

For the underlying numbers on each, see Absorb LMS pricing and 360Learning pricing. If Absorb is on your list, Docebo vs Absorb LMS compares the two deepest quote-only platforms directly. If 360Learning is, 360Learning alternatives covers the platforms buyers most often shortlist beside it.