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Skills intelligence · October 2026 Edition

Skills Base vs iMocha

Zero of fourteen models named Skills Base first on the direct prompt; three named iMocha. Skills Base was named by ten of the fourteen models and iMocha by twelve and Skills Base carries 16 labels and iMocha 19, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Skills Base

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

iMocha

accepted challenger

Named in four categories this edition.

First-choice share18%9%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%5%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#3A position in a field of 16; printed, not drawn.
Labels1619A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Skills Base reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Skills Base vs TalentGuard · Skills Base vs 365Talents · Skills Base vs TechWolf

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the skills intelligence page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Skills BaseFirst choices, of fourteen modelsiMocha
Direct03
Paraphrase121 against iMocha
Comparative01
Budget-constrained90
Scale-constrained00
Negative00
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Skills Base and iMocha were named in the same answer sixteen times, of the 62 answers naming Skills Base and the 97 naming iMocha. In those answers iMocha took the first choice one time and Skills Base six.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Skills Base and iMocha stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Skills Base iMocha first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Skills Base on the left and iMocha on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Skills Base and iMocha stood in it.

iMocha first, Skills Base not the choice

3 of 14 modelsSkills Base was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Gemini 3.5 FlashiMocha alternatives: Fuel50, Retrain.ai, TalentGuard
Grok 4.1 FastTalentGuard, iMocha alternatives: 365Talents, Engagedly, Fuel50, Gloat
GLM 4.7 FlashXiMocha alternatives: 365Talents, Fuel50

Neither was the first choice, one was named

4 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
DeepSeek V4 FlashTalentGuard alternatives: Lightcast Open Skills, iMocha
Qwen 3.7 FlashTalentGuard, TechWolf alternatives: AG5, Eightfold AI, Gloat, iMocha
Kimi K2TalentGuard alternatives: 365Talents, Fuel50, TechWolf, iMocha
Muse Glimmer 30BTalentGuard alternatives: Eightfold AI, SAP SuccessFactors Skills, Skills Base, Workday Skills Cloud

Neither was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5INOP alternatives: Fuel50, Skillsoft Percipio
GPT-5.4 mini365Talents alternatives: Eightfold AI, SkillPanel
Perplexity Sonar365Talents alternatives: Docebo, Workday Skills Cloud
Mistral SmallFuel50, Neobrain alternatives: TalentGuard, TechWolf
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
MiniMax M2.5Fuel50, iMocha Skills Intelligence Cloud alternatives: Bryq, Engagedly, TalentGuard WorkforceGPT
GPT-6 LunaWorkday Skills Cloud alternatives: TechWolf

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Skills Base leads by thirty-eight points.
Skills Base45%#1 of 11
iMocha7%#3 of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Skills Base leads by nine points.
Skills Base18%#1 of 16
iMocha9%#3 of 16
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Skills Base leads by two points.
Skills Base4%#– of 14
iMocha2%#8 of 14
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Skills Base

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of four in this category shown.

“Skills Base gives the lowest financial barrier with a usable free tier and then scales at ~$2-2.50/user/mo” Muse Glimmer 30B · budget prompt · first choice
“Skills Base stands out as the best skills intelligence platform for companies with a limited budget.” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · first choice
“For most companies with a limited budget, Skills Base is the clear winner” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about iMocha

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of five in this category shown.

“overkill and cost-prohibitive for most mid-sized B2B firms” DeepSeek V4 Flash · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“look at Degreed, 360Learning, Cornerstone, iMocha, or Acorn; ... if you want skills verification, look at iMocha” Perplexity Sonar · comparative prompt · first choice
“combined with iMocha or Textkernel Skills Intelligence API for inference capabilities” Grok 4.1 Fast · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with iMocha ... Best all-around choice: iMocha” GPT-5.4 mini · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.