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ProProfs Training Maker vs EasyLlama: Which One Does More Than Check the Compliance Box?

If you’re comparing EasyLlama alternatives, you’ve probably noticed that every page crowns a winner, usually by the second paragraph. I’d rather not. Choosing between ProProfs Training Maker and EasyLlama comes down to one thing: what you need your training to do a year from now.

Here’s how I’d put it after running both at real headcounts.

EasyLlama is a compliance training platform, and a focused one. It exists to get mandated training, especially sexual harassment prevention, out the door with as little effort as possible. The courses are ready-made, video-first, and legally vetted. If your whole job is getting everyone certified before the deadline, it does that without asking much of you. That’s a compliment, by the way.

ProProfs Training Maker starts in the same place and keeps going. You get the compliance courses, 500+ expert courses in total, including state-specific harassment training. But the platform is built for everything your people need to learn after that: onboarding, product knowledge, leadership, and the skills that actually show up in performance reviews. It’s also built to show the learning stuck, with assessments you’d trust in an audit. And it’s easy enough that nobody on your team needs to be technical to run it, including the colleague who still prints their emails.

If compliance is your finish line, EasyLlama is a comfortable choice, but if it’s where your training program starts, you’ll want a platform with room to grow.

Below, I compare the two section by section: course building, AI, the ready-made library, assessments, reporting, pricing at real headcounts, and support. Where EasyLlama does something better, I say so. Where ProProfs does, I show you exactly why.

By the end, you’ll know which one fits the way your team actually runs, not just the way a demo makes it look. Demos always look great. That’s their whole job.

Choose ProProfs Training Maker If You Need To:

  • Train, assess, and certify your whole workforce from one place
  • Build courses with unlimited AI on every plan, free included
  • Launch from 500+ expert courses, including state-aware harassment training
  • Run proctored exams and share reports by live link, no login needed
  • Get awesome human support 24/7 by phone, chat, or email

Choose EasyLlama If You Need To:

  • Roll out a ready-made, video-first compliance program
  • Cover mandated courses when your training rarely goes beyond them
  • Launch from an entire library of over 300 compliance courses
  • Engage learners with cinematic, Hollywood-produced compliance video

At a glance

What matters ProProfs Training Maker EasyLlama
Best for
✓Train, assess, and certify employees across onboarding, compliance, and skills
✓Turnkey, video-first compliance training
Ease of setup
✓Launch a first course in minutes with AI, no technical skills needed
✓Quick setup and low-friction assignments
Course authoring
✓Build from scratch, start from 500+ ready courses, or let unlimited AI draft it on every plan
–Customize library courses; AI authoring only on the top-tier Ultimate plan
AI features
✓Build courses, quizzes, and surveys with AI, add AI voiceover and translation, read AI report summaries, and give learners an AI tutor, all unlimited on every plan
–AI reporting, translation, and assignments; AI authoring only on the top-tier Ultimate plan
Ready-to-use courses
✓Launch from 500+ full-length expert courses, including expert-recorded video, fully customizable
✓Over 300 legally vetted compliance courses with Hollywood-produced video
State-specific harassment training
✓Meet state requirements such as California SB 1343 and New York, in English and Spanish
✓State and local versions matched to employee location
Built-in quiz & survey tools
✓Embed a full Quiz Maker and Survey Maker inside any course
–Knowledge checks and quizzes inside courses
Question types
✓Test real understanding with 20+ types, including audio and video response
–Knowledge checks with a configurable pass score
Native proctoring
✓Monitor exams natively by screen, webcam, and mic, so a certificate proves the right person passed
–No proctoring offered
Reporting & analytics
✓Run course, quiz, user, group, and feedback reports with AI summaries, and share any report by live link with no login
✓Real-time dashboards, AI reporting assistant, acknowledgment records
Course sharing
✓Share by link, QR code, classroom link, or full-course embed, and log staff in by employee ID
–Magic Links, email, SMS (text message), kiosk mode, and printed URLs
Recertification
✓Reassign retakes automatically with email and SMS reminders
✓Automated recertification workflows and reminders
Anytime, anywhere
✓Learn on any tablet or phone with no app to download, even on weak connections
✓Responsive on any device
HRIS and integrations
✓Connect HRIS (human resources information system) and payroll, SSO (single sign-on), REST API (a standard way to connect other software), and Zapier, and get any other integration built free
✓50+ HRIS and payroll connections, SSO, REST API, Zapier, SCIM (automatic user provisioning)
Security
✓Protect data with SOC 2 (an independent security audit standard), GDPR (EU data privacy law), and CCPA (California data privacy law) compliance on AWS and IBM hosting
✓SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and CCPA compliant
Cost at 100 learners, library included
✓Pay about $399/mo (Business, annual), billed per active learner
–About $500/mo (Core, annual), billed per purchased seat
Support
✓Reach a human 24/7 by phone, chat, or email at 855-PROPROF (855-776-7763)
–Phone line, email, and help center; hours not published
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1. Course Creation and Authoring

Most EasyLlama competitors make you pick: build everything yourself, or live inside a fixed library. ProProfs lets you do both, and EasyLlama leans toward the library.

