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3 categories · Named, not ranked

Skype

9Judge labels
0First choices
9Negative labels
7 / 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.
Standing
4 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Skype was named 4 times in Video interviewing and 2 other categories, where Spark Hire led with 50%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In video interviewing · 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 Skype 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
Video interviewingTalent acquisition0%65 of 66100%2under 10 labels · led by Spark Hire at 50%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Frontline employee appsOnboarding and employee experience0%93 of 106100%1under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 49%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
Whistleblowing and investigationsCore HR and payroll0%98 of 107100%1under 10 labels · led by FaceUp at 25%

Movement

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

Best category · Video interviewing · 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 50 → 38 of 40
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 37 → 63 of 63
Enterprise=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 49 → 37 of 38

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
Video interviewing0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 37 → 65 of 66
Frontline employee apps0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 93 of 106, unchanged
Whistleblowing0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 98 of 107, unchanged

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 Skype 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 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00022
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00011
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00011
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative9 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“such as WhatsApp, Instagram DM, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Zoom... invasive or unsuitable” Perplexity Sonar · Whistleblowing · negative prompt · hard negative
“Lacks proper data governance and compliance” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Frontline employee apps · negative prompt · hard negative
“such as Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, or Skype, if the company relies on them without consistent process” Perplexity Sonar · Video interviewing · negative prompt · soft negative
“A basic videoconferencing tool that may not be suitable for structured hiring.” Llama 4 Maverick · Video interviewing · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Skype, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Skype was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Zoom8 of 90Not among the top eight
HireVue6 of 90Not among the top eight
Google Meet3 of 90Not among the top eight
Microsoft Teams3 of 90Not among the top eight
Spark Hire3 of 90Not among the top eight
Hireflix2 of 91Not among the top eight
Willo2 of 91Not among the top eight
Facebook Messenger2 of 90Not among the top eight
Gmail2 of 90Not among the top eight
VidCruiter2 of 90Not 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 Skype. 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 9 of the 9 answers that named Skype and are not a share of its labels.

Search and answers

Where Skype stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Searches for its name, Google
135,000 a month (“skype”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
11,193 a month
Its own site
No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 65 of 66 in video interviewing
Segment leader
50%
Spark Hire
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
9 answers
Its own site cited
No site on file to match

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.

Follow Skype

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.

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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 Skype'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 Skype, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Skype by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Skype 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 Skype, 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.

A verification link goes to your work email; an address at the vendor's own domain is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.