Coursera vs. TalentLMS

Coursera

TalentLMS

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Coursera	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Coursera is an online catalog of learning content, available to businesses to help them to strengthen critical skills, Develop, retain, and advance critical talent, or use role-based assessments to identify skills gaps and advancement opportunities.	$399 per year per user (for less than 125 employees)
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

Coursera

TalentLMS

Editions & Modules

Coursera for Teams: $399
per year per user (for less than 125 employees)
Coursera for Business: Contact Sales

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
Coursera	TalentLMS
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Users 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.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Coursera	TalentLMS
Considered Both Products	Coursera Verified User Anonymous Chose Coursera Many other LMS systems, including Blackboard, and Canvas, have been examined or utilized by us in the past. Each has advantages and disadvantages, but I believe Coursera is an attractive option for any company because of its well-known brand and global presence of high-level … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coursera We've looked at or used many different LMS platforms including Blackboard, Learnshare, Canvas, Cornerstone, SABA, and many others. Each has its pros & cons but I feel Coursera given its brand recognition and built-in following it's a great value for any organization. I would … Incentivized Helpful? PM Piyush Mittal Consultant Chose Coursera Udemy for Business Incentivized Helpful? Oleksandr Torlo Chief Technology Officer Chose Coursera Coursera certainly has the best content for courses of interest to our organization. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coursera I like Coursera because it has lots of high quality contents I can use. I learn a lot from the professors from the top universities in the world. Coursera also has generous policy of financial aids. I am thankful for that policy that makes my learning on Coursera more reachable. Incentivized Helpful? Rei Shinozuka, CFA®, FRM® Director Asset Liability Modeling & Strategy, Office of CFO Chose Coursera Coursera has been the only tool of its kind I've used intensively. I've seen video lectures from other learning providers and while they can be effective, what makes Coursera special to me is its interactivity and creative ways to allow the student to solve problems and gain … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coursera Edx, safari, Lidia, etc Incentivized Helpful? Alejandro Matheu, MD, MBA Chairman of the School Organizational Team at Paradise Professional Delelopment School and Digital Marketing Manager at Hospital Herrera Llerandi Chose Coursera Coursera has a wider variety of courses and more institutions as partners. The certifications Coursera gives, have more value than other brands. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Coursera I like Coursera much better than Udemy. The user interface of Coursera is much better. I also feel the content of Coursera is little bit better than udemy. Incentivized Helpful? Donovon Carter DevOps Engineer Chose Coursera I think Coursera has the best overall interface. I think you will find that different platforms go in different directions, and have different specialities. For the most part the differences are more in the types of courses they offer than one being particularly better than the … Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Starodubtsev Freelance Web Developer Chose Coursera Coursera has wide range of disciplines and some subjects other MOOC platforms do not have. I am using Coursera along with other online educational platforms and courses to arrange courses on a complex schedule. Coursera has a free option (free listener) where students are able … Incentivized Helpful? Ilia Tarasov Architectural Consultant Chose Coursera There is a Mentor Course, for those chosen that have been good at some courses. You can find almost everything (talking about courses), of lots of topics and categories. It's simply amazing. You can learn a lot, even if you don't pay for the certificate. Incentivized Helpful? Nic Klopper Director Chose Coursera Obviously, Coursera lacks some of the formal credentials that a college or university degree offers. It also has limitations when it comes to a broad scope curated academic course that a university degree offers. However, it does afford users who couldn't afford a full-on … Incentivized Helpful?	TalentLMS Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? Randy "Shoe" Schumacher Director of Leaning and Development Chose TalentLMS Out performs and is less expensive than any of the other top LMS platforms in the industry! Incentivized Helpful? Joel Brock IT Manager 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose TalentLMS TalentLMS is way easier to use than Absorb and less expensive. Incentivized Helpful? Danny Stoddard Director of Operations Chose TalentLMS We evaluated many. TalentLMS was deemed the most user-friendly and had the best ROI. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose TalentLMS I don't recall our comparisons; it was four years ago. Incentivized Helpful? HP Helene Perras Healthcare B2B Marketing & E-learning specialist 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Dawn Espinoza Professional Development Supervisor 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose TalentLMS TalentLMS is cheaper much more easy to use and quicker to implement. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose TalentLMS Moodle Incentivized Helpful? Gabrielle Hobbs Practice Manager 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose TalentLMS TalentLMS was the most robust solution that met all of our requirements. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose TalentLMS we are currently using CPaT for our airline specific courses. Invent Incentivized Helpful? Jeff P Miller Lead Instructional Systems Designer 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!!!!!!!!! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose TalentLMS Moodle Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? DH DAWN HOWARD Director of Operations and Administration Chose TalentLMS TalentLMS was the best choice for functionality and cost. Incentivized Helpful? Oleksandr Torlo Product Advisor, Co-founder Chose TalentLMS TalentLMS is much better by functionality for its cost. Incentivized Helpful? Parthesh Pandya Senior Marketing Associate 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Hein Grobler Director 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. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Coursera

