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SmartRecruiters

105Judge labels
10First choices
9Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
6Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in Recruitment marketing for enterprise buyers
Rank 14 of 109 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 1 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In job advertising · 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 SmartRecruiters 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
Job advertising and distributionTalent acquisition3%14 of 1090%1under 10 labels · led by JobTarget at 21%
Recruiting CRM and sourcingTalent acquisition2%12 of 880%6under 10 labels · led by Lever at 20%
Applicant tracking systemsTalent acquisition0%12 of 5011%9under 10 labels · led by Greenhouse at 47%
Recruitment marketing and career sitesTalent acquisition0%28 of 810%5under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 16%
AI recruiting assistantsTalent acquisition0%34 of 840%2under 10 labels · led by GoPerfect at 19%
Interview schedulingTalent acquisition0%50 of 720%1under 10 labels · led by Calendly at 21%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SmartRecruiters 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 SmartRecruiters across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.502204
GPT-5.4 mini02103
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small01102
DeepSeek V4 Flash14005
Llama 4 Maverick10203
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K202002
GLM 4.7 FlashX00112
MiniMax M2.501001

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
Direct15 labels2
Paraphrase26 labels4
Comparative38 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained12 labels4
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative10 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative105 labels in all, every segment counted; 10 of the 11 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.

“I'd recommend SmartRecruiters as the best balance of distribution reach, pipeline management, and source analytics” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Job advertising · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“SmartRecruiters - offers a highly configurable CRM solution for mid-sized and large enterprises.” Llama 4 Maverick · Recruiting CRM · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Some affordable or free ATS platforms like Lever, SmartRecruiters, or Zoho Recruit help organize candidates without major expense.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Recruiting CRM · budget prompt · alternative
“systems like Greenhouse, Lever, and SmartRecruiters tend to receive better reviews” Kimi K2 · Applicant tracking syste · 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.

“Generally decent but performance can lag during peak search and high‑volume periods” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Applicant tracking syste · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SmartRecruiters, over the 105 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SmartRecruiters was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Greenhouse71 of 10519Not in the top three
iCIMS61 of 10510Not in the top three
Lever50 of 1053Not in the top three
Workday Recruiting43 of 1052Not in the top three
Phenom35 of 10513Not in the top three
Beamery32 of 1052Not in the top three
Workable27 of 1054Not in the top three
Avature25 of 1051Not in the top three
Eightfold AI20 of 1056Not in the top three
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting20 of 1050Not 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 SmartRecruiters. 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 97 of the 105 answers that named SmartRecruiters and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com56
greenhouse.com44
bestrecruitingtools.com34
pin.com31
peoplemanagingpeople.com30
learn.g2.com29
g2.com28
joveo.com24
darwinbox.com23
lever.co21

320 of the 320 domain citations in answers naming SmartRecruiters came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 SmartRecruiters'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 SmartRecruiters, 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 smartrecruiters.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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