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Chronus

116Judge labels
7First choices
37Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
9% in Mentoring software for enterprise buyers
Rank 6 of 55 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
2 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 26% of its 34 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In mentoring software · 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 Chronus 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Mentoring softwareLearning and development6%6 of 5526%34criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Chronus 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 Chronus across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501102
GPT-5.4 mini20013
Gemini 3.5 Flash01023
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast01214
Mistral Small01203
DeepSeek V4 Flash02024
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash20204
Kimi K201113
GLM 4.7 FlashX01023
MiniMax M2.511103

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
Direct15 labels2
Paraphrase24 labels4
Comparative30 labels6not counted in share
Budget-constrained20 labelsNone
Scale-constrained15 labels1
Negative12 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative116 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 14 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.

“Best for: large organizations that need structured, scalable mentoring... For enterprise HR / L&D: Chronus, MentorcliQ, Together, Guider.” GPT-5.4 mini · Mentoring software · comparative prompt · first choice
“If you want one name to evaluate first for a mid-market B2B company, I'd start with Chronus.” GPT-5.4 mini · Mentoring software · direct prompt · first choice
“Chronus is arguably the best choice for mid-sized organizations that want a formalized program” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Mentoring software · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Chronus is widely considered the gold standard in mentorship technology.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Mentoring software · direct prompt · first choice

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.

“What to avoid for a mid-size budget Chronus — Enterprise-grade but starts around $14,995+ ... Overkill” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Mentoring software · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“Heavyweight systems built for the Fortune 500 (like Chronus or MentorcliQ) are often overkill and budget-prohibitive for this segment.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Mentoring software · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Usually not budget-first: Chronus — powerful, but pricing is contact-for-quote and aimed at larger programs” GPT-5.4 mini · Mentoring software · budget prompt · soft negative
“their pricing often starts at $5,000 to $12,000+ per year, which is out of reach for companies with tight budgets” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Mentoring software · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Chronus, over the 116 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Chronus was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
MentorcliQ102 of 11614Not in the top three
Together99 of 11621Not in the top three
Qooper84 of 11623Not in the top three
Mentorloop55 of 11610Not in the top three
Ten Thousand Coffees39 of 1161Not in the top three
PushFar36 of 11611Not in the top three
Mentorgain27 of 1164Not in the top three
Guider24 of 1160Not in the top three
ADPList21 of 1160Not in the top three
Mentornity15 of 1166Not 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 Chronus. 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 98 of the 116 answers that named Chronus and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

qooper.io78
chronus.comYour site69
brancher.com.au59
gartner.com58
mentorgain.com49
mentorcliq.com44
mentorcity.com43
togetherplatform.com43
g2.com38
guideflow.com32

444 of the 513 domain citations in answers naming Chronus came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 Chronus'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 Chronus, 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 chronus.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.