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1 category · Named, not ranked

MadCap Flare

19Judge labels

0First choices

5Negative labels

9 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.

Standing

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. MadCap Flare was named 6 times in Course authoring tools, where Articulate 360 led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business73 of 87

under the label threshold

Mid-market22 of 86

under the label threshold

Enterprise26 of 80

under the label threshold

In course authoring tools · 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 MadCap Flare 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
Course authoring tools	Learning and development	0%	22 of 86	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by Articulate 360 at 22%

Movement

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

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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative15 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative19 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“MadCap Flare stands out when the goal is technical documentation that also needs to be delivered as learning content.” MiniMax M2.5 · Course authoring tools · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for single‑source technical documentation with conditional content.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Course authoring tools · comparative prompt · alternative

“For technical manuals/help docs: Use MadCap Flare.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Course authoring tools · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as MadCap Flare, over the 19 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and MadCap Flare was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

iSpring Suite13 of 192Not in the top three

Articulate 36012 of 1912Not in the top three

Adobe Captivate12 of 190Not in the top three

Elucidat8 of 190Not in the top three

H5P8 of 190Not in the top three

Adobe RoboHelp7 of 191Not in the top three

Easygenerator6 of 190Not in the top three

dominKnow | ONE6 of 190Not in the top three

Lectora5 of 190Not in the top three

HelpNDoc4 of 191Not 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 MadCap Flare. 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 19 of the 19 answers that named MadCap Flare and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

elearningindustry.com13

worldmetrics.org11

confirm.com10

gartner.com10

guideflow.com10

colossyan.com9

easygenerator.com8

gitnux.org8

docsio.co7

elearningsolutionslab.com7

Ninety-three of the ninety-three domain citations in answers naming MadCap Flare came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/elearning-authoring-tools10

worldmetrics.org/best/authoring-software10

colossyan.com/posts/elearning-authoring-tools-comparison-chart-for-2026-top-10-tools9

confirm.com/blog/elearning-authoring-tools9

elearningsolutionslab.com/best-elearning-authoring-tools7

guideflow.com/blog/help-authoring-tools7

docsio.co/blog/help-authoring-tools5

easygenerator.com/en/guides/elearning-software-authoring-tools5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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