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

Harver

55Judge labels
2First choices
12Negative 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
5% in Candidate assessment for enterprise buyers
Rank 15 of 101 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 9% of its 11 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In candidate assessment · 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 Harver 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
Candidate assessmentTalent acquisition0%15 of 1019%11accepted challenger
Video interviewingTalent acquisition0%31 of 4050%4under 10 labels · led by Spark Hire at 55%
Skills intelligencePerformance and talent management0%57 of 1620%2under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19%
AI recruiting assistantsTalent acquisition0%73 of 84100%1under 10 labels · led by GoPerfect at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Harver 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 Harver 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 Flash00213
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast01102
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01214
Llama 4 Maverick00202
Qwen 3.7 Flash01012
Kimi K201012
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500101

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
Direct11 labels1
Paraphrase6 labelsNone
Comparative11 labelsNone
Budget-constrained9 labels1
Scale-constrained10 labelsNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative55 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.

“Choose Harver if: You need to hire hundreds or thousands of frontline employees quickly” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Candidate assessment · comparative prompt · alternative
“High-volume frontline/ops hiring → Harver or Sova” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Candidate assessment · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Best for: High-Volume Enterprise Hiring” Kimi K2 · Candidate assessment · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best for Volume Hiring: Harver” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Candidate assessment · direct 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.

“Avoid enterprise-only solutions (like Harver) unless you have truly massive hiring volume, as they're likely overkill and overpriced for 500 employees.” Kimi K2 · Candidate assessment · scale prompt · hard negative
“Avoid tools like HireVue or Harver unless you are managing extremely high-volume, enterprise-scale recruitment campaigns” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Video interviewing · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Tools like some iterations of *Harver* or *Graphology* tests ... frequently criticized for lacking psychometric validity” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI recruiting assistants · negative prompt · soft negative
“Not suitable for professional/white-collar roles; requires long implementation times; steep learning curve.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Video interviewing · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Harver, over the 54 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Harver was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
TestGorilla31 of 548Not in the top three
Criteria Corp31 of 544Not in the top three
HireVue25 of 541Not in the top three
HackerRank19 of 540Not in the top three
SHL18 of 549Not in the top three
iMocha17 of 541Not in the top three
The Predictive Index15 of 542Not in the top three
Codility15 of 540Not in the top three
Vervoe13 of 542Not in the top three
Bryq8 of 543Not 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 Harver. 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 43 of the 54 answers that named Harver and are not a share of its labels.

Names read as Harver

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