6 categories · RankedGem
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recruiting CRM and sourcing | Talent acquisition | 18% | 2 of 88 | 3% | 39 | accepted challenger |
| Talent intelligence | Performance and talent management | 15% | 2 of 77 | 0% | 24 | accepted challenger |
| Interview scheduling | Talent acquisition | 4% | 10 of 72 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Calendly at 21% |
| AI recruiting assistants | Talent acquisition | 2% | 10 of 84 | 0% | 10 | accepted challenger |
| Recruitment marketing and career sites | Talent acquisition | 2% | 12 of 81 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 16% |
| Applicant tracking systems | Talent acquisition | 0% | 29 of 50 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Greenhouse at 47% |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“purchasing Gem to act as your recruitment marketing and sourcing engine is the highly popular "best-of-breed" stack for mid-market B2B” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Recruitment marketing · direct prompt · first choice
“If you are hiring a high volume of Sales, Marketing, and Account Management roles alongside software developers, Gem is your best bet.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Talent intelligence · direct prompt · first choice
“The Best Standalone CRM: Gem ... Gem is the market standard for high-growth B2B companies with outbound-heavy sourcing models.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Recruiting CRM · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Outbound, high\u2011volume, want CRM + analytics | Gem | Best\u2011in\u2011class CRM + AI sourcing; strong reporting for ROI.” MiniMax M2.5 · Recruiting CRM · comparative 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.
“Gem — widely praised for workflow, but users repeatedly report inaccurate/outdated email addresses and scraping issues” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Recruiting CRM · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 164 of the 197 answers that named Gem and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
592 of the 592 domain citations in answers naming Gem came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Gem
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