A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) vs. TalentLMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
A Cloud Guru (ACG) is a cloud learning provider that states they have helped 2,000,000+ people and more than 4,000 organizations level up their cloud skills. Founded in 2015, ACG was started by brothers Sam and Ryan Kroonenburg who recognized cloud learning through traditional training providers was expensive, outdated, and a pain to consume. With the acquisition of Linux Academy in 2019, ACG combined the strengths and benefits of both companies to create A Cloud Guru…
$0
per month
TalentLMS
Score 8.6 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
TalentLMS is an LMS built for training success, presented as fully customizable and easy to manage, so that teams embrace training while feeling right at home. It is used to provide the right training to any team and every use, while giving expert guidance and support every step of the way.
$149
per month 1-40 users
Pricing
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)TalentLMS
Editions & Modules
Free
$0.00
per month
Personal Basic
$31.59 ($379.00)
per month (per year)
Personal Plus
$41.59 ($499.00)
per month (per year)
Business Basic
$41.59 ($499.00)
per month (per year)
Business Plus
$58.25 ($699.00)
per month (per year)
Core
$149
per month 1-40 users
Grow
$299
per month 1-70 users
Pro
$579
per month 1-100 users
Enterprise (Custom plan)
Custom
annual plan Starts at 1000 users
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)TalentLMS
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsContact Sales for Enterprise Pricing. https://acloudguru.com/solutions/businessUsers can stay on the Forever Free plan and upgrade, or downgrade or cancel at any time. Higher volume plans available at additional cost. Discount available for annual billing, and for nonprofits.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
For me, A Cloud Guru was the best platform for learning and retaining what I've learned. I really enjoyed taking courses at A Cloud Guru. Other platforms where too slow, or seemed to be trying too hard, and I never felt like I was learning much compared to A Cloud Guru.
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
We have not evaluated any other providers besides ACG as the original offer we got quite a few years ago was so nicely matching and working for us. Therefore we did not have any requirements to look at any other providers besides ACG. Commercially we have not yet seen any …
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
A Cloud Guru is better focused on cloud-native technologies.
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
WE have tried taking free training courses directly from Amazon but their LMS is difficult to naviate and the video are not engaging. Pracitce Exams are too easy vs the actual exams.

Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
The main differentiator was the contents as we were interested in a cloud platform other similar platforms did not have the below: it is very good to establish cloud learning development plans and then track them and manage them for the team. The platform supports learning …
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
We did POC with three companies [including Pluralsight Skills] and selected A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy).
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
I have used both A Cloud Guru and Udemy for business and I feel A Cloud Guru does a better job. With Udemy you have to purchase your modules. With A Cloud Guru you get everything in one place. This work[s] better for me as I can move from one certification to the next.
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
Compared to O'Reilly in general, the ACG [A Cloud Guru] content is more specific to AWS and with more examples and real-world use cases. O'Reilly is broader in terms of technologies you can learn, but none of them go deep into the details. Another thing is that O'Reilly focuses …
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
Cantrill.io gives far more content and lab work to build skills within the certification boundaries. If there was a similar vendor for both Azure and Google, we would have considered going with targeted vendor training vs a generalized provider.
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
Course choice is much smaller than Udemy but the quality feels a lot higher. There's accountability for them being accurate and you can see them being regularly updated. The labs and playgrounds are really useful for getting to grips with technical concepts.

I think the …
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
We compared A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) with Cloud Academy and Udemy for Business. The content for A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) was much more engaging and interactive. Cost was on par with Cloud Academy.
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
We have tried LinkedIn learning but there are a lot of older courses and not too many for the IT Pro. I think it is great for management and soft skills, but nowhere near the depth of A Cloud Guru. I know for my team, we like the many different and up to date courses for a vast …
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) was the only platform we evaluated for the vast majority of our cloud training, however we have found other providers are better in certain areas and use them to supplement A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy). For example, TutorialsDojo and WhizLabs both …
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
Udemy has a wider and broader range of topics for your users to browse and choose from whereas A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) has more finely tuned or a more carefully selected and curated range of videos and courses for your users to browse and choose from. I think each one has …
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
I don't know any alternatives to A Cloud Guru. There is a LOT of videos around the web for training ourselves to cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), but none of them are proving us private access to a real cloud platform for practicing during the training. Who else provides …
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
We have tested Udemy and Coursera, but (specifically), in terms of cloud technology, we prefer ACG.