Authoring ProProfs Training Maker EasyLlama
Building from scratch
✓Build any course with drag-and-drop, templates, and interactive blocks
–Customize library courses; build new ones only on the top-tier Ultimate plan
AI course creation
✓Create courses from a prompt, PDF, Word doc, or slides with unlimited AI, free plan included
–AI Course Authoring Tool with PDF-to-course, available only on its top-tier Ultimate plan ($89.95/user/yr)
Starting without building
✓Launch from 500+ expert courses, or let AI draft the whole course for you
✓Start from the library
White-label branding
✓Rebrand every course with your logo, colors, fonts, themes, and custom certificates
✓Logo, brand colors, policy language, and workplace examples
Interactive design
✓Add accordion, step, labeled-graphic, and scenario blocks, plus branching scenarios, flashcards, and games
✓65+ interactive templates and AI-powered scenarios
Built-in quiz & survey tools
✓Embed a full Quiz Maker and Survey Maker, and let AI build quizzes and surveys for you
–Knowledge checks inside courses
AI translation
✓Translate courses into 70+ languages from one dropdown
–30+ languages at no charge; more by request
Standards
✓Import standard e-learning packages: SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI/TinCan, and cmi5 (Business Complete Elite)
✓Unlimited SCORM uploads with completion and score tracking on the top-tier Ultimate plan
ProProfs Training Maker: You never start from a blank page unless you want to. Pick one of 500+ expert courses and assign it today, or hand AI a policy PDF, a slide deck, or a two-line prompt and get a structured course back in minutes, on every plan including free. Then make it yours: your logo, colors, fonts, themes, and certificates, with Quiz Maker and Survey Maker built right in and a Scenario Builder for branching conversations.
EasyLlama: EasyLlama lets you customize any library course on every plan, from brand colors to policy language, with legal tags that warn you before you remove content a law requires. Building brand-new courses with its AI Course Authoring Tool is an Ultimate-plan feature.
Verdict:If you want to launch fast from 500+ expert courses, let AI build the rest, and still shape every course to your brand and policies, ProProfs Training Maker gives you speed and control in one place. If you mainly want to rebrand vetted compliance courses and rarely need anything custom, EasyLlama‘s customization tools handle that.

2. AI Capabilities: ProProfs AI vs EasyLlama AI

Every vendor on a list of Easy Llama alternatives says AI now. The real questions are how much of the job the AI does and which plan you need to reach it.

AI ProProfs Training Maker EasyLlama
Usage limits
✓Use AI without limits on every plan, including free
–AI authoring only on the top-tier Ultimate plan
Course creation
✓Generate full courses from a prompt or document, with AI images and on-demand rewrites
–Generate courses from a prompt or PDF policy on the Ultimate plan
Quiz & survey generation
✓Generate quizzes and surveys with AI in seconds
–Knowledge checks inside AI-authored courses
AI voiceover
✓Narrate any content with Google Text-to-Speech in multiple languages, in one click
✓AI narration and voice tools on the top-tier Ultimate plan
Learner-facing AI
✓Give learners instant AI feedback on wrong answers and an in-course AI tutor to chat with
–AI-powered interactive scenarios
AI in reporting
✓Spot gaps early with AI Reports & Insights, and read key takeaways the moment you open a report
✓AI Reporting Assistant for custom dashboards
AI automation
✓Automate enrollment, learning paths, reminders, and certifications with AI
✓AI-powered assignments and recertifications
ProProfs Training Maker: ProProfs AI runs without limits on every plan, the free one included. It builds courses from a prompt or a document, generates quizzes and surveys, creates images, narrates content in multiple languages, designs learning paths by role or department, and handles enrollment and reminders on its own. Open a report and AI tells you what matters before you scroll. Learners get instant feedback on wrong answers and an AI tutor they can ask mid-course.
EasyLlama: EasyLlama’s AI is practical and compliance-shaped. Its AI Reporting Assistant builds custom dashboards, AI translation covers 30+ languages, and AI-powered assignments handle recertification. Full AI course authoring sits on the Ultimate plan.
Verdict:If you want AI doing the whole job, from building and testing to tutoring, automating, and reporting, next to a 500+ course library and with nothing to unlock, ProProfs Training Maker gives you far more AI on every plan. If your AI needs stop at reporting and translation, EasyLlama covers that neatly.

3. Ready-to-Use Course Library and Quality

Both platforms ship a large ready-made library, which already puts them ahead of most EasyLlama alternatives. The difference is format and how far each library reaches beyond compliance.

