accepted challengerNamed in six categories this edition.
criticized challengerNamed in five categories this edition.
First-choice share4%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%48%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#7#8A position in a field of 16; printed, not drawn.
Labels1423A count; the two differ.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the skills intelligence page.
By framing
How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Fuel50First choices, of fourteen modelsGloat
Direct203 against Gloat
Paraphrase012 against Gloat
Comparative031 against Gloat
Budget-constrained001 against Gloat
Scale-constrained012 against Gloat
Negative002 against Gloat
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Fuel50 and Gloat were named in the same answer 149 times, of the 206 answers naming Fuel50 and the 337 naming Gloat. In those answers Gloat took the first choice thirty-seven times and Fuel50 thirty-two.
The direct prompt
The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Fuel50 and Gloat stood in it.
Fuel50 first, Gloat not the choice
2 of 14 modelsGloat was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Mistral SmallFuel50, Neobrain alternatives: TalentGuard, TechWolf
MiniMax M2.5Fuel50, iMocha Skills Intelligence Cloud alternatives: Bryq, Engagedly, TalentGuard WorkforceGPT
Neither was the first choice, one was named
6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Claude Haiku 4.5INOP alternatives: Fuel50, Skillsoft Percipio
Gemini 3.5 FlashiMocha alternatives: Fuel50, Retrain.ai, TalentGuard
xAIGrok 4.1 FastTalentGuard, iMocha alternatives: 365Talents, Engagedly, Fuel50, Gloat
Qwen 3.7 FlashTalentGuard, TechWolf alternatives: AG5, Eightfold AI, Gloat, iMocha
Kimi K2TalentGuard alternatives: 365Talents, Fuel50, TechWolf, iMocha
Z.AIGLM 4.7 FlashXiMocha alternatives: 365Talents, Fuel50
Neither was named
6 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.GPT-5.4 mini365Talents alternatives: Eightfold AI, SkillPanel
Perplexity Sonar365Talents alternatives: Docebo, Workday Skills Cloud
DeepSeek V4 FlashTalentGuard alternatives: Lightcast Open Skills, iMocha
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
GPT-6 LunaWorkday Skills Cloud alternatives: TechWolf
Muse Glimmer 30BTalentGuard alternatives: Eightfold AI, SAP SuccessFactors Skills, Skills Base, Workday Skills Cloud
Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.