Every category where a model named Cornerstone OnDemand 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%	24 of 80	33%	21	criticized challenger
Learning management systems	Learning and development	0%	33 of 74	35%	17	criticized challenger
Succession planning	Performance and talent management	0%	23 of 99	13%	15	accepted challenger
Compliance training	Learning and development	0%	63 of 80	36%	11	criticized challenger
Internal talent marketplace	Performance and talent management	0%	21 of 129	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by Fuel50 at 26%
Applicant tracking systems	Talent acquisition	0%	47 of 50	100%	4	under 10 labels · led by Greenhouse at 47%
HR compliance and policy management	Core HR and payroll	0%	39 of 84	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 16%
Course authoring tools	Learning and development	0%	51 of 86	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Articulate 360 at 22%
Performance management	Performance and talent management	0%	55 of 60	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 41%
Skills intelligence	Performance and talent management	0%	81 of 162	0%	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 Cornerstone OnDemand 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 Cornerstone OnDemand across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	2	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	4	1	0	5
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	3	7	11
Perplexity Sonar	0	3	1	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	3	2	6
Mistral Small	0	6	0	6
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	4	6	12
Llama 4 Maverick	0	4	0	4
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	4	4	10
Kimi K2	2	3	3	8
GLM 4.7 FlashX	6	2	1	9
MiniMax M2.5	1	2	0	3

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

Direct46 labels5

Paraphrase46 labels5

Comparative96 labels4not counted in share

Budget-constrained41 labels2

Scale-constrained27 labels1

Negative60 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative316 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 19 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.

“a solid enterprise option if you already care about broader talent/HR ecosystem alignment” GPT-5.4 mini · Learning experience plat · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“If you already use an enterprise HCM ecosystem: consider CornerStone or Workday modules” MiniMax M2.5 · Internal talent marketpl · direct prompt · alternative

“Choose Cornerstone if learning must connect tightly to HR/talent management.” GPT-5.4 mini · Learning experience plat · comparative prompt · alternative

“You want to consolidate learning and succession | Cornerstone OnDemand, TalentGuard” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Succession planning · direct 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.

“Unless you are a massive Fortune 500 company with a dedicated team of full-time LMS administrators, you should avoid them.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Learning management syst · negative prompt · hard negative

“Why avoid it: Frequently described as "way worse" than competing ATS platforms” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Applicant tracking syste · negative prompt · hard negative

“avoid purchasing them solely for succession, as they are too complex and expensive” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Succession planning · scale prompt · hard negative

“Avoid enterprise LXPs (Degreed, Docebo, Cornerstone, Learnerbly, Skillsoft)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Learning experience plat · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cornerstone OnDemand, over the 316 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cornerstone OnDemand was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Docebo183 of 31639Not in the top three

Absorb LMS110 of 31610Not in the top three

360Learning107 of 3168Not in the top three

Degreed76 of 31612Not in the top three

TalentLMS72 of 31615Not in the top three

SAP SuccessFactors56 of 31610Not in the top three

Moodle53 of 3161Not in the top three

SAP SuccessFactors Learning45 of 3162Not in the top three

Workday Learning41 of 3160Not in the top three

Workday39 of 3167Not 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 Cornerstone OnDemand. 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 252 of the 316 answers that named Cornerstone OnDemand and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

docebo.com87

g2.com80

peoplemanagingpeople.com73

goskills.com66

gartner.com58

firsthr.app55

360learning.com47

guideflow.com47

capterra.com45

elearningindustry.com41

599 of the 599 domain citations in answers naming Cornerstone OnDemand came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

goskills.com/resources/learning-experience-platforms46

intellum.com/resources/blog/best-enterprise-lms-platforms34

digitalhumans.com/blog/the-10-best-learning-experience-platforms-lxp-reviewed-for-202630

valamis.com/blog/best-compliance-training-software27

docebo.com/learning-network/blog/best-learning-management-system26

talentguard.com/blog/10-best-role-readiness-planning-software-for-202525

hrtechsaas.com/blog/best-compliance-training-platforms23

engagedly.com/blog/best-succession-planning-softwares22

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cornerstone OnDemand

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

Cornerstone 26Cornerstone LXP (EdCast) 3Cornerstone LXP 2CornerStone 1Cornerstone (OnDemand) 1Cornerstone (Saba / Cornerstone OnDemand) 1Cornerstone (formerly EdCast) 1Cornerstone (with EdCast) 1Cornerstone LMS 1Cornerstone Learning 1Cornerstone Learning / Cornerstone LXP 1Cornerstone OnDemand (Edge) 1Cornerstone Talent Marketplace 1

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