Three of twelve models named LearnUpon first on the direct prompt; zero named Thought Industries. Both were named by all twelve models and LearnUpon carries 43 labels and Thought Industries 27, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in one category this edition.
Named in one category this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve 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 Customer education and LMS page.
Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, LearnUpon and Thought Industries were named in the same answer fifty-seven times, of the 97 answers naming LearnUpon and the 93 naming Thought Industries. In those answers Thought Industries took the first choice two times and LearnUpon three.
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
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| Claude Haiku 4.5 | ||||||
| GPT-5.4 mini | ||||||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | ||||||
| Perplexity Sonar | ||||||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | ||||||
| Mistral Small | ||||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | ||||||
| Llama 4 Maverick | ||||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | ||||||
| Kimi K2 | ||||||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | ||||||
| MiniMax M2.5 |
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.
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Five of six in this category shown.
“Avoid enterprise tools (Skilljar, Docebo, LearnUpon, Thought Industries)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“No native content authoring ... Per-portal pricing adds up” Kimi K2 · negative prompt · soft negative
“my default recommendation would be LearnUpon if your main goal is customer training / extended enterprise learning” GPT-5.4 mini · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“A very popular mid-market choice with excellent multi-tenant "portal" features” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend LearnUpon as the safest all-around choice” Perplexity Sonar · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.
“"Bait-and-switch" pricing concerns - One reviewer flagged a "new pricing model, a 50% increase, classic bait-n-switch"” Kimi K2 · negative prompt · hard negative
“Enterprise platforms (Skilljar, Thought Industries, Docebo): Start at $25,000+/year” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · hard negative
“Lowest-rated among enterprise options... Best avoided for small/mid-sized teams” Grok 4.1 Fast · negative prompt · hard negative
“My top recommendation: Start with Thought Industries if you need API flexibility and have $25K+ budget” Mistral Small · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Skilljar or Thought Industries are usually the most customer-education-native.” GPT-5.4 mini · comparative prompt · first choice
“Thought Industries is a B2B-focused customer education platform with strong e-commerce capabilities” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct prompt · alternative
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.