Articulate 360 vs. HubSpot Academy

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Articulate 360
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
Articulate 360 is an e-learning platform for creating workplace training. Users can build engaging courses with AI-enhanced authoring, simplify collaboration, and quickly share content. A subscription includes robust onboarding resources and access to a community of 1.5M pros.
$1,124
per year
HubSpot Academy
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
HubSpot Academy is a free online training for inbound marketing, sales, and customer service professionals. This eLearning platform, that is available in four languages, specializes in comprehensive certifications, singular topic courses, and bite-sized lessons for professionals looking to grow their career and business.N/A
Pricing
Articulate 360HubSpot Academy
Editions & Modules
Articulate 360 Standard - Academic - Teams Plan
$1,124
per year
Articulate 360 Standard - Personal Plan
$1,199
per year
Articulate 360 AI - Personal Plan
$1,449
per year
Articulate 360 Standard - Teams Plan
$1,499
per year
Articulate 360 AI - Teams Plan
$1,749
per year
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Articulate 360HubSpot Academy
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsIf you’re new to Articulate 360, you can try it out free of charge for 30 days. After the trial period is over, you can subscribe to one of our packages. Articulate 360 is available on the Articulate website and through Articulate Authorized Resellers.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Articulate 360
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We've been with Articulate since 2016.
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We use Vyond in conjunction with Rise obviously. They work well together. Captivate I always found clunky and, like many Adobe products, unintuitive as all their products don’t have the same interface. Makes no sense.
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I would never use Captivate now that we use Articulate 360.
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I've observed it really didn't have much interest in it also. Well, in the past I've used Captivate was just so painfully difficult to use. It's not user-friendly or intuitive for learners to really understand how to use. I mean, it's powerful, but it's nothing like Articulate. …
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Vyond, Camtasia, and Adobe Captivate.
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So I started off, the very first authoring tool I ever used was Captivate over 10 years or 15 years ago, that kind of thing. I think that was just because that was the tool that the team was using at the time. That was my first experience ever with an authoring tool. I found …
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Not many. V is a product that has similar capabilities but nothing to the full extent of building courses like Storyline does.
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We use Adobe Captivate and I wouldn't recommend that at all. I don't know, it's not quite the same. But we also, we use Camtasia and we use Adobe products. I know that that's not quite the same thing, but in terms of e-learning authoring, I can't think of another format that …
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The only one that we've used with putting this together. We've tried Beyond, we've done things with that, but it's nowhere near what Articulate 360 can put together. I can't do testing and I can't do all these other features that come with Storyline or come with the Articulate …
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I've used Adobe Captivate. I found that to be a little more complex than it needed to be. I've used Beyond as well, which is kind of not really a competitor, but I found these styles to be a little outdated.
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Articulate 360 seems to offer the best bang for your buck in the eLearning world.
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The user interface is so similar to PowerPoint that it makes it easy to learn how to use the product. Adobe Captivate is ok, but the user interface is challenging to navigate for new users. Adobe Captivate also has an issue right now where they have new features in the "New" …
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So much more user friendly! And a suite of options.
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I used to use Captuvate, mostly because it was cheaper. But I prefer Articulate 360 for ease of use and availability of community.
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Compared to other products I’ve used such as Adobe Captivate, uPerform, Articulate Studio and more, Articulate 360 strikes the best balance between pre-built (yet customizable) interactions as well as having open-ended development capabilities, all in a very user-friendly …
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I like Captivate because it allows for more coding. I don't like that things are so easy it looks so cookie cutter. Same style of graphics or interactions.
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So far I've only used camtasia for its video editing. I don't know what else it has to offer really. But I am sorry to say that articulate doesn't hold a candle in the wind to what Camtasia has to offer in terms of the video editing capacity. Camtasia is a amazing product. I …
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For most projects, Storyline is the best of all of these. Not sure what Adobe is doing with Captivate. The attention that Articulate pays to Storyline & updates vs Adobe doesn't to Captivate is telling.
HubSpot Academy
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HubSpot Academy is great for training on the HubSpot CRM. Like stated in pervious questions, it is very simple and easy to use. It is the best way to train for using HubSpot because there are videos and practices for every topic like email marketing, workflows, etc. I …
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The platform and the content are all free to use, browse and get certified. No locked content or anything like that. Also the certifications are all free. You get a badge and link to share on social media right when passing the test.
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Salesforce does offer instructor-led or self-paced learning and the certifications weigh pretty heavily with customers and employers. I think HS Academy provides comparable learning with an opportunity for attendees to implement new tactics and strategies into their routine. …
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HubSpot CRM is a better fit for us than Ontraport. Ontraport was OK when we just started implementing email marketing. Now that we want to tie together sales and marketing and also our ticketing, HubSpot has simplified the workflow for us. It's very convenient to log into just …
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Digital Marketer is another one I've used, and it's more for detailed courses with examples and worksheets. You take the knowledge and apply it for actionable results right away, where as HubSpot Academy are more high-level courses to refresh you on various topics, but don't go …
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I think it goes straight to the point. It doesn't have a million courses but it's enough with the ones they have because they're amazing.
