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Index › Vendors › Lemon.io · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Lemon.io

8Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

5 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.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Lemon.io was named 3 times in Internal talent marketpl, where Fuel50 led with 26%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business29 of 118

under the label threshold

Mid-market24 of 129

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In internal talent marketpl · 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 Lemon.io 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
Internal talent marketplace	Performance and talent management	0%	24 of 129	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Fuel50 at 26%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative5 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 3 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.

“Curated networks such as Lemon.io, Gun.io, and Codeable trade marketplace scale for pre-screened talent and reduced hiring risk” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Internal talent marketpl · negative prompt · first choice

“Prefer Toptal (top 3%, high ratings) or niche sites like Lemon.io.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Internal talent marketpl · negative 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 Lemon.io, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Lemon.io was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Upwork8 of 81Not in the top three

Fiverr7 of 80Not in the top three

Contra6 of 80Not in the top three

Toptal5 of 81Not in the top three

Freelancer.com5 of 80Not in the top three

Arc.dev4 of 80Not in the top three

Gun.io4 of 80Not in the top three

PeoplePerHour3 of 81Not in the top three

Braintrust3 of 80Not in the top three

Codeable2 of 80Not 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 Lemon.io. 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 6 of the 8 answers that named Lemon.io and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

awesomic.com5

gartner.com4

lemon.ioYour site4

6sense.com3

fuel50.com3

recruiterslineup.com3

aijourn.com2

bigideasdb.com2

fastlancer.org2

fiverr.com2

Twenty-six of the thirty domain citations in answers naming Lemon.io came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

awesomic.com/blog/ultimate-list-talent-marketplaces-for-businesses-in-20254

gartner.com/reviews/market/internal-talent-marketplaces4

6sense.com/tech/talent-marketplace3

fuel50.com/blog/talent-marketplace-software3

recruiterslineup.com/best-talent-marketplace-platforms-reviewed3

aijourn.com/5-best-talent-marketplaces-in-20262

bigideasdb.com/problems/freelance-platforms-problems2

fastlancer.org/en/fastlancer-blog/freelance-platforms2

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

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