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Video interviewing

Asked as “video interviewing platform”, and as “asynchronous video interview tool”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 48 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each.
Standing · first-choice share
50%
Clear leader
50Spark Hire08Willo061Way Interview35others

50% of first choices, clear leader.

Since September 2026▼−6Since September 2026: 55% → 49%, −6 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Spark Hire held the lead, −6 points on 55%, inside the 13-point floor.

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.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
01Spark Hire50%18%57endorsed leader▼−6Since September 2026: 55% → 49%, −6 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.55% → 49%
02Willo8%3%39accepted challenger▲+3Since September 2026: 7% → 10%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.7% → 10%
03Hireflix6%3%34accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 5% → 5%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.5% → 5%
04Hirevire6%0%15accepted challenger▼−2Since September 2026: 10% → 7%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.10% → 7%
05myInterview4%0%12accepted challenger▼−5Since September 2026: 10% → 5%, −5 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.10% → 5%
06HireVue4%60%48criticized challenger▲+5Since September 2026: 0% → 5%, +5 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 5%
07VidCruiter2%18%45accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.2% → 2%
Show the two products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
09Zoom0%38%13criticized challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
08Jobma0%7%15accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%

The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured

Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
All twenty-one head-to-head pages: the top seven products, each against each

One product takes 50% of first choices here, so the chart would put eight 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.

What they warned about

Eight of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Perplexity Sonar, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2 and GLM 4.7 FlashX 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.
HireVue
60%
29 of 48 labels negative · 11 of 14 models · 11 hard negative
“The Case of HireVue: HireVue is one of the largest enterprise video hiring tools, but it has faced intense scrutiny.... the ACLU filed an EEOC complaint against Intuit and HireVue” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Spark Hire
18%
10 of 57 labels negative · 10 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“Platforms to Avoid on a Tight Budget | Spark Hire | ~$149-$299/month | Too expensive for limited budgets” Kimi K2, budget prompt
VidCruiter
18%
8 of 45 labels negative · 6 of 14 models · 3 hard negative
“enterprise-weighted; custom quoting and more complexity than a mid-sized team typically needs” DeepSeek V4 Flash, paraphrase prompt
Zoom
38%
5 of 13 labels negative · 5 of 14 models
“**Standard meeting tools used as a full interviewing system** such as Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, or Skype, if the company relies on them without consistent process... these tools lack recruitment-specific features” Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt

What they cite

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

Sites the answers cite

75 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 982 links across 198 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. 10 of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category; the method page measures whether that reading tilts an answer.

vendor site · Willo38 answers · 59 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Pin36 answers · 38 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Hirevire34 answers · 67 citations · 11 models
34 answers · 41 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Spark Hire33 answers · 44 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Rework29 answers · 37 citations · 10 models
29 answers · 34 citations · 10 models
vendor site · LinkedIn27 answers · 30 citations · 9 models
vendor site · G224 answers · 24 citations · 9 models
23 answers · 23 citations · 11 models
vendor site · FirstHR21 answers · 21 citations · 9 models
vendor site · G220 answers · 32 citations · 11 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.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best video interviewing platform”, “video interviewing platform”, “video interviewing platforms”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Spark Hire sparkhire.com50%1764,40022811,632$9716
Willo willo.video8%1148,1001926,581165
Hireflix hireflix.com6%1011,900501,3909
Hirevire hirevire.com6%6521004440
1Way Interview6%300
myInterview radancy.com4%41480107,6925
EasyHire.me easyhire.me4%23100142
HireVue hirevue.com4%35714,8001,14735,611147
VidCruiter vidcruiter.com2%1591,0002118,86681
interviewstream interviewstream.com2%948001,87024

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 18 sites; 6 of them are among the sites the models cited here (g2.com, hiretruffle.com, linkedin.com, peoplemanagingpeople.com, selectsoftwarereviews.com, willo.video). The first result for “best video interviewing platform” is reddit.com.

