Cornerstone Learn vs Litmos vs Skillsoft comparison

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We performed a comparison between Cornerstone Learn, Litmos, and Skillsoft based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Virtual Training category, the mindshare of Cornerstone Learn is 5.4%, up from 3.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Litmos is 0.9%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Skillsoft is 7.5%, down from 7.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Virtual Training Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Skillsoft	7.5%
Cornerstone Learn	5.4%
Litmos	0.9%
Other	86.2%

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Vibha Mishra

Global L&D Lead at Tieto Sweden AB

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.

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Campbell Wormald

Business Owner at TheCWStudios

Easy to administer and use, integrates well, and helps with compliance management

Their reporting side of things could be better. The reporting dashboard or user interface reporting dashboard is not as intuitive as it potentially could be, but the problem with that is that every organization is going to want something slightly different. So, it's hard, but it is an area where it could improve. To do that, they would need to make some humongous improvements around being able to build your own dashboard within the system, which is pretty huge. One feature that a few of my clients have been requesting is CPD. We should be able to capture CPD points for users within the system to be able to report on those.

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Ujjwal Mishra

Assistant Manager at Aditya Birla Management Corpoartion

Clear instructions and effective learning with room for market reach and language expansion

Regarding areas of Skillsoft that I would like to see improved or enhanced in the future, the platform is already very good and nice. If Skillsoft is launching its platform worldwide, they should be language specific. While I can understand English, if someone does not understand it, they should have tutors for their regions as well, so they can develop more certification programs in languages understood by the majority of people. I rate it a seven because they are missing two points: they do not have much market reach, and it should be more convenient in local languages of nations as they are approaching the worldwide area. Similar to how Netflix has multiple channel swapping options, if Skillsoft is training worldwide, they need to have the option for language selection.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution is very stable."

"It's better than the previous learning solutions we had. We liked that it was global. We liked that you don't have to be logged into the company network to be able to use it. Those were really big benefits for us."

"Its user-friendly interface is most valuable. You can configure your welcome page and design it the way you want on your own."

"It is a complete suite of solutions and features. Compared to other solutions which are more niche solutions, which may be as good as Cornerstone or even better in certain parts of it, like discerning user experience. You will not find another solution that has the same completeness of features in all different areas of learning."

"The most valuable features of Cornerstone Learning are the welcome page and the learner's home. It is user-friendly and graphically appealing."

"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."

"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."

"There are new releases every three months that keep up with industry standards and meet the needs of the customer."

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"There is a couple of good features available, you can customize the dashboard, CSA, and home page. You can customize the solution to your business standards. SAP Litmos offers a library of 2,500 plus courses to premium members. They have a good library of pre-built courses. It's a variety of soft skill courses including management, and marketing. You can offer these courses to your students, which is excellent."

"This complete product is highly scalable. Licensing is not based on number of total users on the system but rather only on active users. Litmos only charge for the number of users engaged in training. This is what makes this solution ideal for scale."

"It's very easy to design content and create training models within the app, so you don't always have to use a third-party tool to develop your e-learning."

"It incorporates the majority of the elements."

"Content Author removes the need for a third-party solution for content creation."

"Its user interface is quite good. The platform is quite user-friendly. The UI/UX of the platform is very advanced, which helps in getting the users interested in the training."

"From a learning management system admin perspective, it has a user-friendly interface, but the functionality is deep. So, you can automate people in and out of courses. It lowers the general admin of an LMS admin so that I can focus more on value-adding things for the organization I'm working with."

"Litmos has an excellent user interface. It's well designed and intuitive. It also has a great content engine. I'm one of the admins, so I create content in the system and use that to produce courses. We make our own training content and credit records. They recently added a new feature called the Course Content Creator, and I'm a big fan. I also like that Litmos lets you record online and face-to-face training so you can create what they call Instructor-led Training Events (ILT)."

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"What I find best about Skillsoft is that it's easy to navigate and find program details."

"When I was introduced to Skillsoft, I gained many skills and obtained my Microsoft Azure certification, which helped me secure a position as a Cloud Engineer at Sutherland."

"The course has given me tools and key points which help me stay focused during boring tasks, from daily job deadlines, I have to complete work in the given time framework, take small breaks between jobs, and reward and motivate myself with whatever I enjoy most so that I can complete tasks by the deadline."

"Skillsoft provides an extensive content library, personalized learning path, and blended learning support; additionally, it provides mobile accessibility so users can access it directly from their mobile whenever they have time, and robust analytics is also available, providing good reporting on the analytics side, such as how users are performing and how they are getting grades, which is very helpful for year-end performance assessments of the end user."

"The platform is user-friendly and very easy to use; we don't need any training or coaching to use the platform, and by nature, it's easy to navigate through it."

"The amount of courses on offer is great."

Cons

"Could use more robust reporting or more flexibility and scalability around the reporting side."

"The recruitment module needs to be improved in Cornerstone Learning."

"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."

"The user interface is in need of improvement."

"Cornerstone Learning's initial setup was complex, but I don't see that as a downside. It was complex because there is a lot of customizing and a lot of settings that can be done in the setup."

