Litmos vs. Skilljar by Gainsight

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Litmos
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Litmos is a cloud-based Corporate LMS. Core features include a course builder, assessments and quizzes, surveys and feedback, eCommerce, virtual classrooms, certifications, course library, SCORM and TIN CAN support, reporting, and gamification tools.N/A
Skilljar by Gainsight
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Skilljar’s Customer Education LMS Platform is a solution to educate, engage, and retain everyone a business interacts with. An external LMS for customer and partner education, it is a Gainsight solution since the 2025 acquisition.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
Litmos
7.3
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11% below category average
Skilljar by Gainsight
7.5
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0% above category average
Course authoring7.90 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Course catalog or library6.80 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Player/Portal7.90 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Learning content7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile friendly7.20 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications7.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Assignments7.00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Compliance management6.40 Ratings4.90 Ratings
Learning administration8.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics7.90 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Social learning7.90 Ratings4.30 Ratings
Gamification6.10 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning7.80 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Customer Training Tools
Comparison of Customer Training Tools features of Product A and Product B
Litmos
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Skilljar by Gainsight
7.0
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0% above category average
Customer Feedback Collection00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Customer Training Library Curation00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
User Permissioning00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
User Ratings
LitmosSkilljar by Gainsight
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
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8.7
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Likelihood to Renew
8.2
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8.2
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Usability
6.8
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8.5
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Availability
9.3
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Performance
9.3
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Support Rating
7.3
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In-Person Training
8.0
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Online Training
8.4
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Implementation Rating
7.9
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9.0
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Configurability
7.2
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Ease of integration
8.4
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Product Scalability
7.6
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Vendor post-sale
8.4
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Vendor pre-sale
8.4
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User Testimonials
LitmosSkilljar by Gainsight
Likelihood to Recommend
Litmos is greatly suited for delivering courses that have a timeline or where the content needs to be consumed in its entirety, and for tracking and validating the completion of that content by users. It is well suited for microlearning and quick and effective course creation and learner testing. Litmos is less suited for creating courses where pages are linked together or for quick reference content which might be better served by a knowledge base.
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Skilljar is fantastic for structured onboarding processes. If you're
looking to streamline and standardize the onboarding experience for your
customers, especially for software or complex products, this platform
is a gem. It allows you to create step-by-step courses guiding users
through functionalities, reducing confusion and accelerating their
learning curve.When you need versatility in content delivery, Skilljar is spot-on.
Whether it's video tutorials, interactive quizzes, downloadable
resources, or live webinars, the platform accommodates various formats.
It's perfect for accommodating different learning styles and ensuring
engagement.
For scenarios that demand highly complex simulations or immersive
learning experiences, Skilljar's capabilities might fall short. While it
supports interactive elements, extremely sophisticated simulations
might require additional specialized software or platforms.
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Pros
  • Litmos is simple and straightforward for learners to use
  • Litmos' look and feel are highly customizable through javascript and stylesheets
  • Litmos' API is fairly easy to use and complete
  • Litmos makes launching and deploying training in the field and the office easy and quick
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  • Unlimited courses, learning paths, quizzes, pages, plans, and certifications
  • Ease of use for students, administrators, and content creators
  • Customer Success and Service are top notch. The CSMs are genuinely committed to helping you achieve your metrics and goals
  • Asking for and listening to customer feedback for enhancements
  • Developer Center where people with little to no coding experience can learn how to use and apply HTML templates and code snippets to customize your site
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Cons
  • I generally feel that any challenges I experience are due to the vast flexibility the platform has. My gut tells me that my minor issues are actually a result of certain functionality needing to be there to meet the needs of other customers, and it's not Litmos' fault that my specific workflow doesn't fit exactly into their functionality. It's a matter of me determining how I can update my workflow to fit the feature set.
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  • Would love to see parent/child courses so that when something is updated in the parent course that change is automatically reflected in the clones of that course.
  • Features that allow for the translation of content to allow access to content across languages.
  • Re-onboarding process when the usage of Skilljar changes hands within out company in order to address knowledge gaps.
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Likelihood to Renew
