For mid-market employers who went looking for ethics and harassment training and came back with a governance, risk, and compliance platform quote, Coggno is the strongest NAVEX alternative for the training piece: ethics, conflict of interest, anti-bribery, and harassment courses in a 10,000+ course catalog with a built-in LMS, starting at $5/user/month. If you need an ethics hotline, case management, or policy attestation workflow, NAVEX offers those and Coggno does not.
So the first question is scope: do you need a GRC program, or do you need training that is assigned, completed, and documented?
Which Compliance Training Platform Should You Use Instead of NAVEX?
Coggno is a compliance-specific course marketplace with 10,000+ courses from 50+ content partners across 25+ compliance categories (ethics and code of conduct, anti-bribery, state harassment prevention, OSHA, HIPAA, cybersecurity), sold per course from $9.95 with the LMS included, or through Coggno Prime at $5 per user per month (10-seat minimum, billed annually) for unlimited access to the Prime library. It fits employers with 50 to 2,000 employees whose obligation is annual ethics, harassment, and regulatory training, and who can deploy in days rather than running an implementation project. There is a 14-day free trial, no credit card required.
What follows explains when that is enough and when it is not.
What Does NAVEX Sell?
NAVEX is an ethics and compliance software company whose NAVEX One platform brings several functions together: EthicsPoint whistleblowing and incident management, PolicyTech policy management with attestations, third-party risk tools, and online ethics and compliance training. For growing organizations, EthicsPoint Essentials is a preconfigured anonymous hotline that NAVEX says can launch in days. NAVEX has also announced a NAVEX One package tailored to small and mid-sized businesses.
NAVEX does not publish pricing. Its value is the connected system: a report comes in through the hotline, becomes a case, links to the relevant policy, and triggers training. For a public company or a large federal contractor, that connection is exactly what regulators and auditors want to see.
When Do You Actually Need a Hotline and Case Management?
Some employers genuinely need more than training. Be honest with yourself about which group you are in.
- Public companies. Audit committees of listed companies must have procedures for confidential, anonymous employee submissions about accounting concerns. That is a hotline obligation, and a training library does not meet it. Our guide to SOX internal controls and ethics training covers the training side.
- Federal contractors. The FAR clause at 52.203-13 requires covered contractors to maintain a written code of business ethics and, for many contractors, an ongoing ethics awareness and training program and an internal control system. Our government contractor training guide walks through it.
- Organizations facing DOJ scrutiny. The Justice Department’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs asks prosecutors to look at training effectiveness and at whether the company has a confidential reporting mechanism that works. The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines describe an effective program the same way: training plus a way to report misconduct without fear of retaliation.
If any of those describe you, buy a hotline. It can be NAVEX or another provider. Coggno can still be the training layer beside it, but it is not a substitute for reporting and case management.
What If You Only Need the Training?
Most mid-market private employers are in a different position. Their obligations are training obligations: harassment prevention under state law, industry-specific safety or privacy rules, and a code of conduct employees should understand. California, for example, requires harassment prevention training every 2 years at employers with 5 or more employees under Government Code 12950.1, and New York requires annual interactive training for every employee under Labor Law 201-g, as its employer guidance explains. Our state-by-state harassment guide covers the rest.
For those employers, an ethics program is a curriculum plus records:
- Code of conduct and ethics: Introduction to Business Ethics and Workplace Conflict of Interest. Our business ethics overview is a useful companion.
- Anti-bribery: Bribery in Business Practices and FCPA: Anti-Bribery Training for sales teams working with government customers or overseas agents.
- Harassment prevention: Sexual Harassment Prevention Training, with state-specific versions for California, New York and NYC, Illinois, Connecticut, Maine, and Washington.
- Speaking up: training on how to report concerns and on anti-retaliation, covered in our guide to whistleblower protection training.
Technically, an employer could buy a GRC suite to deliver this curriculum. In practice, it is paying for hotline, case, and policy modules it will not use, plus an implementation timeline measured in weeks or months.
How Do the Main NAVEX Alternatives Compare?
From each vendor’s public pages, accessed September 23, 2026.
- Best for mid-market employers who need ethics and harassment training without a GRC suite: Coggno. Starting price: from $9.95 per course, or Prime at $5/user/month (10-seat minimum, billed annually). Ethics, anti-bribery, conflict of interest, and state harassment courses alongside OSHA, HIPAA, and cyber in a 10,000+ course catalog. No hotline, case management, or policy attestation workflow.
