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Mentoring software

Asked as “mentoring program software”, and as “employee mentoring platform”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 51 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Together
Contested
37% of first choices, contested.
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By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
Small businessPushFar39%ContestedStanding →Mid-marketTogether37%ContestedThis pageEnterpriseQooper29%ContestedStanding →

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Together37%5%43endorsed leader
02Mentorloop12%8%36accepted challenger
03Mentorgain12%0%22accepted challenger
04PushFar10%5%21accepted challenger
05Chronus6%26%34criticized challenger
06MentorcliQ2%12%33accepted challenger
07ADPList2%15%20accepted challenger
08Ten Thousand Coffees2%0%15accepted challenger
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
11MentorCruise0%27%11criticized challenger
09Qooper0%0%30accepted challenger
10Guider0%0%14accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.
Head to head
Together vs MentorloopTogether vs MentorgainMentorloop vs Mentorgain

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
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01Together37%
02Mentorloop12%
03Mentorgain12%
04PushFar10%
05Chronus6%
06MentorcliQ2%
07ADPList2%
08Ten Thousand Coffees2%
09Qooper0%
10Guider0%
11MentorCruise0%

02What they warned about

Six of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick and GLM 4.7 FlashX changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Chronus
26%
9 of 34 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“What to avoid for a mid-size budget **Chronus** — Enterprise-grade but starts around $14,995+ ... Overkill” DeepSeek V4 Flash, paraphrase prompt
Mentor.me
100%
6 of 6 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“**Reason to Avoid:** While not always labeled a total scam, it has generated negative feedback for its aggressive business model.” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
Mentorshiphub.ca
100%
3 of 3 labels negative · 3 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Fake/plagiarized mentor profiles using "Lorem Ipsum" placeholder text ... Appears unverified and poorly moderated” Kimi K2, negative prompt
ADPList
15%
3 of 20 labels negative · 3 of 12 models
“ADPList: A free platform with a large pool of mentors, but limited slots and no accountability built-in.” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

64 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 5 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 768 links across 106 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

chronus.com
vendor site · Chronus35 answers · 42 citations · 11 models
gartner.com
vendor site · Gartner35 answers · 37 citations · 11 models
qooper.io
vendor site · Qooper34 answers · 67 citations · 11 models
mentorgain.com
vendor site · Mentorgain30 answers · 42 citations · 10 models
brancher.com.au
vendor site · Brancher27 answers · 27 citations · 9 models
g2.com
23 answers · 54 citations · 9 models
getapp.com
22 answers · 30 citations · 10 models
growthmentor.com
vendor site · GrowthMentor21 answers · 23 citations · 10 models
peoplemanagingpeople.com
vendor site · People Managing People21 answers · 21 citations · 9 models
softwareadvice.com
20 answers · 27 citations · 8 models
togetherplatform.com
20 answers · 27 citations · 9 models
adplist.org
vendor site · ADPList15 answers · 19 citations · 10 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

gartner.com/reviews/market/mentoring-software
35 answers · 11 models
chronus.com/blog/top-mentoring-platforms
30 answers · 11 models
brancher.com.au/blog/best-mentoring-software
27 answers · 9 models
peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-mentoring-software
21 answers · 9 models
growthmentor.com/blog/online-mentoring-platforms-software
20 answers · 10 models
softwareadvice.com/mentoring
17 answers · 8 models
qooper.io/blog/top-10-online-mentoring-platforms
16 answers · 9 models
adplist.org/guides/best-mentorship-platforms
15 answers · 10 models
mentorgain.com/blog/best-mentorship-software-for-companies
15 answers · 8 models
getapp.com/hr-employee-management-software/mentoring/org/mid-size-business
14 answers · 8 models

