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Udemy Business

199Judge labels
33First choices
52Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
32% in Online course libraries for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 73 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
5 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 47 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
In online course libraries · 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 Udemy Business 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
Online course librariesLearning and development32%1 of 7311%47endorsed leader
Learning experience platformsLearning and development2%12 of 8040%15criticized challenger
Skills intelligencePerformance and talent management0%119 of 16235%17criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Udemy Business 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 Udemy Business across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510304
GPT-5.4 mini21205
Gemini 3.5 Flash21328
Perplexity Sonar02215
Grok 4.1 Fast214310
Mistral Small20327
DeepSeek V4 Flash13318
Llama 4 Maverick10326
Qwen 3.7 Flash03339
Kimi K223005
GLM 4.7 FlashX00415
MiniMax M2.512227

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
Direct34 labels13
Paraphrase23 labels6
Comparative58 labels6not counted in share
Budget-constrained28 labels11
Scale-constrained12 labels3
Negative44 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative199 labels in all, every segment counted; 33 of the 39 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.

“Udemy Business and LinkedIn Learning are the two industry-leading recommendations for mid-market B2B organizations” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Online course libraries · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Udemy is particularly good if you need variety at minimal cost - you can purchase individual courses for employees” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Online course libraries · budget prompt · first choice
“Udemy for Business is often considered one of the best online course libraries for employee training” Mistral Small · Online course libraries · budget prompt · first choice
“Udemy Business is likely your best choice because: Designed for mid-market scale and budget” Kimi K2 · Online course libraries · direct 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.

“Platforms with Notable Issues ... Udemy - Problems reported: Frequent website crashes, slow loading times, videos failing to play during lessons” MiniMax M2.5 · Learning experience plat · negative prompt · hard negative
“Some reviewers suggest that Udemy is not worth paying for unless you carefully vet each course yourself.” Mistral Small · Skills intelligence · negative prompt · hard negative
“the reviewer warns that it does no vetting of instructors, so course quality can vary widely” Perplexity Sonar · Learning experience plat · negative prompt · hard negative
“Platforms like Udemy or Alison are huge marketplaces. While they contain gems, they also host thousands of abandoned, outdated courses.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Skills intelligence · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Udemy Business, over the 195 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Udemy Business was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Coursera for Business110 of 19510Not in the top three
Skillsoft Percipio55 of 1952Not in the top three
Pluralsight52 of 1952Not in the top three
Docebo47 of 1954Not in the top three
360Learning38 of 1952Not in the top three
GoSkills33 of 19516Not in the top three
Cornerstone OnDemand33 of 1951Not in the top three
Degreed30 of 1959Not 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 Udemy Business. 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 154 of the 195 answers that named Udemy Business and are not a share of its labels.

Names read as Udemy Business

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Udemy Business; a claim can dispute any of them.
Udemy 32Udemy for Business 6Go1 / Udemy Business 1Udemy Business (Team) 1Udemy for Business (Team Plan) 1
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