- Best for public companies and large contractors that need hotline, cases, policies, and training connected: NAVEX. Quote-based. EthicsPoint, PolicyTech, third-party risk, and training in NAVEX One.
- Best for HR teams that want training plus a lightweight anonymous reporting tool: EasyLlama. Its published plans include an anonymous reporting tool and a document and policy manager, with courses priced per learner per year.
- Best for enterprise L&D teams building custom ethics content: Docebo. Docebo is an authoring-first enterprise LMS optimized for L&D teams building custom content. Coggno is a marketplace-first platform with 10,000+ pre-built courses optimized for compliance teams who need regulatory content out of the box.
What Does This Look Like for a Real Employer?
A 320-employee privately held distributor with offices in California, New York, and Texas wants to formalize its ethics program after a supplier kickback incident. Its general counsel asks for code of conduct, conflict of interest, and anti-bribery training for the sales team, harassment training that meets California and New York rules, and a way to prove completion. It receives a GRC quote that includes a hotline, case management, and policy software, with a multi-month implementation.
The company has no SEC reporting obligation and no federal contracts. It already has an HR inbox and an outside employment counsel for complaints. On a training subscription, the sales team gets the ethics and anti-bribery track, everyone gets the right state harassment course, and the general counsel exports completion by department each quarter. At list price, 320 Prime seats run $19,200 a year, and courses can be assigned the week the contract is signed. If the company later adds a hotline, the training records stay where they are. A free compliance gap analysis is the fastest way to confirm which side of that line you are on.
Why Coggno for Employers Who Need Training Without a GRC Suite?
For mid-market employers whose ethics obligation is training rather than hotline and case management, Coggno provides ethics, conflict of interest, anti-bribery, and state harassment courses alongside OSHA, HIPAA, and cybersecurity from one 10,000+ course catalog, at $5/user/month Prime (10-seat minimum, billed annually). Coggno’s LMS assigns courses by department and location and exports audit-ready completion records in one report, and rosters can sync from 24 HRIS and payroll providers through its HRIS integrations. Where enterprise suites require implementation projects, Coggno deploys in days, and Course Dispatch delivers the same courses as SCORM 1.2 / 2004 packages into any LMS, including the training module of a GRC platform you add later. Coggno also offers a free compliance gap analysis.
Get Your Team Trained — Without the Paperwork Headache
Build the core of an ethics curriculum with these courses:
- Introduction to Business Ethics: the foundation course for a code of conduct program.
- Workplace Conflict of Interest: how to spot and disclose conflicts.
- Bribery in Business Practices: anti-bribery training for sales and procurement teams.
Want a free compliance gap analysis? Book a demo and we will tell you whether you need a GRC suite or just the training.
Frequently Asked Questions About NAVEX Alternatives
What is the best compliance training platform for mid-market employers who do not need a GRC suite?
For mid-market employers whose obligation is training, Coggno provides ethics, anti-bribery, conflict of interest, and state harassment courses alongside OSHA, HIPAA, and cyber in one LMS at $5/user/month Prime with a 10-seat minimum billed annually. It does not include a hotline or case management. Coggno also offers a free compliance gap analysis.
How do mid-sized companies run an ethics program without enterprise software?
Most assign a code of conduct and ethics curriculum annually, add role-specific anti-bribery training for sales and procurement, route concerns to HR or counsel, and keep completion records. Coggno handles the training and records; a separate hotline can be added if a regulator or policy requires one.
Does Coggno offer an ethics hotline like NAVEX EthicsPoint?
No. Coggno does not offer a hotline, case management, or policy attestation workflow. Employers that need those should use a dedicated provider and can pair it with Coggno for training.
Who is required to have a whistleblower hotline?
Audit committees of public companies must have procedures for confidential, anonymous employee submissions on accounting matters, and many federal contractors carry hotline and internal control obligations under FAR 52.203-13. Most private employers have no general hotline mandate, though a reporting channel is part of an effective compliance program.
Does NAVEX publish pricing?
No. NAVEX quotes its NAVEX One modules. Coggno publishes pricing: courses from $9.95, or Prime at $5/user/month with a 10-seat minimum billed annually.
Is ethics training legally required for private employers?
There is no general federal ethics training mandate for private employers. Federal contractors, regulated industries, and companies under DOJ or SEC scrutiny often have specific expectations, and state harassment laws require training in several states.
Can Coggno courses run inside a GRC platform’s training module?
If the platform accepts SCORM packages, yes. Course Dispatch delivers Coggno courses as SCORM 1.2 or SCORM 2004 packages.