"In general, some of the portal pages have an outdated look and feel."

"Even though the system has a number of features, design wise the user interface is a little bit complicated. It is hard for the user to navigate properly. Because the system has so many features, it has a lot of tabs and links. Sometimes, people get confused as to where to go and search."

"Cornerstone needs to be more adaptable by generating content by just giving keywords, similar to other LMS in the market."

More Cornerstone Learn cons

"Lacks a variety of language options."

"You cannot make a course optional, so if I assign a course to someone, the system assumes that they have to complete it."

"The solution lags in defined security parameters with only three predefined roles available."

"The reporting could be improved. When we first subscribed to Litmos, it had a great reporting engine, but SAP altered it. Some of the changes have reduced the ability to extract reports from it. It's excellent for live data, but it can be tricky when I want to get a report."

"They can really improve in the reporting area. While doing sessions, there are various types of reports, such as the attendance report or assessment report. We can export the Excel dump of the report, but it is not that neat and clean. You have to change it a lot. You can customize the Excel dump as per your requirement, but it is not that user-friendly in terms of the admin part. They can do much better. They have room for improvement in the reporting area."

"The dashboards for this solution could be improved as they are not of the same standard and detail as those seen in Power BI. The graphics for the reporting could also be improved."

"The auto-assign feature that auto assigns courses to learners and puts them into a different learning path has had a bug for the last year and a half. My team has spent numerous hours trying to troubleshoot and fix that, but it's still broken. Until they fix that, it's going to be a higher admin burden for people to manage."

"The reporting in Litmos could be improved. It is difficult to pull accurate reporting based on how the solution is set up and parameters are selected."

More Litmos cons

"I prefer Coursera more than Skillsoft because Coursera has a specific market approach that is better than Skillsoft."

"Skillsoft is already good, but I would appreciate more visual content."

"The quality of the courses could be better."

"Sometimes the system logs out in the middle of classes without any reason and asks me to log in again."

"It is providing numerous content library courses. However, it is not giving us hands-on experience training where we are getting practical related material, instead of theory related material."

"The only issues I truly have with it are signing issues. This is primarily because it has split sign-in credentials."

"LinkedIn seems to have more content in general. It's easier to share the certifications on LinkedIn, which is one of my platforms of work."

"I prefer Coursera more than Skillsoft because Coursera has a specific market approach that is better than Skillsoft."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I was not involved in the financial negotiation for our contract with this company, but in the past, I have seen the fees run between $10 USD and $11 USD per user."

"I would rate the price at four on a scale from one to five because it's a very expensive product."

"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 pricing of Cornerstone Learning is reasonable, but my knowledge of the cost is limited. I've had some discussions about licenses. I suppose we've had to push them a little bit to be more flexible about the licensing. For example, someone said they could only give us licenses in a batch of 500, but we found out that it wasn't true. We were able to negotiate a different amount."

"I rate the price of Cornerstone Learning a four out of five. There are not any additional costs other than the standard licensing fees"

"The solution cost approximately $47,000 annually."

"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."

"This solution offers competitive pricing."

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"I don't know what the pricing model is at this point in time. I'm a consultant. The organizations that have purchased Litmos engage me to help them implement it, or Litmos engage me to be their external learning management system administrator. So, I don't see the rates, but based on the general comments that I've heard, it seems cost-effective and competitive with its competitors."

"It is priced per user license."

"When we first purchased our subscription, we underestimated how many people we would have within a billing period. We had to adjust that in the first six months. I can't remember the exact numbers, but they charge a per user rate for a certain number, and you get a discount as the number of users goes up. It scales, which is a fairly reasonable way to build a pricing model."

"This solution comes at a high price point. We also paid $4500 for a migration specialist from Litmos to assist in moving our content over. You are billed every month based on the number of users who have logged in and completed training."

"I do not have any idea about the licensing, but I know that it is quite expensive."

"The pricing is really good. Its pricing is probably the most competitive I've seen for an LMS. If you need help with doing any type of custom design or customization, such as code design or anything like that with the site, then you have to use their people services, which would be an extra cost."

"If I have a domain and I want to link my custom domain to SAP Litmos, and if I want to remove the branding of the SAP Litmos, then they charge a large amount for it. It's not included in your subscription plan which we have purchased from them. In the last two to three years, we have never bought the custom domain. We have never linked our custom domain to SAP Litmos. The barrier for us is the high pricing. It is not a reasonable price."

"There are three different pricing models. One is only to use the platform and to add your own learning material. The second plan includes the learning management system plus 2000 plus pre built courses on different areas including leadership, software skills, HR and IT related training. The third package allows you to integrate the system with tools such Salesforce or other CRMs."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

23%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Educational Organization

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	20

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

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Does Cornerstone Learning provide you with good reports?

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Why would you recommend Cornerstone as a platform for virtual training?

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Is SAP Litmos expensive for eLearning?

I have used this for eLearning before, and considering how useful it was, the price was fair. Of course, you have to...

Is it better to use your own courses or SAP Litmos’ native ones?