How 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.
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ModelDirect“What is the best video interviewing platform for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which asynchronous video interview tool would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top video interviewing platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best video interviewing platform for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a video interviewing platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which video interviewing platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Spark Hire
One alternativeHackerRank
Spark HireHeld
Two alternativesHireflix, Willo
no first choiceHirevire
Two alternativesHireflix, Jobma
no first choiceagainst: HireVue, Spark Hire, Willo
GPT-5.4 miniSpark Hire
Two alternativesHireVue, VidCruiter
Spark HireHeld
Three alternativesHireVue, VidCruiter, Willo
HireVue
Five alternativesHireflix, Spark Hire, VidCruiter, Willo, interviewstream
Hireflix, One Way Interviewagainst: HireVue, VidCruiterno first choiceagainst: HireVue, Spark Hire, VidCruiter
Gemini 3.5 FlashSpark Hire
Four alternativesBrightHire, Metaview, VidCruiter, Willo
Spark HireHeld
Three alternativesHireflix, Truffle, Willo
against: HireVue
HireVue
Five alternativesHireflix, Jobma, Spark Hire, VidCruiter, Willo
Hirevire
Five alternativesEasyHire.me, Google Meet, Hireflix, VoxScreen, Zoom
against: HireVue, Spark Hire
no first choiceagainst: Eightfold AI, HireVue
Perplexity SonarSpark Hire
Two alternativesRework, VidCruiter
WilloChanged
Two alternativesHireflix, Jobma
HireVue, VidCruiter
Seven alternativesBrightHire, Clovers, HackerRank, Hireflix, Pin, Spark Hire, Willo
Willo
Three alternativesHirevire, JazzHR, myInterview
no first choiceagainst: Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Zoom
Grok 4.1 FastSpark Hire
Three alternativesHireflix, VidCruiter, Willo
against: HireVue
Spark HireHeld
Two alternativesHireflix, Willo
against: HireVue
no first choiceagainst: HireVue1Way Interview
Two alternativesWillo, myInterview
against: Google Meet, Zoom
Spark Hire
Three alternativesBrightHire, VidCruiter, Willo
against: HireVue
against: HireVue, Mercor, Spark Hire, Webex
Mistral SmallSpark Hire
Two alternativesBreezy HR, VidCruiter
AsyncInterview, WilloChanged
Three alternativesHireflix, Jobma, myInterview
against: HireVue, VidCruiter
no first choicemyInterview
Two alternatives1Way Interview, Pin
no first choiceagainst: HireVue
DeepSeek V4 FlashSpark Hire
One alternativeWillo
against: HireVue
Spark HireHeld
One alternativeWillo
against: HireVue, Hireflix, VidCruiter
HireVue
Six alternativesHireflix, Hirevire, Jobma, Spark Hire, VidCruiter, Willo
1Way Interview
Four alternativesGoogle Meet, Hireflix, Willo, Zoom
HireVue
Five alternativesBrightHire, Spark Hire, Talview, VidCruiter, Willo
against: HireVue, Jobma, Spark Hire
Llama 4 MaverickSpark Hire
One alternativeVidCruiter
VidCruiterChanged
Two alternativesSpark Hire, Truffle
no first choicemyInterviewno first choiceagainst: GoToMeeting, Skype, Zoom
Qwen 3.7 FlashHireVue
Four alternativesModern Hire, Spark Hire, Talmatic, VidCruiter
against: SAP SuccessFactors
Spark HireChanged
Three alternativesHirevire, VidCruiter, Willo
HireVue
Four alternativesModernHiring, Primp, Spark Hire, VocoVista
Hireflix
Three alternativesGoogle Meet, Willo, Zoom
against: Greenhouse, HireVue
no first choiceagainst: HireVueagainst: HireVue, Modern Hire, Superprofiler
Kimi K2Spark Hire, interviewstream
Two alternativesHireflix, VidCruiter
Spark HireChanged
Four alternativesHireflix, Hirevire, VidCruiter, Willo
against: Harver, HireVue
HireVue, Spark Hire
Two alternativesHirevire, VidCruiter
against: Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
Hirevire
Four alternatives1Way Interview, EasyHire.me, Hireflix, myInterview
against: HireVue, Spark Hire, VidCruiter
no first choiceagainst: HireVue
GLM 4.7 FlashXSpark Hire
Two alternativesHireflix, Willo
against: HireVue, VidCruiter
WilloChanged
Two alternativesJobma, Spark Hire
HireVue, VidCruiter
Seven alternativesBarRaiser, Hireflix, Jobma, Spark Hire, Willo, interviewstream, myInterview
1Way Interview
Two alternativesEddy, Hirevire
against: HireVue, VidCruiter
no first choiceagainst: HireVue, Spark Hire
MiniMax M2.5Spark Hire
Two alternativesVidCruiter, interviewstream
Spark HireHeld
One alternativeWillo
against: HireVue
no first choiceEasyHire.me
Three alternativesGoogle Meet, Zoom, myInterview
no first choiceagainst: HireVue, Spark Hire
GPT-6 LunaSpark Hire
Two alternativesHireVue, VidCruiter
Spark HireHeld
Two alternativesVidCruiter, Willo
Spark Hire
Four alternativesHireVue, Jobma, VidCruiter, Willo
Google Meet
One alternativeWillo
against: Spark Hire
no first choicenothing named
Muse Glimmer 30BSpark Hire
Two alternativesBreezy, VidCruiter
Spark HireHeld
Two alternativesHirevire, Willo
against: HireVue, VidCruiter
no first choiceEasyHire.me, Hireflix
Two alternatives1Way Interview, myInterview
against: Spark Hire
no first choiceagainst: HireVue, Mercor, Paradox.ai / "Olivia" McHire, Zoom
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The 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
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:42yes97 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:24yes34 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:41yes1019 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 12:09yes193 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 09:13yes2110 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 08:23yes156 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:11yes1928 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 11:20yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 11:56no028 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:45yes1324 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 08:19yes1553 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:40yes1029 s
