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Index Vendors › Fetcher · September 2026 Edition
4 categories · Ranked

Fetcher

49Judge labels
2First choices
5Negative labels
10 of 12Models named it
4Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in Recruiting CRM for small business buyers
Rank 21 of 88 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 13 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 Fetcher 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%21 of 880%13accepted challenger
AI recruiting assistantsTalent acquisition0%23 of 840%7under 10 labels · led by GoPerfect at 19%
HR AI assistantsOnboarding and employee experience0%82 of 1190%1under 10 labels · led by Workativ Assistant at 12%
Talent intelligencePerformance and talent management0%50 of 770%1under 10 labels · led by Pin at 17%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Fetcher 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 Fetcher 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 Flash01102
Perplexity Sonar01102
Grok 4.1 Fast01102
Mistral Small01304
DeepSeek V4 Flash00303
Llama 4 Maverick00202
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K201203
GLM 4.7 FlashX00202
MiniMax M2.501001

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
Direct15 labels2
Paraphrase3 labelsNone
Comparative20 labelsNone
Budget-constrained9 labelsNone
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative49 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“best for lean teams that want curated candidate batches with less manual work” Perplexity Sonar · Recruiting CRM · direct prompt · alternative
“Now offers a free plan and a free trial, making it accessible for startups” Mistral Small · Recruiting CRM · budget prompt · alternative
“For Fast Startup Hiring: Start with Fetcher to automate sourcing” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AI recruiting assistants · comparative prompt · alternative
“Free tiers; ~$100-150/mo paid | AI-powered passive sourcing” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recruiting CRM · budget 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 Fetcher, over the 49 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fetcher was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Manatal25 of 492Not in the top three
SeekOut25 of 490Not in the top three
Juicebox24 of 493Not in the top three
Gem23 of 495Not in the top three
hireEZ20 of 492Not in the top three
Pin19 of 4910Not in the top three
LinkedIn Recruiter17 of 490Not in the top three
Eightfold AI13 of 491Not in the top three
Workable12 of 490Not in the top three
HireVue11 of 490Not 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 Fetcher. 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 44 of the 49 answers that named Fetcher and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com33
pin.com27
hiretruffle.com23
metaview.ai19
greenhouse.com14
leonar.app14
firsthr.app12
lindy.ai12
peoplemanagingpeople.com12
intervue.io11

177 of the 177 domain citations in answers naming Fetcher came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Fetcher

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Fetcher; a claim can dispute any of them.
Fetcher (now part of Gem) 1
Is this your product?

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 Fetcher'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 Fetcher, 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 fetcher.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.