Small business▲+6Since September 2026: 35% → 40%, +6 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
40%from 35% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 1 of 139, unchanged
1 category · RankedSkills Base
62Judge labels
38First choices
0Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
45% in Skills intelligence for small business buyers
Rank 1 of 127 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 16 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Skills Base →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business1 of 144
45%39 labels
endorsed leader
Mid-market1 of 127
18%16 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise6 of 99
4%5 labels
under the label threshold
In skills intelligence · 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 Skills Base 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skills intelligence | Performance and talent management | 18% | 1 of 127 | 0% | 16 | accepted challenger | ▼−1Since September 2026: 17% → 16%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Skills Base held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Skills intelligence · by segment
Mid-market▼−1Since September 2026: 17% → 16%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
16%from 17% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 12 pointsRank 2 → 1 of 117
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 10 → 9 of 92
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skills intelligence | 17% | 16% | ▼−1Since September 2026: 17% → 16%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 → 1 of 127 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Skills Base across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Skills Base across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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
Direct13 labels8
Paraphrase10 labels6
Comparative10 labels5not counted in share
Budget-constrained26 labels21
Scale-constrained3 labels3
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative62 labels in all, every segment counted; 38 of the 43 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.
“Skills Base gives the lowest financial barrier with a usable free tier and then scales at ~$2-2.50/user/mo” Muse Glimmer 30B · Skills intelligence · budget prompt · first choice
“Skills Base stands out as the best skills intelligence platform for companies with a limited budget.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Skills intelligence · budget prompt · first choice
“For most companies with a limited budget, Skills Base is the clear winner” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Skills intelligence · budget prompt · first choice
“Go with Skills Base. It hits the sweet spot for a mid-sized B2B company” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Skills intelligence · paraphrase 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Skills Base, over the 62 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Skills Base was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Skills Base, over the 62 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Skills Base was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Skills Base. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 62 of the 62 answers that named Skills Base and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
firsthr.app48
guideflow.com30
skills-base.comYour site28
g2.com26
hr-ai-index.com26
hrtechsaas.com22
cloudassess.com21
skillpanel.com21
cxeverywhere.com19
skywork.ai19
232 of the 260 domain citations in answers naming Skills Base came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Skills Base stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Skills Base stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “skills platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “skills intelligence platform”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 480 a month (“skills base”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1,728 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,283 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 466 · 25 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 472
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
18%
rank 1 of 127 in skills intelligence
First choices
38
across its categories
- Named in
- 62 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 62 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on skills-base.com
433
subdomains included
Content
115
counted in the table below
Documentation
175
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 102 | 0 | 2026-06-24 | Skills intelligence, Workforce planning | |
| Report or ebook | 6 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 4 | 0 | 2026-05-20 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-06-24Skills based workforce planning a guide for hr and executives blog
- 2026-06-22Competency management software buyers guide blog
- 2026-06-17The talent management framework every hr team needs blog
- 2026-05-20Competency framework vs skills framework what hr leaders need to know comparison
- 2026-05-19What skills management and intelligence software actually does and why it matters blog
- 2026-05-18The role of skills data in talent decisions blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page skills-base.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.
Follow Skills Base
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Skills Base is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Skills Base is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Skills Management & Intelligence software helping you make better talent decisions through real-time and accurate skill insights.
- For
- frontline and operational teams
- Price stated
- Free $0 Free Forever; Teams $2.25 per person / month; Enterprise $4 per person / month; Ultimate On Request skills-base.com/pricing
- Starting price
- 0 skills-base.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Free Forever skills-base.com/pricing
- Certifications
- GDPR ComplianceISO 27001 Aligned
- Hosting
- USAAustraliaEurope (Germany)
- Customers named
- ConvergeOneTraneVodafoneTrane technologiesDelawareConverge OneVodafone Retail NZEllucian
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations
What Skills Base's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: skills-base.com, skills-base.com/pricing, skills-base.com/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
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 Skills Base'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 Skills Base, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Skills Base by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Skills Base is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Skills Base, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Skills Base is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Skills Base is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideAI models recommend Skills Base first in Skills intelligence this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.