Every category where a model named SHL 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
Candidate assessment	Talent acquisition	2%	11 of 101	44%	9	under 10 labels · led by TestGorilla at 68%
Skills intelligence	Performance and talent management	0%	101 of 162	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19%
Technical hiring assessments	Talent acquisition	0%	44 of 52	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by HackerRank at 28%

Movement

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

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

Direct11 labels7

Paraphrase7 labels2

Comparative16 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained9 labels1

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative52 labels in all, every segment counted; 10 of the 13 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.

“TestGorilla or SHL would be the top recommendations” MiniMax M2.5 · Candidate assessment · direct prompt · first choice

“Large enterprise, compliance-driven, global: Mercer Mettl or SHL” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Candidate assessment · comparative prompt · alternative

“Enterprise assessments with proctoring → Mercer | Mettl, SHL” GPT-5.4 mini · Candidate assessment · comparative prompt · alternative

“Stick to established providers (e.g., Hogan, SHL, Criteria)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Candidate assessment · 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.

“Enterprise-grade legacy platforms (like SHL, Predictive Index, or Hogan) require expensive annual contracts and formal setup fees.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Candidate assessment · budget prompt · soft negative

“solid products, but pricing is less transparent or more customized, which usually makes them less budget-friendly” GPT-5.4 mini · Candidate assessment · budget prompt · soft negative

“strong enterprise platform, but typically more heavyweight than many mid-market teams need” GPT-5.4 mini · Candidate assessment · direct prompt · soft negative

“Predictive Index, Hogan, SHL are more suited for that, but they’re much more expensive” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Candidate assessment · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SHL, over the 52 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SHL was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

TestGorilla32 of 528Not in the top three

Criteria Corp25 of 522Not in the top three

HireVue25 of 520Not in the top three

Codility19 of 523Not in the top three

HackerRank19 of 522Not in the top three

Mercer | Mettl19 of 521Not in the top three

Harver18 of 520Not in the top three

iMocha16 of 520Not in the top three

The Predictive Index13 of 521Not in the top three

Hogan Assessments10 of 520Not 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 SHL. 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 43 of the 52 answers that named SHL and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

testlify.com25

bestrecruitingtools.com23

jobcannon.io17

testgorilla.com17

bryq.com12

firsthr.app12

g2.com10

pin.com10

sovaassessment.com10

aihr.com9

145 of the 145 domain citations in answers naming SHL came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bestrecruitingtools.com/blog/best-pre-employment-assessment-software-enterprise-202622

testlify.com/top-10-pre-hire-assessment-platforms-for-enterprises18

jobcannon.io/compare/best-pre-employment-assessments17

testlify.com/guide-to-choose-the-best-talent-assessment-software12

aihr.com/blog/top-pre-employment-assessment-tools9

bryq.com/blog/best-talent-assessment-platforms-20269

firsthr.app/compare/performance/talent-assessment-tools9

pin.com/blog/pre-employment-assessment-tools9

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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