Pin vs hireEZ
Zero of twelve models named Pin first on the direct prompt; two named hireEZ. Pin was named by six of the twelve models and hireEZ by twelve and Pin carries 11 labels and hireEZ 30, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Pin
accepted challengerNamed in seven categories this edition.
Named in six 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 Recruiting CRM and sourcing page.
By framing
Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Pin and hireEZ were named in the same answer forty-eight times, of the 163 answers naming Pin and the 161 naming hireEZ. In those answers hireEZ took the first choice three times and Pin sixteen.
Every model, every framing
| Model | DirectPI | ParaphrasePI | ComparativePI | Budget-constrainedPI | Scale-constrainedPI | NegativePI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | |||||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | ||||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | PI | | ||
| Perplexity Sonar | | PI | ||||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | | | ||||
| Mistral Small | | |||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | PI | | |||
| Llama 4 Maverick | ||||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | |||||
| Kimi K2 | | |||||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | | ||||
| MiniMax M2.5 | | | PI |
hireEZPI first choicePI named as an alternativePI argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Pin on the left and hireEZ on the right.The direct prompt
hireEZ first, Pin not the choice
2 of 12 modelsPin was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
6 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
4 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.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.
By buyer segment
hireEZ5%#6 of 6What the models said about Pin
No label in this category carried a quote.
What the models said about hireEZ
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.
“stronger for sourcing quality, but it's generally more of a premium option and pricing is often quote-based” GPT-5.4 mini · budget prompt · soft negative
“For pipeline building and automated outreach, Gem and HireEZ are highly effective” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct 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.