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Litmos
by Litmos
What Litmos is
Litmos is a paid learning management system for delivering learning experiences. Its Foundation plan provides essential tools, including single sign-on, self sign-up, roles and permissions, and teams. Platinum adds advanced administration, authoring, compliance, and engagement capabilities while retaining those listed tools. Platinum AI adds embedded AI for content creation, skill-gap identification, and insights, plus AI-assisted content authoring and assessments. Litmos supports assessments, certificates, a mobile app, and API access, with API listed as its platform. Single sign-on is supported. Pricing is available on request, and the service offers a 14-day trial; there is no free plan. Litmos was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA. Organizations can review the three plan descriptions to identify the learning, administration, engagement, or AI-assisted capabilities relevant to their needs.
Who it suits
Litmos suits organizations delivering structured learning that need assessments, certificates, single sign-on, mobile access, or API access. Its plans also address teams seeking administration, compliance, engagement, or AI-assisted content capabilities.
What it does well
- Assessments and certificates are supported
- Single sign-on and API access
- Mobile app available
- AI-assisted authoring in Platinum AI
- 14-day trial offered
What to know first
- No free plan
- Pricing requires a request
- Platform listing is API
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Platinum | Starting at $15K per year · Advanced administration, authoring, compliance and engagement · request pricing | $15,000 a year |
| Foundation | Starting at $8K per year · Essential learning delivery and continuous-development tools · request pricing | $8,000 a year |
| Platinum AI | Talk to sales · Embedded AI for content creation, skill-gap identification and insights | On request |
As litmos.com lists them, read 15 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Verdict
Litmos combines learning delivery with assessments, certificates, single sign-on, mobile access, and API access. The three paid plan descriptions provide different levels of administration, engagement, and AI-assisted functionality, with pricing available on request.
Facts from Litmos's own pages
- AI authoring
- Litmos AI can generate course outlines, module text and assessment questions. · litmos.com, 15 Oct 2026
- AI recommendations
- Litmos AI recommends learning using learner roles, history and goals. · litmos.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API access
- Yes · litmos.com, 20 Sept 2026
- API licence
- The community Node.js SDK repository is released under the MIT licence. · github.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Assessments
- Yes · litmos.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Certificates
- Yes · litmos.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Company profile
- LinkedIn lists Litmos as founded in 2007, headquartered in San Francisco and employing 201–500 people. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- Litmos automates compliance management, certification tracking and audit readiness. · litmos.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Content formats
- Supported content includes SCORM, xAPI, AICC, video, PDF, PowerPoint and interactive HTML5. · litmos.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Data residency
- Litmos states that customer data-residency options exist in the United States, European Union and Australia. · litmos.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation access
- Litmos says its detailed help documents are available to customers inside the learning platform, while support cases require the customer portal. · litmos.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2007 · litmos.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Free plan
- No · litmos.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, USA · litmos.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Hosted delivery
- Crunchbase describes Litmos as a fully hosted and supported web-based SaaS training system. · crunchbase.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Litmos lists more than 50 integrations, including Workday, ADP, BambooHR, Salesforce, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Okta and Microsoft Entra ID. · litmos.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Legal entity
- Crunchbase identifies the legal name as Litmos US, L.P. and lists Nicole Fougere and Rich Chetwynd as founders. · crunchbase.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Licence and intellectual property
- Litmos's terms state that site software and related intellectual property remain proprietary to Litmos and grant users only limited access rights. · litmos.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: administration
- A Trustpilot reviewer reports difficulty duplicating courses for translation, interpreting assessment results and managing teams and completion reports. · trustpilot.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: authoring and content
- TrustRadius reviewers report limited creative options in the content tool and some outdated content. · trustradius.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: mobile reliability
- An Apple App Store reviewer reports errors that forced repeated module work and use of the desktop version. · apps.apple.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: reporting and search
- TrustRadius reviewers say reporting lacks detail and usability and that keyword search needs improvement. · trustradius.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Mobile app
- The iOS app lets users search, self-enroll, resume courses and download achievements, points and badges. · apps.apple.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Ownership news
- Francisco Partners announced completion of its acquisition of Litmos from SAP on December 1, 2022. · litmos.com, 15 Oct 2026
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