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Skills intelligence · November 2026 Edition

Skills Base vs TechWolf

One of fourteen models named Skills Base first on the direct prompt; zero named TechWolf. Skills Base was named by twelve of the fourteen models and TechWolf by eleven and both carry 23 labels, so the shares below are directly comparable.

Skills Base

accepted challenger

Named in two categories this edition.

TechWolf

criticized challenger

Named in two categories this edition.

First-choice share28%9%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%52%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#6A position in a field of 20; printed, not drawn.
Labels2323Equal, which is what makes the shares comparable.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Skills Base reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.MuchSkills was named alongside these two in ten of the fourteen direct answers. Skills Base vs TalentGuard · Skills Base vs 365Talents · Skills Base vs MuchSkills

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the skills intelligence page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Skills BaseFirst choices, of fourteen modelsTechWolf
Direct106 against TechWolf
Paraphrase342 against TechWolf
Comparative00
Budget-constrained902 against TechWolf
Scale-constrained002 against TechWolf
Negative00
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Skills Base and TechWolf were named in the same answer twenty-eight times, of the 81 answers naming Skills Base and the 81 naming TechWolf. In those answers TechWolf took the first choice one time and Skills Base seventeen.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Skills Base and TechWolf stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Skills Base TechWolf first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Skills Base on the left and TechWolf on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Skills Base and TechWolf stood in it.

Skills Base first, TechWolf not the choice

1 of 14 modelsTechWolf was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GLM 4.7 FlashXSkills Base alternatives: 365Talents, AG5, MuchSkills, iMocha

Neither was the first choice, one was named

6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Perplexity SonarTalentGuard alternatives: Skills Base, iMocha
Grok 4.20MuchSkills alternatives: 365Talents, AG5, Skills Base
DeepSeek V4 FlashMuchSkills, TalentGuard alternatives: 365Talents, Disprz, Skills Base
Qwen 3.7 Flash365Talents alternatives: Cognisess, Disprz, Skills Base
Kimi K2MuchSkills, TalentGuard alternatives: 365Talents, Skills Base
GPT-6 LunaSkillPanel alternatives: Fuel50, Skills Base

Neither was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5TalentGuard alternatives: Fuel50, MuchSkills, Workday Skills Cloud, iMocha
GPT-5.4 mini365Talents alternatives: Fuel50, MuchSkills
Gemini 3.5 FlashRetrain.ai alternatives: 365Talents, DevSkiller, Gloat, MuchSkills, iMocha
Mistral SmallBeamery, MuchSkills alternatives: AG5, Degreed, Workday Skills Cloud
Llama 4 Maverick365Talents
MiniMax M2.5TalentGuard alternatives: 365Talents, MuchSkills, iMocha
Muse Glimmer 30BTalentGuard alternatives: 365Talents, Cognisess, Disprz, Fuel50, MuchSkills

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Skills Base leads by fifty-five points.
Skills Base55%#1 of 13
TechWolf0%#12 of 13
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Skills Base leads by nineteen points.
Skills Base28%#1 of 20
TechWolf9%#6 of 20
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: TechWolf leads at enterprise.
TechWolf16%#2 of 16
Skills Base10%#– of 16
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Skills Base

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of four in this category shown.

“the consensus pricing comparison points to Skills Base as the lowest-cost skills intelligence / skills-matrix option that still functions as a full platform” Muse Glimmer 30B · budget prompt · first choice
“For most budget-conscious companies, Skills Base offers the best balance of features, genuinely usable free tier, and low per-user cost.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“Skills Base stands out as the best skills intelligence platform for companies with a limited budget.” Grok 4.20 · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about TechWolf

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.

“Avoid These if Budget is a Constraint ... TechWolf ... They're overkill (and over-budget) for smaller companies.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid for mid-market: Pure enterprise plays like TechWolf” Grok 4.20 · direct prompt · hard negative
“Platforms to Approach with Caution (For Mid-Market) * Eightfold AI / Workday Skills Cloud / TechWolf: ... mid-market companies often find them over-engineered.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · direct prompt · soft negative
“Inference tool: TechWolf if the priority is automatically discovering skills from employees’ actual work” Perplexity Sonar · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Top Pick: TechWolf – Excels at AI-powered skills inference from unstructured data” Grok 4.20 · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Skills Base for taxonomy management + TechWolf for AI-driven skills inference” GLM 4.7 FlashX · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.