2 categories · RankedThinkific
Thinkific is an all-in-one online course platform for entrepreneurs, educators, and businesses · thinkific.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.
TalentLMS is first at 56%.
Skilljar is first at 22%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Skilljar is first at 34%.
Why models recommend it
“Dedicated Customer Education (CE) platforms like Absorb, LearnUpon, or Thinkific are built for external audiences.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“Start with Discourse (free) or Thinkific ($5/month)”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“best value option is usually Thinkific or TalentLMS”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Thinkific Plus if ease of building a branded academy, multiple learning environments, or selling training is especially important”GPT-6 Luna · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Why to avoid: ... ill-equipped for B2B SaaS customer success.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Avoid for True Community-First Strategy”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“scrutinize their enterprise controls, CRM integrations, customer-data isolation, and scalability”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Often a poor fit for SaaS customer training (per industry analysis)”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Thinkific, over the 68 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | 10 | View → | |
| 41 | 21 | View → | |
| 38 | 1 | View → | |
| 37 | 9 | View → | |
| 27 | 2 | View → | |
| 23 | 1 | View → | |
| 23 | 1 | View → | |
| 20 | 1 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 2 | View → |
What the models named instead of Thinkific →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Thinkific's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- entrepreneurs, educators, and businesses
- Price stated
- Basic $54/mo billed monthly; $40/mo billed annually. Start $109/mo billed monthly; $82/mo billed annually. Grow $219/mo billed monthly; $164/mo billed annually. Add-On Branded Mobile App $199/mo
- Starting price
- 40
- Free plan or trial
- Start free trial
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II
- Customers named
- Flashpoint, Chargebee, Bakau Consulting, Learn Tourism, Base Medical, Carrick Institute, PT Exam Prep, Z-Health
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 66 of the 68 answers that named Thinkific and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
206 of the 233 domain citations in answers naming Thinkific 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 792 | undated | SEO, Customer education | ||
| Case study | 94 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 45 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 26 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 21 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 12 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 10 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 9 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 5 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page thinkific.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.