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Index Vendors › Truffle · September 2026 Edition
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Truffle

46Judge labels
3First choices
0Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in AI recruiting assistants for small business buyers
Rank 22 of 84 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 6 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In ai recruiting assistants · 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 Truffle 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
AI recruiting assistantsTalent acquisition0%22 of 840%6under 10 labels · led by GoPerfect at 19%
Video interviewingTalent acquisition0%11 of 400%5under 10 labels · led by Spark Hire at 55%
Candidate assessmentTalent acquisition0%31 of 1010%2under 10 labels · led by TestGorilla at 68%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Truffle 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 Truffle across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash03104
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast11002
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01203
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
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
Direct6 labelsNone
Paraphrase7 labels2
Comparative15 labelsNone
Budget-constrained9 labels1
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative4 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative46 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 5 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.

“Safer Alternatives (high-rated for experience, per G2/Capterra/Reddit): Truffle, Willo, Hirevire, Hireflix” Grok 4.1 Fast · Video interviewing · negative prompt · first choice
“Choose Truffle if you have highly technical or specific hiring managers who need to see clear evidence and reasoning” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI recruiting assistants · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“One-way video interviews with highlight reels and transparent match scoring; more SMB-friendly than HireVue.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI recruiting assistants · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best for: Small businesses wanting to combine video interviews and basic assessments.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · 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 Truffle, over the 46 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Truffle was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
HireVue16 of 461Not in the top three
Manatal15 of 467Not in the top three
Hireflix12 of 465Not in the top three
Spark Hire10 of 462Not in the top three
Hirevire10 of 461Not in the top three
Workable10 of 460Not in the top three
Zoho Recruit10 of 460Not in the top three
TestGorilla9 of 464Not in the top three
Breezy HR9 of 461Not in the top three
Willo9 of 460Not 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 Truffle. 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 35 of the 46 answers that named Truffle and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hiretruffle.com33
selectsoftwarereviews.com20
hirevire.com13
pin.com12
g2.com11
peoplemanagingpeople.com10
willo.video10
resources.rework.com9
greenhouse.com7
learn.g2.com7

132 of the 132 domain citations in answers naming Truffle came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Truffle

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Truffle; a claim can dispute any of them.
Truffle (Hire Truffle) 1
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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 Truffle'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 Truffle, 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 truffle.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.