Every category where a model named Canvas LMS 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 management systems	Learning and development	0%	16 of 74	32%	19	criticized challenger
Learning experience platforms	Learning and development	0%	17 of 80	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Learn Amp at 28%
Coaching platforms	Learning and development	0%	87 of 116	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Growthspace at 26%
Online course libraries	Learning and development	0%	51 of 73	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Udemy Business at 32%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Canvas LMS 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 Canvas LMS across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	1	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	2	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1	0	2
Kimi K2	1	1	1	1	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	2	2	5
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	1	1

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

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative11 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained9 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative17 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative39 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 2 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.

“Modern UI/UX, 41% US higher ed market share | Polished cloud service with excellent integrations; used by all Ivy League schools” Kimi K2 · Learning management syst · comparative prompt · first choice

“market leaders that are generally viewed as safe havens ... are Canvas LMS (Education)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Learning management syst · negative prompt · first choice

“Universities, K-12, large academic institutions | Intuitive interface” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Learning management syst · comparative prompt · alternative

“Canvas is the dominant force in North American higher education.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Learning management syst · comparative 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.

“High Caution: Recent Major Data Breaches - Canvas (Instructure): Suffered the largest claimed education breach in 2026” Grok 4.1 Fast · Learning management syst · negative prompt · hard negative

“issued a 2026 security alert about an ongoing cybersecurity incident involving Canvas Free-For-Teacher accounts, which is a reminder to evaluate account types, security settings” GPT-5.4 mini · Learning management syst · negative prompt · soft negative

“is sometimes criticized, though one Reddit comment noted it's "the least favorable learning management system, with the exception of all the alternatives"” MiniMax M2.5 · Learning management syst · negative prompt · soft negative

“Canvas has gained significant market share, but user feedback reveals notable concerns” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Learning management syst · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Canvas LMS, over the 39 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Canvas LMS was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Moodle34 of 394Not in the top three

TalentLMS27 of 3910Not in the top three

Blackboard Learn22 of 390Not in the top three

Cornerstone OnDemand21 of 390Not in the top three

Docebo20 of 392Not in the top three

Absorb LMS16 of 392Not in the top three

360Learning13 of 391Not in the top three

iSpring Learn12 of 391Not in the top three

GoSkills10 of 391Not in the top three

SAP Litmos10 of 390Not 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 Canvas LMS. 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 32 of the 39 answers that named Canvas LMS and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

docebo.com18

goskills.com15

elearningindustry.com12

peoplemanagingpeople.com11

reddit.com11

ispring.com9

talentlms.com8

stylelearn.com7

blog.moodiycloud.com6

d2l.com6

103 of the 103 domain citations in answers naming Canvas LMS came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

docebo.com/learning-network/blog/best-learning-management-system11

goskills.com/resources/affordable-lms8

stylelearn.com/the-worst-lms-in-the-world-is7

blog.moodiycloud.com/moodle-vs-canvas-vs-blackboard-20266

elearninfo247.com/2025/01/03/top-10-learning-systems-20246

forbes.com/advisor/business/the-best-learning-management-systems6

financesonline.com/c/learning-management-systems5

continu.com/software/best-learning-management-system4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Canvas LMS

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

Canvas 7Canvas (Instructure) 4Canvas (by Instructure) 1Canvas Free-For-Teacher 1Canvas LMS (Open Source) 1Canvas by Instructure 1

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