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Index Vendors › TalentLyft · September 2026 Edition
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TalentLyft

31Judge labels
4First choices
4Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
5% in Recruitment marketing for small business buyers
Rank 9 of 81 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 10% of its 10 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 TalentLyft 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 acquisition4%9 of 8110%10accepted challenger
AI recruiting assistantsTalent acquisition0%68 of 840%1under 10 labels · led by GoPerfect at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for TalentLyft 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 TalentLyft across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast01012
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash02002
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200303
GLM 4.7 FlashX10102
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
Direct6 labels2
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative11 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained6 labels2
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative31 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 6 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.

“For most mid-market B2B companies, TalentLyft or Workable offer the best balance of features, pricing, and ease of use.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Recruitment marketing · direct prompt · first choice
“TalentLyft's free tier and Manatal's low starting price make them ideal starting points for companies with limited budgets” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Recruitment marketing · budget prompt · first choice
“all-in-one recruiting + CRM/marketing suites for small-to-mid-size businesses” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Recruitment marketing · comparative prompt · alternative
“Affordable all-in-one recruitment marketing/CRM for SMB-to-mid-market” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recruitment marketing · direct 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.

“SMB options like TalentLyft (~$99/mo) exist but rank lower” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recruitment marketing · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as TalentLyft, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and TalentLyft was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Manatal17 of 314Not in the top three
Workable16 of 311Not in the top three
Phenom15 of 311Not in the top three
Beamery15 of 310Not in the top three
JazzHR13 of 314Not in the top three
100Hires13 of 312Not in the top three
Symphony Talent11 of 310Not in the top three
Teamtailor10 of 313Not in the top three
Joveo9 of 310Not in the top three
Recruitee9 of 310Not 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 TalentLyft. 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 30 of the 31 answers that named TalentLyft and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

learn.g2.com25
recruitcompare.io24
selectsoftwarereviews.com24
g2.com23
joveo.com17
peoplemanagingpeople.com14
getapp.com13
jugglehire.com10
herohunt.ai9
webtonic.io8

167 of the 167 domain citations in answers naming TalentLyft came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 talentlyft.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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