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

Gloat

279Judge labels
31First choices
107Negative labels
12 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
49% in Internal talent marketpl for enterprise buyers
Rank 4 of 129 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
2 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 49% of its 37 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In internal talent marketpl · 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 Gloat 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
Internal talent marketplacePerformance and talent management9%4 of 12949%37criticized challenger
Talent intelligencePerformance and talent management0%75 of 7748%25criticized challenger
Skills intelligencePerformance and talent management0%162 of 16252%21criticized challenger
People analyticsWorkforce planning and analytics0%46 of 990%1under 10 labels · led by HiBob at 15%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Gloat 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 Gloat across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500235
GPT-5.4 mini03025
Gemini 3.5 Flash2121015
Perplexity Sonar10124
Grok 4.1 Fast11349
Mistral Small20316
DeepSeek V4 Flash121711
Llama 4 Maverick01315
Qwen 3.7 Flash04149
Kimi K211158
GLM 4.7 FlashX11114
MiniMax M2.502013

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
Direct63 labels13
Paraphrase61 labels11
Comparative54 labels18not counted in share
Budget-constrained42 labels3
Scale-constrained28 labels4
Negative31 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative279 labels in all, every segment counted; 31 of the 52 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.

“Gloat is a leading *internal mobility* platform, especially for enterprise workforce agility and project matching.” Perplexity Sonar · Internal talent marketpl · comparative prompt · first choice
“Best overall for mid‑market B2B: Fuel50 ... or Gloat (mature gig/project marketplace)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Internal talent marketpl · direct prompt · first choice
“If your priority is unlocking internal mobility → Gloat (pure-play) or suite-native options.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Internal talent marketpl · comparative prompt · first choice
“while Gloat provides the most mature pure marketplace experience if budget allows” Kimi K2 · Internal talent marketpl · direct 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.

“Gloat & Eightfold: Unless you have more than 2,000 employees... these enterprise solutions can result in low adoption and high implementation fatigue.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Internal talent marketpl · direct prompt · hard negative
“avoid these for now. They are expensive to purchase and require substantial, ongoing internal resources to manage effectively.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Internal talent marketpl · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“Avoid pure enterprises like Gloat/Eightfold: High cost, complex setup, data-hungry AI underperforms at mid-scale.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Internal talent marketpl · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“Watch out for enterprise vendors like Gloat... These are overkill and over budget for most small companies.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Internal talent marketpl · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Gloat, over the 279 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Gloat was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Eightfold AI229 of 27949Not in the top three
Fuel50138 of 27919Not in the top three
Phenom97 of 2792Not in the top three
Beamery85 of 2790Not in the top three
365Talents62 of 2797Not in the top three
Workday Skills Cloud56 of 2794Not in the top three
SeekOut47 of 2793Not in the top three
TalentGuard44 of 27916Not in the top three
SAP SuccessFactors38 of 2793Not in the top three
Workday38 of 2791Not 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 Gloat. 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 217 of the 279 answers that named Gloat and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com109
fuel50.com104
hrtechsaas.com86
engagedly.com80
guideflow.com77
g2.com67
pin.com65
docebo.com60
peoplemanagingpeople.com58
recruiterslineup.com55

761 of the 761 domain citations in answers naming Gloat came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Gloat

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Gloat; a claim can dispute any of them.
Phenom/Gloat 1
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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 Gloat'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 Gloat, 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 gloat.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.