2 categories · RankedSkills Base
Skills Base is skills management and intelligence software that gives organizations real-time skill insights to support talent decisions · skills-base.com ↗
Leads at small business. Thin evidence at enterprise: six labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first. Next is MuchSkills at 7%.
Ranked first, contested: TalentGuard has 15%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Eightfold AI is first at 33%.
Why models recommend it
“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-constrained question · 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-constrained question · first choice
“Skills Base stands out as the best skills intelligence platform for companies with a limited budget.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“### 1. Skills Base — Best Free Tier ... the paid entry point is among the lowest in the industry”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Skills Base, over the 81 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 33 | 0 | View → | |
| 28 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 26 | 0 | View → | |
| 24 | 0 | View → | |
| 21 | 0 | View → | |
| 18 | 1 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Skills Base →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Skills Base's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- frontline and operational teams
- Price stated
- Free $0 Free Forever; Teams $2.25 per person / month; Enterprise $4 per person / month; Ultimate On Request
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Free Forever
- Certifications
- GDPR
- Hosting
- USA, Australia, Europe (Germany)
- Customers named
- ConvergeOne, Trane, Vodafone, Trane technologies, Delaware, Converge One, Vodafone Retail NZ, Ellucian
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 81 of the 81 answers that named Skills Base and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
242 of the 306 domain citations in answers naming Skills Base came from a third party's page. Thirty-one 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 102 | 0 | 2026-06-24 | Skills intelligence, Workforce planning | |
| Report or ebook | 6 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 4 | 0 | 2026-05-20 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-06-24Skills based workforce planning a guide for hr and executives blog
- 2026-06-22Competency management software buyers guide blog
- 2026-06-17The talent management framework every hr team needs blog
- 2026-05-20Competency framework vs skills framework what hr leaders need to know comparison
- 2026-05-19What skills management and intelligence software actually does and why it matters blog
- 2026-05-18The role of skills data in talent decisions blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page skills-base.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. Read September 29, 2026.