TalentLMS

Learning Management

Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
	Coursera 8.8 Ratings 3% above category average	TalentLMS 8.4 Ratings 3% above category average
Course authoring	8.90 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Course catalog or library	9.10 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Player/Portal	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Learning content	9.50 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications	9.20 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics	8.00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Social learning	8.90 Ratings	7.30 Ratings
Mobile friendly	00 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Assignments	00 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Compliance management	00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Learning administration	00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Gamification	00 Ratings	7.60 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning	00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Coursera	TalentLMS
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (0 ratings)	8.9 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.8 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.3 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Coursera	TalentLMS
Likelihood to Recommend	It's absolutely ideal for programming. Today, most programming environments are available for free and enthusiasts can tinker with programming on their own. But Coursera structures that process and presents iteratively more complex assignments to the student. I found it useful for non-programming. I took a refresher Calculus course and the user was able to enter solutions symbolically which I found impressive. Incentivized Rei Shinozuka, CFA®, FRM® Director Asset Liability Modeling & Strategy, Office of CFO Read full review	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 Incentivized JD Gonzales Education and Trainig Program Lead Read full review
Pros	Coursera's courses are extremely good. They are well designed and being a full time employee I really appreciate the fact of how well they are designed. They have made sure that everybody gets enough time to complete it. There is an active community which is very helpful. No matter how good a teaching material is, you might always need extra help. This community can answer your question. And also this becomes extremely relevant if you are taking programming courses There are assignments to test your skills. This is a great way to evaluate yourself. At this point if you feel like you haven't understood something, you can always go back and refer the videos. Most of these assignments can be applied to real world problems as well which is great Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	If you leave the projects for the weekends, your Sunday nights could be a drag. But I list this as a benefit also, it enforces discipline on the learning process. I hope Coursera continues to offer no-cost and low-cost learning opportunities. I honestly can't think of any serious deficiency in the product. I am a huge fan. Incentivized Rei Shinozuka, CFA®, FRM® Director Asset Liability Modeling & Strategy, Office of CFO Read full review	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	It’s marvelous. Incentivized Alejandro Matheu, MD, MBA, MSc in Digital Marketing Chairman of the School Organizational Team at Paradise Professional Delelopment School and Digital Marketing Manager at Hospital Herrera Llerandi Read full review	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. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	User-friendly and developer-friendly Web UI. Incentivized Andrew Starodubtsev Freelance Web Developer Read full review	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. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	No answers on this topic	I have never run into an issue with downtime in 5 plus years. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	It loads fast. Screen transitions are quick. Nothing seems to ever lag. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	I’ve used it a couple of times and... that did great. They take their time, but in the end they solve your issues. Incentivized Alejandro Matheu, MD, MBA, MSc in Digital Marketing Chairman of the School Organizational Team at Paradise Professional Delelopment School and Digital Marketing Manager at Hospital Herrera Llerandi Read full review	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. Incentivized Danny Stoddard Director of Operations Read full review
Implementation Rating	Coursera is familiar, intuitive, compatible and easy to use and implement. Incentivized Andrew Starodubtsev Freelance Web Developer Read full review	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! Incentivized HP Helene Perras Healthcare B2B Marketing & E-learning specialist Read full review
Alternatives Considered	We've looked at or used many different LMS platforms including Blackboard, Learnshare, Canvas, Cornerstone, SABA, and many others. Each has its pros & cons but I feel Coursera given its brand recognition and built-in following it's a great value for any organization. I would not want to build out an entire MBA or other MASTERS level online program on it but it is a great way to allow potential students to experience your institutions content for a low price (of free). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	No answers on this topic	The product can create as similar or unique experiences for different branches as you want for training purposes Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	The greatest benefit of Coursera is access to quality courses on various subjects that you can either browse or dive in deeply. Customizable, flexible and accessible. Helps our department to recommend trainees courses on this website and gain important knowledge. Also, the courses are provided by big-name universities which helps students in their careers Developing and exploring professional skills. Incentivized Ilia Tarasov Architectural Consultant Read full review	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 Incentivized Randy "Shoe" Schumacher Director of Leaning and Development Read full review
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