360Learning vs Rippling

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.

Rippling is a workforce management platform founded in 2016 by Parker Conrad, who previously co-founded Zenefits, and based in San Francisco. It unifies HR, IT and finance around a single employee record, so that one change, such as a hire, promotion or departure, flows automatically into every connected system.

When someone joins, Rippling can run payroll, enroll benefits, provision apps like Google Workspace, Slack and Microsoft 365, ship and manage a laptop, set permissions and issue a corporate card. When they leave, access is revoked everywhere. Modules include US and global payroll, employer of record (EOR) and contractor payments, benefits administration with a PEO option, time and attendance, performance management, device and identity management, and spend management with cards, expenses and bill pay. Workflow Studio and custom reports work across all of this data. Pricing is modular: the core platform starts from $8 per employee a month plus a base fee, and each module is quoted on top.

Rippling fits fast-growing companies from roughly 50 to several thousand employees that want to replace multiple point tools. Implementation takes planning, costs rise with every module, and contract terms deserve careful negotiation. Gusto is simpler and cheaper for small US businesses, Deel is strong for global hiring, and Workday or HiBob suit larger HR organizations.