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Talent intelligence for enterprise buyers

Asked as “talent intelligence platform”, and as “AI talent platform for hiring and mobility”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 40 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Eightfold AI
Clear leader
72% of first choices, clear leader.
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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%ContestedStanding →EnterpriseEightfold AI72%Clear leaderThis page

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Eightfold AI72%11%55endorsed leader
02SeekOut5%18%33accepted challenger
03Gloat2%13%31accepted challenger
04Phenom2%25%36criticized challenger
05365Talents2%0%11accepted challenger
06LinkedIn Talent Insights2%20%10accepted challenger
Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
07Beamery0%28%36criticized challenger
10Loxo0%10%10accepted challenger
08Findem0%0%13accepted challenger
09Lightcast0%0%10accepted 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

One product takes 72% of first choices here, so the chart would put nine markers in one corner and one at the far edge. The two measurements it plots are columns in the standing above: share, and the negative label rate. Two products carry a negative rate above 25% in this category. Jump to the standing

02What they warned about

Ten of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. GPT-5.4 mini and Mistral Small 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.
Beamery
28%
10 of 36 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“**Beamery**\u2014while widely respected ... has faced criticisms from some enterprise users regarding past support bottlenecks, API limitations, and corporate downsizing” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
SeekOut
18%
6 of 33 labels negative · 6 of 12 models
“If you use seat-based platforms like LinkedIn Recruiter or SeekOut, trying to scale access to thousands of users can quickly drive licensing costs into millions of dollars.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt
Eightfold AI
11%
6 of 55 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“a groundbreaking proposed class-action lawsuit was filed against **Eightfold AI**. The suit alleges that Eightfold's AI-generated suitability scores ... violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Phenom
25%
9 of 36 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“**Avoid Phenom** if you want internal mobility or predictive analytics—you will get a great career site, not intelligence.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative 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. 5 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 873 links across 223 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