Library ProProfs Training Maker EasyLlama
Course depth and format
✓Launch 500+ full-length expert courses, including expert-recorded video courses, ready to use and customizable
✓Over 300 interactive compliance courses with Hollywood-produced video and microlearning
Topics covered
✓Harassment, DEI, safety, HIPAA (US health data privacy law), cybersecurity, ethics, and wellness
State-specific harassment training
✓Meet state requirements such as California SB 1343 and New York
✓State and local versions, auto-matched by employee location
Spanish versions
✓30+ languages through AI translation
Editing
✓Edit any course down to the chapter, the quiz, and the branding
✓Brand, policy language, and examples; required legal content flagged
ProProfs Training Maker: The 500+ expert courses are full-length and ready to assign, with expert-recorded video courses on compliance and sexual harassment. Harassment training addresses state requirements such as California SB 1343 and New York and comes in Spanish. The library then keeps going where compliance catalogs usually stop: leadership, new manager, and soft skills. Every course is editable, so your policy and your examples go in.
EasyLlama: EasyLlama’s library holds over 300 compliance courses in total, built around high-production video. Its harassment training is matched to each employee’s state and refreshed every year, which helps employers with staff in several states.
Verdict:If you want expert courses that cover mandated compliance and the skills your people need next, fully editable to your policies, ProProfs Training Maker gives you the wider library. If your workforce spans many states and cinematic compliance video is the priority, EasyLlama‘s library is built for that.

4. Assessments and Proctoring

This is the widest gap I found among EasyLlama competitors, and it runs in ProProfs’ favor.

Assessment ProProfs Training Maker EasyLlama
Question types
✓Test with 20+ question types, including audio and video response
–Knowledge checks and quizzes
Ready-made question bank
✓Pull from 1,000,000+ ready-to-use questions
–Not offered publicly
Open-answer grading
✓Grade open answers with AI against your own rubrics
–Not offered publicly
Proctoring
✓Proctor natively by screen, webcam, and mic, with periodic screenshots
–None
Exam integrity
✓Block tab switching, copying, and printing; restrict by IP address; add timers and randomization
–Minimum pass score; a failed attempt restarts the course
Skills assessment
✓Measure skills with the Talent Assessment Library and skills-gap assessments
–Focused on compliance knowledge checks
ProProfs Training Maker: A full Quiz Maker ships inside the subscription. The 20+ question types include audio and video responses, so a new manager can explain, out loud, how they would handle a complaint. There is a 1,000,000+ question bank, AI grading against your rubric, and native proctoring. The full exam engine with proctoring, the Talent Assessment Library, and skills-gap assessments sit on Business Complete Elite.
EasyLlama: EasyLlama’s knowledge checks confirm learners followed the material, with a configurable pass score and a course restart on a fail. What it does not publicly offer is proctoring, a question bank, or skill testing beyond compliance knowledge.
Verdict:If a certificate has to mean the right person passed a real test, or you assess skills beyond compliance, ProProfs Training Maker is the stronger choice by a wide margin. If a knowledge check with a pass score satisfies your requirement, EasyLlama handles that without fuss.

5. Reporting and Analytics

Both cover the audit basics: completion, gaps, and certificates. ProProfs goes deeper and puts reports in front of people who never log in.

ProProfs offers five report types:

  • Course reports: learner names, email and IP addresses, course start dates, and completion time
  • Quiz reports: assessment performance, including correct and incorrect answers and scores
  • User reports: individual progress across assigned, taken, and pending courses
  • Group reports: consolidated progress across teams or departments
  • Course feedback reports: learner feedback on content, structure, and instructor effectiveness
Reporting & analytics ProProfs Training Maker EasyLlama
Completion and gaps
✓Track completed and pending courses, and spot gaps by team or department
✓Completion tracking and gap views by department, role, or location
Certificates
✓Issue custom certificates with expiry, and email them with reports
✓Downloadable certificates with bulk export
Report depth
✓Run course, quiz, user, group, and feedback reports, plus grade books and time on page
–Completion, certificate, and acknowledgment reports
AI in reports
✓Surface trends with AI insights, and open every report with an AI summary
✓AI Reporting Assistant for custom dashboards
Sharing with non-users
✓Share a live report link anyone opens with no login or seat
–Exports and certificate downloads
Audit records
✓Export compliance-ready reports to Excel or PDF, with IP tracking
✓Signature and acknowledgment records
ProProfs Training Maker: You get completion, pending, and gap views, certificates on record, and five report types that go down to per-question results and IP-level detail. AI flags problems early and summarizes each report the moment you open it. When an auditor or a department head wants to see progress, I send a live link. They open it. No login, no seat.
EasyLlama: EasyLlama’s reporting is built for audits too: real-time completion tracking, gap views, an AI Reporting Assistant, bulk certificate exports, and signed policy acknowledgments.
Verdict:If you want completion tracking and certificates plus per-question depth, AI summaries, and a live link any stakeholder opens without a login, ProProfs Training Maker gives you the fuller reporting platform. If signed policy acknowledgments are central to your audit file, EasyLlama builds its records around that.

