Every category where a model named Skool for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Community platforms	Customer	2%	8 of 74	20%	10	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Skool yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Skool across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1	1	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	0	2
Kimi K2	0	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative6 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained9 labels1

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative31 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Final Pick: If you can spend even a tiny amount, Skool at $9/month gives you the most features per dollar.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Community · budget prompt · first choice

“Skool at $99/month is one of the most cost-effective all-in-one options with gamification and payments built in.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Community · budget prompt · alternative

“Skool is a highly simplified platform that combines discussion threads, a course classroom, and an event calendar.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Community · budget prompt · alternative

“No-code flexibility | LoftOS or Skool | Build any community type quickly” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Community · negative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid Creator-First Platforms (e.g., Circle, Mighty Networks, Skool)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Community · direct prompt · hard negative

“Why to be cautious: Feature limitations and poor user experience” Mistral Small · Community · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Skool, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Skool was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Circle29 of 318Not in the top three

Bettermode23 of 3111Not in the top three

Mighty Networks21 of 311Not in the top three

Discourse20 of 317Not in the top three

Discord19 of 313Not in the top three

Facebook Groups13 of 312Not in the top three

Higher Logic Vanilla13 of 311Not in the top three

Slack12 of 310Not in the top three

Khoros8 of 311Not in the top three

Salesforce Experience Cloud7 of 310Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Skool. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 31 answers that named Skool and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bettermode.com2

cxtoday.com2

guideflow.com2

b2bsaasreviews.com1

disco.co1

f6s.com1

feverbee.com1

gainsight.com1

gartner.com1

genesysgrowth.com1

Thirteen of the thirteen domain citations in answers naming Skool came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bettermode.com/blog/all-in-one-community-platform2

cxtoday.com/community-social-engagement/customer-community-platforms-20262

guideflow.com/blog/customer-community-software2

b2bsaasreviews.com/product-categories/online-community-platforms1

disco.co/blog/best-customer-community-platforms-20261

f6s.com/software/category/customer-community1

feverbee.com/communities1

gainsight.com/blog/the-best-khoros-alternatives-for-enterprise-communities-in-20261

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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