9 categories · RankedLever
255Judge labels
22First choices
49Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
9Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
20% in Recruiting CRM for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 88 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
3 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 16 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
Small business15 of 106
2%4 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market1 of 88
20%16 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise5 of 81
8%5 labels
under the label threshold
In recruiting crm · 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 Lever 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recruiting CRM and sourcing | Talent acquisition | 20% | 1 of 88 | 0% | 16 | accepted challenger |
| Interview scheduling | Talent acquisition | 8% | 6 of 72 | 18% | 28 | accepted challenger |
| Applicant tracking systems | Talent acquisition | 7% | 4 of 50 | 12% | 43 | accepted challenger |
| Recruitment marketing and career sites | Talent acquisition | 0% | 36 of 81 | 30% | 10 | criticized challenger |
| AI recruiting assistants | Talent acquisition | 0% | 24 of 84 | 11% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by GoPerfect at 19% |
| Employee onboarding | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 41 of 104 | 25% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29% |
| Job advertising and distribution | Talent acquisition | 0% | 23 of 109 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by JobTarget at 21% |
| Talent intelligence | Performance and talent management | 0% | 30 of 77 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Pin at 17% |
| Frontline employee apps | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 59 of 97 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 56% |
Movement
This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Lever 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 Lever across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 17 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 14 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 12 |
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
Direct61 labels8
Paraphrase54 labels9
Comparative39 labelsNone
Budget-constrained28 labels4
Scale-constrained35 labels1
Negative38 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative255 labels in all, every segment counted; 22 of the 24 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 you want one default recommendation without more context, Lever is the best starting point for a mid-sized B2B in-house recruiting team.” Perplexity Sonar · Recruiting CRM · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Lever: Ideal for mid-sized in-house teams wanting an all-in-one ATS + CRM with native sourcing and nurturing capabilities” Mistral Small · Recruiting CRM · direct prompt · first choice
“I'd start with Lever as the default recommendation due to its strong balance of CRM capabilities and ATS integration” MiniMax M2.5 · Recruiting CRM · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“For a mid-market B2B company specifically, I'd recommend starting with Lever (if you want all-in-one)” MiniMax M2.5 · 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.
“its native scheduling tool is frequently cited by users as having the "absolute worst UX."” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Interview scheduling · negative prompt · hard negative
“avoid these on a limited budget” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Applicant tracking syste · budget prompt · hard negative
“Cons: Analytics are historically less robust than Ashby; since acquisition by Employ Inc., some users report slower product development cycles.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Applicant tracking syste · scale prompt · soft negative
“Less structured tools, pricier renewals ... they're overkill (and 2-5x costlier) for most mid-sized B2B ops” Grok 4.1 Fast · Interview scheduling · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Lever, over the 255 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Lever was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Lever. 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 203 of the 255 answers that named Lever and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
selectsoftwarereviews.com104
lever.co86
pin.com62
greenhouse.com61
g2.com57
hiretruffle.com57
peoplemanagingpeople.com52
learn.g2.com48
bestrecruitingtools.com43
pinpointhq.com40
610 of the 610 domain citations in answers naming Lever came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Lever
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Lever; a claim can dispute any of them.
Lever (Employ) 3Lever (LeverTRM) 2Lever (Built-in Scheduler) 1Lever (TRM) 1Lever Native 1Lever Talent Acquisition Suite 1Lever's scheduling module 1LeverTRM 1
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