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Talent intelligence

Asked as “talent intelligence platform”, and as “AI talent platform for hiring and mobility”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 48 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Pin
Contested
17% of first choices, contested.
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By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
Small businessPin18%ContestedStanding →Mid-marketPin17%ContestedThis pageEnterpriseEightfold AI72%Clear leaderStanding →

01The standing

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. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Pin17%0%25accepted challenger
02Gem15%0%24accepted challenger
03Lessie AI12%0%11accepted challenger
04Eightfold AI12%55%51criticized challenger
05hireEZ8%11%28accepted challenger
06Metaview6%0%21accepted challenger
07SeekOut6%13%31accepted challenger
08Loxo4%11%18accepted challenger
09Phenom2%48%23criticized challenger
Show the eight products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
17Beamery0%58%31criticized challenger
16Gloat0%48%25criticized challenger
15iCIMS Talent Cloud0%45%11criticized challenger
14Reejig0%20%10accepted challenger
11Findem0%15%13accepted challenger
13Lightcast0%10%10accepted challenger
12LinkedIn Talent Insights0%10%10accepted challenger
10365Talents0%8%12accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.
Head to head
Pin vs GemPin vs Lessie AIGem vs Lessie AI

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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01Pin17%
02Gem15%
03Lessie AI12%
04Eightfold AI12%
05hireEZ8%
06Metaview6%
07SeekOut6%
08Loxo4%
09Phenom2%
10365Talents0%
11Findem0%
12LinkedIn Talent Insights0%
13Lightcast0%
14Reejig0%
15iCIMS Talent Cloud0%
16Gloat0%
17Beamery0%

02What they warned about

Zero of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. 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 and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Eightfold AI
55%
28 of 51 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 14 hard negative
“Eightfold AI (Extreme Caution on "Match Scores")... class-action lawsuit... acts as a "consumer reporting agency" under the Fair Credit Reporting Act” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Beamery
58%
18 of 31 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 6 hard negative
“Beamery, with average annual contracts around $220,000... make it impractical for recruiting agencies or mid-market teams” Claude Haiku 4.5, budget prompt
Gloat
48%
12 of 25 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“**Avoid for your size**: Eightfold/Phenom/Gloat\u2014enterprise-heavy, pricey ($100K+)” Grok 4.1 Fast, paraphrase prompt
Phenom
48%
11 of 23 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“**Avoid for your size**: Eightfold/Phenom/Gloat\u2014enterprise-heavy, pricey ($100K+)” Grok 4.1 Fast, paraphrase prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

67 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 844 links across 224 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

pin.com
vendor site · Pin43 answers · 70 citations · 10 models
metaview.ai
vendor site · Metaview37 answers · 44 citations · 10 models
learn.g2.com
30 answers · 32 citations · 10 models
guideflow.com
vendor site · Guideflow24 answers · 26 citations · 9 models
hiretruffle.com
19 answers · 19 citations · 10 models
g2.com
18 answers · 48 citations · 10 models
sapia.ai
vendor site · Sapia.ai18 answers · 18 citations · 8 models
engagedly.com
vendor site · Engagedly16 answers · 23 citations · 9 models
hrtechsaas.com
vendor site · HRTechSaaS16 answers · 23 citations · 6 models
jobspipe.dev
15 answers · 17 citations · 10 models
lessie.ai
vendor site · Lessie15 answers · 16 citations · 8 models
wrangle.ai
vendor site · Wrangle15 answers · 15 citations · 8 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

pin.com/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms
38 answers · 10 models
metaview.ai/resources/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms
37 answers · 10 models
learn.g2.com/best-talent-intelligence-software
30 answers · 10 models
pin.com/blog/talent-intelligence-software
21 answers · 7 models
guideflow.com/blog/talent-intelligence-software
20 answers · 8 models
sapia.ai/resources/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms
18 answers · 8 models
hiretruffle.com/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms
16 answers · 10 models
jobspipe.dev/talent-intelligence-platforms
15 answers · 10 models
lessie.ai/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms
15 answers · 8 models
wrangle.ai/blogs/best-talent-intelligence-platforms-2026
15 answers · 8 models

