Every category where a model named Skillshare 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	0%	161 of 162	55%	11	criticized challenger
Online course libraries	Learning and development	0%	21 of 73	20%	10	accepted challenger
Learning experience platforms	Learning and development	0%	74 of 80	100%	2	under 10 labels · led by Learn Amp at 28%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Skillshare 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 Skillshare 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	1	1	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	2	3
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	2	4
Kimi K2	2	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	2

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

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative14 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative13 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative32 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.

“Skillshare is budget-friendly for creative skills” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Online course libraries · budget prompt · alternative

“Creative pursuits & community | Skillshare” Kimi K2 · Online course libraries · comparative prompt · alternative

“For Creative Skills → Skillshare” Kimi K2 · Skills intelligence · comparative prompt · alternative

“Creative skills → Skillshare” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Online course libraries · 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.

“Skillshare - mentioned as a "complete scam" and having numerous glitches, making it difficult to cancel a subscription.” Llama 4 Maverick · Skills intelligence · negative prompt · hard negative

“Hard subscription cancellations, variable/low-quality courses (anyone can upload), worthless certificates. Users call it "predatory."” Grok 4.1 Fast · Skills intelligence · negative prompt · soft negative

“some users advise caution due to inconsistent quality and the potential for misleading marketing” Mistral Small · Skills intelligence · negative prompt · soft negative

“being more cautious with platforms like Skillshare and MasterClass” Perplexity Sonar · Skills intelligence · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Skillshare, over the 32 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Skillshare was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Udemy Business27 of 322Not in the top three

LinkedIn Learning25 of 323Not in the top three

Coursera for Business18 of 323Not in the top three

MasterClass17 of 320Not in the top three

edX14 of 325Not in the top three

Coursera8 of 322Not in the top three

Pluralsight8 of 321Not in the top three

Pluralsight Skills8 of 320Not in the top three

Khan Academy7 of 321Not in the top three

DataCamp7 of 320Not 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 Skillshare. 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 24 of the 32 answers that named Skillshare and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com9

skillscouter.com8

linkedin.com7

opensesame.com6

reddit.com6

goodhabitz.com5

pcmag.com5

stuartkerrs.com5

trustpilot.com5

360learning.com4

Sixty of the sixty domain citations in answers naming Skillshare came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

opensesame.com/blog/top-skills-training-platforms-20266

skillscouter.com/best-online-learning-platforms6

pcmag.com/picks/best-online-learning-services5

stuartkerrs.com/online-course-platforms-comparison5

acorn.works/best/the-9-best-skills-based-learning-platforms-in-20264

learn.g2.com/online-course-providers4

360learning.com/blog/skills-based-learning-platforms3

buddyboss.com/blog/best-online-learning-platforms-for-professionals-and-learners3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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