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Index › Vendors › ZoomInfo · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

ZoomInfo

12Judge labels

0First choices

10Negative labels

8 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.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. ZoomInfo was named 7 times in Recruiting CRM and 1 other category, where Lever led with 20%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business95 of 106

under the label threshold

Mid-market88 of 88

under the label threshold

Enterprise81 of 81

under the label threshold

In recruiting crm · 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 ZoomInfo 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
Recruiting CRM and sourcing	Talent acquisition	0%	88 of 88	83%	6	under 10 labels · led by Lever at 20%
Skills intelligence	Performance and talent management	0%	133 of 162	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19%

Movement

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

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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“ZoomInfo, 6sense, and Demandbase are priced for enterprise and typically require dedicated ops resources that mid-market companies don't have.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Skills intelligence · direct prompt · soft negative

“Why to be cautious: Built primarily for sales intelligence, not recruiting... complain about outdated or inaccurate contact data” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Recruiting CRM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Not as recruiter-focused as others, which can limit its effectiveness for talent sourcing.” Mistral Small · Recruiting CRM · comparative prompt · soft negative

“strong database but consistently scores below competitors on lead quality and accuracy” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Recruiting CRM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ZoomInfo, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ZoomInfo was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Gem6 of 121Not in the top three

hireEZ6 of 121Not in the top three

LinkedIn Recruiter6 of 120Not in the top three

SeekOut5 of 121Not in the top three

Eightfold AI4 of 120Not in the top three

ContactOut3 of 121Not in the top three

Juicebox3 of 120Not in the top three

Manatal3 of 120Not in the top three

Loxo2 of 121Not in the top three

6sense2 of 120Not 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 ZoomInfo. 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 11 of the 12 answers that named ZoomInfo and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com8

dishertalent.com7

juicebox.ai7

sitepoint.com6

firsthr.app4

hiretruffle.com4

linkedin.com4

pin.com4

reddit.com4

guideflow.com3

Fifty-one of the fifty-one domain citations in answers naming ZoomInfo came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dishertalent.com/blog/sourcing-tools-review7

juicebox.ai/blog/best-sourcing-tools-for-recruiters7

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/best-candidate-sourcing-tools7

sitepoint.com/best-sourcing-tools-for-recruiters6

firsthr.app/compare/hiring/sourcing-tools4

hiretruffle.com/blog/sourcing-tools-for-recruiters4

leonar.app/blog/best-talent-sourcing-platforms3

brndle.com/software-product-sourcing2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 ZoomInfo'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 ZoomInfo, 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 zoominfo.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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