6. Course Sharing and Distribution

Reaching frontline and deskless staff is where alternatives to EasyLlama have to earn their keep. ProProfs gives you the most ways in.

Distribution ProProfs Training Maker EasyLlama
Shareable course link
✓Send a plain or password-protected link
✓Magic Links
Classroom and shared devices
✓Open a classroom link where each learner sees assigned paths
✓Classroom and kiosk mode
QR code access
✓Print a QR code for phone-only access
–Printed URLs
Learners without email
✓Log staff in with an employee ID and password
✓Magic Links, SMS, and kiosk mode
Embed in your website or portal
✓Embed the full course; learners watch, take quizzes, and get tracked inside your page
–Learner portal delivery; full-course embed not listed
Seamless learner access
✓Drop learners into a course with one-click Google or SSO login
✓Google and Microsoft sign-in for learners
ProProfs Training Maker: A course goes out as a plain or password-protected link, a classroom link, or a QR code taped to the break room wall. Staff without company email log in with an employee ID. You can embed the full interactive course inside your own website or intranet, so learners train and get tracked without leaving your page, and one-click Google or SSO login gets them in instantly.
EasyLlama: EasyLlama handles no-email learners well, with Magic Links, SMS, kiosk mode for shared devices, and printed URLs. Delivery centers on its own learner portal.
Verdict:If you want training embedded in your own site, QR codes on the shop floor, and employee-ID logins, ProProfs Training Maker gives you the most ways to reach people. If Magic Links and a shared kiosk cover your frontline, EasyLlama does that smoothly.

7. Learner Experience and Delivery

Both keep learners engaged, in different styles. ProProfs gives you more control over how the experience runs.

Learner experience ProProfs Training Maker EasyLlama
Self-paced learning
✓Pause and resume any course or assessment anytime
✓Self-paced on any device
Content style
✓Mix interactive lessons, expert-recorded or embedded YouTube and in-house video, scenarios, flashcards, and brain games
✓Hollywood-produced video, AI-powered scenarios, and microlearning
Learning paths
✓Assign AI-built paths by role, department, or progress
✓Learning Journeys with prerequisites and due dates
Gamification
✓Motivate with points, badges, levels, leaderboards, and seven brain games
–Interactive games and quizzes
Completion controls
✓Set minimum page time, block page skipping, and lock sequential progress
–Course restart on a failed knowledge check
Live and instructor-led training
✓Launch WebinarNinja in one click, host video conferences, and track ILT (instructor-led training) on a training calendar
–Classroom and kiosk mode; limited ILT tools
ProProfs Training Maker: Learners pause and come back whenever they like, watch expert-recorded or embedded video, work through scenarios, and reach instructors in a built-in discussion forum. Minimum page times and skip prevention stop people from clicking straight to the certificate. For live teaching, WebinarNinja launches in one click, and ILT sessions are tracked next to your online courses.
EasyLlama: EasyLlama’s high-production video is a real part of its appeal, and learners often call its courses engaging. Learning Journeys sequence courses, documents, and videos with prerequisites and due dates.
Verdict:If you run live sessions, want gamification with depth, or need to stop learners from skimming, ProProfs Training Maker gives you more control over the whole experience. If cinematic compliance video is your top priority, EasyLlama does it with style.

8. Compliance Deadline and Recertification Management

Both platforms automate the busywork. ProProfs carries it through to proof at renewal.

Compliance management ProProfs Training Maker EasyLlama
New-hire enrollment
✓Auto-enroll through HRMS (human resources management system) and payroll, with scheduled and triggered training
✓Auto-enroll through 50+ HRIS integrations
Right course, right person
✓Assign the right courses by role and department automatically with AI learning paths
✓Compliance Advisor maps mandates to your workforce
Certificate expiry
✓Track expiry with automatic reminders
✓Tracks expiry with reminders
Recertification
✓Reassign the same course for a retake on your schedule, automatically
✓Automated recertification workflows
Reminders
✓Send email and text reminders, drip emails, and calendar alerts
✓Email, with SMS and Slack options in automations
Proof at renewal
✓Run proctored retakes with per-question records
–Completion certificates and signed acknowledgments
ProProfs Training Maker: Recertification runs itself. AI learning paths put the right course in front of the right role, the same course reassigns for a retake on your schedule, and reminders go out by email and text. When the retake comes around, it can be a proctored exam with a per-question record, not just another completion. For scale, one Fortune 500 construction company has run 3,000+ individual training sessions on ProProfs.
EasyLlama: EasyLlama’s Compliance Advisor maps federal and state mandates to your workforce profile and matches courses to each location, and auto-enrollment plus recertification workflows round it out.
Verdict:If your compliance cycle has to end with proof that people passed, not just finished, ProProfs Training Maker closes that loop. If mapping state mandates across many locations is your biggest task, EasyLlama‘s Compliance Advisor helps with that.

