Index › Vendors › VS Code Live Share · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

VS Code Live Share

5Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

4 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. VS Code Live Share was named 3 times in Technical hiring assessm, where HackerRank led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business51 of 61

under the label threshold

Mid-market33 of 52

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In technical hiring assessm · 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 VS Code Live Share 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
Technical hiring assessments	Talent acquisition	0%	33 of 52	33%	3	under 10 labels · led by HackerRank at 28%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Free | Ad-hoc live pair programming | No built-in assessments/scoring/plagiarism checks” Grok 4.1 Fast · Technical hiring assessm · budget prompt · alternative

“VS Code Live Share: free, suitable for small teams.” Llama 4 Maverick · Technical hiring assessm · 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.

“VS Code Live Share as free, but those are better suited to interview workflows than full assessment platforms” Perplexity Sonar · Technical hiring assessm · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as VS Code Live Share, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and VS Code Live Share was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Playcode5 of 51Not in the top three

HackerRank4 of 50Not in the top three

Coderbyte3 of 53Not in the top three

Codility2 of 50Not in the top three

TestGorilla2 of 50Not in the top three

CoderPad1 of 51Not in the top three

CodeSignal1 of 50Not in the top three

Greenhouse1 of 50Not in the top three

LeetCode1 of 50Not in the top three

TestDome1 of 50Not 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 VS Code Live Share. 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 5 of the 5 answers that named VS Code Live Share and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

playcode.io5

selectsoftwarereviews.com5

codesignal.com4

codesubmit.io4

hackerrank.com4

coderpad.io3

goodfit.so3

testtrick.com3

blog.imocha.io2

lodely.com2

No domain is on file for VS Code Live Share, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

playcode.io/blog/best-coding-interview-platforms-20265

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/online-coding-interview-tools5

hackerrank.com/writing/best-coding-assessment-tools4

codesignal.com/blog/5-coding-assessment-platforms-for-your-technical-hiring3

goodfit.so/guides/best-coding-assessment-platforms3

blog.imocha.io/coding-assessment-tools2

coderpad.io/2

codesubmit.io/blog/coding-assessment-tools2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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