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A Cloud Guru vs Cornerstone Learning comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

A Cloud Guru
Ranking in Virtual Training
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
eLearning (2nd), AWS Marketplace (13th)
Cornerstone Learning
Ranking in Virtual Training
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
Learning Management Systems (LMS) (7th), Talent Management (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Virtual Training category, the mindshare of A Cloud Guru is 25.8%, down from 28.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cornerstone Learning is 3.8%, up from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Justin Wheeler - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides high-quality course content to study different tools and technologies
The certification courses are typically divided into multiple sections. At the end of each section, there are exam tips for that section. I would like to go through all the different exam tips the day before my exam. It'd be nice if there were a way to go through all the different exam tips more easily. Right now, I have to find every video, play it for however long it is, skip ahead until I find the next one, and then play that one. The solution could include a playlist-type feature where I can select the ones I want to play. Having an exam tips section for the certification courses would be helpful. It would be good if there were a way to subscribe to new content when it comes out. Right now, I have to check the tool daily to see if they upload new content. It does not have a newsletter I could subscribe to and get updates on when new courses drop. I've also seen that A Cloud Guru is not as fast at dropping new courses and making updates as some competitors like Udemy. Cloud Academy normally updates for new exams faster than A Cloud Guru. However, A Cloud Guru's quality is higher. After acquiring A Cloud Guru, Pluralsight has imported all the A Cloud Guru courses into the Pluralsight mobile app. When I click on the A Cloud Guru videos on the Pluralsight mobile app, I'm not authorized to view them even though I have subscriptions to Pluralsight and A Cloud Guru. I'm not sure if that's an A Cloud Guru bug or something from Pluralsight's side. I haven't dug too much into it because I normally go on my computer and navigate to the A Cloud Guru website, which works fine. Pluralsight and A Cloud Guru offer many similar courses and overlapping content. It can be hard for a user to tell whether to go to Pluralsight or A Cloud Guru for a particular course or content. The acquisition also introduced some confusion.
Vibha  Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Streamlined compliance training and efficient session creation empower diverse industries
Creating a session requires just one click, which makes data ready efficiently. Reporting-wise, Cornerstone is the best. It allows internal content management, playlist creation, using external links for learning, and supports various AI training. All the compliance training, code of conduct, and audits are handled through Cornerstone, making it beneficial.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution has labs that help to learn different technologies. The main value of using it is learning new technologies."
"A Cloud Guru offers courses for any industry. It is a user-friendly platform that offers courses in Excel, Python, C#, and more."
"The content is engaging."
"A Cloud Guru has labs; we don't have to create them. It helps to be trained on multiple topics."
"The content is very easy to understand because they break it down in a way that anyone can understand."
"The solution's lab feature is good and offers hands-on experience. It is easily accessible."
"The hands-on labs are really helpful."
"The most valuable feature is practical learning."
"The most valuable features of Cornerstone Learning are how they organized the management of the different content types is good. They are done in different ways which is a benefit. Additionally, the reporting 2.0 and playlist functionality are very good."
"If you want to make the job easier, go for Cornerstone Learning."
"It is a one-stop shop solution, where you can actually log in using your Windows username and password, and the single sign-on can be configured with this LMS."
"Stability and scalability are good. They have four releases every year of which learning is a big portion of that. They're constantly refining and defining and they're embedding a lot of new technology into it all the time."
"The most valuable features are the Playlists, Learning Assignment Tool, Earner Experience Platform, Machine Learning, and Reporting 2.0."
"The most valuable feature of Cornerstone Learning is the reporting and learner transcripts."
"The most valuable features of Cornerstone Learning are the welcome page and the learner's home. It is user-friendly and graphically appealing."
"There are new releases every three months that keep up with industry standards and meet the needs of the customer."
 

