Every category where a model named MentorCruise 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
Mentoring software	Learning and development	0%	16 of 55	27%	11	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for MentorCruise 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 MentorCruise 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	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative10 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative25 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.

“It has the largest curated pool of the paid options at 7,100+ mentors, and a 7-day free trial per mentor.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Mentoring software · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for: Long-term, goal-oriented mentorship in tech, engineering, and product.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Mentoring software · comparative prompt · alternative

“paid, premium service focused on deep expertise and specific career transitions” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Mentoring software · comparative prompt · alternative

“Freelance/career mentoring marketplaces where mentees book mentors” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Mentoring software · 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.

“MentorCruise: A platform that connects mentees with experienced mentors, but may have limited accountability and varying pricing.” Llama 4 Maverick · Mentoring software · negative prompt · soft negative

“Reddit users call it a "rip-off" due to high prices, unresponsive mentors... Legitimate overall, but vet mentors carefully.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Mentoring software · negative prompt · soft negative

“MentorCruise — ⚠️ Low-Moderate Caution” Kimi K2 · Mentoring software · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as MentorCruise, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and MentorCruise was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

ADPList19 of 250Not in the top three

MentorcliQ16 of 252Not in the top three

Together16 of 251Not in the top three

GrowthMentor15 of 254Not in the top three

Qooper15 of 253Not in the top three

Chronus15 of 252Not in the top three

Mentorloop11 of 252Not in the top three

PushFar9 of 251Not in the top three

Ten Thousand Coffees8 of 250Not in the top three

Guider7 of 250Not 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 MentorCruise. 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 25 answers that named MentorCruise and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

chronus.com14

adplist.org12

qooper.io11

growthmentor.com10

togetherplatform.com10

brancher.com.au9

mentorcruise.comYour site9

gartner.com7

g2.com6

igotanoffer.com6

Eighty-five of the ninety-four domain citations in answers naming MentorCruise came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

chronus.com/blog/top-mentoring-platforms14

adplist.org/guides/best-mentorship-platforms12

brancher.com.au/blog/best-mentoring-software8

growthmentor.com/blog/online-mentoring-platforms-software8

gartner.com/reviews/market/mentoring-software7

togetherplatform.com/blog/mentoring-software-red-flags-and-how-to-avoid-them7

qooper.io/blog/top-10-online-mentoring-platforms6

hrlineup.com/top-mentorship-software5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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