9. Administration, Integrations, and Mobile

Integrations matter more than most EasyLlama competitors admit. Both platforms plug into your HR stack, and ProProfs builds anything missing for free.

Admin and platform ProProfs Training Maker EasyLlama
User management
✓Add unlimited admins, instructors, teams, and departments, with roles and org hierarchy mapping
–Role and location-based assignment from one dashboard
HRIS and payroll
✓Sync HRIS and payroll to auto-enroll learners, including BambooHR and isolved
✓50+ HRIS and payroll connections, including Workday, Rippling, ADP, and Gusto
SSO, API, and Zapier
✓Connect SSO, SAML (an enterprise login standard), LDAP (company directory login), REST API, webhooks, and Zapier
✓SAML 2.0, Okta, REST API, Zapier, webhooks, SCIM
Custom integrations
✓Request any integration, Slack included, and the team builds it for free
–Custom work through paid Customization Services
Mobile
✓Learn on tablet or phone with no app to download, even on weak connections
✓Responsive on any device
ProProfs Training Maker: Admin and instructor seats are unlimited. HRIS and payroll sync, SSO, REST API, webhooks, and Zapier connect training to the tools you already run. And if the connection you need is not there yet, Slack or a niche HRIS, you request it and the team builds it for free. Courses run on any laptop, tablet, or phone with nothing to install.
EasyLlama: EasyLlama ships 50+ ready HRIS and payroll integrations with daily syncs, plus SSO, a REST API, Zapier, webhooks, and SCIM. Custom work runs through its paid Customization Services.
Verdict:If you want unlimited admins, the core HR integrations, and anything else you need built free, ProProfs Training Maker bends to your stack. If your HRIS is on EasyLlama’s list and you want it switched on as-is, EasyLlama handles that.

10. Security and Compliance

Security is table stakes for any of the EasyLlama alternatives worth shortlisting, and both platforms clear the bar.

Security and compliance ProProfs Training Maker EasyLlama
Certifications
✓Protect data with SOC 2, GDPR, and CCPA compliance, hosted on AWS and IBM
✓SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and CCPA compliant
Data protection
✓Own your learning data outright, with a published DPA (data processing agreement) and sub-processor list
✓Encryption in transit and at rest
Access control
✓Password-protect courses, keep users private, set roles and permissions, and track IPs
✓SSO and role-based assignment
Proctored compliance exams
✓Run supervised exams with native proctoring
–Not offered
ProProfs Training Maker: ProProfs is SOC 2, GDPR, and CCPA compliant, runs on AWS and IBM infrastructure, and gives you complete ownership of your learning data. On top of that, native proctoring and audit-ready reporting let you run a supervised exam and produce the record in one place.
EasyLlama: EasyLlama is SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and CCPA compliant, and encrypts data in transit and at rest.
Verdict:If you want SOC 2, GDPR, and CCPA compliance plus proctored exams and audit-ready records in one platform, ProProfs Training Maker covers security and proof together. If a clean security review is all you need, EasyLlama clears it as well.

11. Pricing

If you are pricing alternatives to EasyLlama, compare plans that include the same things. ProProfs has four plans: Free (up to 10 learners), Essentials at $1.99 per active learner per month (up to 100 learners, no ready-made library), Business at $3.99 (up to 200 learners, 500+ course library included), and Business Complete Elite at $4.98 (full platform). The fair match for EasyLlama Core, which includes its library, is ProProfs Business, so the headcount rows below use Business, and Business Complete Elite once you pass Business’s 200-learner cap. All paid prices are annual rates.

