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Index Vendors › Avature · September 2026 Edition
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Avature

72Judge labels
5First choices
11Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
6% in Recruitment marketing for enterprise buyers
Rank 24 of 81 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 15% of its 13 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In recruitment marketing · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Avature for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Recruitment marketing and career sitesTalent acquisition0%24 of 8115%13accepted challenger
Recruiting CRM and sourcingTalent acquisition0%86 of 88100%3under 10 labels · led by Lever at 20%
Internal talent marketplacePerformance and talent management0%42 of 1290%1under 10 labels · led by Fuel50 at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Avature yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Avature across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01012
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast00101
Mistral Small01102
DeepSeek V4 Flash01012
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00112
Kimi K200112
GLM 4.7 FlashX00112
MiniMax M2.500101

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct6 labelsNone
Paraphrase14 labels1
Comparative26 labelsNone
Budget-constrained11 labels4
Scale-constrained9 labelsNone
Negative6 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative72 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 5 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“A strong choice for global or policy-heavy organizations needing workflow configurability” Mistral Small · Internal talent marketpl · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Choose Avature if you have highly unconventional, complex recruiting workflows” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Recruitment marketing · comparative prompt · alternative
“Avature — A highly customizable enterprise CRM known for extreme flexibility” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Recruitment marketing · comparative prompt · alternative
“Known for being highly configurable and flexible for complex workflows” Perplexity Sonar · Recruitment marketing · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Enterprise-only platforms (e.g., some legacy Taleo or Avature implementations) that require heavy professional services.” Kimi K2 · Recruitment marketing · scale prompt · hard negative
“rarely have the massive IT/admin bandwidth required to manage heavy enterprise CRMs (like Avature or Beamery)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Recruiting CRM · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Likely overkill unless you want one single system for *everything*” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Recruiting CRM · scale prompt · soft negative
“Enterprise suites like iCIMS, Avature (negotiate hard)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Recruitment marketing · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Avature, over the 72 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Avature was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Phenom47 of 7217Not in the top three
Beamery44 of 725Not in the top three
Greenhouse27 of 723Not in the top three
iCIMS27 of 722Not in the top three
Symphony Talent26 of 720Not in the top three
SmartRecruiters25 of 722Not in the top three
Joveo20 of 723Not in the top three
Bullhorn16 of 720Not in the top three
Lever15 of 721Not in the top three
Gem13 of 721Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Avature. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 63 of the 72 answers that named Avature and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com36
learn.g2.com35
joveo.com30
bestrecruitingtools.com24
g2.com20
avature.net16
mokahr.io16
builtin.com15
peoplemanagingpeople.com15
recruiterslineup.com14

221 of the 221 domain citations in answers naming Avature came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Avature

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Avature; a claim can dispute any of them.
Avature Internal Mobility 1
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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Avature's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Avature, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at avature.io is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.