Community platforms · RankedSkool
Skool is a community platform for people who want to discover communities or create their own · skool.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Circle is first at 39%.
Bettermode is first at 25%.
Higher Logic Vanilla is first at 55%.
Why models recommend it
“Best Overall Value: Skool — from $9/month (Hobby) or $99/month (Pro)”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Skool or Bettermode offer the most professional community features at the lowest entry price.”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“~$99/month (but often praised as "best overall" for simplicity)”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Budget-conscious? → Skool ($9–99/month)”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Skool, over the 24 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 7 | View → | |
| 18 | 1 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 5 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Skool's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- People who want to discover communities or create their own
- Price stated
- Some are free, some paid.
- Free plan or trial
- Some are free.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 23 of the 24 answers that named Skool and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy-seven of the seventy-seven domain citations in answers naming Skool came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 28 | undated | SEO | ||
| Report or ebook | 23 | undated | SEO | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 4 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 3 | undated | SEO | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 2 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 2 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page skool.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 September 29, 2026.