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Skills intelligence · October 2026 Edition

Skills Base vs Gloat

Zero of fourteen models named Skills Base first on the direct prompt; zero named Gloat. Skills Base was named by ten of the fourteen models and Gloat by ten and Skills Base carries 16 labels and Gloat 23, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Skills Base

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

Gloat

criticized challenger

Named in five categories this edition.

First-choice share18%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#1#8A position in a field of 16; printed, not drawn.
Labels1623A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Skills Base reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Skills Base vs TalentGuard · Skills Base vs iMocha · Skills Base vs 365Talents

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.
Skills BaseFirst choices, of fourteen modelsGloat
Direct003 against Gloat
Paraphrase112 against Gloat
Comparative031 against Gloat
Budget-constrained901 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.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Skills Base and Gloat stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Skills Base Gloat first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Skills Base on the left and Gloat on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Skills Base and Gloat stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

3 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Grok 4.1 FastTalentGuard, iMocha alternatives: 365Talents, Engagedly, Fuel50, Gloat
Qwen 3.7 FlashTalentGuard, TechWolf alternatives: AG5, Eightfold AI, Gloat, iMocha
Muse Glimmer 30BTalentGuard alternatives: Eightfold AI, SAP SuccessFactors Skills, Skills Base, Workday Skills Cloud

Neither was named

11 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5INOP alternatives: Fuel50, Skillsoft Percipio
GPT-5.4 mini365Talents alternatives: Eightfold AI, SkillPanel
Gemini 3.5 FlashiMocha alternatives: Fuel50, Retrain.ai, TalentGuard
Perplexity Sonar365Talents alternatives: Docebo, Workday Skills Cloud
Mistral SmallFuel50, Neobrain alternatives: TalentGuard, TechWolf
DeepSeek V4 FlashTalentGuard alternatives: Lightcast Open Skills, iMocha
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Kimi K2TalentGuard alternatives: 365Talents, Fuel50, TechWolf, iMocha
GLM 4.7 FlashXiMocha alternatives: 365Talents, Fuel50
MiniMax M2.5Fuel50, iMocha Skills Intelligence Cloud alternatives: Bryq, Engagedly, TalentGuard WorkforceGPT
GPT-6 LunaWorkday Skills Cloud alternatives: TechWolf

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.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Skills Base leads by forty-four points.
Skills Base45%#1 of 11
Gloat2%#7 of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Skills Base leads by fifteen points.
Skills Base18%#1 of 16
Gloat4%#8 of 16
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Skills Base4%#– of 14
Gloat4%#5 of 14
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Skills Base

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of four in this category shown.

“Skills Base gives the lowest financial barrier with a usable free tier and then scales at ~$2-2.50/user/mo” Muse Glimmer 30B · budget prompt · first choice
“Skills Base stands out as the best skills intelligence platform for companies with a limited budget.” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · first choice
“For most companies with a limited budget, Skills Base is the clear winner” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about Gloat

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared

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.