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Alternatives to Lightcast Open Skills, as AI models named them

In the September 2026 Edition, 193 of the 216 answers collected in the one category where Lightcast Open Skills holds a standing named it neither as a first choice nor as an alternative. These are the products those answers put first, category by category and buyer by buyer. The output is the models' output.

Named instead, most often
Skills Base30
Eightfold AI15
TalentGuard9
SkillPanel6
Degreed5
Workday Skills Cloud5
First choices in the 193 answers that did not name Lightcast Open Skills, every category and segment above added together; a product can be counted in several. Each category below keeps its own denominator.

Skills intelligence

Performance and talent management. Six framings, twelve models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when Lightcast Open Skills is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessLightcast Open Skills holds 7 labels here, under the 10-label cutoff, so it is unranked.

Sixty-six of the seventy-two answers did not name Lightcast Open Skills; it was the first choice in five. The first choices in those sixty-six answers, twenty-six products in all, the eight most named:

Skills Base20 of 66Head to head →
MuchSkills4 of 66
SkillPanel4 of 66
GoSkills2 of 66
Lattice2 of 66
Lessie AI2 of 66
TestGorilla2 of 66
Toptal2 of 66
18 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketLightcast Open Skills is #4 of 16 here at 9% of first choices, 12 labels.

Sixty-four of the seventy-two answers did not name Lightcast Open Skills; it was the first choice in four. The first choices in those sixty-four answers, twenty-six products in all, the eight most named:

TalentGuard9 of 64Head to head →
Skills Base8 of 64Head to head →
Eightfold AI3 of 64Head to head →
iMocha3 of 64Head to head →
Coursera2 of 64
Fuel502 of 64Head to head →
SkillPanel2 of 64
360Learning1 of 64
18 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseLightcast Open Skills is #4 of 10 here at 9% of first choices, 13 labels.

Sixty-three of the seventy-two answers did not name Lightcast Open Skills; it was the first choice in four. The first choices in those sixty-three answers, fourteen products in all, the eight most named:

Eightfold AI12 of 63Head to head →
Degreed5 of 63
Workday Skills Cloud5 of 63
TechWolf4 of 63Head to head →
Bryq2 of 63
Fuel502 of 63Head to head →
Gloat2 of 63
Skills Base2 of 63Head to head →
6 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

How to read this

A category is asked six ways of each of twelve models on behalf of each buyer segment, so a segment is seventy-two answers. An answer belongs on this page when the judge labeled Lightcast Open Skills neither its first choice nor an alternative in it; the products listed are the first choices those answers made, counted once per answer. An answer that named nothing first, or named Lightcast Open Skills only in passing, is in the denominator and adds to no product. The counts are not the category standing, which is on the category page with its share and rank; they are the same record read from Lightcast Open Skills's side.

Every answer and every label is in the free record. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index, and a product named instead of Lightcast Open Skills was named by a model, not endorsed by anyone.

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