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

iMocha

89Judge labels
8First choices
7Negative labels
11 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
9% in Skills intelligence for mid-market buyers
Rank 3 of 162 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
3 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 18 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In skills 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 iMocha 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
Skills intelligencePerformance and talent management9%3 of 1620%18accepted challenger
Candidate assessmentTalent acquisition2%5 of 1016%16accepted challenger
Technical hiring assessmentsTalent acquisition0%35 of 5225%4under 10 labels · led by HackerRank at 28%
Succession planningPerformance and talent management0%89 of 990%1under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 31%
Talent intelligencePerformance and talent management0%42 of 770%1under 10 labels · led by Pin at 17%
Workforce planningWorkforce planning and analytics0%64 of 890%1under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 31%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for iMocha 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 iMocha across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501203
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash11103
Perplexity Sonar02204
Grok 4.1 Fast215210
Mistral Small21205
DeepSeek V4 Flash00404
Llama 4 Maverick01102
Qwen 3.7 Flash00202
Kimi K202103
GLM 4.7 FlashX11103
MiniMax M2.501102

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
Direct20 labels3
Paraphrase25 labels5
Comparative27 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained9 labelsNone
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative89 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 9 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.

“Ideal for technical, IT, and digital roles, offering a large library of coding and skills tests.” Mistral Small · Candidate assessment · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Start with iMocha for its mid-market focus and comprehensive feature set” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Skills intelligence · direct prompt · first choice
“Start with TalentGuard or iMocha for most mid-market B2B” Grok 4.1 Fast · Skills intelligence · direct prompt · first choice
“Option A: iMocha (Best overall for B2B Tech & Skills Validation)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Skills intelligence · paraphrase 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.

“Criticized for rigid evaluation, artificial challenges, and limited real-world relevance” Grok 4.1 Fast · Technical hiring assessm · negative prompt · soft negative
“Less broad validation for non-tech” Grok 4.1 Fast · Candidate assessment · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as iMocha, over the 89 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and iMocha was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
TestGorilla40 of 898Not in the top three
HackerRank38 of 895Not in the top three
Codility32 of 892Not in the top three
Criteria Corp29 of 892Not in the top three
Eightfold AI28 of 895Not in the top three
Mercer | Mettl19 of 891Not in the top three
Vervoe19 of 891Not in the top three
Gloat17 of 890Not in the top three
Harver17 of 890Not in the top three
SHL16 of 894Not 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 iMocha. 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 85 of the 89 answers that named iMocha and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

fuel50.com31
testlify.com30
bryq.com25
g2.com25
hrtechsaas.com25
firsthr.app24
gartner.com24
peoplemanagingpeople.com23
testgorilla.com22
bestrecruitingtools.com21

250 of the 250 domain citations in answers naming iMocha came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 imocha.io is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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