360Learning vs Personio

360Learning is a corporate learning platform from Paris, founded in 2013 and led by co-founder and CEO Nicolas Hernandez. It raised a $200 million round in 2021 co-led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Its core idea is collaborative learning: instead of a small L&D team producing every course, subject-matter experts across the company write and update content while L&D keeps oversight, and learners can comment and request courses.

The product combines an LMS, an LXP layer, customer and partner academies, skills management and AI tools. The AI Content Builder turns existing documents into interactive courses, AI translation localizes them, and recommendations connect learners with courses and internal experts. The Team plan costs $8 per user per month for up to 100 users with no annual commitment; Business and Enterprise are quoted and add flexible user models, advanced integrations and dedicated support. A 30-day trial is available.

It suits mid-sized and large companies with knowledge spread across teams: onboarding, sales enablement, compliance and frontline training. It is not built for selling courses to the public. Docebo is the closest enterprise rival with broader extended-enterprise options, TalentLMS is cheaper and simpler for SMBs, and Thinkific or LearnWorlds fit creators selling courses.

In October 2025 360Learning launched AI Companion, an in-platform assistant that starts with a search mode answering questions from company knowledge. Buying tip: pilot one use case on the monthly Team plan before negotiating a Business contract with HRIS integrations.

Personio is an all-in-one HR platform founded in 2015 in Munich, Germany, and one of Europe's most valuable HR software companies. It is built for small and mid-size European companies, typically from about 10 to 2,000 employees, that want to move HR out of spreadsheets and email into one system that respects European labor rules.

The platform covers employee records and documents, absence and time tracking, recruiting with an applicant tracking system and careers page, onboarding and offboarding, performance reviews and goals, compensation, and payroll preparation that sends clean data to payroll providers. In Germany Personio offers native payroll and integrates with DATEV, and workflow automation and approvals connect HR processes to other tools through a marketplace of integrations. Pricing is quote-based, with Core and Core Pro plans and apps such as Payroll, Recruiting and Performance sold separately as companies grow.

Personio fits European SMBs and scale-ups, especially in German-speaking markets, that need one HR system with strong compliance. It is less suited to companies outside Europe, very small teams may find it heavy, and native payroll is limited to some countries. For companies based in Turkey, local tools such as Kolay İK handle Turkish payroll and regulations better, while Gusto and Rippling serve US companies and HiBob and Factorial are Personio's closest European competitors.