Learners ProProfs Training Maker (annual) EasyLlama (annual)
Up to 10 learners
✓Free plan, $0, with unlimited AI course creation
–No free plan; the lowest entry is Pay Per Course at about $249.50/yr
Entry paid plan
✓Essentials at $1.99 per active learner/mo ($23.88/yr), up to 100 learners
✓Pay Per Course at $24.95 per course per learner/yr, 10-course minimum in increments of 5 (about $249.50/yr)
10+ learners, library included
✓From about $40/mo at 10 learners (Business)
–From about $50/mo at 10 learners (Core, 10-user minimum)
40 learners
✓About $160/mo (Business)
–About $200/mo (Core)
70 learners
✓About $279/mo (Business)
–About $350/mo (Core)
100 learners
✓About $399/mo (Business)
–About $500/mo (Core)
200 learners
✓About $798/mo (Business, the Business maximum)
–About $999/mo (Core)
500 learners
✓About $2,490/mo (Business Complete Elite, adds proctoring, SSO, API, and HRMS auto-enroll)
–About $2,498/mo (Core)
AI course authoring
✓Included on every plan, Free included
–Ultimate plan only, about $750/mo at 100 users
Billing model
✓Pay per active learner, and pause departed learners to free the seat
–Per purchased seat per year (Core $59.95, Ultimate $89.95), 10-user minimum in increments of 5; or per course per learner
ProProfs Training Maker: Pricing is per active learner, someone who actually trains that month, and you can pause a departed learner while keeping their records. Up to 10 learners train free. Essentials, at $1.99 per active learner per month, covers small teams of up to 100 that build their own courses. Business, at $3.99, adds the 500+ course library, compliance automation, and team management for up to 200 learners. Business Complete Elite, at $4.98, opens the full platform, and the People Development Suite starts at $499 per month. Unlimited AI course creation comes with every plan, and paid plans carry a money-back guarantee.
EasyLlama: EasyLlama sells seats by the year: Core at $59.95 per user and Ultimate at $89.95 with AI authoring, both with a 10-user minimum sold in increments of 5, so the smallest Core plan is $599.50 a year and the smallest Ultimate plan is $899.50. Core also adds 200+ phishing simulation templates and AI risk monitoring. Pay Per Course, at $24.95 per course per learner per year with a 10-course minimum ($249.50), suits a small team that needs only a couple of mandated courses.
Verdict:If you want a full library, unlimited AI, and pricing that follows who actually trains, ProProfs Training Maker costs less than EasyLlama Core at every team size from 10 to 500 learners, with both plans including a ready-made course library. If you need only a handful of mandated courses for a small team, EasyLlama‘s Pay Per Course plan is a lean way to cover them.

12. 24/7 Awesome Human Support

Support ProProfs Training Maker EasyLlama
Channels
✓Reach a human by phone, chat, or email
✓Phone, email, and help center
Hours
✓Get help 24/7, every day of the year
–Not published
Phone access
✓Call 855-PROPROF (855-776-7763) and a human answers
✓Listed: 855-928-1890
Onboarding
✓Get personalized onboarding, your first course built with you, and a dedicated learning officer
–Dedicated account manager through paid Customization Services
ProProfs Training Maker: Call 855-PROPROF (855-776-7763) and a human picks up, any hour, any day, by phone, chat, or email. ProProfs calls it awesome human support, and the night before an audit you find out why. Business Complete Elite adds personalized onboarding, custom course development, and a dedicated learning officer.
EasyLlama: EasyLlama lists a phone line, email support, and a solid help center, and reviewers often mention quick setup. Support hours are not published.
Verdict:If you want a human on the phone at 2 a.m. before an audit, ProProfs Training Maker answers, 24/7. If a phone line and a good help center during the workday are enough, EasyLlama keeps things simple.

13. Beyond an LMS: A Connected Learning and Performance Ecosystem

Most EasyLlama alternatives are standalone LMSs, and EasyLlama itself is a focused compliance platform. ProProfs Training Maker sits inside a connected ecosystem that reaches past compliance into knowledge, live sessions, feedback, and performance, all on one account.

Scope ProProfs Training Maker EasyLlama
Core LMS
✓Yes
✓Yes
Knowledge base for 24/7 self-help
✓Publish policies and manuals in Knowledge Base, in the suite
✓Document and policy manager
Live and on-demand webinars
✓Host webinars with WebinarNinja, in the suite
–Classroom and kiosk mode
Employee surveys and feedback
✓Run engagement surveys with Survey Maker, in the suite
✓Anonymous reporting channel
Goals, OKRs, and 360-degree feedback
✓Tie training to performance with PeopleGoal, in the People Development Suite
–Outside its scope
Packaged as
✓Choose from two named suites, from $499/mo
–Compliance platform with paid add-on services
ProProfs Training Maker: The Smarter Employee Learning Suite brings together Training Maker, Quiz Maker, WebinarNinja, Knowledge Base, and Survey Maker, so training, testing, live sessions, self-help, and surveys run as one system. The People Development Suite adds PeopleGoal, connecting training to SMART goals, OKRs (objectives and key results), and 360-degree feedback, so what someone learned links to how they perform. ProProfs has been building this ecosystem since 2005, customer-funded rather than venture-backed, and counts Sony, Dell, and Cisco among its customers.
EasyLlama: EasyLlama stays focused on compliance and bundles extras for that job, including a phishing simulator on Core, an anonymous reporting channel, and a policy manager. Performance management sits outside its scope.
Verdict:If you want training connected to knowledge, live sessions, feedback, and performance goals in one platform, ProProfs Training Maker and its suites help you build smarter employees, well beyond compliance. If compliance is the whole assignment, EasyLlama‘s focused toolkit is a fair fit.

