3 categories · RankedSkillshare
Why models recommend it
“Choose Skillshare for hands-on creative project practice.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Project-based classes focused on creativity and freelancing.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Best for: creative and design skills, side hustle projects.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Comparative question · alternative
“Creative fields (design, writing, photography, animation)”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Multiple users have reported it as a scam, citing extreme difficulty in canceling subscriptions, misleading billing practices, and poor customer service.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“platforms mentioned as scams or to be avoided include Skillshare”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning
“Skillshare: Frequently criticized for auto-renewing annual subscriptions without warning emails and having rigid refund policies”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Certificates from Udemy, Skillshare, MasterClass, and Brilliant generally have little employer recognition”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Skillshare, over the 40 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 3 | View → | |
| 35 | 2 | View → | |
| 27 | 6 | View → | |
| 21 | 8 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 4 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Skillshare →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
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 32 of the 40 answers that named Skillshare and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Sixty-nine of the sixty-nine domain citations in answers naming Skillshare came from a third party's page.
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 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template or tool | 305 | undated | Applicant tracking syste | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 115 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 103 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 39 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 26 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 20 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 12 | undated | |||
| Blog | 6 | 0 | 2022-08-01 | ||
| Case study | 4 | undated | |||
| News or press | 4 | undated |
Most recent
- 2022-08-01CFO CPO Press Release.pdf blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page skillshare.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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.