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Online course libraries

Asked as “online course library for employees”, and as “corporate training content subscription”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 40 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
32%
Contested · LinkedIn Learning 28%
32Udemy Business28LinkedIn Learning08ProProfs Training Maker32others

32% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Udemy Business32%11%47endorsed leader
02LinkedIn Learning28%7%46accepted challenger
03TalentLMS8%0%17accepted challenger
04Coursera for Business2%18%39accepted challenger
Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
08Skillsoft Percipio0%30%10criticized challenger
07Skillshare0%20%10accepted challenger
06Absorb LMS0%10%10accepted challenger
05Pluralsight0%6%17accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
All six head-to-head pages: the top four products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
Negative label rate →
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative50%
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01Udemy Business32%
02LinkedIn Learning28%
03TalentLMS8%
04Coursera for Business2%
05Pluralsight0%
06Absorb LMS0%
07Skillshare0%
08Skillsoft Percipio0%

What they warned about

Five of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Coursera for Business
18%
7 of 39 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“too pricey for limited budgets” Grok 4.20, budget prompt
Udemy Business
11%
5 of 47 labels negative · 5 of 12 models
“Open Marketplaces (High Caution Required) ... Examples: Udemy, Skillshare. ... there is no filter between experts and novices” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
Go1
25%
2 of 8 labels negative · 2 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Aggregators (OpenSesame, Go1) ... Poor quality control, irrelevant content, tech glitches” Grok 4.20, negative prompt
LinkedIn Learning
7%
3 of 46 labels negative · 2 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Avoid higher-end like LinkedIn Learning (~$380/user/year)” Grok 4.20, budget prompt

What they cite

Twelve of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited and eight the search results they consulted.

Sites the answers cite

56 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 11 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 837 links across 314 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. The other 1 model searched through a gateway that returned no source list on this edition.

vendor site · ProProfs Training25 answers · 32 citations · 10 models
19 answers · 19 citations · 8 models
vendor site · GoodHabitz18 answers · 25 citations · 8 models
vendor site · G215 answers · 33 citations · 6 models
vendor site · Docebo15 answers · 18 citations · 7 models
vendor site · TechClass15 answers · 17 citations · 9 models
14 answers · 17 citations · 6 models
vendor site · GoSkills13 answers · 24 citations · 9 models
vendor site · SafetyCulture13 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
vendor site · LinkedIn13 answers · 14 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Reddit12 answers · 23 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Coursera9 answers · 17 citations · 6 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best online course library for employees”, “course libraries”, “online course library for employees”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Udemy Business udemy.com32%2358,100711,600,745$94111
LinkedIn linkedin.com
LinkedIn Learning 28%
28%22811,100,00077,031331,033,472 company$1,032113
TalentLMS talentlms.com8%4218,10010382,431$1,1791192
ProProfs proprofstraining.com
ProProfs Training Maker 8%
8%30170139,3410
GoSkills goskills.com5%1691,90023120,277120
Coursera coursera.org
Coursera for Business 2%
2%153450,0008,61418,845,147 company$2,331116
GoodHabitz goodhabitz.com2%51404319
Litmos litmos.com2%208,1001437,77432
Moodle moodle.com2%44165,0002,903159,3710
SC Training safetyculture.com2%51590825466,9811

