Every category where a model named iCIMS 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
Recruitment marketing and career sites	Talent acquisition	0%	21 of 81	18%	17	accepted challenger
Applicant tracking systems	Talent acquisition	0%	46 of 50	47%	15	criticized challenger
AI recruiting assistants	Talent acquisition	0%	70 of 84	25%	4	under 10 labels · led by GoPerfect at 19%
Employee onboarding	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	75 of 104	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29%
Internal talent marketplace	Performance and talent management	0%	99 of 129	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Fuel50 at 26%
Job advertising and distribution	Talent acquisition	0%	77 of 109	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by JobTarget at 21%
Recruiting CRM and sourcing	Talent acquisition	0%	79 of 88	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Lever at 20%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for iCIMS 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 iCIMS across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	2	4
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	2	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	3	1	4
Mistral Small	2	4	0	6
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	1	3	6
Llama 4 Maverick	1	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	1	1	4
Kimi K2	0	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	2	4
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1

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

Direct16 labelsNone

Paraphrase45 labels10

Comparative41 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained20 labels7

Scale-constrained14 labels1

Negative28 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative164 labels in all, every segment counted; 18 of the 22 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.

“iCIMS is an integrated talent cloud with career site, ATS, and CRM that is best for mid-market to large enterprises.” Llama 4 Maverick · Recruitment marketing · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“iCIMS is a dominant player in the mid-market space, particularly for B2B tech and professional services.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Recruitment marketing · direct prompt · alternative

“If you need enterprise-scale power and are willing to invest in implementation, consider iCIMS.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Recruitment marketing · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“iCIMS — An all-in-one system of record (ATS-first) ... Unity marketplace with 230+ integrations” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Recruitment marketing · comparative 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.

“iCIMS is frequently cited in lawsuits regarding "opaque" decision-making and discriminatory filtering.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · AI recruiting assistants · negative prompt · hard negative

“Often grouped with Workday and Taleo as a legacy system that's increasingly seen as a blocker” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Applicant tracking syste · negative prompt · hard negative

“iCIMS — Account Fatigue & Ranking Issues ... Creates unnecessary barriers for candidates” Kimi K2 · Applicant tracking syste · negative prompt · hard negative

“Taleo receives the most complaints from job seekers, followed by iCIMS and Workday” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Applicant tracking syste · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as iCIMS, over the 164 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and iCIMS was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Greenhouse107 of 16428Not in the top three

Workday Recruiting85 of 1649Not in the top three

Lever65 of 1644Not in the top three

SmartRecruiters61 of 1643Not in the top three

Phenom46 of 16415Not in the top three

Beamery36 of 1645Not in the top three

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting36 of 1640Not in the top three

Oracle Taleo35 of 1640Not in the top three

Workable32 of 1647Not in the top three

Avature27 of 1640Not 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 iCIMS. 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 147 of the 164 answers that named iCIMS and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com70

greenhouse.com57

peoplemanagingpeople.com51

pin.com51

bestrecruitingtools.com48

darwinbox.com44

pinpointhq.com35

g2.com34

learn.g2.com33

joveo.com32

455 of the 455 domain citations in answers naming iCIMS came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

darwinbox.com/blog/best-applicant-tracking-systems-enterprise43

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/applicant-tracking-systems34

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-applicant-tracking-systems32

pinpointhq.com/insights/best-applicant-tracking-system29

pin.com/blog/best-applicant-tracking-systems27

greenhouse.com/blog/best-ats-software21

theundercoverrecruiter.com/best-applicant-tracking-systems-ats-in-2026-compared-ranked21

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/recruitment-marketing-software18

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as iCIMS

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

iCIMS Talent Cloud 4iCIMS Recruit 1

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