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September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 · The permanent record of that edition, superseded since. The current standing is on the category page →
Index › Performance and talent management › Internal talent marketpl › Small business › September 2026 Edition

Internal talent marketplace for small business buyers

Asked as “internal talent marketplace”, and as “internal mobility platform”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 45 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
18%
Contested · Clous Internal Mobility 11%
18TalentGuard11Clous Internal Mobility07BambooHR64others

18% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01TalentGuard18%6%17accepted challenger
02BambooHR7%0%12accepted challenger
03Notion4%0%10accepted challenger
04Fuel504%63%30criticized challenger
05Gloat2%83%30criticized challenger
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12Eightfold AI0%75%20criticized challenger
11Freelancer.com0%75%16criticized challenger
07Upwork0%50%26criticized challenger
09Fiverr0%50%24criticized challenger
10365Talents0%50%12criticized challenger
08PeoplePerHour0%30%10criticized challenger
06Toptal0%26%19criticized challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
All twenty-one head-to-head pages: the top seven products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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01TalentGuard18%
02BambooHR7%
03Notion4%
04Fuel504%
05Gloat2%
06Toptal0%
07Upwork0%
08PeoplePerHour0%
09Fiverr0%
10365Talents0%
11Freelancer.com0%
12Eightfold AI0%

What they warned about

One of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Upwork
50%
13 of 26 labels negative · 13 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“and Upwork (for account lockouts, payment holds, and limited support)” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
Freelancer.com
75%
12 of 16 labels negative · 12 of 12 models · 9 hard negative
“Several industry analyses suggest avoiding this platform, particularly citing "user-unfriendly terms" and reports of hidden fees.” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
Fiverr
50%
12 of 24 labels negative · 12 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Lots of negative reviews mention poor customer support, and some mention user accounts being suspended or blocked for no obvious reason” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
Fuel50
63%
19 of 30 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 7 hard negative
“**Fuel50** — excellent but built for large enterprises; the most highly rated (9.4/10) but pricing on request and enterprise-focused” DeepSeek V4 Flash, direct prompt

What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

77 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1112 links across 296 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

34 answers · 43 citations · 11 models
vendor site · TalentGuard28 answers · 41 citations · 11 models
24 answers · 42 citations · 11 models
23 answers · 30 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Awesomic22 answers · 31 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Gartner21 answers · 21 citations · 10 models
vendor site · G219 answers · 34 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Sprad19 answers · 22 citations · 10 models
16 answers · 18 citations · 9 models
16 answers · 16 citations · 10 models
15 answers · 31 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Engagedly15 answers · 24 citations · 10 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best internal talent marketplace”, “internal talent marketplace”, “talent marketplaces”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
TalentGuard talentguard.com18%62210027,3107
Clous Internal Mobility clousai.com11%120541
BambooHR bamboohr.com7%108290,5005511,055,247$44,698106
Teamflect teamflect.com7%1498801212,59230
Notion notion.com4%72673,00015,6081,061,46652
Airtable airtable.com4%13165,0002,461143,237118
Professional.me Internal Mobility professional.me4%9
Spacewalk gospacewalk.com4%6
MuchSkills muchskills.com4%3850051,7662
Talenteer talen.to4%6

