LMS for Construction Companies: 11 Compared
LMS for construction companies compared: cost at 15 workers, what OSHA 10 for the crew actually costs, and when you do not need an LMS at all.
I build HR software for small businesses, and if a contractor asked me which LMS (learning management system) to buy, I would first ask which of three things the crew actually needs, because they sell at very different prices. This page separates those three purchases, compares eleven options, and prices every one that publishes a number at fifteen field workers.
The three are: buying OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and trade courses somebody else produced, keeping track of which cards and licenses expire when, and having somewhere to put your own site orientation and toolbox material. Most comparisons in this category treat them as one product and send everybody to the same shortlist.
A great many small contractors need only one or two of the three, and the one they most often need is a one-time purchase rather than a subscription. That is why this page also does the calculation nobody selling software will publish: what putting the whole crew through OSHA 10 actually costs.
Three purchases, one name
Three separate purchases share the name construction LMS, so before comparing vendors, work out which rows below actually describe your situation. It takes ten minutes and frequently removes two thirds of the shortlist.
| What you might be buying | What it actually is | How it is priced | You need it when |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSHA and trade course content | Courses somebody made, that you buy | Per course or per seat, often one-time | You need OSHA 10, OSHA 30, or trade-specific training |
| Certification tracking | A record of cards, licenses, and expiry dates | Per user, or bundled into an HR platform | Cards expire and project owners ask for evidence |
| A delivery platform | Somewhere to host, assign, and record completion | Per user or a flat monthly fee | You produce your own orientation and toolbox material |
FirstHR is our product and appears below as an alternative to buying a platform rather than as a construction LMS. We include it where it genuinely fits and list its gaps the same way we do for every other tool here: it stores cards with their expiry dates and runs your own courses, while an OSHA course library, renewal reminders and a Spanish-language app come from other tools on this page. Three of the recommendations below route readers to them for exactly those reasons.
Do you actually need one?
Often not, and four questions settle it. If you answer no to all four, the honest advice is to buy courses and keep your money.
11 construction training options at a glance
Here are all eleven side by side: platforms first, then course providers and construction specialists, then enterprise systems. Four of the eleven give a 15-person crew no price without a sales conversation.
| Product | Type | Entry price | Free plan | Published pricing | Construction-specific |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connecteam | Frontline platform | $29/hub to 30 users | |||
| TalentLMS | General LMS | $119/mo to 40 users | |||
| FirstHR | HR platform | $98 to $198 flat | |||
| iSpring LMS | General LMS | Quote below 100 users | |||
| Mitti | Frontline platform | $24/seat | |||
| 360training | OSHA course provider | $59.99 per OSHA 10 seat | |||
| Vector Solutions | Construction specialist | Quote only | |||
| Arcoro | Construction HR | Quote only | |||
| BuildWitt | Construction specialist | $8,500 a year at 50 | |||
| Litmos | Enterprise LMS | From $8,000 a year | |||
| Docebo | Enterprise LMS | Quote only |
How we evaluated these options
We evaluated for a small US contractor, mostly field-based, with seasonal hiring and an owner or office manager handling training alongside everything else.
Built for construction
These four were made for contractors, which shows in the content, the certification handling, and the sales process.
Vector Solutions sells a construction and trades library of more than 300 courses, covering OSHA-authorized outreach training, hazardous materials, cranes and rigging, and trade-specific curricula across electrical, masonry, and carpentry. Certification and license tracking is core rather than bolted on, which matters when project owners ask for evidence before a crew mobilizes.
Vector Solutions publishes no prices, so evaluation starts with a sales conversation. Its own catalog pages put the premium safety library at more than 400 courses on top of the construction one, so ask which libraries your quote includes. The product is aimed at mid-size companies rather than a fifteen-person contractor, and its own savings claims are pitched at customers with 200 or more employees.
360training is a course provider rather than a platform, and for a large share of contractors shopping in this category it is the correct answer. Workers complete the outreach course online at their own pace, the card comes from a provider on OSHA's list of authorized online outreach providers, and there is no subscription attached.
At $59.99 a seat, putting fifteen workers through OSHA 10 costs less than eight months of a mid-priced learning platform that issues no OSHA card. What you get is courses, not a full system.
Buying two or more seats unlocks a free limited manager account that enrolls workers and prints their certificates. Progress reports come with full manager access, which requires a master service agreement, a contract arranged through 360training's sales team.
Your own site orientation also needs a separate platform. For a contractor with a genuine ongoing training operation, that is a real gap, and the sensible answer is usually to pair a content purchase with a cheap platform rather than to buy an expensive platform that bundles both.
Arcoro is the construction-specific HR platform, and its relevance here is certification management with expiration alerts sitting inside the same system as hiring, onboarding, and payroll. It handles the parts of construction administration that general HR products do not attempt, including prevailing-wage and certified payroll requirements, plus integrations with construction accounting and project management systems.
