As of 2 Nov 2026, the panel rates Easy LMS 2.5/5 and TalentLMS 3/5 in Learning Management (LMS). Weighted by what each judge cares about, 0 of the 6 judges pick Easy LMS and 6 pick TalentLMS. Easy LMS scores higher on 2 of 7 criteria (European sovereignty and Pricing transparency). TalentLMS scores higher on 5 of 7 criteria (Integrations, administration & portability, Courses, learning paths & content standards, Compliance training, recertification & audit trail, plus 2 more). Provenance — Easy LMS: EU-Made; TalentLMS: UK / wider Europe, United States. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
TalentLMS takes the wider lean: 6 judges lean its way on courses and content, 7.2 to 4.0; compliance training, 5.5 to 3.8; reporting and codetermination, 5.5 to 4.0; and integration and portability, 6.5 to 2.8 — 0 judges lean Easy LMS on these four. Onboarding and academies: 5 judges for TalentLMS, 1 tie, 6.0 to 5.2. Easy LMS answers on sovereignty, 8.0 to 4.0, with 6 judges leaning its way and 0 for TalentLMS; its verdict cites AWS servers and databases in Frankfurt, a Dutch contracting entity and ISO 27001 held since 2024. TalentLMS's verdict places its hosting on AWS in N. Virginia with US subprocessors, and its legal entity jurisdiction is listed as US. Pricing transparency is near-level: 5.5 to 5.2, 2 lean Easy LMS, 4 tie, 0 lean TalentLMS. Weighted totals per judge: TalentLMS 5.3 to 6.1, Easy LMS 4.6 to 4.9.
Choose Easy LMS if
You need data hosted in the EU — the verdict for Easy LMS cites AWS servers and databases physically in Frankfurt, and sovereignty runs 8.0 to 4.0 with 6 judges leaning Easy LMS and 0 leaning TalentLMS.
Your legal team wants a European contracting party — the verdict cites a Dutch contracting entity and a published data processing agreement under Dutch law.
You require a certified information-security posture — the verdict cites ISO 27001 certification held since 2024.
You must keep subprocessors inside Europe — the verdict lists four subprocessors in Germany, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Your choice turns on pricing transparency and a slim edge is enough — the scoring gives Easy LMS 5.5 to 5.2, with 2 judges leaning Easy LMS, 4 tying and 0 leaning TalentLMS.
Choose TalentLMS if
You import existing courseware — the verdict lists SCORM 1.2, xAPI and cmi5 import plus LTI 1.3, and courses and content runs 7.2 to 4.0 with 6 judges leaning TalentLMS and 0 leaning Easy LMS.
Your team connects identity providers and HR systems — the verdict lists SAML, OpenID Connect and LDAP sign-on, a REST API and HR connectors; integration and portability runs 6.5 to 2.8 with 6 judges leaning TalentLMS.
You need accessible, multilingual courses — the verdict lists WCAG 2.1 and 40+ language translation under courses and content, where 6 judges lean TalentLMS.
You deliver compliance training on evidence rather than a sketched use — compliance training runs 5.5 to 3.8 with 6 judges leaning TalentLMS; one judge called the compliance use sketched rather than evidenced at Easy LMS.
You roll out academies for new teams — onboarding and academies runs 6.0 to 5.2 with 5 judges leaning TalentLMS and 1 tie.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Customer Education Lead
Runs customer education at a software company in Amsterdam that sells to 3,000 business customers and trains 120 implementation partners. Built the first academy on a course shop and outgrew it when partners needed their own portal and certifications that expire. Wants branded portals per audience, single sign-on from the product, paid courses with invoices, completions in the CRM, and a price that does not double when the academy finally works.
Easy LMS
TalentLMS
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Courses, learning paths & content standards
Easy LMS
The slide-based builder with video, images, audio, PDFs, practice questions and question categories, SCORM upload up to 5GB, learning paths that control the order of course completions, and certificates with validity periods and unique numbers cover most of what I need to build partner training. We found no public information on instructor-led or virtual sessions, a mobile app, multilingual courses and interface, WCAG conformance, or anything beyond SCORM such as xAPI, cmi5 or LTI.
