360Learning vs LearnUpon

At a Glance

If your bottleneck is producing training internally, 360Learning is the better fit; if you need to train customers and partners alongside staff, LearnUpon is built for it.

Both are EU-based corporate learning platforms with strong GDPR credentials, and both score 8.1 overall in our reviews. But they solve different problems. 360Learning, out of Paris, makes course creation a team sport: internal experts author, L&D curates, and an AI layer drafts the first version. LearnUpon, out of Dublin, treats the LMS as distribution infrastructure, with clean, scalable portals that serve employees, customers, and resellers from one admin dashboard.

Pricing and Value

360Learning is the more transparent of the two. It publishes a Team plan at $8 per active user per month for up to 100 users, with monthly billing and no annual lock-in — a rarity in a market that usually hides every number behind a sales call. A 50-person team lands at $4,800 a year. Business and Enterprise tiers move to custom pricing once you need advanced reporting, SSO, or dedicated support.

LearnUpon publishes nothing. Every plan starts with a demo and a quote, and market data puts entry contracts around $10,000–$15,000 a year with a typical contract value near $31,000. Small teams are effectively priced out. We rate both 7.5 for value, but the reasons differ: 360Learning earns it through accessible entry pricing, LearnUpon despite a steep floor that the multi-portal architecture has to justify.

Edge: 360Learning for transparent, accessible entry pricing.

Authoring and Collaborative Learning

This is where the two platforms diverge most sharply. 360Learning was designed around the idea that subject-matter experts, not instructional designers, should write courses. A template-driven editor walks any authorised employee through objectives, sections, and questions, then routes the draft into an L&D review workflow before publishing. An AI course builder turns an uploaded PDF or slide deck into a structured outline with quiz questions, and the AI Coach answers learner questions inside the course. The trade-off is quality variance: distributed authoring needs governance, or course standards drift.

LearnUpon takes the opposite stance. Its own authoring is basic, and the platform is honest that it works best as a host for content built in dedicated tools like Articulate or Captivate. There is no AI-assisted authoring layer.

Edge: 360Learning for built-in authoring and AI-assisted course creation.

Admin and Scalability

LearnUpon's defining capability is its multi-portal architecture. Each portal is a self-contained training environment, with its own subdomain, branding, learner base, content, and reporting, and learner data does not cross between them. A software company can run an employee portal, a customer education portal, and a partner certification portal at once, each administered independently, all on a single licence. The alternative of running three separate LMS contracts costs far more. For organisations training external audiences at scale, this is purpose-built.

360Learning scales differently. Its model is about scaling content production across an organisation rather than isolating audiences: five L&D staff curating what 500 employees collectively author. Both platforms support learning paths, certifications, and cohort programmes, and both are SOC 2 Type II certified (Enterprise tier for 360Learning).

Edge: LearnUpon for isolated, branded portals across distinct audiences.

Integrations

The two overlap heavily here. Both connect to Salesforce, HubSpot, BambooHR, Workday, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Zapier, and both expose an API with webhook support. We rate each 8.5 for its integration ecosystem.

The difference is emphasis. LearnUpon leans hard into CRM: its Salesforce integration syncs course completions and certification status bidirectionally with contact and account records, and Salesforce can auto-enrol learners based on deal stage or product purchase. For a customer success team, training completion becomes a visible CRM metric rather than a guess. 360Learning's integration story is broader and HR-flavoured, with SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, and HRIS provisioning alongside the standard collaboration tools, reflecting its internal-employee centre of gravity.

Edge: LearnUpon for deep, bidirectional CRM integration.

EU Compliance and Data Residency

Both clear the GDPR bar comfortably. 360Learning SAS is a French company hosting data in the EU, supervised under one of Europe's most active regulators, the CNIL, with SOC 2 Type II, SAML SSO, and SCIM at Enterprise tier and a Data Processing Addendum available. A €1.8M France 2030 government grant in July 2025 signals continued alignment with European digital sovereignty priorities.

LearnUpon Limited is incorporated in Ireland (CRO 503858) with EU data hosting, SOC 2 Type II certification, SAML 2.0 SSO, and a DPA available. Irish incorporation means EU customers avoid Standard Contractual Clauses, so data stays in the EU by default, and the Enterprise tier adds custom data residency options. We rate both 8.5 for EU compliance.

Edge: Marginal tie. Both satisfy European procurement out of the box.

When to Choose 360Learning

Choose 360Learning when your binding constraint is L&D bandwidth. If you have knowledgeable employees who could create training but a team too small to produce it all centrally, the collaborative authoring model addresses the root cause rather than the symptom. The AI course builder shortens the blank-page problem for non-designers, and the social layer (reactions, peer Q&A, group challenges) builds genuine engagement beyond completion tracking. The transparent $8/user Team plan also makes it the realistic option for a 50–100 person organisation that wants to start without an enterprise contract. Just budget for author training and governance so course quality stays consistent.

When to Choose LearnUpon

Choose LearnUpon when you need to train audiences beyond your own staff. If customers, channel partners, and resellers each require separate branding, content, and data isolation, the multi-portal architecture is the most purpose-built EU option for that job. It is the stronger pick when training data needs to live inside Salesforce or HubSpot, where customer success teams already work. You will need a content authoring tool alongside it, since LearnUpon's own authoring is basic, and the entry contract rules it out for small teams. But for extended enterprise training at scale, with documentation and support our reviews rate highly, it is hard to beat.

The Verdict

These platforms rarely compete for the same buyer, despite both being excellent EU-built LMS options scoring 8.1.

For internal learning and development, meaning onboarding, upskilling, and compliance training created by people who know the subject, 360Learning is the stronger choice. Its collaborative authoring, AI drafting, and transparent entry pricing make it the better fit for organisations that want to produce more training, faster, without an instructional-design team.

For extended enterprise, meaning training customers, partners, and resellers as separate, branded, data-isolated audiences, LearnUpon is the better choice. Its multi-portal architecture and deep Salesforce integration solve a problem 360Learning does not target, and its higher price floor buys real operational maturity for that use case.

Decide on use case, not feature lists: pick 360Learning to scale content creation, pick LearnUpon to scale audience reach.