Plenty of companies use Articulate 360 for one thing: training employees. That is the job Waybook was built for. Your processes, onboarding paths and training tests live in one playbook, everyone on the team is included, anyone can write, and managers can see who is ready to do the job. Pick Articulate 360 if you have instructional designers building interactive courses. Pick Waybook if you want your whole team onboarded, trained and checked, without author seats or a separate LMS. The full comparison is below.
| Feature | Waybook | Articulate 360 |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Growing ops-led teams (20-200 staff) that need SOPs, onboarding and training in one place | L&D teams designing interactive courses in Storyline 360 and Rise 360 |
| Starting price | $99/mo for 20 members (+$5/member), billed annually; $119/mo billed monthly | $1,749 per author per year (Teams); $1,449 per author per year (Personal) |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Annual only |
| Who counts as a seat | Every team member included, anyone can write | Authors only; learners are handled through Reach 360 |
| Learner management and reporting | Included on every plan | Basic distribution included; enrolment, reporting and API are add-ons, or Reach Pro from $3,600 per year, sales only |
| Free trial | 7-day, self-serve | Free trial, self-serve |
| SOP editor and structure |  | Course builder, not an SOP library |
| Interactive course authoring | Documents, step guides and tests | |
| Visual process capture | ✓ Waybook Shots |  |
| AI | ✓ AI Content Writer, AI Actions, AI test generation and Waybook Ask on every plan; Waybook MCP on Pro connects your playbook to Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft 365 Copilot | AI Assistant for course creation |
| Readiness tracking, pass/fail, mandatory checks | | Quiz and completion reporting |
| Migration support | ✓ Team-led import; data migration included on Pro | Rise.com to Reach 360 only |
Role-based onboarding puts the right documents in front of each new hire. Tests with pass/fail steps and mandatory checks prove they understood them, and progress dashboards show managers who is ready. Waybook Shots captures any process as a visual guide, the AI Content Writer drafts SOPs from rough notes, and Waybook Ask answers questions from your own processes. Everyone is included. Nobody needs an author seat.
Rise.com, Articulate's standalone Rise LMS, stops operating at the end of 2026, and the route on offer is Reach 360 inside Articulate 360. (Rise 360, the authoring app, continues.) If you used Rise LMS to onboard and train staff, Waybook is the direct replacement: the same job, everyone included, at a published price. Start a 7-day free trial, book a call during setup, and our team imports your content. Most teams are running in about a week.
Figures checked September 9, 2026. Articulate publishes per-author rates; Reach Pro is quoted by sales. Waybook's pricing is public and includes every team member.
| Plan | Price | Included |
|---|---|---|
| Articulate 360 AI Teams | $1,749 per author per year, annual only | Storyline 360, Rise 360, basic Reach 360 |
| Articulate 360 AI Personal | $1,449 per author per year, annual only | Single author |
| Reach Pro | From $3,600 per year, sales only | 1,200 active learners |
| Waybook Core | $99/mo billed annually ($119 monthly), 20 members, +$5 each | Every feature on the plan |
| Waybook Pro | $198/mo billed annually ($238 monthly), 20 members, +$10 each | Adds advanced permissions, SSO, audit log, data migration |
| Waybook Enterprise | Custom | N/A |
Two Articulate authors: $3,498 a year. Thirty people on Waybook Core: $1,788 a year, everyone able to write.
A completed course tells you someone clicked through. Waybook gives managers readiness tracking: pass/fail steps, mandatory checks, tests and progress dashboards by role. Waybook Ask, included on every plan, answers plain-language questions from your own published processes with a link to the source, and Waybook MCP on Pro puts that knowledge inside Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Explore Waybook's AI features.
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| Articulate 360 is a strong fit for | Waybook is built for teams that need |
|---|---|
| Instructional designers building interactive, media-rich courses | Training on how the business runs, written by the people who run it |
| A dedicated L&D function with author seats to fill | Every member able to write and update, no author seats |
| Companies already invested in Storyline content | SOPs, onboarding and training in one place at a published price |
Mostly how-to content, policies and onboarding? Waybook gets your team trained for a fraction of the cost. Also compare Waybook vs Trainual and Waybook vs Scribe, or see Waybook for employee training.
You do not start from scratch. Waybook's team maps and imports your existing training, data migration is included on Pro, and most teams complete the move in about a week. Start your 7-day free trial and book a call during setup.
Articulate 360 AI Teams is $1,749 per author per year and Personal is $1,449 per author per year, billed annually only, with education rates of $1,311 and $1,086. Basic Reach 360 distribution is included; Reach Pro, for learner enrolment and reporting at scale, starts at $3,600 per year for 1,200 active learners and is quoted by sales. Figures checked September 2026. Waybook Core is $99 per month for 20 members, billed annually, or $119 monthly, published on our pricing page.
Yes. Articulate stopped selling Rise.com in 2024 and its migration guide states that all support and operations end on December 31, 2026, with customers directed to Reach 360 inside Articulate 360. Rise 360, the course authoring app, is a different product and continues.
No. Reach 360 is Articulate's recommended route, not a requirement. If you used Rise LMS to train staff on your own processes and policies, Waybook covers SOPs, onboarding and training in one system, with every member included from $99 per month for 20 members, billed annually.
For a team, yes, by a wide margin. Articulate 360 charges $1,749 per author per year, so a company with two authors pays $3,498 before learner management. Waybook Core covers 30 people, all able to write, for $1,788 a year billed annually. Waybook also includes readiness tracking, Waybook Ask and Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations on every plan.
Yes. Waybook's team maps and imports your existing content, and Waybook imports Google Docs and PDFs and embeds YouTube and Loom video. Data migration is included on the Pro plan. For most small to mid-sized teams the move takes about a week.
Yes. Waybook offers a 7-day free trial that you can start yourself, without booking a demo. Articulate 360 also offers a self-serve trial; its paid plans are annual only.
Yes, and Waybook's AI features are included on every plan: AI Content Writer and AI Actions for drafting and editing documents, AI test generation, and Waybook Ask, the AI assistant that answers plain-language questions from your own published documents, with sources linked and permissions respected. Waybook MCP (Pro plan) also connects your knowledge base to AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
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