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best talent intelligence platform for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which AI talent platform for hiring and mobility would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top talent intelligence platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best talent intelligence platform for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a talent intelligence platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which talent intelligence platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Bryq
Three alternativesGoPerfect, Skima AI, iCIMS Talent Cloud
Eightfold AIChanged
Three alternativesEngagedly, Fuel50, Phenom
no first choice
Two alternativesEightfold AI, Pin
Pin
One alternativeGoPerfect
against: Beamery, Eightfold AIno first choiceagainst: Eightfold AI, Entelo, Reejig
GPT-5.4 miniSeekOut
One alternativeEightfold AI
against: LinkedIn Talent InsightsEightfold AIChanged
Three alternativesGreenhouse, Phenom, iCIMS Talent Cloud
against: WorkableEightfold AI
Four alternativesBeamery, Gloat, Phenom, SeekOut
Jobin.cloud, Loxoagainst: 365Talents, hireEZno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashGem
Three alternativesFindem, SeekOut, hireEZ
against: Beamery, Eightfold AI, GloatNestorChanged
Three alternativesEngagedly, Phenom, SeekOut
against: Eightfold AI, GloatEightfold AI
Four alternativesBeamery, Findem, Gloat, SeekOut
Pin
Three alternativesJuicebox, Loxo, Metaview
against: Beamery, Eightfold AI, PhenomGem, SeekOut, hireEZagainst: Beamery, Eightfold AIagainst: Beamery, Eightfold AI, Gloat, HireVue, SeekOut, Workday, hireEZ
Perplexity SonarhireEZ
Two alternativesLightcast, Pin
against: Beamery, Eightfold AIEightfold AIChanged
Three alternativesGreenhouse, SeekOut, Workable
no first choicePin
Three alternativesGem, Lessie AI, Loxo
no first choiceagainst: Gloat, Workday Skills Cloud
Grok 4.1 FastGem
Three alternativesLoxo, Metaview, hireEZ
against: Eightfold AI, SeekOuthireEZChanged
Two alternativesGreenhouse, Workable
against: Eightfold AI, Gloat, PhenomEightfold AI, Gem, hireEZ
Three alternativesBeamery, Metaview, SeekOut
Pin
Two alternativesLessie AI, Metaview
against: Loxo, Manatalno first choice
Five alternativesBeamery, Eightfold AI, Findem, Gloat, Phenom
against: Beamery, Eightfold AI, HiredScore, Mercor.io, Phenom, Reejig, TalentHook, TalentLaunch, Talentsconnect, Workday
Mistral SmallGem, MetaviewAshby, GoPerfectChanged
Two alternativesSeekOut, hireEZ
no first choiceMetaview, Pin
One alternativeArya
no first choiceagainst: Beamery, Eightfold AI, Findem, Gloat, Phenom, SeekOut
DeepSeek V4 FlashGem
Four alternativesLessie AI, Pin, SeekOut, hireEZ
against: Beamery, Draup, Eightfold AI, FindemFuel50Changed
Three alternativesGreenhouse, Lever, Phenom
against: Beamery, Eightfold AI, GloatEightfold AI
Three alternativesBeamery, Gloat, Phenom
Metaview, Pin
Three alternativesGem, Lessie AI, Tiny Team
against: Beamery, Eightfold AI, Phenom, Workday, hireEZ, iCIMS Talent CloudEightfold AI
Five alternativesBeamery, Findem, Gloat, LinkedIn Talent Insights, SeekOut
against: Eightfold AI, ModernHire, Pymetrics, Workday
Llama 4 MaverickLessie AI
Three alternativesAmazingHiring, Gem, hireEZ
no first choiceChangedno first choiceLessie AI
Two alternativesMetaview, Wrangle
no first choiceagainst: Beamery, Gloat, Phenom, Workday Skills Cloud, iCIMS Talent Cloud
Qwen 3.7 FlashGem
Three alternativesAmazingHiring, hireEZ, iCIMS Talent Cloud
against: Eightfold AI, SeekOutEightfold AIChanged
Three alternativesEngagedly, Gloat, Pin
SeekOut
Seven alternativesArya, Beamery, Eightfold AI, Fuel50, LinkedIn Talent Insights, Pin, Reejig
Lessie AI
Two alternativesMetaview, Pin
against: Eightfold AI, LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Talent Solutionsno first choiceagainst: Draup, Eightfold AI, Gloat, Loxo, Workday Skills Cloud
Kimi K2Gem
Three alternativesPin, SeekOut, hireEZ
against: Beamery, Eightfold AI, Lightcast, Phenom, iCIMS Talent CloudWorkableChanged
Seven alternatives365Talents, Ashby, Degreed, Fuel50, Manatal, Zoho Recruit, hireEZ
against: Beamery, Eightfold AI, Gloat, Phenomno first choiceLessie AI, Pin
Three alternativesGem, Loxo, Wrangle
against: Beamery, Eightfold AI, Phenom, iCIMS Talent Cloudno first choiceagainst: Eightfold AI, HireVue, Pymetrics, Workday
GLM 4.7 FlashXPin
Three alternativesMetaview, SeekOut, iCIMS Talent Cloud
against: Beamery, Eightfold AI, Gloat, PhenomFuel50Changed
Two alternativesWorkable, iMocha
no first choiceLessie AI
Five alternatives100Hires, Gem, Metaview, Pin, Wrangle
against: Beamery, Eightfold AI, Phenom, iCIMS Talent Cloudno first choiceagainst: Eightfold AI, Workday
MiniMax M2.5SeekOut, hireEZ
One alternativeGreenhouse
Eightfold AI, PhenomChanged
Three alternatives365Talents, Beamery, Gloat
no first choiceLessie AI, Loxo
Two alternativesAmazingHiring, hireEZ
against: Beamery, Eightfold AIno first choiceagainst: Eightfold AI, Gloat, Workday