TalentLMS
The builder covers video, documents, presentations and SCORM or xAPI files, learning paths unlock sequentially with visible milestones, and SCORM 1.2, xAPI and cmi5 are supported natively alongside LTI 1.3, with statements sendable to an external learning record store such as Watershed or SCORM Cloud. WCAG 2.1 conformance is stated, the AI tools author courses, tests and translations into 40+ languages, questions import in bulk via Aiken and GIFT, and courses export as SCORM. I found no public information on offline mobile access or adaptive branching paths, which is what keeps this off the top level.
Compliance use is sketched rather than evidenced: a line about tools for compliance training and yearly renewals, certificates with or without expiration dates, and progress reports with reminders to participants who are behind. We found no public information on due dates, assignment by role or department, escalation to managers, attestations, course versioning or an audit trail.
TalentLMS
Assignment by role, location or hire date with automatic reminders before deadlines, recurring compliance training schedules, automatic certificates, tracked attendance for live Zoom, Teams or GoTo sessions, and exportable progress reports give me a working compliance programme, with policy acknowledgement handled through a custom Terms of Service each user must accept at first login and a Timeline of every user action that exports for audits. I found no public information on manager escalation, course versioning with the completed version stored per learner, e-signature attestations, or named regimes such as occupational safety instruction or financial-regulator requirements, so audit evidence rests on reports rather than validated records.
Onboarding, extended enterprise & academies
Easy LMS
This is the strongest area for my partner-academy problem: unlimited academies, one per customer, fully white-label with custom URLs, administrators with different access levels assigned to their own academies, content duplicated across customers with results kept separate per academy, and real-time progress access for each customer. We found no public information on self-registration or single sign-on for external learners, checkout or invoicing for paid courses (the terms only permit offering content for a fee), or onboarding triggered from an HR system.
TalentLMS
Separate branded portals for employees, partners and customers run through branches with published per-plan counts (Core 1, Grow 3, Pro 15, Enterprise unlimited) and tailored content per branch, and hiring in BambooHR or TalentHR automatically kicks off onboarding training — exactly the model my partner academies need. Course sales work through PayPal, Stripe, Shopify or WooCommerce checkout, and self-registration plus SSO bring external learners in. I found no public information on partner certification with renewal, subscription or invoice billing for courses, manager onboarding tasks and checklists, or login for frontline staff without email; the missing renewal is the one that would bite my expiring partner certifications.
Reporting, learner data & works council
Easy LMS
Per-course and per-exam statistics — completions, pass/fail, scores, answer percentages by question and category — plus group progress reports, unlimited reports with Excel export and time-per-slide tracking give a usable picture of what is recorded per learner. We found no public information on scheduled report delivery, roles limiting managers to their own team, aggregated or pseudonymised reporting, configurable retention and deletion, a learner data export, or works-council material; the retention periods stated are the vendor's own.
TalentLMS
Custom report types with saved templates and filtering rules, weekly or monthly scheduled delivery to custom recipients, shareable live report links, a training matrix by user, team and department, and user types whose permissions define who may view reports cover my day-to-day needs. Deletion and export mechanics are documented (end-user self-deletion, mass deletion via custom report, processing restriction by deactivation, progress export, data portability) and a data processing agreement is published. I found no public information on aggregated or pseudonymised reporting, switching off time or score tracking, or any works council and codetermination material — with a Dutch works council reviewing my academy, that gap decides the level.
Integrations, administration & portability
Easy LMS
The captured pages show report export to Excel, question import from Excel, customer ownership of content, and a post-termination window of three days to extract and delete content. We found no public information on single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, a REST API or webhooks, HR-system or CRM connectors, or export of courses as SCORM — the exact integration points a product-embedded academy depends on.
