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Coursera for Business

127Judge labels
9First choices
29Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
14% in Online course libraries for enterprise buyers
Rank 6 of 73 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 18% of its 39 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In online course libraries · 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 Coursera for Business 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
Online course librariesLearning and development2%6 of 7318%39accepted challenger
Learning experience platformsLearning and development0%78 of 8067%6under 10 labels · led by Learn Amp at 28%
Compliance trainingLearning and development0%35 of 800%1under 10 labels · led by Traliant at 22%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Coursera for Business 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 Coursera for Business across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501203
GPT-5.4 mini01113
Gemini 3.5 Flash01113
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast02136
Mistral Small00202
DeepSeek V4 Flash13105
Llama 4 Maverick02204
Qwen 3.7 Flash02327
Kimi K210023
GLM 4.7 FlashX02215
MiniMax M2.520114

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
Direct26 labels5
Paraphrase21 labels3
Comparative29 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained22 labelsNone
Scale-constrained10 labels1
Negative19 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative127 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 13 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.

“I'd suggest starting with Cornerstone Content Subscriptions or Coursera for Business as they offer the best balance” MiniMax M2.5 · Online course libraries · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Academic/degree‑oriented learners should lean on Coursera and edX for rigorous, university‑backed content.” MiniMax M2.5 · Online course libraries · comparative prompt · first choice
“University degree or accredited certificate | Coursera or edX” Kimi K2 · Online course libraries · comparative prompt · first choice
“Career changers / formal credentials → Coursera or edX” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Online course libraries · comparative 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.

“Subscription issues: Free trials automatically converting to paid subscriptions without clear notice” MiniMax M2.5 · Learning experience plat · negative prompt · hard negative
“too pricey for limited budgets” Grok 4.1 Fast · Online course libraries · budget prompt · hard negative
“Be cautious of platforms like Coursera, LinkedIn Learning, edX, and Udemy if you haven't verified the specific course, instructor, and refund policy.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Learning experience plat · negative prompt · soft negative
“Coursera, for example, has a strict policy of no refunds for monthly subscriptions once they have auto-renewed” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Online course libraries · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Coursera for Business, over the 125 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Coursera for Business was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Udemy Business110 of 12527Not in the top three
LinkedIn Learning110 of 12525Not in the top three
Pluralsight50 of 1252Not in the top three
Skillsoft Percipio44 of 1252Not in the top three
TalentLMS25 of 1253Not in the top three
Docebo19 of 1252Not in the top three
Skillshare18 of 1250Not in the top three
GoSkills17 of 1259Not in the top three
edX16 of 1252Not in the top three
Go116 of 1251Not 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 Coursera for Business. 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 93 of the 125 answers that named Coursera for Business and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com47
goodhabitz.com41
linkedin.com38
proprofstraining.com36
business.linkedin.com32
coursera.orgYour site29
goskills.com27
docebo.com26
elearningindustry.com25
ispringsolutions.com25

297 of the 326 domain citations in answers naming Coursera for Business came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Coursera for Business

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Coursera for Business; a claim can dispute any of them.
Coursera 17Coursera for Teams 5Coursera Business 1
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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 Coursera for Business'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 Coursera for Business, 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 coursera.org 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.

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