Features
Articulate 360HubSpot Academy
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
Articulate 360
-
Ratings
HubSpot Academy
8.9
Ratings
4% above category average
Course authoring00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Course catalog or library00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Player/Portal00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Learning content00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Social learning00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
eLearning Content
Comparison of eLearning Content features of Product A and Product B
Articulate 360
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Ratings
HubSpot Academy
8.0
Ratings
5% below category average
Structured Learning00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Course Searches00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Cloud-Based Content00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Automation & Integration00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
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8.8
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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9.0
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Usability
8.8
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8.5
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Availability
10.0
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Performance
10.0
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Support Rating
8.8
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In-Person Training
6.0
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Online Training
10.0
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Implementation Rating
10.0
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Configurability
10.0
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Product Scalability
10.0
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User Testimonials
Articulate 360HubSpot Academy
Likelihood to Recommend
Articulate provides for simple, custom interactive training modules. There isn't much wrong with this software that I have found. Using Rise 360 for quick turnaround or fully customized training with Storyline 360. Articulate has made the possibilities limited only to my imagination. Their simple and well-thought-out toolbars make starting from scratch a breeze.
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[HubSpot Academy is] just a great tool for everyone who wants to grow at their Marketing, Sales, or customer success career. Their courses are very detailed in information, their teachers are the best in the industry, and it's just easy to take some time and learn. I have enjoyed it a lot.
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Pros
  • It just seems to be very intuitive for instructional designers, especially nowadays from what I'm seeing with the new AI. But it's very intuitive. It's better than any other tool authoring tool that I've tried. I think it's just really outstanding in the industry and that's evidenced by every year. Demo Fest, like 95% of the best examples are all done in Articulate products.
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  • Marketing and sales tips that can be implemented right away
  • Virtual learning environment that offers flexibility
  • Certified training respected in the sales vertical
  • Free to those who use HubSpot CRM
  • Clear, concise courses
  • Expanded library of sales and marketing courses
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Cons
  • The most hiccups that I've recently experienced are honestly involved with AI and just my trying to learn AI and figure out how we can maximize that for our business case. The AI voiceover is what I'm specifically curious about and trying to learn more. So in regards to the AI, there's still some shuffling needs to be done. SSML that needs to be added for it to read correctly. There is a very large amount of voices and dialects, which I think is beneficial. It was also a little overwhelming in trying to play around with it and find that right part. So just continuing to look through the community and find the guidance that I need to essentially make the audio, make the voiceover work better and read the words correctly. For example, one of my most popular courses that I sell is Record Your Time and it kept reading, it records your time, and I could not figure out how to make those words. We've submitted a ticket, you guys have been very helpful, but we can't really figure out how to make those little nuances work with the complex English language.
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  • [I feel] they could expand the lessons to more real-world examples and ideas to take the learning further
  • [I believe] the ability to go back on a question in the exam would be nice
  • New courses that go more in depth on a certain topic, with homework and ideas to try
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Likelihood to Renew
It goes without saying that Artculate's products are the easiest to use and offer a great deal of functions with flexibility. Once an eLearning author uses the product it becomes tempting to not use other methods, but one would be wise not to limit him or herself to a single learning authoring platform. On the other hand, if given a single choice of a tool for rapid eLearning development, Articulate's Storyline would be a top choice.
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The platform is free, nothing to renew
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Usability
Overall, Articulate is fairly easy to use and intuitive. They have excellent training materials in the training videos on the website, as well as good technical support. Someone with limited expertise doing content creation would be able to immediately pick up functions and get started in the software. I was able to create my first course within an hour or so of opening it up.
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For HubSpot Academy's usability, I rate it a 9 because it is very simple and easy to use. HubSpot Academy is very user friendly. You can pick a category like "email marketing" then you will have an intro video, follow up detail videos, practice quizzes, interactive practices, and some sections have a certification quiz at the end. It is very easy to navigate sections. The only reason I rate the usability a 9 instead of a 10 is because sometimes HubSpot Academy does not register the interactive practices.
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Reliability and Availability
Installed software so alway available
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Performance
Pages load fast, the videos play normally, and I haven't seen any delays in the system
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Support Rating
I rate the overall support for Articulate 360 ​​with a 9. On the one hand because of the smooth and accurate support from Articulate's support team (usually within 24 hours) and on the other because of the commitment / use of a community (e-learning Heroes) where I have all kinds of insights from other helpful users.
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In-Person Training
The instructors don't know how to use it.
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Online Training
The online training options given by the online tutorials, forums, and "E-Learning Heroes" community are simply awesome. Examples galore, easy to understand descriptions including step-by-step guides, images, occasionally videos, and the "Articulate Insiders" sub-community give you more materials to learn about Storyline than you are likely to be able to read.
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Implementation Rating
It is pretty straight forward and easy to implement is you are already creating eLearning. If you have old courses created in other versions of Articulate I recommend you update them to the new version even though it is not necessary (especially From Storyline3 to 360) but if you don't you may find difficulty opening and keeping things straight
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Alternatives Considered
For me, since I had used Articulate prior to using Lectora, I found Lectora to be very archaic. It was cumbersome to create triggers, and I had issues getting my scenarios to play correctly. My company switched to Articulate after my request, and I was able to recreate all of our modules into Storyline. Now I am able to manage our scenarios with efficiency and ease. Articulate products are intuitive and very easy to understand
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HubSpot Academy is great for training on the HubSpot CRM. Like stated in pervious questions, it is very simple and easy to use. It is the best way to train for using HubSpot because there are videos and practices for every topic like email marketing, workflows, etc. I personally think HubSpot is much more user friendly than Salesforce. However, we do use both and like both for different reasons but I think HubSpot is simpler to use.
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Scalability
Easy to use. Cheap. It has a lot of features.
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Return on Investment
  • Definitely more accessible course creation. How we're able to add accessibility features into our trainings is unparalleled with captioning, with voice overing, with alternate texts for images. There's so many ways that it creates our trainings to be more accessible for our audience.
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  • Removed the training burden from managers to allow them to use the time elsewhere (2-8 hours)
  • Provided more standard and robust training to new hires, allowing for more consistent customer experience
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