TalentLMS
SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect and LDAP single sign-on with named providers (Okta, OneLogin, Microsoft Azure AD, ADFS, Google Apps), a documented REST API with a Postman collection, HR sync with BambooHR, ADP Workforce Now, Sage People and TalentHR, and native Salesforce and HubSpot connectors that embed the portal in the CRM answer my SSO and completions-in-the-CRM requirements directly. Zoom, Teams, GoTo and BigBlueButton cover live sessions, and users, progress and courses export to CSV, XLS and SCORM. I found no public information on SCIM provisioning, webhooks or a self-hosted edition — a customer testimonial describes it as a purely cloud-based platform.
European sovereignty
Easy LMS
A Dutch contracting entity in Delft, hosting on AWS in Frankfurt, a published data processing agreement under Dutch law listing four subprocessors by purpose and location — all inside the EU — a stated position of not transferring personal data outside the EEA, and ISO 27001 certification stated since 2024. Certification scope and the ownership structure are not published on the captured pages, so this is a fully European hosted chain but not documented end to end.
TalentLMS
The terms name Epignosis LLC of Delaware or Epignosis UK Ltd as contracting entity "as the case may be", with a Greek branch of the UK company as EU representative, and hosting sits on Amazon Web Services in N. Virginia, USA, with a published subprocessor list naming mostly US providers — Google, OpenAI and Stability.ai for AI generation, Zendesk for support, Sparkpost for email. A data processing agreement, Standard Contractual Clauses, EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework self-certification, EU Cloud Code of Conduct verification and ISO 27001 certification are all stated, though the captured pages give different version figures for the ISO 27001 standard. I found no public information on an EU hosting option, so the whole learner-record chain runs through US providers under contractual safeguards.
Pricing transparency
Easy LMS
Basic at € 70 per month and Advanced at € 200 per month are published with a flat fee and unlimited participants, monthly exam/course-start caps of 3,000 and 10,000, simultaneous-participant caps of 500 and 1,000, storage of 1GB and 5GB, a 14-day trial, free onboarding, two months free on yearly billing, and VAT as the customer's responsibility. But additional academies and admin seats — the two costs that drive my bill — are a custom offer on request, and extra storage is purchasable at an unstated price, so the real annual total is not computable from public pages alone.
TalentLMS
Core at $119/month ($1,428/yr) for 1-40 users, Grow at $229/month ($2,748/yr) for 1-70, Pro at $449/month ($5,388/yr) for 1-100, and Enterprise from 1000 users via contact sales, with branch counts of 1, 3, 15 and unlimited per tier and SSO, the API and custom domain listed as included rather than add-ons. The terms are unusually public about the automatic annual increase of five percent, the 10% cancellation fee on refunds within the first three months of an annual subscription, and that fees are in US Dollars and exclusive of taxes. TalentLibrary, the TalentHR bundle and the flexible user limit are unpriced on the captured pages, and I found no public information on the active-user definition, overage pricing, or anything between 100 and 1000 users — precisely the zone where my academy would grow.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
Easy LMS
TalentLMS
Legal entity
Not determined
Incorporated in US
Hosting location
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Hosting options
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Open source
Not determined
Not determined
Data processing agreement
Not determined
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Transfer impact assessment
Not determined
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Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
As of 2 Nov 2026, the panel rates TalentLMS higher: 3/5 against 2.5/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 0 of the 6 judges pick Easy LMS and 6 pick TalentLMS. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is Easy LMS or TalentLMS European?
Easy LMS is European (EU-Made). TalentLMS is European (UK / wider Europe, United States). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Where do Easy LMS and TalentLMS store customer data?
Per the vendors’ own pages as captured — Easy LMS: Default not stated; pages mention Germany. TalentLMS: its pages as captured do not say.
Do Easy LMS and TalentLMS have a free plan?
As of 2 Nov 2026, both vendors’ own pages state a free plan. Each product page links the pricing page it was read from.