That breadth makes Arcoro a considerably larger purchase than a training platform, and its pricing is quoted with no published entry point. For a contractor whose only unsolved problem is training delivery, it is more system than the situation needs.
Arcoro becomes the right answer once certified payroll, ERP integration (linking HR to your accounting and project management software), and certification tracking are all live problems at once. That is usually a size or two above the contractors this page is written for.
BuildWitt makes short, expert-led lessons filmed for construction crews rather than adapted from generic corporate training, and the production quality is the argument: field workers watch it, which is not true of most safety content. Pricing is published, which in this category is rare.
The smallest BuildWitt tier is priced for 50 employees on an annual fee, and licenses can be reassigned when someone leaves, so a seasonal crew does not change the bill. That entry point is high for a fifteen-person contractor: at $8,500 a year with implementation included, the first year costs more than 24 times the $348 of the cheapest platform here.
BuildWitt's lessons are developmental, meaning skills training, rather than OSHA Outreach training, so they do not by themselves produce the cards a project owner may ask for. That makes BuildWitt a content investment that suits a contractor building a training culture rather than one clearing a compliance requirement.
Frontline and general platforms
None of these four is construction-specific, and two of them are frequently the right answer anyway.
Connecteam is the cheapest realistic platform here and the one built for the people who will use it. Crews sign in on their own phone, training sits beside the schedule and the crew chat, documents including uploaded cards can be stored against a worker, and courses and quizzes run in the same app. The free plan covers ten users with every hub included, which for a small crew is the entire purchase.
The structure to understand is per-hub pricing. Training lives in one hub and scheduling and time tracking in another, so a contractor wanting both pays two base fees, which is confusing at checkout. Once a crew passes ten users, document expiry dates with alerts also need the $99 Expert tier.
Connecteam has no OSHA content library, so outreach courses have to be bought separately. It does accept SCORM packages, a standard file format for e-learning courses, and expert-built course templates come with the Advanced tier. Authoring and reporting are basic compared with dedicated learning platforms.
TalentLMS supports packaged course standards, so purchased safety content loads properly, and it produces scored, exportable completion records that stand up when a general contractor asks for evidence. The Core bracket runs to forty users at a fixed $119, which suits seasonal work: fifteen in winter and thirty-five in July cost the same. Published pricing on every tier below Enterprise means no sales call.
TalentLMS keeps its safety content in an add-on: TalentLibrary, sold on top of every plan, includes a 25-course OSHA workplace safety collection, though none of it issues an OSHA card. Its iOS and Android apps download courses for offline completion. Every user needs an email address, so workers without one need an alias you set up. Crossing forty users moves Core to $159 a month.
Mitti combines mobile inspections with training on one platform, which is a genuine consolidation for a contractor already running site checklists, toolbox talk records, and incident reports. The free tier for ten users covers both, the training side carries more than 1,000 free editable courses, and everything is built for a phone in a work glove rather than a desk.
Two things to weigh. Past ten people, the per-seat rate makes it expensive at this size: fifteen workers cost about $360 a month, more than ten times Connecteam Basic. The company also retired its standalone training product on March 31, 2026, and moved training into the core platform, so older comparisons describing a separate microlearning app are out of date.
iSpring LMS, formerly iSpring Learn, pairs the platform with authoring that works inside PowerPoint, and offline mobile access, which matters more on a job site than almost anywhere else. A superintendent who can build a slide deck can produce a quizzed, tracked equipment walkthrough, and a worker in a basement with no signal can still complete it.
The pricing model points the wrong way for a small contractor. Rates fall with volume, from $6.91 per active user at 100 users to $3.97 at 500, and a crew under 100 gets a quote instead of a published rate. Active-user billing also makes the building season, when everybody logs in, the expensive part of the year.
iSpring Suite AI, the authoring tool, comes with every plan but runs only on Windows with PowerPoint, and the ready-made courses cover general workplace topics rather than construction trades.
The alternative to buying a platform
For a share of contractors reading this, the unsolved problem is not training delivery at all. It is that a new hire starts Monday and the paperwork is in a folder in the truck.
FirstHR is our product and its place on this page is narrow. Training modules with completion tracking sit inside an HR platform alongside onboarding workflows, e-signature, employee records, and document management, and the Training Wizard builds courses from your own files and records each completion with a signature.
A new hire completes their paperwork, signs the safety policy, and works through site orientation in one place on their first morning. The Business band covers 11 to 50 people, so a contractor doubling from 15 to 30 for the summer does not see the bill move.
Cards earned elsewhere can be uploaded to the employee file with an expiry date, and the document list separates valid cards from expired ones, though no renewal reminders go out. The cards themselves come from a provider such as 360training, at about $900 for fifteen workers. Renewal alerts and deep trade course libraries come from Arcoro or Vector Solutions.
