LearnUpon vs. Skilljar by Gainsight

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
LearnUpon
Score 6.5 out of 10
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LearnUpon partners with over 1,500 businesses worldwide to create meaningful learning experiences that empower employees, customers, and members. Whether their LMS is used to develop employees or onboard customers, LearnUpon helps users to deliver impactful training.N/A
Skilljar by Gainsight
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform is a solution to educate, engage, and retain everyone a business interacts with. An external LMS for customer and partner education, it is a Gainsight solution since the 2025 acquisition.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsLearnUpon offers a standard SaaS subscription model, consisting of several price bands. Each price band includes a set number of MAUs or ‘Monthly Active Users’. Plans vary by feature and customer support priority. As the first step in a partnership with LearnUpon, a LearnUpon Account Executive (AE) will listen to any requirements to ensure the use case is a good fit, and recommend a LearnUpon plan to fit the specific usage, feature, and support requirements.
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Skilljar by Gainsight
Chose Skilljar by Gainsight
Compared to other LMS it has great features, plus a faster learning curve and is very easy to manage. Other platforms could be cheaper but are pretty limited, and others have way to much features that we were not going to use and with a very high cost, so complex that the …
Chose Skilljar by Gainsight
Skilljar stood out based on its integrations, native analytics, and sense of partnership.
Chose Skilljar by Gainsight
Skilljar excels by being solid in all aspects. Competitors may excel in a certain area or other, for example, Thinkific has a better marketing ecosystem, but Skilljar is built to exist within your current structure.
Features
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Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
LearnUpon
8.2
9 Ratings
0% above category average
Skilljar by Gainsight
9.3
26 Ratings
8% above category average
Course authoring9.29 Ratings10.022 Ratings
Course catalog or library8.47 Ratings9.025 Ratings
Player/Portal8.59 Ratings9.021 Ratings
Learning content8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile friendly8.88 Ratings10.020 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications7.59 Ratings8.026 Ratings
Assignments7.88 Ratings10.019 Ratings
Compliance management7.37 Ratings8.517 Ratings
Learning administration7.89 Ratings10.024 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics8.39 Ratings9.526 Ratings
Social learning7.96 Ratings9.014 Ratings
Gamification00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Customer Training Tools
Comparison of Customer Training Tools features of Product A and Product B
LearnUpon
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Ratings
Skilljar by Gainsight
9.7
3 Ratings
0% above category average
Customer Feedback Collection00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Customer Training Library Curation00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
User Permissioning00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
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User Ratings
LearnUponSkilljar by Gainsight
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(9 ratings)
9.9
(77 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(52 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(52 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
LearnUponSkilljar by Gainsight
Likelihood to Recommend
LearnUpon
I think LearnUpon is a great LMS for an organization that focuses on internal learners, aka, employees. It's very easy to create courses, enroll learners, and mark attendance. For an association such as mine, more support would be helpful for appropriately setting up the store to reflect member and non-member accounts. In addition, it's difficult to do outside-the-box functions like transfers and refunds.
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Gainsight
Skilljar is fantastic for structured onboarding processes. If you're
looking to streamline and standardize the onboarding experience for your
customers, especially for software or complex products, this platform
is a gem. It allows you to create step-by-step courses guiding users
through functionalities, reducing confusion and accelerating their
learning curve.When you need versatility in content delivery, Skilljar is spot-on.
Whether it's video tutorials, interactive quizzes, downloadable
resources, or live webinars, the platform accommodates various formats.
It's perfect for accommodating different learning styles and ensuring
engagement.
For scenarios that demand highly complex simulations or immersive
learning experiences, Skilljar's capabilities might fall short. While it
supports interactive elements, extremely sophisticated simulations
might require additional specialized software or platforms.
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Pros
LearnUpon
  • Integration with video conferencing platforms (primarily Zoom).
  • Timing out releasing of course materials and exams so students can't get eyes on something an instructor is not ready for them to see yet.
  • Customization of our store front and courses with regard to branding and graphics.
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Gainsight
  • Unlimited courses, learning paths, quizzes, pages, plans, and certifications
  • Ease of use for students, administrators, and content creators
  • Customer Success and Service are top notch. The CSMs are genuinely committed to helping you achieve your metrics and goals
  • Asking for and listening to customer feedback for enhancements
  • Developer Center where people with little to no coding experience can learn how to use and apply HTML templates and code snippets to customize your site
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Cons
LearnUpon
  • There are issues with users who have an account in more than one LearnUpon portal. If a user has an account in an existing LearnUpon portal, and they want to create an account in another LearnUpon portal, then they have to be invited to the new portal by an Administrator. but the user has no way of knowing that its a LearnUpon portal until they can't sign up. Its very confusing for the learner.
  • An email address is required in order to set up an account. We serve many providers who don't have email addresses for all of their staff, so this is a huge issue for us.
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Gainsight
  • Would love to see parent/child courses so that when something is updated in the parent course that change is automatically reflected in the clones of that course.
  • Features that allow for the translation of content to allow access to content across languages.
  • Re-onboarding process when the usage of Skilljar changes hands within out company in order to address knowledge gaps.
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Likelihood to Renew
LearnUpon
We've been a customer for six years and I don't see that changing anytime soon. We're very happy with LearnUpon.
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Gainsight
I like what you are using and how we are doing it. Also, changing systems is a lot of work
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Usability
LearnUpon
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Gainsight
The learning curve for Skilljar is not too steep, and I've renewed our contract twice now. I've been able to add additional administrators and get them up to speed on platform functionality within a day. Plus, Skilljar provides awesome resources to help you learn how to use is. The Help Center has articles for almost everything, and when in doubt, their amazing CSMs (like ours, ...) provide exemplary support/advice.
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Support Rating
LearnUpon
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Gainsight
I have opened several support cases in the past and at times felt like little was being done to resolve the issues I was having. For example, when searching the use against a training credit, Skilljar said the code was fully used, yet only 1 had been used. The support team seemed to not have interest in learning why this was happening and ensuring it does not happen again. The issue was resolved with this particular case, but I have no idea if it was the only training credit having this issue. At times I feel like the issues we encounter do not seem as important to the support team
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Implementation Rating
LearnUpon
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Gainsight
Do a good job of preparing your internal teams (IT, Salesforce, etc.) about the work they will have in the process
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Alternatives Considered
LearnUpon
LearnUpon's interface and immersive experience blows the competition out of the water. LearnUpon understands the "big picture" of online learning and how to provide a system that is easy and fun to use for users at any level. LearnUpon's knowledge of their own platform, and their impeccable client support is unparalleled. LearnUpon understands our business and learning needs better than any competitor. Now that I'm using a different platform at another job, I miss LearnUpon every day!
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Gainsight
Skilljar provides stronger customization features, more code snippet options, more styling tools, and more effective integrations. These include Credly, Salesforce, and SCORM. Additionally, the catalog is all part of the same system, making it easy to manage. The analytics tools are also more robust, and the customer service is much more helpful and responsive
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Return on Investment
LearnUpon
  • We have not implemented it yet due to unforeseen issues with a different vendor, but we have launched two pilots and it has been very well received.
  • The expected outcome is a lot more revenue because the catalog we have in our current LMS (Absorb) is very poorly designed and ineffective.
  • Another expected outcome is that people will be excited to learn more and be better ambassadors for our company.
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Gainsight
  • Our customers seem to be getting onboarded efficiently. Giving our customers a good experience helps us retain them longer.
  • So far, we are still not able to come up with solid metrics that it provides evidence of ROI. If Skilljar could somehow come up with clear, actionable metrics about customer success and how that relates to ROI then I think it would be vastly better. To be fair, we roll the cost of using Skilljar in the overall price, otherwise, we would charge customers and have a revenue stream to measure.
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ScreenShots