Which Should You Choose

If you have been reading roundups of the best EasyLlama alternatives, here is the shortcut.

Pick ProProfs Training Maker to Train, Assess, and Certify Your Employees

Onboard new hires, keep everyone compliant, and upskill your teams from one delightfully simple platform that anyone can run. Launch from 500+ expert courses, including state-aware harassment training in English and Spanish, or build your own with unlimited AI. Prove learning with proctored exams, share reports by live link, and reach a human 24/7. It also costs less than EasyLlama Core at every team size from 10 to 500 learners, comparing plans that both include a ready-made course library.

Pick EasyLlama for Turnkey, Video-First Compliance Training

If your training is mostly mandated compliance for a multi-state workforce, and you want cinematic video courses matched to each location with very little to build, EasyLlama fits that shape well.

ProProfs Training Maker covers compliance and everything your people need to learn next. EasyLlama keeps mandated training simple. Teams choose ProProfs when they want one platform to build, assess, and certify, without adding tools as they grow.

Migrating From EasyLlama

People put off switching to EasyLlama alternatives because it sounds like a project. It is mostly a checklist, and many teams are up and running within a couple of weeks.

Step 1: Export Your Content

If you have EasyLlama’s SCORM package, export your custom courses as SCORM or xAPI, gather your policies, PDFs, slides, and videos, and download your certificates and completion records.

Step 2: Import Into ProProfs Training Maker

Upload SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI/TinCan, and cmi5 packages, or turn policy documents into interactive courses with AI.

Step 3: Swap in Ready-Made Courses

Assign sexual harassment, DEI, safety, and privacy courses from the 500+ library, and edit them to match your policies.

Step 4: Add Your Learners

Bulk-upload by spreadsheet, turn on self-registration, use employee IDs for staff without email, or auto-enroll through HRMS and payroll.

Step 5: Set Compliance Rules and Go Live

Configure due dates, reminders, certificate expiry, and recertification schedules, then assign your first courses with compliance training software built for the job.

TL;DR

  • ProProfs Training Maker is an easy LMS and course builder for employee training, compliance, and skill assessment: unlimited AI on every plan, 500+ expert courses, a built-in Quiz Maker and Survey Maker, native proctoring, reports you can share by live link, and 24/7 awesome human support. EasyLlama is a polished, video-first compliance training platform. ProProfs has been around since 2005, is customer-funded, and counts Sony, Dell, and Cisco among its customers.
  • ProProfs Essentials costs $1.99 per active learner per month, or $23.88 per learner per year (up to 100 active learners), so 100 learners come to $2,388 a year. EasyLlama sells annual plans only: Pay Per Course at $24.95 per course per learner (10-course minimum, from $249.50 a year), Core at $59.95 per user (10-user minimum, $5,995 a year for 100 users), and Ultimate at $89.95 per user ($8,995 a year for 100 users). ProProfs bills per active learner rather than per purchased seat.
  • AI course building is included on every ProProfs plan, free included. On EasyLlama it is an Ultimate-plan feature at $89.95 per user per year.
  • EasyLlama’s real strengths are cinematic compliance video, a library of over 300 compliance courses, harassment training in state and local versions, and a Compliance Advisor, and a long list of ready-made HRIS integrations.
  • Rule of thumb: if you need to train, assess, and certify your own workforce, ProProfs belongs on any shortlist of the best EasyLlama alternatives, and it costs less as you grow. If mandated compliance video is the whole job, EasyLlama fits.

Which Should You Buy?

I have tested a lot of EasyLlama competitors, and the answer depends on what your training has to produce. If it is a completion certificate for a mandated course and nothing more, EasyLlama makes that easy. If it is proof, meaning a proctored exam, a per-question record, a skills-gap report, or a course built around your own process, ProProfs Training Maker is built for that, and it handles the mandated courses too. Most growing companies need both, which is why ProProfs tops my list of the best EasyLlama alternatives.

Which EasyLlama Alternatives Win?

Most lists of Easy Llama alternatives lump every LMS together, which does not help much. In practice, the alternatives to EasyLlama split into two camps. Some are compliance libraries with a course player attached. Others are general-purpose LMSs that leave you to find compliance content yourself. ProProfs sits in neither camp: 500+ ready courses including state-aware harassment training, plus a full builder, an exam engine, and a reporting layer. That combination is why I would put it on any list of the best EasyLlama alternatives for teams whose training goes beyond the mandate.

What Will You Pay?

