4 categories · RankedMuchSkills
MuchSkills is a skills intelligence platform for mapping and managing workforce skills, built for HR and L&D, workforce planning, resourcing, engineering and compliance teams · muchskills.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.
Skills Base is first at 55%.
Skills Base is first at 28%. 4 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Eightfold AI is first at 33%.
Why models recommend it
“or MuchSkills if you want rapid adoption, beautiful visualization, and practicality at a mid-market budget”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“For a balance of AI-driven insights and ease of use, MuchSkills and Beamery are top choices.”Mistral Small · Direct question · first choice
“I'd suggest starting with TalentGuard or MuchSkills as your top choices”Kimi K2 · Direct question · first choice
“Top Recommendation: MuchSkills”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as MuchSkills, over the 65 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 33 | Compare → | |
| 31 | 1 | View → | |
| 24 | 0 | View → | |
| 20 | 3 | View → | |
| 19 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 19 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 13 | 1 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of MuchSkills →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on MuchSkills's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Built for HR and L&D, workforce planning, resourcing, engineering and compliance teams.
- Price stated
- Plans scale from Starter to Enterprise. The pricing page compares the plans; prices are on request.
- Free plan or trial
- Yes, with a proof of concept: a scoped pilot on your own data and your own questions, so you see the answers you would get, not a demo account.
- Certifications
- GDPR, ISO 9001, ISO 27001, AS9100
- Hosting
- European Union, EU
- Customers named
- TBS, Nigeria's Federal Civil Service, Phillips Consulting, Nigeria’s Federal Civil Service
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 64 of the 65 answers that named MuchSkills and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
170 of the 224 domain citations in answers naming MuchSkills came from a third party's page. Sixteen were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 99 | 18 | 2026-09-02 | Workforce planning, Skills intelligence | |
| News or press | 22 | 1 | 2026-09-09 | Skills intelligence, Performance management | |
| Report or ebook | 18 | 0 | 2026-03-15 | ||
| Comparison | 5 | 1 | 2026-08-22 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 5 | 2 | 2026-09-12 | Workforce planning, Skills intelligence | |
| Case study | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-12What is a skills matrix and why do you need a modern one glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-09Unleash world 2026 news or press
- 2026-09-02Skills management what is it and why do you need it blog
- 2026-09-02Employee training record template blog
- 2026-08-28Sap skills management participation layer blog
- 2026-08-22Build vs buy why cultivating internal talent beats costly external hiring comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page muchskills.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name workforce planning (10); 6 name its categories the models place it in. Read September 29, 2026.