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Breezy HR

167Judge labels
43First choices
8Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
8Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
41% in Applicant tracking syste for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 50 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 5% of its 19 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.
In applicant tracking syste · 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 Breezy HR 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
Applicant tracking systemsTalent acquisition18%2 of 505%19accepted challenger
AI recruiting assistantsTalent acquisition2%11 of 840%5under 10 labels · led by GoPerfect at 19%
Interview schedulingTalent acquisition0%54 of 7233%3under 10 labels · led by Calendly at 21%
Recruitment marketing and career sitesTalent acquisition0%32 of 810%3under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 16%
Job advertising and distributionTalent acquisition0%34 of 1090%2under 10 labels · led by JobTarget at 21%
Recruiting CRM and sourcingTalent acquisition0%32 of 880%2under 10 labels · led by Lever at 20%
Talent intelligencePerformance and talent management0%44 of 770%1under 10 labels · led by Pin at 17%
Video interviewingTalent acquisition0%23 of 400%1under 10 labels · led by Spark Hire at 55%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Breezy HR 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 Breezy HR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash11204
Perplexity Sonar12014
Grok 4.1 Fast12104
Mistral Small20204
DeepSeek V4 Flash13105
Llama 4 Maverick11114
Qwen 3.7 Flash01102
Kimi K203104
GLM 4.7 FlashX10102
MiniMax M2.502002

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
Direct13 labels4
Paraphrase42 labels13
Comparative31 labels6not counted in share
Budget-constrained50 labels22
Scale-constrained10 labels4
Negative21 labels8not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative167 labels in all, every segment counted; 43 of the 57 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.

“Breezy HR's "Bootstrap" plan is permanently free... one of the most intuitive, visual Kanban-style drag-and-drop pipelines on the market.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Applicant tracking syste · budget prompt · first choice
“Breezy HR offers the best balance of simplicity, automation, and value \u2014 with a free tier and paid plans from $157 per month.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Applicant tracking syste · budget prompt · first choice
“The best applicant tracking system for a company with a limited budget is Breezy HR, which offers a free Bootstrap plan” Llama 4 Maverick · Applicant tracking syste · budget prompt · first choice
“start with Breezy HR's free Bootstrap plan – it's the most generous free option available” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Applicant tracking syste · budget prompt · first choice

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.

“Avoid ATS-style recruiting platforms like Breezy HR, Workable, or GoodTime if budget is tight” Perplexity Sonar · Interview scheduling · budget prompt · hard negative
“Breezy HR (owned by LTG) - a clean, affordable SMB system with a genuinely free plan, but it narrowly misses the list on AI depth.” Llama 4 Maverick · Applicant tracking syste · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Breezy HR, over the 167 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Breezy HR was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Workable91 of 16713Not in the top three
JazzHR78 of 1677Not in the top three
Manatal63 of 16719Not in the top three
Lever28 of 1672Not in the top three
BambooHR25 of 1670Not in the top three
Ashby23 of 1671Not in the top three
Teamtailor22 of 1674Not in the top three
Pin20 of 1674Not 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 Breezy HR. 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 130 of the 167 answers that named Breezy HR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com86
peoplemanagingpeople.com59
hiretruffle.com57
capterra.com55
ventureharbour.com51
pin.com49
g2.com36
recruitee.com33
100hires.com31
forbes.com30

487 of the 487 domain citations in answers naming Breezy HR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Breezy HR

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Breezy HR; a claim can dispute any of them.
Breezy 1Breezy HR (Bootstrap Plan) 1
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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 breezy.hr is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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