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How does SAP Litmos make eLearning more effective?

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Why is Skillsoft a good choice for virtual training software?

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Overview

Cornerstone Learn offers a comprehensive learning management system designed to enhance educational experiences with a focus on user-friendliness, reporting, analytics, and automation capabilities.

Cornerstone Learn provides a robust platform for learning management, ensuring efficient content delivery and knowledge retention. It offers tools for digital, classroom, and blended learning environments. Users have access to custom reporting tools, performance analytics, and seamless integrations with APIs. Despite its rich features, there is room for improvement in interface updates, navigation simplification, and mobile app enhancements. The platform is suited for diverse training needs, especially in large organizations.

What are the key features of Cornerstone Learn?

User-Friendly Interface: Intuitive design simplifies navigation.
Custom Reporting Tool: Allows detailed insights into learning metrics.
Performance Tracking Analytics: Monitors progress effectively.
Proxy Enrollment: Facilitates bulk user enrollments easily.
Automation: Streamlines repetitive tasks in learning workflows.
Mobile Accessibility: Learn on the go with mobile platform support.
API Integration: Connects with other software for extended functionality.
Playlist Capabilities: Organizes content into personalized playlists.

What benefits can users expect from Cornerstone Learn?

Seamless Onboarding: Smooth transitioning for new users enhances experience.
Dynamic Assignments: Adapts to varying learning needs efficiently.
Email Digests: Keeps learners updated without overwhelming them.
Comprehensive Learning Experiences: From virtual meetings to certifications.
Broad Configurability: Adapts to diverse learning environments.

Cornerstone Learn is widely adopted in healthcare, manufacturing, and automotive industries for employee training and e-learning initiatives. It supports compliance training and certification management, integrating with platforms like LinkedIn Learning to deliver on-demand and professional skills training. Companies in corporate and governmental sectors utilize it to maintain their workforce's knowledge up to date, accommodating up to 10,000 users per organization.

Cornerstone OnDemand

Litmos is a cloud-based learning management system (LMS) that offers a comprehensive solution for training and development needs. Its user-friendly interface and robust features enable organizations to deliver engaging and effective learning experiences to their employees, partners, and customers. The platform allows for easy creation and management of courses, assessments, and certifications, with the ability to track learner progress and performance. SA Litmos also provides various content options, including video-based learning, virtual classrooms, and gamification, to enhance learner engagement. Additionally, it offers robust reporting and analytics capabilities, allowing organizations to gain insights into learner behavior and training effectiveness. With its mobile app and responsive design, Litmos ensures learners can access training materials anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Litmos is a comprehensive and flexible LMS that empowers organizations to deliver impactful training and drive continuous learning and development.

Skillsoft is a cloud-based learning and management solution that has provided many global organizations with training resources since its establishment and continues to succeed in this mission. Skillsoft provides its users with more than 10,000 courses in different areas, including business, customer service, information technologies, sales, and more, ensuring that users on their own can enhance their skills and undertake career paths for which they will be thoroughly prepared. The platform offers a variety of virtual training tools that help organizations prepare their employees for integration into the workplace and to expand their knowledge and expertise.

Percipio is Skillsoft's learning platform that helps organizations to conduct virtual training for their employees. It offers AI-driven recommendations to engage trainees from any location to consume content through various methods, including watching, listening, and reading, as well as to practice the learned information. Percipio gives organizations full customization of the training as well as detailed reports on the performance of the programs and the trainees and easy-to-navigate dashboards. It can be simply integrated within the company’s LMS or LXP.

Through the platform Sumtotal, Skillsoft offers human capital management (HCM) and a learning management system combined, providing companies with a way to train employees that will allow them to later influence the company’s positive growth. This is done through talent development and workforce management products that provide thorough reports and analytics, helping HR to supervise the training of employees and their overall performance in the workplace.

Skillsoft Features

The features available through Through the different products and solutions that Skillsoft offers include:

Management: As a virtual training tool, Skillsoft provides various types of management features that allow companies to control the training they provide and how it is conducted and received, as well as to manage their trainees. The management features include training and training record management, talent management, recruitment management, performance management, learning management, employee management, audit management, and assignment management. The tool provides features for all levels of virtual training management, allowing companies to easily oversee the process and its results.
Learning: Skillsoft provides various types of learning features for trainees, ensuring the coverage of their diverse learning needs. These options include asynchronous and synchronous learning, blended learning, mobile learning, self-learning, and social learning.
Results: Skillsoft has features that let companies estimate the results of their virtual training, including skill assessment to evaluate the trainees' achievements, detailed reporting and analytics, performance metrics, and gamification.

Alongside the above mentioned features, Skillsoft provides a variety of other options related to virtual learning content, APIs, compliance, and virtual classroom features, all created to contribute to the virtual training that organizations offer to their employees.

Skillsoft Benefits

The variety of products and features that Skillsoft offers provides companies with various benefits related to virtual training. Some of these include:

Customized technology and content according to the company's own needs
Solutions for onboarding and implementation
Specialized consulting to assist companies in delivering optimized training