Every category where a model named LinkedIn Recruiter 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	5%	7 of 88	23%	26	accepted challenger
Talent intelligence	Performance and talent management	0%	54 of 77	33%	3	under 10 labels · led by Pin at 17%
AI recruiting assistants	Talent acquisition	0%	63 of 84	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by GoPerfect at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for LinkedIn Recruiter 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 LinkedIn Recruiter 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	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	2	0	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	2	0	1	4
Mistral Small	0	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	2	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	2	1	2	6
Kimi K2	0	1	3	0	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	2	1	3

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

Direct23 labels7

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative25 labels5not counted in share

Budget-constrained31 labels2

Scale-constrained8 labelsNone

Negative21 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative109 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 15 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 the largest mainstream professional pool, start with LinkedIn Recruiter” GPT-5.4 mini · Recruiting CRM · comparative prompt · first choice

“For many B2B companies, LinkedIn remains the gold standard due to its network effect.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Recruiting CRM · direct prompt · first choice

“the best candidate sourcing tool is usually LinkedIn Recruiter” GPT-5.4 mini · Recruiting CRM · direct prompt · first choice

“1. LinkedIn Recruiter - Ubiquitous network-based tool.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recruiting CRM · comparative 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.

“Declining Boolean search tools (e.g., older LinkedIn Recruiter features): Reduced accuracy in regulated industries, leading to missed qualified candidates.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recruiting CRM · negative prompt · soft negative

“A market leader with advanced search... Best for general use but can be expensive, especially for larger teams.” Mistral Small · Recruiting CRM · comparative prompt · soft negative

“most cost-effective "full-platform" alternative to expensive enterprise software like LinkedIn Recruiter” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Talent intelligence · budget prompt · soft negative

“remains the go‑to for LinkedIn‑only sourcing, but it's expensive and limited to one network” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Recruiting CRM · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as LinkedIn Recruiter, over the 106 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and LinkedIn Recruiter was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SeekOut54 of 1066Not in the top three

Gem52 of 1066Not in the top three

hireEZ42 of 1065Not in the top three

Manatal33 of 1067Not in the top three

Juicebox33 of 1066Not in the top three

Pin30 of 10610Not in the top three

Eightfold AI28 of 1064Not in the top three

Loxo19 of 1062Not in the top three

Workable18 of 1063Not in the top three

Beamery17 of 1060Not 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 LinkedIn Recruiter. 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 106 answers that named LinkedIn Recruiter and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com58

pin.com45

hiretruffle.com36

juicebox.ai32

leonar.app30

metaview.ai30

firsthr.app21

g2.com19

noon.ai19

intervue.io18

308 of the 308 domain citations in answers naming LinkedIn Recruiter came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/best-candidate-sourcing-tools50

leonar.app/blog/best-talent-sourcing-platforms29

pin.com/blog/candidate-sourcing-tools23

metaview.ai/resources/blog/candidate-sourcing-tools22

firsthr.app/compare/hiring/sourcing-tools19

hiretruffle.com/blog/sourcing-tools-for-recruiters16

intervue.io/blog/best-candidate-sourcing-software16

pin.com/blog/candidate-sourcing-software16

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as LinkedIn Recruiter

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

LinkedIn Recruiter Lite 5LinkedIn Recruiter / LinkedIn Recruiter Lite 1LinkedIn Recruiter Corporate 1

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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 LinkedIn Recruiter'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 LinkedIn Recruiter, 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 linkedinrecruiter.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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