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Index Vendors › hireEZ · September 2026 Edition
6 categories · Ranked

hireEZ

162Judge labels
10First choices
28Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
6Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
8% in Talent intelligence for mid-market buyers
Rank 5 of 77 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
2 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 28 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In talent intelligence · 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 hireEZ 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
Talent intelligencePerformance and talent management8%5 of 7711%28accepted challenger
Recruiting CRM and sourcingTalent acquisition5%6 of 887%30accepted challenger
AI recruiting assistantsTalent acquisition0%19 of 840%14accepted challenger
Recruitment marketing and career sitesTalent acquisition0%81 of 8167%6under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 16%
Interview schedulingTalent acquisition0%53 of 720%1under 10 labels · led by Calendly at 21%
Skills intelligencePerformance and talent management0%134 of 162100%1under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for hireEZ 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 hireEZ across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510405
GPT-5.4 mini02125
Gemini 3.5 Flash14117
Perplexity Sonar11305
Grok 4.1 Fast252110
Mistral Small04307
DeepSeek V4 Flash044513
Llama 4 Maverick01506
Qwen 3.7 Flash03205
Kimi K213307
GLM 4.7 FlashX03003
MiniMax M2.513217

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
Direct49 labels7
Paraphrase7 labels1
Comparative57 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained14 labelsNone
Scale-constrained16 labels2
Negative19 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative162 labels in all, every segment counted; 10 of the 14 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.

“I'd recommend hireEZ as the top AI talent platform for both hiring (external sourcing/screening) and internal mobility.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Talent intelligence · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“the best choice is usually hireEZ if your priority is external sourcing plus outreach automation” Perplexity Sonar · Talent intelligence · direct prompt · first choice
“focus your evaluation on sourcing-first TI platforms (e.g., Gem, SeekOut, or hireEZ)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Talent intelligence · scale prompt · first choice
“For pipeline building and automated outreach, Gem and HireEZ are highly effective” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Recruiting CRM · 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.

“Who should avoid: Everyone. Using a platform with demonstrated disregard for data privacy can expose your company to legal liability” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Recruitment marketing · negative prompt · hard negative
“Data accuracy problems: Multiple reviews mention inaccurate or outdated contact information” MiniMax M2.5 · Recruitment marketing · negative prompt · hard negative
“stronger for sourcing quality, but it's generally more of a premium option and pricing is often quote-based” GPT-5.4 mini · Recruiting CRM · budget prompt · soft negative
“enterprise-focused with undisclosed, quote-based pricing — these are typically far outside a limited budget” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Skills intelligence · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as hireEZ, over the 161 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and hireEZ was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Gem114 of 16122Not in the top three
SeekOut101 of 1614Not in the top three
Eightfold AI77 of 16110Not in the top three
Pin48 of 16116Not in the top three
Beamery47 of 1610Not in the top three
Metaview45 of 1617Not in the top three
LinkedIn Recruiter42 of 1615Not in the top three
Loxo38 of 16110Not in the top three
Manatal34 of 1618Not in the top three
Juicebox32 of 1611Not 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 hireEZ. 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 143 of the 161 answers that named hireEZ and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

metaview.ai81
pin.com81
selectsoftwarereviews.com66
learn.g2.com52
hiretruffle.com49
g2.com48
guideflow.com41
noon.ai34
juicebox.ai32
leonar.app31

515 of the 515 domain citations in answers naming hireEZ came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as hireEZ

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as hireEZ; a claim can dispute any of them.
HireEZ 27hireEZ (formerly Hiretual) 3HireEZ (formerly HireEdge) 1HireEZ (formerly Hiretual) 1Hireez (hireez.com) 1
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