Vergil vs Sana
Courses completed, or concepts mastered?
Sana Learn is built to produce courses fast. Vergil is built to measure what people retained from them. Every claim below links to the vendors' own documentation.
At a glance
Sana fits when…
- Course production speed is your bottleneck, and you have 300+ users to license.
- You already run Workday and want learning inside it.
- You're replacing several tools at once — LMS, LXP, authoring and virtual classroom.
Vergil fits when…
- You need to prove what people know, not just that they finished.
- You want a gap to name the concept behind it, not just the module left open.
- You want everyone learning, and to pay only for the people you measure.
What is Sana?
An AI-native learning platform combining LMS, LXP, authoring and virtual classroom in one subscription, with an AI tutor and document-to-course conversion. Workday acquired it in November 2025 for roughly $1.1bn and relaunched it as “Sana from Workday” in March 2026, positioning Sana Learn as the experience layer and Workday Learning as the system of record. Plans start at 300 users; no price is published.[3][8][7]
The unit of record: a course, or a concept?
Sana's analytics lead with monthly active users and course completions; its assessment docs measure “the % of correct answers required to pass.” Useful numbers — they tell you training was delivered. But when the unit of record is the course, the reportable outcome is course state. Vergil's unit is the concept, so a result names the ideas a learner holds and the ones they don't.
Side by side
What Sana is best at
Teams pick Sana over a traditional LMS for one reason above all: it makes learning content fast and pleasant to produce. That's a real advantage, and it's where the comparison should start.
Weeks of course production become hours
Sana converts your documents into structured courses. Their published customer results include one course going from three weeks to three hours, and 98% faster creation at Ahlsell.
Fast to build — then you still have to know it worked
Vergil generates courses from your documents too; that capability is now common across the category. The question production speed doesn't answer is whether anyone learned. Vergil keeps the knowledge graph it builds during generation, so the same material that made the course also measures mastery against it.
An AI tutor with spaced repetition
Sana Learn's tutor personalises 1:1 and re-surfaces material on a schedule — a well-evidenced technique for retention.
Repetition aimed by evidence, not by calendar
Spaced repetition decides when to re-show material. Vergil decides what to re-show, and to whom, from which concepts a learner has actually demonstrated. Same goal; one schedules on elapsed time, the other on measured gaps.
Four tools in one subscription
LMS, LXP, authoring and virtual classroom together, with no capabilities behind add-ons or surprise fees.
One job, priced on that job
Breadth is Sana's advantage here — Vergil replaces neither a virtual classroom nor a content marketplace. The trade is that a bundle prices every seat alike, where Vergil keeps learning free for unlimited learners and charges only where you measure.
Now backed by Workday
Workday acquired Sana in November 2025 and relaunched it in March 2026. If you run Workday, that brings distribution and HR-data grounding.
Independent, with one roadmap
On Workday, Sana's advantage is real and Vergil can't match it. Off it, note Workday positions Sana Learn as the experience layer and Workday Learning as the system of record.
What to check before you commit
Due diligence, not criticism — worth confirming with Sana directly.
300-user minimum, no published price
Third-party sites quote between $8 and $13 per seat, but they contradict each other and Sana publishes neither. Ask for the real number.
The standalone roadmap after the acquisition
Sana's founders say they'll keep building Sana Learn. Workday's March 2026 launch covered the assistant and agent products without mentioning it — fair to raise if you're buying standalone.
A thin public review base
4.9/5 on Capterra, but from 7 reviews — too small to read either way. Ask for reference customers at your size.
API and export depth
Capterra reviewers note the data available via the API is limited. Confirm the export surface if you plan to blend learning data into BI.
Switching
Switching is low-risk — you don't have to rip anything out
You don't need to migrate off Sana to try Vergil. Point it at the documents you already have — manuals, decks, recordings — and it builds an adaptive course in minutes. Learning is free for unlimited learners, so you can run a real pilot alongside whatever you use today and compare what it measures.
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Bring your documents
Upload the material your team already trains on.
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Generate a course
Vergil builds an adaptive course and a knowledge graph automatically, at cost.
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Measure competence
See concept-level mastery for your pilot group, and decide from evidence.
FAQ
For part of what Sana does, yes. Sana Learn is a full learning suite — LMS, LXP, authoring and virtual classroom — and reports completions, active users and pass rates. Vergil is narrower: it generates courses from your material and measures concept-level mastery. If you need to replace a whole learning stack, Sana covers more surface. If you need evidence of what people know, that's the specific job Vergil is built for.
No. Workday completed its acquisition of Sana in November 2025 for approximately $1.1bn, and relaunched the products as “Sana from Workday” in March 2026. Workday's own announcement describes Sana Learn as complementing Workday Learning, which remains the system of record. Sana Learn can still be bought standalone.
Sana doesn't publish a price; its pricing pages state that plans start at 300 users and require a sales conversation. Vergil publishes its pricing: learning is free for unlimited learners, competence analytics are €10 per user per month, and course generation is billed at cost. Third-party sites quote Sana per-seat figures between $8 and $13, but they contradict each other and neither is confirmed by Sana.
Yes — and so do several platforms now, so we don't present it as a Vergil advantage. The difference is what remains after generation. Vergil builds a persistent knowledge graph of the concepts in your material and their dependencies; that structure is what allows mastery to be reported per concept, and it's reused across courses rather than being discarded once a course is published.
No. Learning is free for unlimited learners, so you can run a Vergil pilot from your existing documents alongside Sana and compare results before changing anything.
Yes. Vergil maps your material into a knowledge graph and measures concept-level mastery, producing a skill matrix and flagging gaps — rather than reporting who completed a course.
Vergil offers custom implementation, white-labelling and priority support for organisations that need it. You can talk to the team via the contact page.
How we compare. We credit Sana's genuine strengths and link every claim about it to a public source — Sana's own pages for product facts, and Capterra for recurring review themes. No paid placements, no cherry-picked quotes. Where a figure couldn't be independently verified, we left it out.
Sources
- [1] Capterra — Sana reviews
- [2] Sana — Products (AI assistant)
- [3] Sana Learn — LMS/LXP
- [4] Sana Learn — AI tutor
- [5] Sana Help — Questions and assessments
- [6] Sana Learn — Integrations
- [7] Sana Learn — Pricing
- [8] Workday — Sana acquisition completed
- [9] Workday — Introducing Sana from Workday
- [10] Vergil — Pricing
- [11] Vergil — The science