Direct recommendationGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 11:50yes38 s
Direct recommendationMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 10:29yes1414 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:08yes1510 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 11:08yes35 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 12:14yes1153 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 07:50yes193 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 08:53yes237 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 09:22yes56 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:02yes2425 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:45yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 07:45yes619 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 11:36yes1014 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:59yes2428 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 10:21yes1017 s
ParaphraseGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 09:43yes214 s
ParaphraseMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 07:48yes2036 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 07:41yes108 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 11:04yes36 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 12:16yes1854 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 11:48yes205 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 11:58yes1710 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:35yes86 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 11:48yes2445 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:35yes57 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:09no028 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 11:18yes1525 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 12:07yes10348 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 08:41yes1322 s
ComparativeGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 08:23yes616 s
ComparativeMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 12:07no01 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:58yes97 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 10:54yes34 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 08:29yes1720 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 08:27yes203 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:41yes227 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 09:08yes53 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:49yes2420 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:07yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 11:13yes1418 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 09:02yes1422 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 11:31yes23160 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:45yes514 s
Budget constrainedGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 09:43yes312 s
Budget constrainedMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 09:07yes1019 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 08:54no07 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:51no06 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 07:29yes1227 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 09:33yes287 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:16yes158 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:57no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 12:09yes1936 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:54yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 08:43no026 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 08:10yes540 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 08:05yes1559 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 10:47no08 s
Scale constrainedGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 08:39yes214 s
Scale constrainedMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 11:47no04 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:15yes97 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 11:25yes47 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 08:09yes2729 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 11:39yes195 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 11:16yes239 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:07yes55 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:09yes2533 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:53yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:54yes1936 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:50yes2422 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 07:40yes2417 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:44yes1516 s
Negative framingGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 10:12yes315 s
Negative framingMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 09:06yes2334 s

Normalization in this category

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

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Category-scoped readings
EasyHire read as EasyHire.me
Unresolved, counted raw
AsyncInterview
Clovers
Comeet
GoToMeeting
HackerEarth FaceCode
Hinterview
Interview Stream
Intervue.io
ModernHiring
One Way Interview
Paradox.ai / "Olivia" McHire
Primp
Prisms
Superprofiler
VocoVision
VocoVista
VoxScreen
Wedge
ZappyVue (Zappyhire)
Zoom or Microsoft Teams
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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