pin.com
vendor site · Pin36 answers · 59 citations · 10 models
guideflow.com
vendor site · Guideflow31 answers · 32 citations · 10 models
metaview.ai
vendor site · Metaview29 answers · 30 citations · 10 models
bestrecruitingtools.com
25 answers · 25 citations · 10 models
g2.com
22 answers · 37 citations · 11 models
learn.g2.com
22 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
hrtechsaas.com
vendor site · HRTechSaaS21 answers · 33 citations · 7 models
jobspipe.dev
21 answers · 21 citations · 9 models
eightfold.ai
vendor site · Eightfold18 answers · 29 citations · 9 models
hiretruffle.com
18 answers · 19 citations · 8 models
wrangle.ai
vendor site · Wrangle18 answers · 18 citations · 10 models
rfp.wiki
17 answers · 34 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
31 answers · 10 models
metaview.ai/resources/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms
29 answers · 10 models
guideflow.com/blog/talent-intelligence-software
28 answers · 10 models
bestrecruitingtools.com/blog/best-talent-intelligence-platforms-enterprise-…
25 answers · 10 models
learn.g2.com/best-talent-intelligence-software
22 answers · 9 models
jobspipe.dev/talent-intelligence-platforms
21 answers · 9 models
pin.com/blog/talent-intelligence-software
21 answers · 7 models
hiretruffle.com/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms
18 answers · 8 models
wrangle.ai/blogs/best-talent-intelligence-platforms-2026
18 answers · 10 models
hrtechsaas.com/blog/best-talent-intelligence-platforms
15 answers · 7 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 an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which AI talent platform for hiring and mobility would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade talent intelligence platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best talent intelligence platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a talent intelligence platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which talent intelligence platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Eightfold AI
Two alternativesBeamery, Phenom
against: iCIMS Talent CloudEightfold AIHeld
Two alternativesGloat, Phenom
Eightfold AI
Four alternativesBeamery, Gloat, Phenom, SeekOut
Eightfold AI
One alternativeDayforce
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniLinkedIn Talent Insights
Four alternatives365Talents, HiredScore AI for Recruiting, Phenom, SeekOut
Eightfold AIChanged
Two alternativesFuel50, Workday + HiredScore AI for Talent Mobility
Eightfold AI
Three alternativesBeamery, Oracle HCM / Oracle Talent Management, Phenom
LinkedIn Talent Insights / LinkedIn Recruiter enterprise
One alternativeEightfold AI
against: SeekOutno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashEightfold AI
Three alternativesFindem, Phenom, SeekOut
Eightfold AIHeld
Three alternativesBeamery, Gloat, Phenom
against: Workday Skills Cloud/Talent MarketplaceEightfold AI
Five alternativesBeamery, Findem, Gloat, Phenom, SeekOut
against: SAP SuccessFactors, Workday Skills CloudEightfold AI
Three alternativesBeamery, Findem, Gloat
against: LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOutno first choiceagainst: Beamery, Eightfold AI
Perplexity SonarEightfold AI
Six alternativesBeamery, Draup, Lightcast, LinkedIn Talent Insights, SeekOut, TalentNeuron
Eightfold AIHeld
One alternativeWorkday Talent Acquisition
against: Pin, SeekOutEightfold AI
Five alternativesBeamery, Gloat, Lightcast, LinkedIn Talent Insights, SeekOut
against: PhenomEightfold AI, SeekOut
One alternativeGloat
no first choiceagainst: Gloat, Phenom, Workday Skills Cloud, iCIMS Talent Cloud
Grok 4.1 FastEightfold AI
Two alternativesBeamery, Gloat
Eightfold AIHeld
One alternativeGloat
Eightfold AI
Four alternativesBeamery, Gloat, Phenom, SeekOut
SeekOut
One alternativeEightfold AI
against: Beamery, LinkedIn Recruiter, Loxo, Phenom, Pin, hireEZ, iCIMS Talent Cloudno first choiceagainst: Beamery, Gloat, Greenhouse, Infor Talent Science, Oracle Taleo, Paradox, Phenom, Pin, SAP SuccessFactors, Talentsconnect, Visier, Workday Talent/Skills Cloud, iCIMS Talent Cloud
Mistral SmallEightfold AI
Two alternativesGloat, SeekOut
365Talents, Eightfold AI, Fuel50, GloatChanged
Two alternativesBeamery, Phenom
Eightfold AI
Seven alternatives365Talents, Beamery, Findem, Gem, Gloat, Lightcast, SeekOut
Talent IQno first choiceagainst: Draup, Eightfold AI, ZoomInfo Talent
DeepSeek V4 FlashEightfold AI
Three alternativesGloat, Lightcast, SeekOut
Eightfold AIHeld
Six alternatives365Talents, Beamery, Gloat, Phenom, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday Talent Marketplace
Eightfold AI
Five alternativesBeamery, Fuel50, Gloat, Phenom, SeekOut
Eightfold AI
One alternativeLoxo
against: Beamery, Phenom, SeekOutno first choiceagainst: Beamery, Draup, Eightfold AI, Fuel50, Gloat, Phenom, Visier
Llama 4 MaverickEightfold AIEightfold AIHeld
Three alternativesBraintrust, Peoplebox.ai, Phenom
no first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashEightfold AI
Three alternativesGem, SeekOut, hireEZ
Eightfold AIHeld
Two alternativesGloat, Workday Skills Cloud
Eightfold AI
Five alternativesBeamery, Gloat, Lightcast, Phenom, SeekOut
LinkedIn Talent Solutions
Three alternativesEightfold AI, Phenom, iCIMS Talent Cloud
against: LinkedIn Recruiterno first choiceagainst: Visier
Kimi K2Eightfold AI
Three alternativesBeamery, SeekOut, hireEZ
Eightfold AIHeld
Two alternativesFuel50, Gloat
Eightfold AI
Four alternativesBeamery, Findem, Gloat, Phenom
Phenom
One alternativeEightfold AI
against: Beamery, LinkedIn Talent Insightsno first choiceagainst: Beamery, Eightfold AI, Fuel50, HireVue, SeekOut, Visier
GLM 4.7 FlashXEightfold AI
Five alternativesBeamery, Findem, Gem, Lightcast, SeekOut
Eightfold AIHeld
Five alternativesFuel50, Gloat, Phenom, SAP SuccessFactors Career & Talent Development, Workday Talent Marketplace
Eightfold AI
Four alternativesBeamery, Findem, Gloat, Lightcast
Eightfold AI
One alternativeWorkday
no first choiceagainst: Beamery, Crunchr, Fuel50, Infor Talent Science, Phenom, Talent Intelligence Lab, iCIMS Talent Cloud
MiniMax M2.5Eightfold AI
Four alternatives365Talents, Gem, Loxo, hireEZ
Eightfold AIHeld
Three alternatives365Talents, Gloat, Workday Skills Cloud
Eightfold AI
Three alternativesBeamery, Phenom, SeekOut
Workday
Two alternativesLoxo, Pin
against: Beamery, Eightfold AI, Phenom, RefAssured, SeekOut, iCIMS Talent CloudEightfold AI
Three alternativesLattice, Phenom, SeekOut
against: Beamery, Draup, Eightfold AI, Gloat, LinkedIn Talent Insights, Phenom, Workday Skills Cloud, iCIMS Talent Cloud
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 18:35yes1310 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:54yes26 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:07yes1259 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:12yes205 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 21:24yes3716 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:26yes2011 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:39yes2740 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:21yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:23yes1034 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:49yes1029 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:45yes1272 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:58yes514 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:14yes98 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:38yes34 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:08yes1557 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:29yes205 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 20:26yes2814 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:25yes54 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:38yes1315 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:29yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:13yes1041 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:07yes1420 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:02yes1421 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:34yes522 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 21:00yes139 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:26yes58 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:36yes1927 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:37yes2011 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 21:19yes1722 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:00yes1010 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:58yes2020 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:15yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:44yes923 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 17:54yes1485 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:50yes1140 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:16yes2550 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:59yes1410 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:28yes37 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 20:02yes2235 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:05yes207 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:27yes1814 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:57yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:27yes2442 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:00yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:21yes518 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:32yes2677 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:29yes2374 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:12yes1850 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:43no09 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:30no09 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:59no015 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:31yes2010 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 20:53yes1813 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:35no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:39yes1728 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:27yes55 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:04no033 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:22yes1967 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:35yes1562 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:12yes517 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 21:14yes1710 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:44yes77 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:27yes2227 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:06yes208 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 18:48yes2418 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:52yes149 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 18:30yes2569 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:13yes54 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:44yes934 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:35yes2844 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:58yes18212 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:25yes1027 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
Noon read as Noon AI
SAP read as SAP SuccessFactors
TalentIQ read as Talent IQ
ZoomInfo read as ZoomInfo Talent
iCIMS read as iCIMS Talent Cloud
Unresolved, counted raw
GoToInterview
Jobtalk.ai
Neuroscale/Arbi
Oracle HCM / Oracle Talent Management
RefAssured
SAP SuccessFactors Career & Talent Development
Talent Intelligence Lab
Workday + HiredScore AI for Talent Mobility
Workday Talent/Skills Cloud
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.

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