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360Learning vs Sana (Workday)

A plain-English comparison to help you choose between them.

01VERDICT

Two AI-native learning platforms that agree learning should be generated from a company's own knowledge, and disagree about who does the generating. 360Learning leans on collaborative authoring: internal subject-matter experts contribute as co-authors, with AI carrying the administrative weight that usually stops that happening. Sana generates structured courses from internal documents and personalises paths by role and progress, with knowledge agents answering employee questions from the same foundation. Pick 360Learning when the expertise is in people and the problem is getting it out of them; pick Sana when the expertise is already written down and the problem is turning it into something people will complete.

02AT A GLANCE

Side by side

Summary

360Learning is an AI-powered learning management platform designed for collaborative workplace training.

Best for
  • Turning internal expertise into structured employee training
  • Collaborative course creation across teams and subject-matter experts
  • Faster, more consistent employee onboarding
Cost
Paid only
Ease
Openness
Hosted service
Data
Course content and learner data sit under standard SaaS enterprise terms. AI-generated course drafts inherit the quality of your source material, so subject-matter review stays in the loop.
Summary

Sana is AI-native learning and knowledge: a learning platform that generates structured courses from internal documents and personalises paths by role and progress, and knowledge agents that answer employee questions from company content.

Best for
  • Generating structured courses from internal content
  • Personalised learning paths by role and progress
  • Knowledge agents answering from company content
Cost
Enterprise
Ease
Openness
Hosted service
Data
Learning and knowledge content stays under enterprise terms. The Workday acquisition is the strategic fact to weigh: existing customers continue, but roadmap and packaging decisions now sit inside a larger suite.

Pricing

360Learning
Not confirmed
Sana (Workday)

Free$30/user·Custom

Prices as of August 2026.

03BY AREA

By area

Where each one pulls ahead, area by area.

Area360LearningSana (Workday)
HR & recruiting360Learning centres on collaborative authoring by your own peopleSana is the AI-native, knowledge-centred platform
Search & knowledge retrievalthe two share the conviction that learning and knowledge belong together, but 360Learning leans on collaborative authoring by the experts themselves where Sana leads with agents that answer and actthe assistant matters as much as the course
04FAQ

Common questions

What does the Workday acquisition change about Sana?

It changes who the product is evaluated as part of. Sana is now assessed inside a Workday estate: for Workday customers that promises deep integration, and for everyone else it adds roadmap and packaging risk that follows the acquirer's strategy rather than the standalone product's. That is a strategic question rather than a feature one, and it belongs early in the evaluation.

Which suits a company whose documentation is thin?

360Learning, because its whole method assumes the knowledge is in people rather than files. Collaborative authoring with validation workflows lets an expert contribute without becoming a course designer. Sana's generation works from internal content, so a thin corpus starves it, and the honest sequence there is to write things down before buying a tool that reads them.

Do either replace a content library?

Neither, and both are clear about it. Sana is enterprise learning infrastructure rather than a course marketplace, so teams wanting off-the-shelf libraries are shopping in a different aisle. 360Learning is aimed at internal expertise, onboarding and compliance rather than generic catalogue content. Buying either expecting a library is the most common way this category disappoints.

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