A frontline app crews open daily, shown in Spanish when their phones are set to it, comes from Connecteam, which also covers scheduling. Certified payroll for prevailing-wage work, construction ERP links, payroll, benefits, and time tracking sit with Arcoro.
Enterprise platforms, and why they are here
Litmos and Docebo appear on most comparisons in this category. Both are capable, and neither is a realistic purchase for a fifteen-worker contractor.
| Platform | What it is genuinely good at | Why it is not for a 15-worker crew |
|---|---|---|
| Litmos | A very large general content library including safety topics | From $8,000 a year, with the content libraries sold as add-ons |
| Docebo | Enterprise learning automation and analytics at scale | Quote only; Docebo says it suits companies training at least 250 learners |
The shared pattern is a large ready-made library sold on an enterprise contract. That library has real value for a contractor with several hundred workers across multiple divisions, which is why both make these lists.
At fifteen workers, you solve the same problem by buying the specific courses you need and loading them into a $119 platform, or by skipping the platform entirely. Litmos and Docebo become plausible several sizes up, and at that point this page is no longer the right guide.
Litmos pairs an enterprise learning platform with a very large general content library that includes safety topics. Its plans start at $8,000 a year, and the libraries are sold as add-ons on every plan, so the content that makes it attractive costs extra on top of that floor.
Docebo sells enterprise learning automation and analytics. It publishes no price, and its own guidance says it suits companies training at least 250 learners, which puts it several sizes past a fifteen-worker contractor.
What 15 workers actually cost
Here is what each option costs for fifteen field workers, monthly and across a first year.
| Option | How it is priced | Monthly at 15 | First year at 15 | What the number hides |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connecteam Basic | $29 flat per hub, covers 30 users | $29 | $348 | Training hub only; scheduling is a separate hub |
| TalentLMS Core | $119 flat, covers 1 to 40 users | $119 | $1,428 | Safety courses are a paid TalentLibrary add-on |
| FirstHR | Flat $98 to 10 people, $198 for 11 to 50 | $198 | $2,376 | Onboarding and orientation; OSHA courses come from elsewhere |
| iSpring LMS | Active user, quoted below 100 | Quote | Quote | Rates are published from 100 users, at $6.91 per active user |
| Mitti | Free to 10 users, then $24 a seat | About $360 | $4,320 | Inspections platform with training inside it |
| BuildWitt | $8,500 a year for the 50-employee tier | About $708 | $8,500 | Implementation included; no tier below 50 is published |
| Vector Solutions | Quote only | Quote | Quote | Pricing starts with a demo request |
| Arcoro | Quote only | Quote | Quote | A custom proposal covering HR, payroll, and training |
| 360training | Per course, not per month | Not monthly | About $900 | OSHA 10 for 15 workers at the $59.99 sale price |
| Litmos | From $8,000 a year | About $667 | $8,000 or more | Content libraries are add-ons on every plan |
| Docebo | Quote only | Quote | Quote | Docebo says it suits teams training at least 250 learners |
The row that does not belong is the most useful one. 360training is not a subscription; it sits in the first-year column at about $900 because that is what OSHA 10 across the crew costs, once.
That row is also the only line in the table whose price buys an actual card. Every other row buys a place to put training; this one buys the training a project owner is most likely to ask about.
What OSHA 10 for the crew costs
Putting a crew of fifteen through OSHA 10 costs about $900 once at the published seat price, and no platform is needed to get the cards. That is the calculation that decides whether you need any of the products above, and no vendor selling a platform is going to publish it.
| Your requirement | What it costs at 15 workers | Do you need a platform? |
|---|---|---|
| OSHA 10 cards for the whole crew | About $900 once at the published seat price | No; the provider delivers the course and issues the card |
| OSHA 30 for two supervisors | About $320 once at the published seat price | No; same route, higher-tier course |
| Storing those cards with renewal dates | $99 a month on Connecteam Expert, with expiry alerts | Yes, and check the tier; expiry dates are not on every plan |
| Your own site orientation delivered | $29 to $119 a month depending on depth | Yes; this is the delivery-platform purchase |
| Evidence a general contractor accepts | $119 a month for scored, exportable records | Yes, and the record needs to be stronger than a tick |
| Ongoing trade development for a career path | $8,500 a year and up | Yes, and you are buying content, not software |
What happens when the crew doubles
When the crew doubles from fifteen in winter to thirty for the building season, a per-seat bill doubles with it while a flat plan does not move. The pricing models diverge sharply, and in the wrong direction.
| Option | 15 in winter | 30 in summer | Why it moves or does not |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecteam Basic | $29 | $29 | Flat to 30 users, so a summer crew costs nothing extra |
| TalentLMS Core | $119 | $119 | The Core bracket runs to 40 users |
| FirstHR | $198 | $198 | Flat for 11 to 50 people, so doubling to 30 does not move the bill |
| Mitti | About $360 | About $720 | Per seat, so the bill doubles with the crew |
| iSpring LMS | Quote | Quote | Billed per active user, so every seasonal hire who logs in counts |
| BuildWitt | About $708 | About $708 | The 50-employee tier covers both, and licenses can be reassigned |
The timing is what makes this worse than it looks. The months you add crew are the months every new starter needs orientation, so a per-seat platform bills its maximum in exactly the weeks the office is busiest and the training load is highest. Four of the six options modeled here do not move at all across that swing.