LearnUpon Screenshots

Screenshot of the learner experience. Designed to put the learner first, with features to motivate, remove barriers, and make training a convenient task that learners want to do.Screenshot of the course creation interface, where users build engaging courses without technical expertise. It includes interactive content options, including webinar and instructor-led training, SCORM and xAPI files, documents, and video.Screenshot of the Learning Journey, where the fact that learning isn't linear is appreciated. This helps users to deliver timely, targeted learning.Screenshot of an example of friendly competition. This helps to Encourage teams to hit their goals and places a spotlight on the best performing learners using Gamification and Leaderboards.Screenshot of the reporting interface. This offers learning data to track its impact on a business’s bottom line.

Skilljar by Gainsight Screenshots

Screenshot of the Skilljar Dashboard, where all needed tools are accessed through a single interface.Screenshot of The training portal, which is the URL where published courses will be located, and where trainees can register for, access and complete training.

This URL can be set up as a custom domain using a website, like training.yoursite.com. Or a Skilljar domain can be used, like yoursite.skilljar.com. The look of the training portal can be customized to match a company's brand and colors.Screenshot of some of the analytics to measure  and track learner progress, in the analytics suite where content success is analyzedScreenshot of content that can be offered with Skilljar’s authoring tools. Multiple learning pathways based on user role, skillset, or use case can be created, as well as native video and audio with embedding from external hostsScreenshot of the built-in assessment & certifications engine that enables users to showcase their expertise, along with built-in assessment tools and verifiable badges and certificates.