Cons

"It'd be nice if there were a way to go through all the different exam tips more easily."
"The solution could work on their marketing and advertising. Many people know about platforms like LinkedIn Learning, Udemy, and Coursera, but I only learned about A Cloud Guru through my company. They could focus on making their product more widely known."
"A Cloud Guru's videos are not effective for knowledge transfer."
"It would be better if the product provided one-on-one tutoring or office hours for certain products."
"A Cloud Guru should incorporate fewer updates."
"A Cloud Guru needs to offer more practical quizzes."
"Instead of covering a broad section of the exam and then offering labs, it would be better to provide targeted exercises right after the relevant lecture, such as creating an EC2 instance."
"Most of the tutorial contents in A Cloud Guru are very lengthy."
"Its integration with Microsoft Teams for virtual sessions could be better"
"Its dashboard and analytics must be improved. Currently, we get the data, but we don't get anything from the insightfulness perspective. Analytics is where it requires a lot of work. We definitely expect some good dashboard features, which are currently lacking in this solution. From a technical perspective, they need to open access to all HTML tags. It currently doesn't support many HTML tags, which makes it challenging to create HTML pages."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvement in the dashboards and reporting."
"In the next release, I would like to see a Hybrid architecture and to be able to customize the look and feel."
"Cornerstone Learning could improve the curriculum function by giving it more flexibility. I'm managing the solution and I adding content to the system, and overall, the backend of the system looks a bit dated. Cornerstone Learning has focused a lot on the user experience and less on the backend operational administrative experience. This could be improved overall."
"There are some configuration elements that require Cornerstone engineering resources. It would be nice if we could self-serve. I would like the ability to manage the user interface or the navigation and layout of the pages that are displayed to end-users."
"Cornerstone Learning can improve reporting. If they had a harmonization of the administration UIs it would be great."
"The existing test functionality is really old-fashioned, basic, and limited."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"You need an annual license to use the platform. Its pricing is fine—good knowledge comes at a price—and doesn't include any extra costs."
"It is not expensive."
"The pricing is good compared to other premium e-learning platforms."
"The solution’s pricing is moderate."
"A Cloud Guru is more expensive than other options on the market."
"The solution's cloud content is expensive. Compared to other vendors, it is expensive."
"I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
"This is a cost-effective solution."
"This solution offers competitive pricing."
"Quality always comes at a cost. I would not rate it as expensive. It provides value for money."
"I'm not aware of the costs. It must have been something for which we paid. Every single employee in the company had some kind of access to Cornerstone because that's how they got to their training."
"The price of Cornerstone Learning depends on many factors, such as size and negotiations."
"I would rate the price at four on a scale from one to five because it's a very expensive product."
"The solution's pricing depends on the specific requirements."
"It is a premium product, and it is on par with its competitors. It isn't out of scale with what the market is demanding. We're always looking at ways of trimming costs, but we haven't had a lot of flexibility with pricing and/or options with Cornerstone. So, its price is decent. There are ad hoc engineering costs when we are required to use a Cornerstone resource. Additionally, when we choose to integrate with third-party platforms, there is a setup and maintenance fee for these data integrations. They need to be built into our ongoing budget as we expand our offerings."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Educational Organization
57%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Financial Services Firm
4%
Manufacturing Company
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What are A Cloud Guru's certification options?
Here's how you can publish an A Cloud Guru certificate on your LinkedIn profile: Log in to your A Cloud Guru account. Go to the Certificates page. Click the Export button next to the certificate ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for A Cloud Guru?
Since I'm interested in training certification, the solution is valuable for my career development. A Cloud Guru is more expensive than other options on the market. Whizlabs is a substantially chea...
What needs improvement with A Cloud Guru?
It would be better if the product provided one-on-one tutoring or office hours for certain products. I haven't seen that in A Cloud Guru. The only thing that really annoys me is that I have to log ...
Is Cornerstone Learning reliable for content organization?
I think the organizational management of Cornerstone Learning is great. My organization uses this learning software and the way different content types are managed is very useful for our training ...
Does Cornerstone Learning provide you with good reports?
Cornerstone Learning provides great reports for your training programs and the performance of your employees on them. What's more, you get skills graphs which my company finds the most valuable for...
Why would you recommend Cornerstone as a platform for virtual training?
Hello, I think that Cornerstone is more than suitable for virtual training. For one, it gives you a really big array of tools and customizations to be able to deliver your employees high-quality t...
 

Also Known As

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Cornerstone Learning Suite, Saba Cloud
 

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