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Alternatives to Skills Base, as AI models named them

In the September 2026 Edition, 176 of the 216 answers collected in the one category where Skills Base 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
Eightfold AI20
Lightcast Open Skills11
TechWolf10
TalentGuard7
Degreed6
Workday Skills Cloud6
First choices in the 176 answers that did not name Skills Base, 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 Skills Base is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessSkills Base is #1 of 10 here at 35% of first choices, 28 labels.

Forty-eight of the seventy-two answers did not name Skills Base; it was the first choice in twenty-one. The first choices in those forty-eight answers, twenty-six products in all, the eight most named:

Lightcast Open Skills3 of 48Head to head →
SkillPanel3 of 48
Lattice2 of 48
Lessie AI2 of 48
TestGorilla2 of 48
Toptal2 of 48
15Five1 of 48
AG51 of 48
18 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketSkills Base is #2 of 16 here at 17% of first choices, 12 labels.

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

TalentGuard7 of 60Head to head →
Eightfold AI4 of 60Head to head →
Lightcast Open Skills4 of 60Head to head →
TechWolf4 of 60Head to head →
365Talents3 of 60Head to head →
iMocha3 of 60Head to head →
Coursera2 of 60
SkillPanel2 of 60
16 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseSkills Base holds 5 labels here, under the 10-label cutoff, so it is unranked.

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

Eightfold AI16 of 68Head to head →
Degreed6 of 68
TechWolf6 of 68Head to head →
Workday Skills Cloud6 of 68
Lightcast Open Skills4 of 68Head to head →
Fuel503 of 68Head to head →
Bryq2 of 68
Gloat2 of 68
7 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 Skills Base 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 Skills Base 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 Skills Base'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 Skills Base was named by a model, not endorsed by anyone.

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