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Skillshare

37Judge labels
0First choices
17Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Online course libraries for mid-market buyers
Rank 20 of 95 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 29% of its 17 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Skillshare →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Online course librariesLearning and development0%20 of 9529%17criticized challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Skills intelligencePerformance and talent management0%127 of 12757%14criticized challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Learning experience platformsLearning and development0%72 of 89100%1under 10 labels · led by 360Learning at 26%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, Skillshare held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 13 points.

Best category · Online course libraries · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 70 → 62 of 68
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 21 → 17 of 90

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
Online course libraries0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 21 → 20 of 95
Skills intelligence0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 159 → 127 of 127
Learning experience plat0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 70 → 72 of 89

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 Skillshare across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00112
Gemini 3.5 Flash01023
Perplexity Sonar00224
Grok 4.1 Fast00213
Mistral Small00022
DeepSeek V4 Flash01023
Llama 4 Maverick00112
Qwen 3.7 Flash00101
Kimi K202013
GLM 4.7 FlashX02013
MiniMax M2.501203
GPT-6 Luna01001
Muse Glimmer 30B00011

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
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative18 labelsNone
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative17 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative37 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.

“For creative fields, Skillshare offers good value through subscription.” MiniMax M2.5 · Online course libraries · comparative prompt · alternative
“Skillshare focuses on the creative arts... It is subscription-only.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Online course libraries · comparative prompt · alternative
“Creativity matters if you're an artist or designer → Skillshare.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Skills intelligence · comparative prompt · alternative
“Creative pursuits (design, art, writing) | Skillshare” Kimi K2 · 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.

“"On platforms like Skillshare and Domestika, quality varies significantly by instructor."” Muse Glimmer 30B · Online course libraries · negative prompt · hard negative
“Skillshare — Approach with Caution ... Called a "complete scam" by multiple users” Kimi K2 · Skills intelligence · negative prompt · hard negative
“Described as a "complete scam" with usability and cancellation problems” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Skills intelligence · negative prompt · hard negative
“Some users report it as a "complete scam" with numerous glitches” Mistral Small · Skills intelligence · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Skillshare, over the 37 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.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Udemy Business32 of 370Not among the top eight
LinkedIn Learning25 of 370Not among the top eight
edX22 of 375Not among the top eight
Coursera for Business19 of 375Not among the top eight
Pluralsight14 of 370Not among the top eight
Coursera12 of 374Not among the top eight
Skillsoft Percipio10 of 370Not among the top eight
Khan Academy9 of 370Not among the top eight
MasterClass7 of 370Not among the top eight
Degreed5 of 371Not among the top eight
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 Skillshare. 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 33 of the 37 answers that named Skillshare and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

coursebox.ai11
linkedin.com11
hr-ai-index.com9
g2.com8
goskills.com8
mightynetworks.com8
checkthat.ai6
reddit.com6
upskillist.com6
bbb.org5

Seventy-eight of the seventy-eight domain citations in answers naming Skillshare came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

skillshare.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Skillshare takes 0% of first choices and Udemy Business takes 48%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “course libraries”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “online course library for employees”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
40,500 a month (“skillshare”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
838 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 1,996,650 a month
Searches its site ranks for
91,747 · 7,131 in the top three
Sites linking to it
65,918
Paid Google search
1 searches its ads show for, about 5 clicks and $0 a month (estimate)
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
116+ ads · 116 text · 116 shown in the last 30 days

First shown July 2022, as Skillshare, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 45 in the year, 71 before. 4 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 20 of 95 in online course libraries
Segment leader
48%
Udemy Business
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
37 answers
Its own site cited
in 33 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

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Addresses on skillshare.com
73,610
subdomains included
Content
634
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
0 · 1
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-11 to 2026-10LatestCategories named
Template or tool305undatedApplicant tracking syste
Glossary or explainer115undated
Report or ebook103undated
Conference or event39undated
Webinar or virtual event26undated
Podcast or video20undated
Comparison12undated
Blog602022-08-01
Case study4undated
News or press4undated

Most recent

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page skillshare.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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

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  • where Skillshare 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 Skillshare, 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.
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