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:13yes99 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:27yes47 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:57yes1621 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:15yes197 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:13yes3520 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:27yes148 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:04yes2631 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:55yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:24yes531 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:02yes1567 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:10yes18119 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:55yes513 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:43yes97 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:06yes37 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:40yes1726 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:00yes207 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 20:17yes3922 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:34yes55 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:31yes2837 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:58yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:30yes518 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:02yes2340 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:24yes1542 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:20yes1752 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:15yes99 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:17yes68 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:10yes1526 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:13yes2013 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 21:38yes1814 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:02yes57 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:49yes1525 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:23yes54 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:35yes520 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:01yes1332 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:04yes940 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:10yes521 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 21:03yes98 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:46yes25 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:57yes2145 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:53yes176 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 18:34yes3521 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:06yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:30yes1820 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:06yes63 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:33yes518 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:17yes820 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:14yes1125 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:56yes1030 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:44no06 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:30no05 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:24yes926 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:26yes209 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 17:53yes1413 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:26no05 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:58yes1328 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:32yes52 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:54no028 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:23yes1020 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:26yes2533 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:08yes526 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:15yes1810 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:46no08 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:48yes2530 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:27yes208 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 17:55yes4319 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:45yes56 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:53yes2424 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:12yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:55yes1028 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:02yes2534 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:09yes28145 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:34yes1419 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
Eightfold read as Eightfold AI
Lessie read as Lessie AI
Noon read as Noon AI
iCIMS read as iCIMS Talent Cloud
Unresolved, counted raw
Asymbl
Coresight
Horsefly
JobsPi
Mercor.io
ModernHire
Recruit
TalentHook
TalentLaunch
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.

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