Every category where a model named Skills Base 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
Skills intelligence	Performance and talent management	17%	2 of 162	0%	12	accepted challenger

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	2	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	1
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

Direct11 labels5

Paraphrase5 labels2

Comparative8 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained20 labels18

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative5 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative49 labels in all, every segment counted; 25 of the 32 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.

“the best practical choice is usually Skills Base if you want a dedicated skills management platform with strong value for SMBs” Perplexity Sonar · Skills intelligence · budget prompt · first choice

“Best Overall Value & "Spreadsheet Killer": Skills Base ... is the industry standard for budget-conscious companies” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Skills intelligence · budget prompt · first choice

“Skills Base (starting at ~$2–$2.25 per user per month with a free tier) ... are the most practical entry points.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Skills intelligence · budget prompt · first choice

“Highlighted as one of the easiest tools to understand and budget for, making it ideal for budget-conscious teams” Mistral Small · Skills intelligence · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Skills Base, over the 49 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Skills Base was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Eightfold AI22 of 490Not in the top three

MuchSkills19 of 492Not in the top three

SkillsDB19 of 491Not in the top three

Gloat16 of 490Not in the top three

SkillPanel15 of 490Not in the top three

AG514 of 490Not in the top three

iMocha13 of 491Compare →

agyleOS13 of 490Not in the top three

Fuel508 of 492Not in the top three

Beamery8 of 490Not 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 Skills Base. 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 44 of the 49 answers that named Skills Base and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

firsthr.app36

cloudassess.com23

f6s.com22

fuel50.com21

hrtechsaas.com17

g2.com15

guideflow.com15

peoplemanagingpeople.com15

metaview.ai14

clickup.com13

191 of the 191 domain citations in answers naming Skills Base came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

firsthr.app/compare/training/skills-management-software36

cloudassess.com/blog/best-skills-intelligence-platforms20

hrtechsaas.com/blog/skills-intelligence-software16

metaview.ai/resources/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms14

clickup.com/blog/skills-management-software13

f6s.com/software/category/skills-intelligence13

fuel50.com/blog/skills-intelligence-platforms12

fuel50.com/blog/best-competency-management-software-solutions10

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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