Pluto LMS
About Pluto LMS
Pluto LMS Pricing
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Starting price:
$799.00 per month
Free trial:
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Most Helpful Reviews for Pluto LMS
1 - 5 of 21 Reviews
Paul
Professional Training & Coaching, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2021
Fantastic, reliable and supportive LMS Partner
Simply awesome. We were able to migrate from our initial trials with Teachable to being productive on PlutoLMS in short order. The Pluto LMS team have become a trusted partner in our Learning-Service startegy at learning.resilientfutures.com, and we trust and value their guidance as we grow the Learning Resilient Futures area of our business.
PROSIt's important to understand that this is a hosted service offering that goes way past just the software itself. PlutoLMS are a fantastic service organisation to partner with, with responsive support and a focus on working to meet your business needs directly or through creative viable alternative solutions. From a software perspective, it's a known experience, based on a stable, world-class, well-established platform that (as of the writing of this review) has more than 182 thousand active sites worldwide across 243 countries, including many leading universities. That's the kind of customer footprint that makes for a sound investment decision. The solution has a huge depth and breadth of capability, only really limited by your imagination as a curriculum / content developer.
CONSAs a vendor supporting a hosted SaaS solution, the PlutoLMS team need to balance what is economically supportable within their operating model with the needs of customers. This means that the addition of features through a broad range of available third-party plugin's needs to be carefully weighed against the ability to support their customers. Due to the long-lineage of the base platform, there are some aspects of that base that may be regarded at first-glance as dated: however, the incredible breadth and depth of the features provided by PlutoLMS and the stability of those features leave most of the alternative solutions that present a more modern look 'n feel in their user experience and user interface sorely lacking in functional breadth and depth. Possibly the main usability drawback is that the Content Management System used by content authors forms the base course delivery structure, and so is tightly coupled to the default user experience of the student. There are various ways to work with this / escape this constraint, which take a little research and time to learn.
Reason for choosing Pluto LMS
Based on a first-impressions preference by our instructors for the Look 'n Feel of LearnWorlds, we started an initial trial with LearnWorlds. Sadly, LearnWorlds support service was terrible, and let down what appeared to be a functionally rich product. We lost many months - the best part of 5, almost 6 - trying to get any technical support from the organisation for our $249/month Learning Center plan. Frustratingly, the first-level support was always polite and responsive: however there was either no decent 2nd or 3rd level support, insufficient capacity to support customers, and no way to escalate to get technical help. LearnWorlds doubled-down on the problem by sending RTM emails in return, bouncing tickets frequently between support staff, and proactively moving to close tickets they hadn't yet resolved. Our main struggle for those 6 months was to get support for our SSO integration - an integration for which the LearnWorlds documentation was skeletal at best, and for which there was no way to get through to speak with a technical person. We last 5 months by giving enormous slack due to the challenges of the COVID pandemic. We finally received support when we gave notice we'd terminate our plan. It then took a further 5 months to get our fee-investment in a non-working implementation refunded. As outlined above, PlutoLMS support was in contrast simply awesome: fast, robust technical knowledge with a strong outcomes-focus. The platform is responsive and feature-rich.
Reasons for switching to Pluto LMS
We were looking to migrate off Teachable to a more sophisticated, fully-featured Learning Management System (LMS). We also wanted to find a more ethical partner better aligned with our diversity and inclusion values. After an extensive review of options, we selected MyQuest, LearnWorlds and PlutoLMS as our top-three preferences that met our basic criteria. myQuest is an awesome product by a great company - it just wasn't the right fit for our specific needs for this business case. We short-listed LearnWorlds and PlutoLMS as the best investment model fit, aligned ethical values and for offering the broad set of features and integrations we were looking for.
Juan
Verified reviewer
E-Learning, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed December 2023
Great understanding
My team are very happy with their experience using PLUTO. [sensitive content hidden], our support person, really does make a huge effort to be responsive and knowledgeable when assisting.
PROSHaving used Moodle before, it was refreshing getting a hosted LMS, with great support, and a fantastically curated version of Moodle for the price point. I am impressed!
CONSAt this point, compared to our experience in the past, I would have said that it's restrictive. That is by design and so I cannot see it as a con. When we had free reign on a previous LMS, the more we wanted to do, the more we broke it. Pluto are experts and the restrictions are there to enhance the usability of the LMS.
Reasons for switching to Pluto LMS
Simply because we were sold on the "bespoke" part of the LMS. Unfortunately, the platform is designed for corporations and not training institutions. We effectively broke the system with all our requested tweaks.
Kelvin
Telecommunications, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
2
Reviewed November 2023
Review
Smooth transition for the change over. Follow up calls of support. Very positive feedback received from the learners as they found the learning system simple to use and navigate .
PROSCompetitive price and offering compared to others in the market. The look and feel was better and the seamless layout was simple and easy to use.
CONSVery little info on manual. Should have a larger library quick reference guide.
Reason for choosing Pluto LMS
Best Price. Ease of use. Quick start. Excellent support. Good onboarding.
Petrina
Management Consulting, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2023
Versatile, stable and Reliable
The versatility and reliability, and ease of use for the users.
CONSThere is no function to report on all courses together without having to get Pluto Insights.
Reason for choosing Pluto LMS
Primarily because of the unlimited users, as this matches our pricing structure, then ability to use SCORM, and the functions and versatility of the LMS.
Reasons for switching to Pluto LMS
Because their system didn't work properly and was unreliable - so many bugs, and their support wasn't very good, particularly because of the time difference.
Jaime
Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2021
Pluto - Above and Beyond
It has taken our 50 state leader training to the next level! Making our organization look incredibly professional.
PROSIt was so user friendly, has so many feature and integrations, has every functionality you could ever want
CONSNothing. I truly enjoy Pluto LMS and have not experienced difficulties thus far
Reason for choosing Pluto LMS
We chose Pluto LMS mostly because of our exceptional account manager, [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]. He has gone above and beyond at every turn throughout this process. He is so knowledgable and has helped us find smart and streamlined solutions for any infrastructure questions we have had. We are so grateful for all his help making our company and our LMS successful!!
Reasons for switching to Pluto LMS
the platform was not very user friendly and they had no customer service