Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 147 → 66 of 158
1 category · RankedLinkedIn Recruiter
29Judge labels
0First choices
9Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Strategic sourcing for mid-market buyers
Rank 22 of 128 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 21% of its 14 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of LinkedIn Recruiter →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business49 of 166
0%12 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market22 of 128
0%14 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise61 of 77
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
In strategic sourcing · 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 LinkedIn Recruiter 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategic sourcing | Spend and procurement | 0% | 22 of 128 | 21% | 14 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, LinkedIn Recruiter held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Strategic sourcing · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 21 → 26 of 120
EnterprisenewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 19 of 63, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategic sourcing | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 21 → 22 of 128 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 10 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated LinkedIn Recruiter across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated LinkedIn Recruiter across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative22 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative7 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 4 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.
“Start with LinkedIn Recruiter if your candidates are easy to identify there and you need a familiar search-and-outreach workflow.” GPT-6 Luna · Strategic sourcing · comparative prompt · first choice
“LinkedIn Recruiter - The most popular, leveraging LinkedIn's 1B+ professional network.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Strategic sourcing · comparative prompt · first choice
“LinkedIn Recruiter remains the baseline for breadth and team collaboration.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Strategic sourcing · comparative 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.
“LinkedIn Recruiter is expensive with manual search and InMail-only outreach, with per-seat pricing north of $9K/year” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Strategic sourcing · comparative prompt · soft negative
“Be cautious with: LinkedIn Recruiter Lite at ~$1,680/year ... Many teams are overpaying and underusing it.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Strategic sourcing · negative prompt · soft negative
“Weaknesses: Expensive ($8,999+/year), limited to LinkedIn data only” Kimi K2 · Strategic sourcing · comparative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as LinkedIn Recruiter, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and LinkedIn Recruiter was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as LinkedIn Recruiter, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and LinkedIn Recruiter was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 LinkedIn Recruiter. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 28 of the 28 answers that named LinkedIn Recruiter and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
pin.com16
lever.co15
leonar.app12
juicebox.ai10
matchr.io9
hirebasis.com8
hireez.com8
firsthr.app7
gem.com7
recruiterflow.com7
Ninety-nine of the ninety-nine domain citations in answers naming LinkedIn Recruiter came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
linkedin.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, LinkedIn Recruiter takes 0% of first choices and oboloo takes 15%.ShowHide
Search and answers
linkedin.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, LinkedIn Recruiter takes 0% of first choices and oboloo takes 15%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “sourcing tools”
4
Position for “strategic sourcing software”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 14,800 a month (“linkedin recruiter”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1,160 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 331,033,472 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 18,233,164 · 2,762,865 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 13,838,898
- Paid Google search
- 5 searches its ads show for, about 102 clicks and $1,032 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 22 of 128 in strategic sourcing
Segment leader
15%
oboloo
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 28 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 28 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on linkedin.com
814
subdomains included
Content
765
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 757 | 14 | 2026-09-23 | ||
| Conference or event | 6 | 0 | 2012-10-01 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-23Linkedin launches new verification features to build professional trust news or press
- 2026-09-18A closer look how we think about elections and politics on linkedin news or press
- 2026-09-16Linkedin data women c suite founders 2026 news or press
- 2026-09-15How linkedin is tackling ai slop news or press
- 2026-09-15Top mbas news or press
- 2026-09-10How can gen z start building a stronger professional network news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page linkedin.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as LinkedIn Recruiter
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as LinkedIn Recruiter; a claim can dispute any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for LinkedIn Recruiter by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where LinkedIn Recruiter is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name LinkedIn Recruiter, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.