Zero of twelve models named Zoho Recruit first on the direct prompt; zero named Manatal. Zoho Recruit was named by twelve of the twelve models and Manatal by nine and Zoho Recruit carries 25 labels and Manatal 10, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in seven categories this edition.
Named in seven categories this edition.
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; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the applicant tracking systems page.
Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Zoho Recruit and Manatal were named in the same answer eighty-six times, of the 177 answers naming Zoho Recruit and the 202 naming Manatal. In those answers Manatal took the first choice twenty-four times and Zoho Recruit nine.
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
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| 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 | ||||||
| MiniMax M2.5 |
Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.
“Zoho Recruit offers a Forever Free plan ... making it the strongest free option for bootstrapped startups.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · budget prompt · first choice
“The Best Overall Free Option: Zoho Recruit ... widely considered the king of free recruitment software” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“If you need a fully-featured, modern platform with AI matching but cannot afford premium systems... this is the top pick.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.