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Skills Base
North Geelong, Victoria, Australia
What it is
Skills Base is skills management software for frontline and operational teams. It gives organizations visibility into verified skills, role requirements, and certification status. Teams can build skills taxonomies, map skills to roles and teams, assess capability, and report skill gaps. The platform connects work requirements with verified workforce skills to target development, address gaps, and assign qualified people. Optional AI features include an interactive chatbot agent and automated insights; the Ultimate plan also lists an optional MCP Server. Skills Base offers a REST API and describes connections to HR, learning, and other organizational systems. SAML 2.0 single sign-on is compatible with Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Okta, One Login, and Google G Suite. Customers can choose AWS hosting in the USA, Australia, or Germany. The Free plan supports up to 25 users and 250 skills, but includes zero locations, teams, and qualifications or certifications. Paid pricing starts at $2.25 per user per month. Free-license holders are excluded from the service agreement.
For and against
For
- Maps skills to roles and teams.
- Reports skill gaps and assesses capability.
- Optional AI includes a chatbot and automated insights.
- Customers can choose hosting in the USA, Australia, or Germany.
- Free tier includes up to 25 users and 250 skills.
Against
- Free plan has zero locations, teams, and qualifications or certifications.
- Free-license holders are excluded from the service agreement.
- Paid pricing starts at $2.25 per user per month.
The verdict
Skills Base links verified workforce skills with role requirements, reporting, and development planning. Review the free-tier limits and service-agreement exclusion before choosing it for an organization.
Who it suits
Skills Base suits frontline and operational organizations that need to map workforce skills to roles, assess capability, or track certification status. Its free tier is limited to 25 users and 250 skills, so larger needs call for a paid plan.
Plans and prices
Free
Up to 25 users · Up to 250 skills · Unlimited assessments · Skill Matrix Reports
Read 14 Oct 2026 · skills-base.com
Teams
No maximum users or skills · 2 locations · API Access · Custom Fields
Read 14 Oct 2026 · skills-base.com
Enterprise
No maximum users, skills or locations · Single Sign On · Competency Analysis Reports · Multiple Roles
Read 14 Oct 2026 · skills-base.com
Ultimate
Enterprise features plus Training Allocation · Training Analysis · Internal Career Mobility Insights · Custom Logo & Branding
Read 14 Oct 2026 · skills-base.com
On the record
- AI assistant
- Ask Sam and Skills Base Insights provide natural-language querying, workforce-skills analysis and strategic insights.help.skills-base.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- AI data use
- Skills Base says customer data is not shared with model providers and is never used to train AI models.help.skills-base.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- AI features
- The maker says AI is optional and includes an interactive chatbot agent, automated insights, and an MCP Server option.skills-base.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- AI model hosting
- The changelog says Ask Sam uses Anthropic Claude through Amazon Bedrock and enforces Skills Base security-group permissions.skills-base.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- API authentication
- The API uses OAuth 2.0 client-credentials authentication with generated client IDs, secrets and bearer access tokens.help.skills-base.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- API extensibility
- The documentation says API changes maintain backward compatibility and that new API versions can coexist with older versions for significant changes.help.skills-base.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- API limits
- API GET requests return at most 500 records, and rate and active-token limits apply.help.skills-base.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Assessments
- The product supports self and supervisor assessments using its stated skills-measurement methodology.skills-base.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Change: AI release
- The May 2025 changelog announced the next Ask Sam generation for Skill Query customers, including talent finding, training analysis and career-mobility queries.skills-base.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Change: Credly integration
- The July 2023 changelog announced Credly Workforce badge synchronization into Skills Base qualification records, configured by support and requiring a Credly Workforce subscription.skills-base.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Change: mobile assessment
- The October 2024 changelog announced a redesigned Skills Assessment experience for desktop and mobile.skills-base.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Company history
- Skills Base says it launched in 2019 and reports more than 400 enterprise customers.skills-base.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Company launch
- The company’s About page says Skills Base launched in 2019 and has more than 400 enterprise customers.skills-base.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Company location and founding
- LinkedIn lists headquarters in North Geelong, Victoria and a 2012 founding year.linkedin.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Skills Base as a privately held software-development company with 11–50 employees.linkedin.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Data residency
- Customers can choose AWS hosting in the United States, Australia or Germany.skills-base.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The knowledge base contains sections for getting started, AI, data entities, assessments, reporting, imports, exports, permissions, licensing, integrations and legal trust materials.help.skills-base.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Free tier limits
- The free plan supports up to 25 users and 250 skills, with zero locations, teams, and qualifications or certifications.skills-base.com · read 2 Oct 2026
