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Symphony Talent

53Judge labels
3First choices
17Negative labels
11 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
6% in Recruitment marketing for enterprise buyers
Rank 38 of 81 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 22% of its 18 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In recruitment marketing · 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 Symphony Talent 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
Recruitment marketing and career sitesTalent acquisition0%38 of 8122%18accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Symphony Talent 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 Symphony Talent across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500112
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00123
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast00202
Mistral Small00112
DeepSeek V4 Flash00101
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200303
GLM 4.7 FlashX00202
MiniMax M2.500101

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
Direct4 labels1
Paraphrase7 labels2
Comparative21 labelsNone
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative15 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative53 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Why avoid? This platform is often cited as expensive and designed primarily for large enterprises.” Mistral Small · Recruitment marketing · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid these if you are a mid-market or rapidly scaling company.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Recruitment marketing · negative prompt · hard negative
“enterprise-grade recruitment marketing platforms (RMPs) like Phenom, Beamery, or Symphony Talent, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars annually” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Recruitment marketing · budget prompt · soft negative
“these tend to be more enterprise-focused and may be overkill for mid-sized companies” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Recruitment marketing · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Symphony Talent, over the 52 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Symphony Talent was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Phenom50 of 5213Not in the top three
Beamery36 of 521Not in the top three
Avature26 of 521Not in the top three
Joveo23 of 522Not in the top three
Greenhouse20 of 522Not in the top three
iCIMS17 of 520Not in the top three
SmartRecruiters14 of 520Not in the top three
Appcast13 of 521Not in the top three
Bullhorn13 of 521Not in the top three
Teamtailor12 of 523Not 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 Symphony Talent. 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 47 of the 52 answers that named Symphony Talent and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

learn.g2.com38
joveo.com36
selectsoftwarereviews.com33
g2.com30
mokahr.io20
recruitcompare.io18
builtin.com17
bestrecruitingtools.com13
recruiterslineup.com11
thedailyhire.com11

227 of the 227 domain citations in answers naming Symphony Talent came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Symphony Talent

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Symphony Talent; a claim can dispute any of them.
SmashFly (Symphony Talent) 2SmashFly 1Symphony Talent (formerly SmashFly) 1Symphony Talent (which acquired SmashFly) 1
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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 symphonytalent.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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