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ContactOut

18Judge labels
0First choices
2Negative labels
10 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Recruiting CRM for small business buyers
Rank 26 of 88 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 6 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business19 of 106
0%11 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market26 of 88
0%6 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise74 of 81
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In recruiting crm · 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 ContactOut 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
Recruiting CRM and sourcingTalent acquisition0%26 of 880%6under 10 labels · led by Lever at 20%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ContactOut 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 ContactOut across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00101
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash00101
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative13 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.

“For small teams with limited budgets and high need for accurate contact data, ContactOut delivers professional-grade accuracy at an accessible price.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Recruiting CRM · comparative prompt · alternative
“Need direct contact info fast? → ContactOut” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Recruiting CRM · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ContactOut, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ContactOut was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Gem13 of 184Not in the top three
Manatal12 of 184Not in the top three
LinkedIn Recruiter11 of 180Not in the top three
Juicebox10 of 182Not in the top three
Loxo10 of 181Not in the top three
SeekOut10 of 180Not in the top three
Lusha8 of 180Not in the top three
hireEZ8 of 180Not in the top three
Pin7 of 183Not in the top three
Leonar6 of 181Not 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 ContactOut. 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 15 of the 18 answers that named ContactOut and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com13
leonar.app11
dishertalent.com10
matchr.io8
pin.com8
firsthr.app7
hiretruffle.com5
juicebox.ai5
metaview.ai5
gem.com3

Seventy-five of the seventy-five domain citations in answers naming ContactOut came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/best-candidate-sourcing-tools13
leonar.app/blog/best-talent-sourcing-platforms11
dishertalent.com/blog/sourcing-tools-review10
matchr.io/blog/top-40-best-sourcing-tools8
firsthr.app/compare/hiring/sourcing-tools7
pin.com/blog/candidate-sourcing-tools5
juicebox.ai/blog/best-sourcing-tools-for-recruiters4
gem.com/blog/candidate-sourcing-software3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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