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Customer education and LMS · September 2026 Edition

LearnWorlds vs Thought Industries

Zero of twelve models named LearnWorlds first on the direct prompt; zero named Thought Industries. LearnWorlds was named by ten of the twelve models and Thought Industries by twelve and LearnWorlds carries 30 labels and Thought Industries 27, so the shares are not directly comparable.

LearnWorlds

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

Thought Industries

criticized challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share2%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%26%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#6#8A position in a field of 13; printed, not drawn.
Labels3027A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, LearnWorlds reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.LearnUpon was named alongside these two in nine of the twelve direct answers. TalentLMS vs LearnWorlds · TalentLMS vs Thought Industries · LearnUpon vs LearnWorlds

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.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
LearnWorldsFirst choices, of twelve modelsThought Industries
Direct00
Paraphrase01
Comparative01
Budget-constrained102 against Thought Industries
Scale-constrained00
Negative205 against Thought Industries
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, LearnWorlds and Thought Industries were named in the same answer forty-two times, of the 90 answers naming LearnWorlds and the 93 naming Thought Industries. In those answers Thought Industries took the first choice zero times and LearnWorlds nine.

Every model, every framing

The seventy-two answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where LearnWorlds and Thought Industries stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
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
LearnWorlds Thought Industries first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, LearnWorlds on the left and Thought Industries on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where LearnWorlds and Thought Industries stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

7 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Skilljar alternatives: Gainsight Customer Education, Thought Industries
Gemini 3.5 FlashSkilljar alternatives: Gainsight Customer Education, LearnUpon, TalentLMS, Thought Industries, WorkRamp
Grok 4.1 FastSkilljar alternatives: Absorb LMS, LearnUpon, LearnWorlds, TalentLMS, WorkRamp
Mistral SmallLearnUpon alternatives: Absorb LMS, LearnWorlds, TalentLMS
DeepSeek V4 FlashGainsight Customer Education alternatives: LearnUpon, LearnWorlds, WorkRamp
GLM 4.7 FlashXLearnUpon alternatives: Absorb LMS, Beetsol, LearnWorlds, TalentLMS
MiniMax M2.5Skilljar, WorkRamp alternatives: Gainsight Customer Education, LearnWorlds, TalentLMS

Neither was named

5 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniDocebo alternatives: Absorb, LearnUpon, Skilljar, TalentLMS
Perplexity SonarLearnUpon alternatives: Docebo, Gainsight Customer Education, Skilljar, WorkRamp
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Qwen 3.7 FlashSkilljar alternatives: Absorb LMS, LearnUpon, TalentLMS, Thinkific, WorkRamp
Kimi K2Gainsight Customer Education, WorkRamp alternatives: LearnUpon, Skilljar

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
LearnWorlds leads by thirty-five points.
LearnWorlds35%#2 of 12
Thought Industries0%#10 of 12
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Level: the same share of first choices.
LearnWorlds2%#6 of 13
Thought Industries2%#8 of 13
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Thought Industries leads at enterprise.
Thought Industries5%#4 of 10
LearnWorlds0%#10 of 10
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about LearnWorlds

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

“For the best overall value: LearnWorlds at $24-29/month offers the most features for the price” Mistral Small · budget prompt · first choice
“SMB-friendly starting at $24-29/month, modern UX, good e-commerce features” DeepSeek V4 Flash · negative prompt · first choice
“LearnWorlds ($24-299/month) - Good balance of features and price” Mistral Small · negative prompt · first choice

What the models said about Thought Industries

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
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.