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Index Vendors › TalentLMS · September 2026 Edition
7 categories · Ranked

TalentLMS

319Judge labels
105First choices
13Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
7Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
74% in Learning management syst for small business buyers
Rank 1 of 74 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
7 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 4% of its 46 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.
In learning management syst · 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 TalentLMS 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Learning management systemsLearning and development48%1 of 744%46endorsed leader
Compliance trainingLearning and development15%3 of 800%22accepted challenger
Learning experience platformsLearning and development9%5 of 800%10accepted challenger
Online course librariesLearning and development8%3 of 730%17accepted challenger
Course authoring toolsLearning and development3%8 of 860%7under 10 labels · led by Articulate 360 at 22%
Skills intelligencePerformance and talent management0%65 of 1620%2under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19%
Coaching platformsLearning and development0%57 of 1160%1under 10 labels · led by Growthspace at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for TalentLMS 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 TalentLMS across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.522206
GPT-5.4 mini23106
Gemini 3.5 Flash17008
Perplexity Sonar52108
Grok 4.1 Fast544114
Mistral Small22307
DeepSeek V4 Flash355013
Llama 4 Maverick21306
Qwen 3.7 Flash24006
Kimi K2351110
GLM 4.7 FlashX632011
MiniMax M2.5442010

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
Direct67 labels27
Paraphrase44 labels17
Comparative63 labels16not counted in share
Budget-constrained97 labels55
Scale-constrained27 labels6
Negative21 labels10not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative319 labels in all, every segment counted; 105 of the 131 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.

“TalentLMS is widely considered the gold standard for mid-market businesses because it sits perfectly in the "sweet spot" of functionality vs. price.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Learning management syst · direct prompt · first choice
“TalentLMS stands out because it combines affordability, ease of use, and scalability in a platform designed for growing businesses.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Learning management syst · budget prompt · first choice
“TalentLMS stands out as the best LMS for employee training on a limited budget, especially for small to mid-sized companies.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Learning management syst · budget prompt · first choice
“the strongest single pick is usually TalentLMS if you need a simple, low-cost platform for compliance delivery and tracking” Perplexity Sonar · Compliance training · 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.

“Trustpilot "Poor" at 2.4/5 (169+ reviews), with recent complaints on support and functionality.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Learning management syst · negative prompt · soft negative
“Not SOC-2 compliant; limited security/compliance features; poor navigation UX” Kimi K2 · Learning management syst · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as TalentLMS, over the 319 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and TalentLMS was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
360Learning108 of 3198Not in the top three
Docebo108 of 3194Not in the top three
iSpring Learn96 of 3195Not in the top three
GoSkills91 of 31929Not in the top three
Moodle74 of 3193Not in the top three
Cornerstone OnDemand72 of 3192Not in the top three
EasyLlama46 of 31915Not 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 TalentLMS. 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 274 of the 319 answers that named TalentLMS and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

goskills.com135
proprofstraining.com97
talentlms.comYour site88
peoplemanagingpeople.com84
g2.com81
capterra.com78
elearningindustry.com73
docebo.com63
valamis.com63
forbes.com59

733 of the 821 domain citations in answers naming TalentLMS came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as TalentLMS

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as TalentLMS; a claim can dispute any of them.
TalentLMS (TalentLibrary Add-on) 1
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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 TalentLMS'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 TalentLMS, 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 talentlms.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.

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