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 20 sites; 0 of them are among the sites the models cited here. The first result for “best online course library for employees” is course.libraryjournal.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best online course library for employees for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which corporate training content subscription would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top course libraries and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best online course library for employees for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating an online course library for employees. What should we look at?”Negative“Which course libraries should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceno first choiceHeldno first choiceUdemy Business
Three alternativesCoursera for Business, LinkedIn Learning, Skillshare
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniUdemy Business
Two alternativesBizLibrary, LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn LearningChanged
Six alternatives360Learning, Cornerstone Content Hub, Coursera for Business, Docebo, Pluralsight, Udemy Business
no first choiceUdemy Business
One alternativeLinkedIn Learning
against: Coursera for Business
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashUdemy Business
Five alternativesGo1, LinkedIn Learning, Litmos, Pluralsight, TalentLMS
LinkedIn Learning, Udemy BusinessChanged
Three alternativesCoursera for Business, OpenSesame, Pluralsight
no first choiceSC Training
Four alternativesAlison, GoSkills, Oak Innovation, Udemy Business
no first choiceagainst: 2U, Coursera for Business, Emeritus, MasterClass, Simplilearn, Skillshare, Udacity, Udemy Business
Perplexity SonarLinkedIn Learning
Five alternativesBizLibrary, Coursera for Business, Go1, GoodHabitz, Udemy Business
LinkedIn LearningHeld
Three alternativesAbsorb LMS, GoodHabitz, iSpring Academy
no first choice
One alternativeGreat Courses Library Collection
TalentLMS
Three alternativesHubSpot Academy, Moodle, ProProfs Training Maker
no first choiceagainst: BizLibrary, Go1, OpenSesame
Grok 4.20Udemy Business
Three alternativesCoursera for Business, LinkedIn Learning, Pluralsight
against: O'Reilly Learning, Skillsoft Percipio
Udemy BusinessHeld
Three alternativesCoursera for Business, LinkedIn Learning, Pluralsight
against: Skillsoft Percipio
no first choiceGoSkills
Two alternativesProProfs Training Maker, TalentLMS
against: Coursera for Business, LinkedIn Learning, Udemy Business
no first choiceagainst: BizLibrary, Coursera for Business, Go1, LinkedIn Learning, OpenSesame, edX
Mistral SmallUdemy Business
Three alternativesAbsorb LMS, TalentLMS, iSpring Learn
TechClassChanged
Two alternativesLearnUpon, iSpring Learn
no first choiceagainst: Udemy BusinessUdemy Businessno first choiceagainst: Courseslibrary.com, TheNewBoston
DeepSeek V4 FlashLinkedIn Learning
Four alternativesCoursera for Business, LearnUpon, Udemy Business, iSpring Learn
against: Absorb LMS
LinkedIn LearningHeld
Two alternativesCoursera for Business, Udemy Business
against: Skillsoft Percipio
Coursera for Business, edX
Six alternativesCodecademy, LinkedIn Learning, Pluralsight, Skillshare, Udemy Business, freeCodeCamp
Udemy Business
Four alternativesCoursera for Business, GoSkills, OpenSkills, TalentLMS
against: Moodle
no first choicenothing named
Llama 4 MaverickProProfs Training Maker
Three alternativesCoursera for Business, LinkedIn Learning, Litmos
no first choiceChangedno first choiceGoodHabitz, Mitti, ProProfs Training Maker
Five alternativesCoursera for Business, Eduflow, Khan Academy, LinkedIn Learning, Teachfloor
no first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashLinkedIn Learning
Four alternativesCXL Institute, HubSpot Academy, TalentLMS, Udemy Business
LinkedIn LearningHeld
Three alternativesCoursera for Business, Pluralsight, Udemy Business
no first choiceProProfs Training Maker
Three alternativesSafetyCulture, Udemy Business, iSpring Academy
no first choiceagainst: Coursera for Business, LinkedIn Learning, O'Reilly Learning, Pluralsight, Skillshare, Udemy Business, edX
Kimi K2Udemy Business
One alternativeLinkedIn Learning
against: Coursera for Business
LinkedIn Learning, Udemy BusinessChanged
Two alternativesGo1, Pluralsight
Coursera for Business, edX
Four alternativesLinkedIn Learning, MasterClass, Skillshare, Udemy Business
GoSkills
Four alternativesKhan Academy, LinkedIn Learning, SC Training, Udemy Business
against: Coursera for Business
no first choicenothing named
GLM 4.7 FlashXLinkedIn Learning, TalentLMS
Four alternativesAbsorb LMS, Coursera for Business, Docebo, Litmos
LinkedIn LearningChanged
Five alternatives360Learning, BizLibrary, OpenSesame, TalentLMS, iSpring Learn
no first choiceMoodle
Five alternativesCoursera for Business, LinkedIn Learning, ProProfs Training Maker, SafetyCulture, SkillsHub
no first choicenothing named
MiniMax M2.5Litmos
Four alternatives360Learning, ProProfs Training Maker, TalentLMS, Udemy Business
Cornerstone Content Subscriptions, Coursera for BusinessChanged
Three alternativesCCL Passport, GoodHabitz, TalentLMS
Coursera for Business, edX
Eight alternativesDataCamp, Khan Academy, LinkedIn Learning, MasterClass, Pluralsight, Skillshare, Udacity, Udemy Business
TalentLMS, Udemy Business
Two alternativesGoSkills, Moodle
no first choiceagainst: Udemy Business
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:54no05 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:35yes46 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:22yes1631 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:28yes205 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 19:37yes4822 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:56yes68 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:59yes2137 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:04yes75 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:12yes1037 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:10yes1520 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:36yes1463 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:13yes1435 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 21:26no04 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:57yes36 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:54yes822 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:03yes205 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 20:12yes3617 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:49yes199 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:20yes1318 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:00yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:33no027 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:12yes1844 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:36yes1445 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:55yes922 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:48no02 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:25yes05 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:24yes821 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:13yes209 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 19:50yes3216 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:58yes1511 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:25yes1817 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:55yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:35yes513 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:18yes1023 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:57yes1075 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:00yes561 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:58no04 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:58no03 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:00yes1457 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:39yes206 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 19:25yes4621 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:52yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:17yes2933 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:12yes65 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:48yes840 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:49yes1526 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:49yes13155 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:39yes1029 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:58no06 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:13no06 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:58no046 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:17yes207 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 20:09yes1512 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:15no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:16yes2023 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:58yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:39no027 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:42yes1021 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:12yes1568 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:02yes516 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:35no02 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:17no02 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:16yes3332 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:18yes206 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 21:13yes4217 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:10yes56 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 19:27no07 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:03yes105 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:02no030 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:48yes1018 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:43yes853 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:02yes524 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
Absorb read as Absorb LMS
Coursera read as Coursera for Business
Coursera Business read as Coursera for Business
O'Reilly read as O'Reilly Learning
Proprofs Training read as ProProfs Training Maker
SAP Litmos read as Litmos
Safari Books Online read as O'Reilly Learning
Skillsoft read as Skillsoft Percipio
Unresolved, counted raw
CCL Passport (Center for Creative Leadership)
CXL Institute
Content Sparks
Cornerstone Content Hub
Eduflow
Emeritus
Great Courses Library Collection
Kanopy
Oak Innovation
OpenSkills
TED Ed
TheNewBoston (YouTube)
WalkMe Learning Arc
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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