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Index › Vendors › Alison · September 2026 Edition

3 categories · Named, not ranked

Alison

3Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

3Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Alison was named 3 times in Learning experience plat and 2 other categories, where Learn Amp led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market61 of 80

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In learning experience plat · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Alison for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Learning experience platforms	Learning and development	0%	61 of 80	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Learn Amp at 28%
Online course libraries	Learning and development	0%	33 of 73	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Udemy Business at 32%
Skills intelligence	Performance and talent management	0%	121 of 162	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Alison yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Alison across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Choose Alison if you have zero budget but still need to offer a massive library” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Online course libraries · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Hidden subscriptions, low-value certs, outdated content, or aggressive sales” Grok 4.1 Fast · Learning experience plat · negative prompt · hard negative

“Alison: Specifically, be wary of their "Diploma" offerings... charge upwards of $60–$80 to download the printed PDF certificate, which usually holds little value.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Skills intelligence · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Alison, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Alison was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Udemy Business3 of 30Not in the top three

edX2 of 31Not in the top three

LinkedIn Learning2 of 30Not in the top three

Khan Academy1 of 31Not in the top three

SC Training1 of 31Not in the top three

ALEKS1 of 30Not in the top three

ClickFunnels1 of 30Not in the top three

Coursera1 of 30Not in the top three

Coursera for Business1 of 30Not in the top three

Edgenuity1 of 30Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Alison. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 1 of the 3 answers that named Alison and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

ca.trustpilot.com1

checkthat.ai1

complaintsboard.com1

consumer.ftc.gov1

consumeraffairs.com1

digitaldefynd.com1

dyndevice.com1

edtechranking.com1

elec.training1

es.trustpilot.com1

Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming Alison came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ca.trustpilot.com/review/edgenuity.com1

checkthat.ai/brands/masterclass/reviews1

checkthat.ai/brands/skillshare/reviews1

complaintsboard.com/aleks-b1226491

consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-evaluate-online-reviews1

consumeraffairs.com/education/online-courses1

consumeraffairs.com/education/online-courses/coursera.html1

digitaldefynd.com/IQ/online-course-legitimate-or-a-scam1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Alison

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Alison; a claim can dispute any of them.

Alison (Alison for Business) 1

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Alison's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Alison, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at alison.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.