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best mentoring program software for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which employee mentoring platform would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top mentoring platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best mentoring program software for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a mentoring program software. What should we look at?”Negative“Which mentoring platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Mentorloop
Two alternativesChronus, Together
Mentorloop, TogetherChanged
One alternativeQooper
Qooper
Two alternativesMentorCruise, Mentorloop
The Mentor Method
Three alternativesMentorEase, Mentorloop, PushFar
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniChronus
Three alternativesMentorcliQ, Mentorloop, Qooper
MentorcliQChanged
One alternativeMentorloop
Chronus
Six alternativesADPList, Guider, MentorCruise, MentorcliQ, Mentorloop, Together
Mentorloop
One alternativeQooper
against: Chronusno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashTogether
Two alternativesMentorloop, Qooper
MentorloopChanged
Three alternativesMentorgain, Qooper, Together
against: Chronus, MentorcliQTogether
Eight alternativesADPList, Chronus, GrowthMentor, MentorCruise, MentorcliQ, Qooper, SCORE, Ten Thousand Coffees
Mentornity
Three alternativesMentorStack, Mentorloop, PushFar
against: Chronus, MentorcliQ, TogetherTogether
Three alternativesGuider, Mentorloop, Qooper
against: ADPList, Amway, GrowthMentor, Pathrise, Plato
Perplexity SonarTogether
Two alternativesMentorCloud, Mentorgain
against: MentorloopTogetherHeld
Two alternativesMentorcliQ, Mentorgain
no first choicePushFar
Two alternativesMentorgain, Mentornity
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.1 FastTogether
Two alternativesMentorcliQ, Mentorloop
against: ChronusTogetherHeld
Two alternativesChronus, MentorcliQ
against: Mentorloopno first choicePushFar
Three alternativesMentorloop, Qooper, Together
no first choiceagainst: Mentor.me, MentorCruise
Mistral SmallMentorgain, Together
Two alternativesGuider, Mentorloop
TogetherChanged
Two alternativesChronus, MentorCloud
no first choiceADPList, MicroMentor, SCORE
One alternativeMentorloop
no first choicenothing named
DeepSeek V4 FlashTogether
Five alternativesMentorCloud, MentorcliQ, Mentorloop, Qooper, Ten Thousand Coffees
TogetherHeld
Three alternativesMentorcliQ, Mentorgain, Qooper
against: ChronusMentorcliQ
Nine alternativesADPList, Chronus, Guider, MentorCruise, Mentorloop, PushFar, Ten Thousand Coffees, Together, Torch
Mentornity, PushFar
Two alternativesMentorStack, Mentorloop
against: Chronus, MentorcliQ, TogetherMentorgain, Mentorloop, Ten Thousand Coffees, Together
Four alternativesChronus, MentorCity, MentorcliQ, Qooper
against: Medic Mentor, Mentor.me, Mentorshiphub.ca, Plato, Trader Mentor School
Llama 4 MaverickTogether
Two alternativesGuider, Mentorgain
against: MentorloopMentorgain, PushFar, TogetherChangedno first choiceMentornity
Two alternativesMentorgain, PushFar
no first choiceagainst: ADPList, Clarity.fm, GrowthMentor, MentorCruise
Qwen 3.7 FlashChronus
Four alternativesCulture Amp, Glint, MentorciSe, Together
ChronusHeld
Three alternativesCoachHub, Crosspo, Together
no first choiceMentorloop
Four alternativesGoogle Workspace, MicroMentor, Microsoft Teams, PushFar
no first choiceagainst: Mentor.me, Mentorshiphub.ca, Speedy Mentors
Kimi K2Mentorgain, Together
Two alternativesMentorloop, Qooper
Mentorgain, TogetherHeld
Two alternativesMentorCloud, PushFar
against: Chronusno first choice
Four alternativesChronus, MentorcliQ, Mentorloop, Together
against: PushFarMentornity
Two alternativesMentorink, MicroMentor
no first choice
One alternativeMentorgain
against: ADPList, Mentor.me, MentorCruise, MentorcliQ, Mentorshiphub.ca
GLM 4.7 FlashXMentorgain
Four alternativesMentorcliQ, Mentorloop, Qooper, Together
against: ChronusTogetherChanged
Four alternativesMentorcliQ, Mentorloop, PushFar, Qooper
no first choice
Eight alternativesADPList, Chronus, Guider, MentorCruise, MentorcliQ, PushFar, Ten Thousand Coffees, Together
Mentornity
Three alternativesCoding Coach, Mentorgain, OpenMentor
against: Chronus, MicroMentorno first choiceagainst: Mentor.me, Speedy Mentors, Thinkful, codementor.io
MiniMax M2.5Together
Two alternativesMentorgain, Mentorloop
TogetherHeld
One alternativeChronus
Chronus, MentorcliQ
Eight alternativesADPList, BetterUp, Guider, IGotAnOffer, Mentorloop, PushFar, Together, Torch
Mentornity, PushFar
Two alternativesADPList, SourceForge Mentoring Software
no first choicenothing named
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 21:42yes99 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:04yes46 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:17yes1617 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:37yes205 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 20:55yes3521 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:13yes55 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:25yes1619 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:11yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:05no029 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:00yes820 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:21yes1028 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:58yes1127 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:25yes1611 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:03yes35 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:57yes1255 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:08yes205 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 18:00yes3217 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:15yes54 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:30yes2533 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:34yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:29no026 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:07yes526 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:58yes821 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:12yes2536 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:54yes99 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:49yes610 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:42yes1318 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:56yes208 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 18:26yes2015 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:15yes56 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:29yes714 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:28yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:23yes523 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:22yes1332 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:56yes25367 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:06yes1640 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:57yes97 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:56yes34 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:54yes2945 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:16yes206 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:07yes2819 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:25yes55 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:09yes1916 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:36yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:20yes834 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:27yes1017 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:40yes21131 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:42yes919 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 21:44no06 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:16no010 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:03no038 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:37yes2011 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 18:14yes1212 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:15no05 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:38yes1018 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:31yes53 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:47no028 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:40yes1325 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:21yes1488 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:14yes527 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:57yes188 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:21yes46 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:39yes2125 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:34yes206 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 20:40yes3515 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:36yes55 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:52yes1822 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:45yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:53yes1342 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:46yes2337 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:13yes1334 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:59no07 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
MentorshipHub read as Mentorshiphub.ca
Unresolved, counted raw
Coding Coach
Crosspo
Emergi Mentors
IGotAnOffer
Medic Mentor (medicmentor.co.uk)
MentorCore
MentorciSe
OpenMentor
Pathrise
Red Brick Mentorship
SourceForge Mentoring Software
The Mentor Method
Thinkful
Trader Mentor School
UStrive
codementor.io
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.

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