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
Have not used any others. A Cloud Guru is the original and leader in this field.
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
ACG has more focused and relevant content to meet the needs of the business
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
ACG contents are more relevant to the future of technology and a bit more advanced.
Chose A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
A Cloud Guru provided better freshness of content and was priced more competitively than other cloud training platforms. A Cloud Guru also had training paths that other providers did not have on their platform. I also enjoyed the fact that there are reports that you can run on …
TalentLMS
Chose TalentLMS
We chose TalentLMS because it met all our needs for managing training for our employees and it was very cheap as compared to other vendors.
Chose TalentLMS
Among all of the options that we evaluated TalentLMS presented the best value for the features that we required. In this tier of event management software tell him TalentLMS was one of the few that offered all the features that we needed at a reasonable price.
Chose TalentLMS
TalentLMS is way easier to use than Absorb and less expensive.
Chose TalentLMS
I don't recall our comparisons; it was four years ago.
Chose TalentLMS
Docebo's pricing has increased significantly. For one of my customers, we had to leave this tool. I have to admit that Docebo's technical support was very limited compared to TalentLMS. In my opinion, they were also snobbish because we were small customers. So we were relieved …
Chose TalentLMS
TalentLMS fit exactly what we were looking for: a user friendly, affordable, customizable LMS. Others didn't allow for creating your own trainings. Or, if they did allow you to create a training, they were extremely expensive. We were not looking for a library of content, so …
Chose TalentLMS
TalentLMS is user friendly and simple to learn. It is a well functional tool for professional development. It is stable and allows us to offer courses for 3 different types of learners by utilizing 3 different branches. Canvas was more cumbersome.
Chose TalentLMS
Our purchasing committee found that TalentLMS offered the best balance between pricing, features and functionality, along with an intuitive, easy to use interface for setup and ongoing usage. We also found that their sliding subscription levels allowed us to affordably …
Chose TalentLMS
I was not involved in the initial decision-making, but each of these options offer a comparable solution with some advantages and disadvantages.
Chose TalentLMS
TalentLMS is cheaper much more easy to use and quicker to implement.
Chose TalentLMS
We did not try anything prior to using TalentLMS and it was so user friendly and has served it's purpose for our clinic, there was no need to look for another program.
Chose TalentLMS
TalentLMS was the most robust solution that met all of our requirements.
Chose TalentLMS
we are currently using CPaT for our airline specific courses.
Invent
Chose TalentLMS
In my opinion, TalentLMS is so much better, it is not even in the same realm of ALM. The ease of use of the interface. Creating Groups. Enrolling Group. Reports!!!!!!!!!
Chose TalentLMS
We had to evaluate several platforms, some local in our country and then Adobe and neither could accommodate our business processes. Therefore, we went to a less academic and more commercial-based LMS in order for our business process to work.
Chose TalentLMS
I must admit it's been a few years since I last tested Moodle and Docebo, so my current opinion might be biased. That being said, on a pure price-to-performance ratio, TalentLMS blows both out of the water.
Chose TalentLMS
Both are good, but the pricing and general value proposition of Talent LMS are better than Trainual in my opinion. Trainual is a bit more modern and cleaner looking from a user interface perspective, but it comes at a higher cost. Both platforms provide very similar features in …
Chose TalentLMS
TalentLMS stacks up against them all because It is a very effective & good LMS system. It is user-friendly structured. Everything is well arranged and the information can be obtained in various ways. I appreciate how I can compile graphs and reports on the use of customers and …
Chose TalentLMS
Excellent platform. More user friendly and adaptable than Adobe and Ispring. More adaptable than either of these programmes. Better analytics and better reporting that give better information to managers.
Features
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)TalentLMS
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)
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Ratings
TalentLMS
8.4
Ratings
3% above category average
Course authoring00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Course catalog or library00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Learning content00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Mobile friendly00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Assignments00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Compliance management00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Learning administration00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Social learning00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Gamification00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(0 ratings)
8.9
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.8
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy)TalentLMS
Likelihood to Recommend
If your organization is technical-based and offers its employees different online courses to enhance their knowledge, then A Cloud Guru will be perfect for you. There are multiple courses available from different cloud platforms. The platform is easy to use and navigate and does not require much knowledge. Even if you do not have basic technical knowledge, the courses available in A Cloud Guru are designed in such a manner that a non-technical person will understand the concept easily.
