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Index Vendors › Craigslist · September 2026 Edition
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Craigslist

28Judge labels
0First choices
16Negative labels
11 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
0% in Job advertising for small business buyers
Rank 101 of 109 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 60% of its 5 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In job advertising · 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 Craigslist 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
Job advertising and distributionTalent acquisition0%101 of 10960%5under 10 labels · led by JobTarget at 21%
Internal talent marketplacePerformance and talent management0%124 of 129100%2under 10 labels · led by Fuel50 at 26%
Coaching platformsLearning and development0%98 of 116100%1under 10 labels · led by Growthspace at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Craigslist 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 Craigslist across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00101
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00011
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00134
Kimi K200011
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative9 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative19 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative28 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Unregulated Classified and Social Media Sites (Craigslist, Facebook Groups)... primary breeding grounds for employment scams” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Job advertising · negative prompt · hard negative
“Marketplaces Without Vetting (Fiverr, Upwork, Craigslist) ... using them for high-stakes life or business coaching is risky.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Coaching platforms · negative prompt · hard negative
“Why to Avoid: There is virtually no background check on posters. It is the primary hunting ground for scammers.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Job advertising · negative prompt · hard negative
“Free classified sites (Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace) - Minimal verification, high scam risk” Kimi K2 · Job advertising · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Craigslist, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Craigslist was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Indeed26 of 289Not in the top three
LinkedIn20 of 282Not in the top three
ZipRecruiter19 of 283Not in the top three
Monster13 of 280Not in the top three
CareerBuilder11 of 280Not in the top three
Glassdoor11 of 280Not in the top three
Handshake10 of 280Not in the top three
Google for Jobs9 of 282Not in the top three
Dice8 of 280Not in the top three
Facebook Jobs8 of 280Not 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 Craigslist. 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 23 of the 28 answers that named Craigslist and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

pitchmeai.com12
reddit.com12
linkedin.com10
easyapply.com9
money.com9
noon.ai9
joinhomebase.com8
bestjobsearchapps.com7
uschamber.com7
findcandidatesforjobs.com6

Eighty-nine of the eighty-nine domain citations in answers naming Craigslist came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Craigslist

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Craigslist; a claim can dispute any of them.
Craigslist "remote" listings 1Craigslist (Remote/Talent Section) 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 Craigslist'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 Craigslist, 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 craigslist.com 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.

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