Google Cloud Skills Boost vs Great Learning

Google Cloud Skills Boost, also called Google Skills, is a web learning platform for building skills including Google Cloud and AI. Its catalog combines courses and labs with videos, documents, practical activities, and quizzes. Cloud labs provide temporary credentials for practice using real cloud resources. Guided learning paths bring together selected courses or labs around a role, use case, or solution. Completing learning content can earn learners shareable skill badges and certificates. Subscription content includes material from Google Cloud, Google DeepMind, Google for Education, Google Marketing, and more. Labs require a laptop or desktop, an internet connection, and a supported browser, and a subscription permits one lab at a time. Current versions of popular browsers are supported; Firefox or Chrome are recommended. GEAR participants can claim 35 monthly learning credits at no cost. Google Cloud customers can request access to the Google Skills for Organizations catalog and other exclusive learning resources and programs.

Great Learning offers professional and higher-education programs in technology, data, and business. Programs are available online, in classrooms, or in blended formats, with mentors and qualified faculty. Academy Pro adds AI assistance, coding practice, guided projects, mock interviews, career support, and certificates. It includes Microsoft and AWS courses with certificates from those providers. Great Learning works with institutions including Johns Hopkins University, MIT Professional Education, UT Austin, Northwestern University, Deakin University, and IIT Bombay. Mobile apps provide offline access to videos and exercises. The Free Courses plan lists 1,000+ courses at free; Academy Pro is ₹999 a month. Other listed programs include a full stack software development certificate for $2,000, paid once and a postgraduate program for business leaders for $4,100, paid once. New Academy Pro+ users receive a seven-calendar-day trial, and course access lasts one year after completion.