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TalentLMS is user-friendly enough for someone new to LMS management can get a site up and running in a relatively quick manner. It is rather intuitive to operate. My needs have been a rather small scale of 400 learners and TalentLMS more than meets the need to produce a professional-looking and operational website to send customers and staff. The point here is that although I do not know how well it can be up-scaled, it certainly delivers for small to medium organizations to need to get content online
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Pros
  • The team at A Cloud Guru is excellent at responding to user feedback that is submitted through their website.
  • The content created is well organized and aligns to certification paths.
  • The content is accessible on mobile and web platforms, which is great for learning on the go.
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  • Content creation tool for training lessons.
  • Managing and organizing users
  • Provides comprehensive library of pre-made courses.
  • Very easy to use, out of the box.
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Cons
  • More material on other cloud providers GCP, Azure, Huawei.
  • Extend the sandboxes to other cloud providers not only AWS.
  • Include more material for non-technical people, sometimes the sales teams are completely lost in the platform but they would like to learn about it.
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  • It should be easier to re-send someone their initial course assignment email notification. The notification engine is a little non-intuitive.
  • I was trying to add a user to our account the other day (not a user - an internal employee that I wanted to give access to our system) and I had trouble finding it
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Likelihood to Renew
No answers on this topic
The ease of use, the robustness of the offering, and familiarity. It does everything we need and probably more. We likley don't utilize all the functionality it has as it does what we want it to without having to dig that deep into its tools. Their course library also has saved us some time in terms of saving time from creating some basic courses.
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Usability
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The system is intuitive. It does not have a lot of features that are hidden behind secret menus or elsewhere. There are often multiple ways to get to the same place through different menus without having to go back to the home or root menu. It makes things pretty easy. Additionally, if there is something I can't figure out, there is documentation available to help with that.
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Reliability and Availability
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I have never run into an issue with downtime in 5 plus years.
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Performance
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It loads fast. Screen transitions are quick. Nothing seems to ever lag.
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Support Rating
The support team of A Cloud Guru is quite quick. There are scenarios where A Cloud Guru was not working in my organization. We reached out to their support team and they quickly resolved the issue. Also, if any individual is facing issues accessing A Cloud Guru, their support team is quick to resolve the issue.
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The search feature alone is outstanding. When we needed technical assistance, it was provided with ease and clarity. Any representative we have worked with has been professional, knowledgeable, and good to work with, even if we were in different time zones or areas of the world.
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Implementation Rating
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Implementation was relatively easy. When we set up a second branch, we needed a little help. But the support area is well-detailed. My clients had no experience with an LMS and their digital skills were limited. We had a long way to go. Nevertheless, it was relatively easy. It was rather quick!
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Alternatives Considered
The main differentiator was the contents as we were interested in a cloud platform other similar platforms did not have the below: it is very good to establish cloud learning development plans and then track them and manage them for the team. The platform supports learning tracks, exams, and sandboxes with all major cloud providers guarantees that you don't get an accidental charge as a result of [the] testing and exploring the cloud
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Out of the box, Talent is easier to use than Learn Dash, which can be quite convoluted to set up, as it requires the integration and configuration of multiple plugins. As a result, we spent a lot less time getting things set up in Talent than LearnDash. Talent was also much less expensive than Litmos.
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Scalability
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The product can create as similar or unique experiences for different branches as you want for training purposes
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Return on Investment
  • Engagement scores around investment in L&D have increased.
  • There's excitement around upcoming changes to our technology instead of fear we have seen in the past.
  • We feel confident we will be able to deliver these new technologies - although we are at the start of our journey.
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  • We have dental practices across the United states; the TalentLMS platform helps us train out staff with one process. Standardization across 107 practice to track all of regulatory and compliance training needs.
  • Over the course of the last four years we have recruited internal faculty to help develop content and they find the TalentLMS platform very easy to author material.
  • Creating content ourselves saves a tremendous amount of money each year
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