ProProfs prices per active learner (see the full pricing page), so you pay for people who actually train in a given month, and you can pause someone who leaves without losing their records. EasyLlama sells seats by the year, with a 10-seat minimum in increments of 5, or courses per learner on Pay Per Course ($24.95 per course per learner per year, 10-course minimum), where unused purchases do not roll over. Matched on library access, ProProfs Business is about $399/mo at 100 learners and EasyLlama Core about $500/mo. The bigger gap is AI: ProProfs includes unlimited AI course creation on every plan, while EasyLlama reserves AI authoring for its top-tier Ultimate plan, about $750/mo at 100 users. Run the same math on any EasyLlama alternatives you are weighing, and reverify both pricing pages on the day.

Can You Prove Competence?

This is the sharpest divide. EasyLlama’s knowledge checks confirm attention, and its signed acknowledgments satisfy most mandates. ProProfs goes further: 20+ question types including audio and video responses, a 1,000,000+ question bank, AI grading of open answers against your rubric, and native proctoring with screen, webcam, and mic monitoring. If a regulator, a certification body, or your own leadership wants competence verified rather than assumed, that difference decides it.

Where Does AI Help?

EasyLlama puts AI into reporting, translation, and assignments, and into course authoring on its top-tier Ultimate plan. ProProfs puts it everywhere, without limits, on every plan including free: courses from a prompt or a document, self-building quizzes and surveys, AI images, AI voiceover, learning paths designed by role, AI report summaries, automated enrollment, and an in-course AI tutor. If you plan to build any of your own training, that tier gate is the number to watch.

Who Wins Learner Experience?

EasyLlama brings cinematic compliance video. ProProfs brings expert-recorded video of its own, plus reach and control: embed the full course in your own site, send it by QR code or classroom link, log staff in by employee ID, stop page-skipping, run live sessions through WebinarNinja, and keep instructors reachable in a built-in forum. Of the Easy Llama alternatives I have used, few give you that many ways to put training where people already are.

Which Offers Better Support?

ProProfs publishes 855-PROPROF (855-776-7763), and a human answers 24 hours a day by phone, chat, and email. That is what ProProfs means by awesome human support. EasyLlama lists a phone number, email support, and a good help center, though its support hours are not published. If a compliance deadline lands at an odd hour, that is the gap you feel.

Straight Answers About EasyLlama

The pointed questions buyers comparing Easy Llama alternatives ask, answered on the facts. Where EasyLlama is the better choice, I say so.

Does EasyLlama Offer Proctoring?

No proctoring appears on its site or in its help docs. Its knowledge checks use a pass score and restart the course on a fail. ProProfs proctoring, with screen, webcam, and mic monitoring, is native.

Is EasyLlama AI Unlimited?

Its AI course authoring comes only with the Ultimate plan. ProProfs includes unlimited AI course creation on every plan, the free one included.

Which Covers More States?

EasyLlama. Its harassment training comes in state and local versions, refreshed every year and matched to each employee’s location, inside a library of over 300 compliance courses. ProProfs’ harassment training meets state requirements such as California SB 1343 and New York and comes in Spanish, which covers most employers well. If you have staff across a long list of states with unusual rules, EasyLlama’s catalog is broader.

Can EasyLlama Test Skills?

Not in any depth. Its assessments are knowledge checks inside courses. ProProfs adds a Talent Assessment Library, skills-gap assessments, and 20+ question types, so you can test whether someone can do the job, not just whether they read the policy.

Can Non-Users See Reports?

On EasyLlama, its site describes exports and certificate downloads rather than a login-free live link. ProProfs shares a live report link that a manager or auditor opens without a seat.

Is Pricing per Learner?

Per purchased seat, not per active learner. It sells annual seats with a 10-seat minimum in increments of 5, or courses per learner on Pay Per Course (10-course minimum), where unused courses do not roll over. ProProfs bills per active learner, and you can pause departed learners.

Where Does EasyLlama Win?

Three things. Its compliance video is cinematic. Its harassment catalog covers more states and localities, with a Compliance Advisor that maps mandates to your workforce. And it ships 50+ HRIS and payroll integrations ready to switch on. If any of those is your deciding factor, EasyLlama is a strong pick.

How Do You Switch?

Moving between alternatives to EasyLlama is mostly a checklist, and many teams are up and running within a couple of weeks. If you have EasyLlama’s SCORM package, export your custom courses as SCORM or xAPI, and download your certificates and completion records. Import into ProProfs, which supports SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI/TinCan, and cmi5, or turn your policies into interactive courses with AI. Assign ready-made harassment, DEI, and safety courses from the library, add learners by spreadsheet, employee ID, or HRMS sync, set recertification schedules, and go live.

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Kamy Anderson is a Senior Writer specializing in online learning and training. His blog focuses on trends in eLearning, online training, webinars, course development, employee training, gamification, LMS, AI, and more. Kamy's articles have been published in eLearningIndustry, TrainingMag, Training Zone, and Learning Solutions Magazine. Connect with him on LinkedIn.