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3 categories · Named, not ranked

Saba

9Judge labels

0First choices

7Negative labels

3 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.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Saba was named 3 times in Compliance training and 2 other categories, where Traliant led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business53 of 67

under the label threshold

Mid-market67 of 80

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In compliance training · 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 Saba 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
Compliance training	Learning and development	0%	67 of 80	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Traliant at 22%
Learning experience platforms	Learning and development	0%	66 of 80	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Learn Amp at 28%
Learning management systems	Learning and development	0%	70 of 74	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by TalentLMS at 48%

Movement

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

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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

“Saba (sunsetting)” Kimi K2 · Learning experience plat · negative prompt · hard negative

“too small to have a massive, dedicated L&D team to manage a heavy enterprise platform like Cornerstone or Saba” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compliance training · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Saba, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Saba was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cornerstone OnDemand9 of 90Not in the top three

Docebo7 of 92Not in the top three

SumTotal5 of 90Not in the top three

TalentLMS4 of 93Not in the top three

Absorb LMS4 of 90Not in the top three

Moodle4 of 90Not in the top three

GoSkills3 of 91Not in the top three

Blackboard Learn3 of 90Not in the top three

Canvas LMS3 of 90Not in the top three

SAP SuccessFactors Learning3 of 90Not 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 Saba. 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 5 of the 9 answers that named Saba and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

docebo.com5

elearningindustry.com4

lmspedia.org3

reddit.com3

cypherlearning.com2

g2.com2

rfp.wiki2

skima.ai2

stylelearn.com2

talentedlearning.com2

Twenty-seven of the twenty-seven domain citations in answers naming Saba came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cypherlearning.com/blog/business/how-can-organizations-avoid-extended-enterprise-lms-failu2

docebo.com/learning-network/blog/best-learning-management-system2

lmspedia.org/sap-successfactors-learning-alternatives2

stylelearn.com/the-worst-lms-in-the-world-is2

360learning.com/blog/signs-of-outdated-lms-how-to-upgrade1

aaup.org/academe/issues/winter-2024/educational-technology-and-entrenchment-business-usual1

academyofbrain.com/en/2024/06/11/launching-a-learning-platform1

acorn.works/resource/lms-problems1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Saba

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

Saba Software 1

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Claim this page

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 Saba'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 Saba, 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 saba.com 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.