Construction turnover keeps that orientation sequence running all year. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), construction separations, meaning quits, layoffs, and other departures, averaged 4.0 percent of employment a month in 2025, against 3.6 percent across private industry.
Given that the cost of replacing a worker includes the hours somebody spends on paperwork and orientation, a flat bill through the busy season is worth more than a lower rate through the quiet one.
The verdict by contractor type
There is no single winner, because contractors do not share a single problem. Here is what usually fits in six common situations, and what to avoid in each.
| Your situation | What usually fits | What to avoid |
|---|---|---|
| You just need cards for the crew | 360training or another authorized provider, about $900 | A platform subscription; the card comes from the course |
| Crew under 10, delivering your own material | Connecteam free, every hub included | Paying anything before you have made a module |
| Crew of 10 to 40, own orientation | Connecteam Basic at $29, or TalentLMS at $119 | Per-seat pricing, which doubles through the building season |
| Cards and licenses expire across the crew | Vector Solutions or Arcoro, both quote-only | General platforms that record only their own completions |
| Building a real training program | BuildWitt, budgeting $8,500 a year | Expecting it to produce OSHA cards; it is developmental content |
| The bottleneck is hiring paperwork | FirstHR at a flat $198, or Connecteam if frontline | A construction LMS; you are buying a course engine you will not use |
The uncomfortable summary: a contractor under about thirty workers who needs OSHA cards plus a place for orientation is served completely by a one-time $900 and $29 a month. The platforms that top most comparisons are built for contractors many times that size.
How to choose
Five questions settle this, and the first two eliminate most of the market before you open a trial.
Whatever you buy, answer the OSHA question first, because it is the only part of this decision with a hard external requirement attached. Once the cards are handled, what remains is small, cheap, and reversible, and you can decide it after recording one real site orientation rather than before.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a construction LMS?
Training software for contractors covering safety and trade course delivery, certification tracking with expiry dates, and mobile access for crews without desks. The term conflates three separately purchasable things: bought course content, certification tracking, and a delivery platform for your own material. Many small contractors need only one or two of them.
How much does a construction LMS cost?
From about $29 to roughly $708 a month at 15 field workers, counting published options only. Connecteam costs $29 flat to 30 users, TalentLMS Core $119 to 40 users, FirstHR $198, Mitti about $360, Litmos about $667 on its $8,000 annual floor, and BuildWitt about $708 on its 50-employee tier. iSpring LMS, Vector Solutions, Arcoro, and Docebo quote at this size.
Do I actually need a construction LMS?
Often not. If the requirement is that every worker holds an OSHA 10 card, that is a content purchase, not software. If it is knowing which cards expire when, that is certification tracking. You need a full platform when you produce your own safety orientation and need it assigned and recorded across a changing crew.
How much does OSHA 10 cost for a whole crew?
Less than most subscriptions. At 360training's October 2026 sale prices, the 10-Hour Construction course is $59.99 a seat and the 30-Hour $159.99, so fifteen workers through OSHA 10 is roughly $900 once. A $119 monthly platform runs $1,428 over the same year and never issues the card.
What is the best LMS for a small construction company?
Connecteam for most contractors under thirty workers: free to ten users, $29 flat to thirty, built for crews with no work email. Vector Solutions when you need deep OSHA and trade content with certification tracking, though it quotes privately. BuildWitt for professionally produced content on a flat annual fee.
Can a construction LMS track OSHA card expiry?
Some can and many general platforms cannot. Cards are usually issued by outside providers, so a platform recording only its own completions shows nothing for a worker who arrived carded. You need document upload against the person, a renewal date, and an alert before it lapses. Ask for exactly that rather than assuming compliance tracking covers it.
Does seasonal hiring change which platform to buy?
It changes the pricing model to prefer. A contractor at fifteen in winter and thirty in summer pays double on any per-seat plan in exactly the months every new starter needs orientation. A flat bracket clearing your seasonal peak costs the same year round, and four of the six options modeled here do not move.
Should safety training live with onboarding paperwork?
For a small contractor usually yes, because they happen in the same hour: forms, policy signature, site orientation, and joining the crew all on the first morning. Splitting that across two systems means two logins and two places to check. The case for separating grows with content depth and certification renewal volume.
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