Index › Products › Skype · October 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

Skype

17Judge labels

0First choices

12Negative labels

10 / 14Models named it

2Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

8 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Skype was named 8 times in Video conferencing and 1 other category, where Zoom Workplace led with 42%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business42 of 46

under the label threshold

Mid-market47 of 50

under the label threshold

Enterprise53 of 60

under the label threshold

In video conferencing · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Skype 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	Since September 2026
Video conferencing	IT operations and endpoint	0%	47 of 50	71%	7	under 10 labels · led by Zoom Workplace at 42%
Remote support and remote access	IT operations and endpoint	0%	36 of 77	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Splashtop Remote Support at 23%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Skype yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

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

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative13 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative17 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“For simpler issues, showing the problem via video chat is safer.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Remote support · 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.

“Microsoft is discontinuing Skype (as of 2025), meaning it's a poor choice for long-term use” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Video conferencing · negative prompt · hard negative

“It is not recommended for confidential or business-critical communications.” Mistral Small · Video conferencing · negative prompt · hard negative

“several sources describe it as outdated or less suitable for modern team collaboration” Perplexity Sonar · Video conferencing · negative prompt · soft negative

“You are too large for simple free tools (like personal Skype or basic Zoom links)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Video conferencing · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Skype, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Skype was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Google Meet12 of 172Not among the top eight

Zoom Workplace12 of 172Not among the top eight

Microsoft11 of 172Not among the top eight

Cisco Webex10 of 171Not among the top eight

RingCentral4 of 171Not among the top eight

Discord4 of 170Not among the top eight

Houseparty4 of 170Not among the top eight

Jitsi Meet4 of 170Not among the top eight

GoToMeeting3 of 170Not among the top eight

Signal3 of 170Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Skype. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 13 of the 17 answers that named Skype and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

dergipark.org.tr6

forbes.com5

kaspersky.com5

dataart.com4

ftc.gov4

techradar.com4

trueconf.com4

csis.org3

ethicalconsumer.org3

linkedin.com3

No domain is on file for Skype, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/47285496

kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/video-conferencing-security-how-to-stay-safe5

dataart.com/blog/video-conferencing-security-challenges-and-ways-to-address-them-by-max-ka4

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-video-conferencing-software4

csis.org/analysis/video-conferencing-technology-and-risk3

ethicalconsumer.org/technology/shopping-guide/video-conferencing3

ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2020/04/video-conferencing-10-privacy-tips-your-business3

usa.kaspersky.com/blog/videoconference-software-security/217033

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Skype stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 135,000 a month (“skype”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 11,193 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 47 of 50 in video conferencing

Segment leader

42%

Zoom Workplace

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 17 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as Skype

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Skype; a claim can dispute any of them.

FaceTime/Skype 1

Follow Skype

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Skype's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Skype, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Skype by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Skype is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Skype, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.