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Index Vendors › Workable · September 2026 Edition
9 categories · Ranked

Workable

288Judge labels
54First choices
28Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
9Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
20% in Applicant tracking syste for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 84 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 24 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 Workable 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 acquisition17%2 of 848%24accepted challenger
Recruitment marketing and career sitesTalent acquisition16%2 of 8117%24accepted challenger
Job advertising and distributionTalent acquisition10%4 of 1090%7under 10 labels · led by JobTarget at 21%
Applicant tracking systemsTalent acquisition4%6 of 500%36accepted challenger
Interview schedulingTalent acquisition4%9 of 728%12accepted challenger
Recruiting CRM and sourcingTalent acquisition2%10 of 880%11accepted challenger
Talent intelligencePerformance and talent management2%11 of 7720%5under 10 labels · led by Pin at 17%
Employee onboardingOnboarding and employee experience0%74 of 1040%1under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29%
Frontline employee appsOnboarding and employee experience0%69 of 970%1under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 56%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Workable 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 Workable across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.525108
GPT-5.4 mini03126
Gemini 3.5 Flash13105
Perplexity Sonar281112
Grok 4.1 Fast654318
Mistral Small12306
DeepSeek V4 Flash2102014
Llama 4 Maverick12306
Qwen 3.7 Flash271010
Kimi K2452112
GLM 4.7 FlashX355114
MiniMax M2.5271010

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
Direct59 labels13
Paraphrase93 labels30
Comparative52 labels6not counted in share
Budget-constrained36 labels10
Scale-constrained25 labels1
Negative23 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative288 labels in all, every segment counted; 54 of the 62 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 Best All-in-One Solution: Workable ... Go with Workable. It offers the best balance of price, ease of use, and AI capability” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AI recruiting assistants · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with either Pin (for simplicity and cost-effectiveness) or Workable (for comprehensive features)” Claude Haiku 4.5 · AI recruiting assistants · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend Workable as the default choice because it delivers a polished, branded careers page right out of the box” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Recruitment marketing · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Workable is a battle-tested ATS with a careers page that is best for mid-market companies (50–500 employees)” Llama 4 Maverick · Recruitment marketing · paraphrase prompt · first choice

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.

“Avoid ATS-style recruiting platforms like Breezy HR, Workable, or GoodTime if budget is tight” Perplexity Sonar · Interview scheduling · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid for tight budgets: Workable ($299+/month)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recruitment marketing · budget prompt · hard negative
“Be Cautious With ... Users report billing disputes, inflexible features, slow support, and integration failures” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recruitment marketing · negative prompt · soft negative
“lighter-weight and easier to roll out, but it may be less ambitious for deep internal mobility than Eightfold” GPT-5.4 mini · Talent intelligence · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Workable, over the 288 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workable was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Greenhouse126 of 28830Not in the top three
Lever98 of 2888Not in the top three
Breezy HR91 of 28821Not in the top three
Zoho Recruit83 of 28811Not in the top three
JazzHR75 of 2887Not in the top three
Ashby61 of 2883Not in the top three
BambooHR42 of 2883Not in the top three
Phenom38 of 2880Not 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 Workable. 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 246 of the 288 answers that named Workable and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com146
pin.com94
hiretruffle.com84
peoplemanagingpeople.com81
g2.com80
greenhouse.com69
capterra.com62
learn.g2.com58
joveo.com47
jugglehire.com45

766 of the 766 domain citations in answers naming Workable 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 workable.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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