# Skills intelligence: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "skills intelligence platform" and as "skills taxonomy and inference tool", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/performance/skills-intelligence

**Standing:** Skills Base leads with 28% of first choices; verdict contested. 47 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Skills Base](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/skills-base/index.md) | 28% | 0% | 23 |
| 2 | [TalentGuard](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/talentguard/index.md) | 15% | 0% | 12 |
| 3 | [365Talents](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/365talents/index.md) | 11% | 0% | 17 |
| 4 | [MuchSkills](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/muchskills/index.md) | 9% | 0% | 18 |
| 5 | [Lightcast Open Skills](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/lightcast-open-skills/index.md) | 9% | 11% | 18 |
| 6 | [TechWolf](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/techwolf/index.md) | 9% | 52% | 23 |
| 16 | [LinkedIn Learning](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/linkedin-learning/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 17 |
| 17 | [iMocha](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/imocha/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 16 |
| 18 | [Degreed](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/degreed/index.md) | 0% | 6% | 16 |
| 19 | [Coursera](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/coursera/index.md) | 0% | 12% | 16 |
| 20 | [Pluralsight Skills](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/pluralsight-skills/index.md) | 0% | 7% | 14 |
| 21 | [Fuel50](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/fuel50/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 11 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 162 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: TalentGuard; alternatives Fuel50, MuchSkills, Workday Skills Cloud, iMocha
- GPT-5.4 mini: 365Talents; alternatives Fuel50, MuchSkills
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Retrain.ai; alternatives 365Talents, DevSkiller, Gloat, MuchSkills
- Perplexity Sonar: TalentGuard; alternatives Skills Base, iMocha
- Grok 4.20: MuchSkills; alternatives 365Talents, AG5, Skills Base
- Mistral Small: Beamery, MuchSkills; alternatives AG5, Degreed, Workday Skills Cloud
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: MuchSkills, TalentGuard; alternatives 365Talents, Disprz, Skills Base
- Llama 4 Maverick: 365Talents
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: 365Talents; alternatives Cognisess, Disprz, Skills Base
- Kimi K2: MuchSkills, TalentGuard; alternatives 365Talents, Skills Base
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Skills Base; alternatives 365Talents, AG5, MuchSkills, iMocha
- MiniMax M2.5: TalentGuard; alternatives 365Talents, MuchSkills, iMocha
- GPT-6 Luna: SkillPanel; alternatives Fuel50, Skills Base
- Muse Glimmer 30B: TalentGuard; alternatives 365Talents, Cognisess, Disprz, Fuel50

## Sources the answers cite

68 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- marketintelligencetools.com: 29 answers, 29 citations
- disprz.ai: 21 answers, 28 citations
- firsthr.app: 17 answers, 17 citations
- muchskills.com: 16 answers, 21 citations
- hrtechsaas.com: 16 answers, 16 citations
- g2.com: 14 answers, 26 citations
- gane.ai/index: 11 answers, 23 citations
- sourceforge.net: 11 answers, 18 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://marketintelligencetools.com/rankings/skills-intelligence-platforms (27 answers)
- https://disprz.ai/blog/skills-gap-analysis-software (19 answers)
- https://firsthr.app/compare/training/skills-management-software (17 answers)
- https://hrtechsaas.com/blog/skills-intelligence-software (12 answers)
- https://culturro.com/hr-software/skills-intelligence (10 answers)
- https://gane.ai/index/hr/performance/skills-intelligence/2026-09 (9 answers)
- https://docebo.com/learning-network/blog/skills-intelligence-platforms (8 answers)
- https://featuredcustomers.com/software/skills-intelligence-software (8 answers)
- https://gane.ai/index/hr/performance/skills-intelligence (8 answers)
- https://muchskills.com/ (8 answers)

## Warned against

- Eightfold AI: 24 of 38 labels negative. "Avoid These if Budget is a Constraint ... Eightfold AI ... are priced via quote only and typically target enterprises" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- Gloat: 12 of 28 labels negative. "Avoid These if Budget is a Constraint ... Gloat ... They're overkill (and over-budget) for smaller companies." (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- Workday Skills Cloud: 8 of 21 labels negative. "Avoid for mid-market: Pure enterprise plays like TechWolf, Eightfold AI, Gloat, Workday Skills Cloud, or Lightcast" (Grok 4.20, direct prompt)
- TechWolf: 12 of 23 labels negative. "Avoid These if Budget is a Constraint ... TechWolf ... They're overkill (and over-budget) for smaller companies." (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 13 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: Skills Base at 28%.

- Skills Base: 18% to 28%, +10. Inside the floor by 3 points · rank 1 of 162, unchanged.
- iMocha: 9% to 0%, −9. Inside the floor by 4 points · rank 3 → 17 of 162.
- 365Talents: 7% to 11%, +4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 4 → 3 of 162.
- MuchSkills: 5% to 9%, +4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 6 → 4 of 162.
- Lightcast Open Skills: 5% to 9%, +4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 7 → 5 of 162.
- Fuel50: 4% to 0%, −4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 8 → 21 of 162.
- Gloat: 4% to 0%, −4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 10 → 112 of 162.
- TalentGuard: 13% to 15%, +2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 2 of 162, unchanged.
- TechWolf: 7% to 9%, +2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 5 → 6 of 162.
- Degreed: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 11 → 18 of 162.
- Workday Skills Cloud: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 13 → 44 of 162.
- Eightfold AI: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 23 → 162 of 162.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/hr.