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1 category · Named, not ranked

Talroo

19Judge labels

3First choices

1Negative labels

9 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.

Standing

9 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Talroo was named 9 times in Job advertising, where JobTarget led with 21%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business5 of 94

under the label threshold

Mid-market19 of 109

under the label threshold

Enterprise55 of 70

under the label threshold

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 Talroo 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
Job advertising and distribution	Talent acquisition	0%	19 of 109	11%	9	under 10 labels · led by JobTarget at 21%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Talroo 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 Talroo across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	2	0	0	2

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

Direct7 labels1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained11 labels2

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative19 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.

“High-volume frontline/hourly hiring: Talroo may be a better fit than Joveo or Appcast.” GPT-5.4 mini · Job advertising · direct prompt · alternative

“Best for strict spend caps: Talroo – pay‑per‑click with cost ceilings.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Job advertising · budget prompt · alternative

“Best low-cost entry: Talroo if you want to keep costs down” Perplexity Sonar · Job advertising · budget prompt · alternative

“Best for: Solo HR generalists who need budget control” MiniMax M2.5 · Job advertising · budget 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.

“Skip Talroo, PandoLogic, and DirectEmployers unless you're also doing significant hourly/frontline hiring.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Job advertising · direct prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Talroo, over the 19 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Talroo was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Appcast15 of 195Not in the top three

Joveo11 of 193Not in the top three

JobTarget8 of 195Not in the top three

Adway7 of 191Not in the top three

DE Amplify6 of 191Not in the top three

Recruitics5 of 190Not in the top three

Indeed4 of 190Not in the top three

Radancy3 of 190Not in the top three

ZipRecruiter2 of 191Not in the top three

Google for Jobs2 of 190Not 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 Talroo. 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 19 of the 19 answers that named Talroo and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com17

selectsoftwarereviews.com17

g2.com16

us.fitgap.com14

worldmetrics.org13

jobcopilot.com12

joveo.com11

adway.ai8

softwarefinder.com8

jobtarget.com7

123 of the 123 domain citations in answers naming Talroo came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/programmatic-job-advertising-software17

guideflow.com/blog/programmatic-job-advertising-software16

us.fitgap.com/search/programmatic-job-advertising-software/small-business14

worldmetrics.org/best/programmatic-job-advertising-software13

jobcopilot.com/programmatic-job-ad-platforms-compared12

g2.com/discussions/which-programmatic-job-advertising-platforms-are-the-highest-rated-for-11

g2.com/categories/programmatic-job-advertising/small-business8

joveo.com/blog/best-programmatic-job-advertising-platforms8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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