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Testlify

48Judge labels
3First choices
2Negative 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
3% in Candidate assessment for enterprise buyers
Rank 4 of 101 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 13 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In candidate assessment · 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 Testlify 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
Candidate assessmentTalent acquisition2%4 of 1010%13accepted challenger
Technical hiring assessmentsTalent acquisition0%47 of 520%1under 10 labels · led by HackerRank at 28%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Testlify 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 Testlify across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini01102
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick11103
Qwen 3.7 Flash02002
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

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 labelsNone
Paraphrase13 labels3
Comparative17 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative6 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative48 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 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.

“the recommended skills testing tool for hiring for a mid-sized B2B company is Testlify” Llama 4 Maverick · Candidate assessment · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Reputable alternatives like those with strong validation (e.g., some mention Testlify positively) prioritize usability and fairness.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Candidate assessment · negative prompt · alternative
“Choose Mercer Mettl/Testlify if: You are a large enterprise needing robust compliance, massive scale” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Candidate assessment · comparative prompt · alternative
“Testlify, offering affordable plans starting at $19/month with 1400+ multilingual assessments” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Candidate assessment · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Testlify, over the 48 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Testlify was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
TestGorilla42 of 4819Not in the top three
HackerRank22 of 481Not in the top three
Vervoe18 of 481Not in the top three
Codility18 of 480Not in the top three
Criteria Corp18 of 480Not in the top three
iMocha15 of 484Not in the top three
Mercer | Mettl10 of 482Not in the top three
Toggl Hire10 of 480Not in the top three
SHL8 of 483Not in the top three
Harver8 of 480Not 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 Testlify. 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 46 of the 48 answers that named Testlify and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

testlify.comYour site36
bryq.com21
testtrick.com21
testgorilla.com20
g2.com15
hirevire.com11
learn.g2.com11
firsthr.app10
fitsmallbusiness.com10
gartner.com10

129 of the 165 domain citations in answers naming Testlify came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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Claim this page

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 Testlify'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 Testlify, 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 testlify.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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