13 categories · RankedGreenhouse
370Judge labels
63First choices
55Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
13Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
47% in Applicant tracking syste for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 50 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
9 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 6% of its 50 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentA mid-market product: leader at mid-market, not named at small business.
Small business48 of 59
0%25 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market1 of 50
47%50 labels
endorsed leader
Enterprise1 of 48
47%55 labels
endorsed leader
In applicant tracking syste · 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 Greenhouse 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.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applicant tracking systems | Talent acquisition | 47% | 1 of 50 | 6% | 50 | endorsed leader |
| Interview scheduling | Talent acquisition | 13% | 3 of 72 | 7% | 28 | accepted challenger |
| AI recruiting assistants | Talent acquisition | 5% | 6 of 84 | 12% | 16 | accepted challenger |
| Recruitment marketing and career sites | Talent acquisition | 4% | 7 of 81 | 18% | 17 | accepted challenger |
| Recruiting CRM and sourcing | Talent acquisition | 0% | 22 of 88 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Lever at 20% |
| Talent intelligence | Performance and talent management | 0% | 17 of 77 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Pin at 17% |
| Employee onboarding | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 23 of 104 | 17% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29% |
| Job advertising and distribution | Talent acquisition | 0% | 24 of 109 | 20% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by JobTarget at 21% |
| Candidate assessment | Talent acquisition | 0% | 27 of 101 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by TestGorilla at 68% |
| Technical hiring assessments | Talent acquisition | 0% | 29 of 52 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by HackerRank at 28% |
| Frontline employee apps | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 57 of 97 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 56% |
| HR AI assistants | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 53 of 119 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Workativ Assistant at 12% |
| People analytics | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 63 of 99 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by HiBob at 15% |
Movement
This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Greenhouse 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 Greenhouse across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 11 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 3 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 17 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 6 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 19 |
| Kimi K2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 13 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 15 |
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
Direct85 labels28
Paraphrase94 labels26
Comparative75 labels12not counted in share
Budget-constrained35 labels6
Scale-constrained40 labels3
Negative41 labels6not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative370 labels in all, every segment counted; 63 of the 81 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.
“Greenhouse is a strong fit for mid-size to enterprise companies with dedicated recruiting teams managing high volumes of interviews” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Interview scheduling · direct prompt · first choice
“Greenhouse is repeatedly positioned as the best choice for teams that want consistent interview processes and better reporting.” Perplexity Sonar · Applicant tracking syste · comparative prompt · first choice
“If you are an established mid-market company focused on structured interviews & reducing bias: Choose Greenhouse.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Applicant tracking syste · comparative prompt · first choice
“I'd start with Greenhouse if you expect to grow headcount and value structured hiring + deep integrations” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Applicant tracking syste · 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.
“don't publish prices and can cost $3,500\u2013$6,000+/year \u2014 avoid these on a limited budget” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Applicant tracking syste · budget prompt · hard negative
“Native onboarding features in these ATS tools are designed to stop *at* the first day... often become clunky or require manual workarounds.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Employee onboarding · negative prompt · soft negative
“ATS-heavy tools (iCIMS, Greenhouse) are excellent at *storing/tracking* data but weaker at distributing your brand” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Recruitment marketing · comparative prompt · soft negative
“Expensive, longer setup (4-8 wks), quote-only ... they're overkill (and 2-5x costlier) for most mid-sized B2B ops” Grok 4.1 Fast · Interview scheduling · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Greenhouse, over the 370 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Greenhouse was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Greenhouse. 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 310 of the 370 answers that named Greenhouse and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
selectsoftwarereviews.com148
greenhouse.com116
g2.com92
pin.com91
learn.g2.com85
peoplemanagingpeople.com84
bestrecruitingtools.com73
hiretruffle.com64
lever.co61
pinpointhq.com56
870 of the 870 domain citations in answers naming Greenhouse came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Greenhouse
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Greenhouse; a claim can dispute any of them.
Greenhouse AI 2Greenhouse (with Interview Kit) 1Greenhouse Recruitment Marketing 1Greenhouse Scheduling 1
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