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Index Vendors › Robert Half · September 2026 Edition
4 categories · Named, not ranked

Robert Half

8Judge labels
1First choices
6Negative labels
5 of 12Models named it
4Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
6 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Robert Half was named 6 times in Compensation benchmarkin and 3 other categories, where Payscale led with 24%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In compensation benchmarkin · 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 Robert Half 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
Compensation benchmarking dataCompensation and total rewards2%19 of 14467%3under 10 labels · led by Payscale at 24%
Contingent workforce managementWorkforce planning and analytics0%84 of 97100%1under 10 labels · led by SimpleVMS at 35%
Internal talent marketplacePerformance and talent management0%119 of 129100%1under 10 labels · led by Fuel50 at 26%
Recruitment marketing and career sitesTalent acquisition0%77 of 81100%1under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 16%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Robert Half 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 Robert Half across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00011
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash10001
Kimi K200022
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500011

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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase1 label1
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Robert Half is widely considered the gold standard for mid-market companies due to its breadth and accessibility.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · 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.

“Common issues include ghosting by recruiters, poor communication, misleading job listings, lack of follow-up, delayed payments/payroll, and legal complaints” Grok 4.1 Fast · Contingent workforce man · negative prompt · hard negative
“Robert Half – Numerous complaints from job seekers about misleading job postings, poor communication, and fee practices” MiniMax M2.5 · Internal talent marketpl · negative prompt · hard negative
“Robert Half - Numerous reports of questionable practices from various candidates” Kimi K2 · Recruitment marketing · negative prompt · hard negative
“These guides are based strictly on *hiring rates* ... They rarely disclose their methodologies, sample sizes, or geographic breakdowns.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Robert Half, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Robert Half was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Payscale5 of 80Not in the top three
Radford4 of 81Not in the top three
Mercer4 of 80Not in the top three
Pave3 of 82Not in the top three
Ravio3 of 81Not in the top three
Glassdoor3 of 80Not in the top three
Hays3 of 80Not in the top three
Michael Page2 of 80Not in the top three
Salary.com2 of 80Not in the top three
Teksystems2 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 Robert Half. 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 5 of the 8 answers that named Robert Half and are not a share of its labels.

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