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Hiver

27Judge labels
6First choices
0Negative labels
8 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
12% in HR help desk for small business buyers
Rank 14 of 93 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 8 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
In hr help desk · 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 Hiver 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
HR help desk and case managementOnboarding and employee experience0%14 of 930%8under 10 labels · led by Zoho Desk at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Hiver 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 Hiver 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 Flash02002
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00101
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX02002
MiniMax M2.501001

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
Direct9 labels3
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained10 labelsNone
Scale-constrained7 labels3
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative27 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 6 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.

“If your team wants to keep things incredibly simple and use email, go with Hiver” Gemini 3.5 Flash · HR help desk · budget prompt · alternative
“Offers an HR help desk specifically designed for mid-sized teams” MiniMax M2.5 · HR help desk · direct prompt · alternative
“Hiver | $25/agent/month | Small teams using Google Workspace” Kimi K2 · HR help desk · budget prompt · alternative
“Hiver — great if your HR team lives in Gmail” DeepSeek V4 Flash · HR help desk · scale 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Hiver, over the 27 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Hiver was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Zoho Desk17 of 277Not in the top three
Zendesk14 of 270Not in the top three
HelpDesk.com13 of 270Not in the top three
Help Scout10 of 273Not in the top three
Freshdesk8 of 270Not in the top three
Jira Service Management7 of 272Not in the top three
Freshservice7 of 271Not in the top three
Suptask7 of 271Not in the top three
Zoho People5 of 272Not in the top three
ServiceNow5 of 270Not 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 Hiver. 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 21 of the 27 answers that named Hiver and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

featurebase.app20
zendesk.com16
peoplemanagingpeople.com15
eesel.ai13
hiverhq.comYour site9
worldmetrics.org9
lupahire.com7
monday.com6
firsthr.app5
siit.io5

Ninety-six of the 105 domain citations in answers naming Hiver came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 Hiver'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 Hiver, 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 hiverhq.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.