For what we need in the very near future, Litmos does not offer us the required capability. Ideally, we are looking for an integrated LMS, coaching, mobile support and content creation platform. Litmos may have the LMS part covered but there are other platforms that do this better along with providing an integrated all-in-one service or at the very least support API integration with other vendors to meet our requirements.
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I like what you are using and how we are doing it. Also, changing systems is a lot of work
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Usability
It's overall pretty straightforward to use — both for admins/creators and learners.
  • Teams really give a great ability to decentralize management.
  • Great content creation tools
  • Integrated live sessions
A few wonky workflows persist, though:
  • Reporting has some limitations (e.g., 30 day limit, ugh)
  • Search is rough and we get reports that content can be difficult to find
  • More granular admin/editing permissions would help
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The overall usability is great as the software is very easy to learn and navigate. After just 1 week of "playing" around in the system I felt very comfortable using it and teaching others to use it as well. Customers have also mentioned Skilljar is a much better than out previous vendor
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Reliability and Availability
Not best support for technical problems.
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Performance
Works great
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Support Rating
If I could give it a negative rating I would. Worst support from any program I have had. Everything is back and forth in the support ticket. The one time I tried to chat they could not support the question. Their support page is so full of sections and products I can never find anything I need, even with a customized home page. I was hopeful that once they left SAP support might improve but it has not. I don't even know who my account executive is. Nobody has ever reached out to me. I need someone to guide me through best practices for our company and there is nobody to do that.
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The support team is great at Skilljar. Not perfect, but that can't be expected. Everyone I've worked with has been friendly, attentive, and fairly quick to respond/act. They also have a pretty sturdy set of Knowledge Base articles as well to self serve.
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In-Person Training
It was a good overview of the platform, but of course it was more of a basic overview of how to use the platform. The team provided a good training, but I would of liked a better deep dive into some of the features.
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Online Training
Some of the best online training I've taken from any LMS platform. It was well put together and kept me engaged the entire time. It has a good amount of HR Compliance mixed with soft skills training that the team liked. Overall, it has a robust online suite of training that any company can use.
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Implementation Rating
We have done two implementations. The first wasn't completed by me, but the second was. I had to do a lot of data migration across from the first system into the new instance. This was really time-consuming, and it would have been great to have had an option for someone else to have completed this for us. Learning about the tool has also been up to us, and whilst the content was good, it was also high level and broad, and then getting into the specifics of our setup was really just left to us to complete on our own and have a go. We got there, but probably could have been faster with some additional support from a consultant.
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Do a good job of preparing your internal teams (IT, Salesforce, etc.) about the work they will have in the process
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Alternatives Considered
Litmos has been more robust for us in terms of reporting as well as course organization. We also have the ability to use a subsite (another instance of Litmos) for groups outside of our main organization.
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Skilljar provides stronger customization features, more code snippet options, more styling tools, and more effective integrations. These include Credly, Salesforce, and SCORM. Additionally, the catalog is all part of the same system, making it easy to manage. The analytics tools are also more robust, and the customer service is much more helpful and responsive
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Scalability
Pretty easy to scale this LMS and can be deployed companywide in all departments for us. The team's function allows you build separate teams that can easily be assigned specific courses, so it makes it much easier to deploy
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Return on Investment
  • Reduced learning times across the business, therefore lowering the completion payment.
  • Improved business wide compliance by over 60%.
  • Gave us the ability (via our LMS) to quickly gather reports on key learning requirements.
  • It provided the ability to react to any potential issue by quickly sourcing and building a course after identifying a safety issue.
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  • Having Skilljar is improving retention—customers who completed recommended training made up 85% of our Q2'23 renewals.
  • Customers who completed the recommended training make up 84% of our healthiest accounts and we've seen a 15% decrease in support ticket volume.
  • Since launching Skilljar, we've seen a 16% increase in active users.
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Skilljar by Gainsight Screenshots

Screenshot of the Skilljar Dashboard, where all needed tools are accessed through a single interface.Screenshot of The training portal, which is the URL where published courses will be located, and where trainees can register for, access and complete training.

This URL can be set up as a custom domain using a website, like training.yoursite.com. Or a Skilljar domain can be used, like yoursite.skilljar.com. The look of the training portal can be customized to match a company's brand and colors.Screenshot of some of the analytics to measure  and track learner progress, in the analytics suite where content success is analyzedScreenshot of content that can be offered with Skilljar’s authoring tools. Multiple learning pathways based on user role, skillset, or use case can be created, as well as native video and audio with embedding from external hostsScreenshot of the built-in assessment & certifications engine that enables users to showcase their expertise, along with built-in assessment tools and verifiable badges and certificates.