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 22 sites; 2 of them are among the sites the models cited here (gartner.com, talentguard.com). The first result for “best internal talent marketplace” is imocha.io.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best internal talent marketplace for a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which internal mobility platform would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top talent marketplaces for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best internal talent marketplace for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating an internal talent marketplace. What should we look at?”Negative“Which talent marketplaces should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceno first choiceHeldUpwork
Two alternativesFiverr, PeoplePerHour
against: Toptal
TalentGuard
Three alternatives365Talents, Fuel50, Gigged.AI
no first choiceagainst: Contra, Fiverr, Freelancer.com, PeoplePerHour, Upwork
GPT-5.4 miniTalenteer
Two alternatives365Talents, Spacewalk
Fuel50Changed
One alternativeGloat
Upwork
Three alternativesContra, Fiverr, Toptal
SupportFinityagainst: 365Talentsno first choiceagainst: Arise, Handy/Angi Services
Gemini 3.5 FlashMuchSkills
Ten alternativesBambooHR, Docebo, HiBob, Lattice, Microsoft Teams, Notion, PeopleHR, Slack, Trello, agyleOS
against: Eightfold AI, Gloat, Workday Talent Marketplace
LeapsomeChanged
Three alternativesEngagedly, Lattice Grow, Progression
against: Eightfold AI, Fuel50, Gloat
Contra, Lemon.io, Upwork
Four alternativesArc.dev, Fiverr, Fractional Jobs, Wellfound
against: Toptal
Gigged.AI
Five alternativesGoFIGR, Manatal, Notion, Pinpoint, Slack
against: Eightfold AI, Fuel50, Gloat
Airtable, Notion
Seven alternativesAsana, BambooHR, HiBob, Microsoft Teams, Rippling, Slack, Trello
against: Eightfold AI, Fuel50, Gloat
against: Fiverr, Freelancer.com, Gigster, Toptal, Turing.com, Upwork
Perplexity SonarTalenteer
One alternativeFuel50
against: Gloat
TalentGuardChanged
One alternativeFuel50
Fiverr, Upwork
Seven alternativesCutshort, FlexiBees, Huddle Works, MarketerHire, PeoplePerHour, Skima AI, Toptal
Teamflect
One alternativeTalentGuard
against: Beamery, Gloat, SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace, Workday Talent Marketplace
no first choiceagainst: Eightfold AI, Fiverr, Freelancer.com, Fuel50, Gloat, Toptal, Upwork
Grok 4.1 FastTalentGuard
Four alternatives365Talents, Cornerstone OnDemand, Fuel50, Virkware
against: Eightfold AI, Gloat, Workday Talent Marketplace
LatticeChanged
Three alternativesEngagedly, Leapsome, TalentGuard
against: Eightfold AI, Gloat
Upwork
Three alternativesFiverr, Freelancer.com, Toptal
Virkware
Six alternatives15Five, BambooHR, Microsoft Teams, Notion or Airtable, Rippling, Teamflect
against: Fuel50, Gloat, Lattice
Fuel50, Gloat
Four alternativesAirtable, BambooHR, Degreed, Rippling
against: SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace
against: Contra, Fiverr, Freelancer.com, Upwork
Mistral SmallCangrade Internal Talent Marketplaceagainst: TalentGuardno first choiceChangedPeoplePerHour
Five alternativesAwesomic, BeLinked Hire, Fiverr, Toptal, Upwork
no first choiceno first choiceagainst: Fiverr, Freelancer.com, Talent.com, Upwork
DeepSeek V4 FlashSpacewalk
Two alternativesProfessional.me Internal Mobility, Teammeter
against: 365Talents, Eightfold AI, Fuel50, Gloat, SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace, Workday Talent Marketplace
EngagedlyChanged
Three alternatives365Talents, Greenhouse, Lever
against: Docebo, Eightfold AI, Gloat, Phenom, SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace
Upwork
Four alternativesAwesomic, Fiverr, PeoplePerHour, Toptal
Professional.me Internal Mobility
Three alternativesClous Internal Mobility, Teamflect, Teammeter
against: 365Talents, Cornerstone OnDemand, Eightfold AI, Fuel50, Gloat
Teamflect
Two alternativesAirtable, Notion
against: Eightfold AI, Fuel50, Gloat
against: Fiverr, Freelancer.com, Guru, PeoplePerHour, Upwork
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceTalentGuardChangedno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceagainst: Eightfold AI, Fiverr, Freelancer.com, Fuel50, Gloat, Upwork
Qwen 3.7 FlashTalentGuard
Two alternativesBambooHR, Eightfold AI
against: Gloat, Phenom
BambooHRChanged
Four alternativesLattice, Rippling, Slack, TalentGuard
against: Eightfold AI, Fuel50, Gloat, Gusto, Workday Talent Marketplace
Fiverr, Upwork
Three alternativesBelay, Gun.io, Toptal
Spacewalk
Three alternativesBambooHR, Microsoft Viva, Rippling
against: Fuel50, Gloat
Topco
Four alternativesA Slack Channel, Airtable, Glint, Notion
against: Eightfold AI, Fiverr, Freelancer.com, Fuel50, Gloat, Upwork
Kimi K2TalentGuard
Three alternativesLattice, Notion, Slack
against: Eightfold AI, Fuel50, Gloat, Phenom
BambooHRChanged
One alternativeLattice
against: 365Talents
Arc.dev
Four alternativesBraintrust, Contra, Gun.io, Upwork
against: Toptal
Clous Internal Mobility
Five alternativesMicrosoft Teams, Notion, Slack, TalentGuard, Virkware
against: Cornerstone OnDemand, Gloat, Workday Skills Cloud
no first choice
Four alternatives365Talents, BambooHR, HiBob, TalentGuard
against: Fuel50, Gloat, SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace
against: 99designs, Fiverr, Freelancer.com, Guru, PeoplePerHour, Upwork
GLM 4.7 FlashXHiBob
Three alternativesBambooHR, Gloat, HCM4ALL
against: Workday Talent Marketplace
Professional.me Internal MobilityChanged
Two alternativesEngagedly, ValidMyIdea
Upwork
Seven alternativesArc.dev, Contra, Fiverr, Freelancer.com, Guru, Malt, Toptal
Clous Internal Mobility
Three alternativesAirtable, Glide, TalentGuard
against: Fuel50, Gloat, YM Careers, Zoho Recruit
no first choice
Two alternatives365 Talents, Haystack
against: Beamery, Fuel50, Gloat, Phenom, Workday HCM
against: Freelancer.com, Upwork
MiniMax M2.5no first choiceTalentGuardChanged
Three alternativesApplicantStack, Ashby, Fuel50
Fiverr, Upwork
Two alternativesBraintrust, Toptal
Clous Internal Mobility, Teamflect
Two alternativesFuel50, Virkware
BambooHR, Rippling
Three alternatives15Five, Lattice, TalentGuard
against: 365Talents
against: Business Talent Group, Fiverr, Talent.com, Upwork
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 08:40no04 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:01yes35 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:59yes1220 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 11:10yes184 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 11:44yes219 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 12:07yes54 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 10:44yes2133 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 11:14yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:23yes1546 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 09:04yes2038 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:27yes2494 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 08:34yes519 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 08:03no03 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:18yes25 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 08:08yes2033 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 08:05yes183 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 11:13yes218 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 08:23no01 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 11:23yes2246 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:43yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:00yes1442 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:36yes2531 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 11:45yes2119 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 10:46yes1832 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:17yes1811 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 11:20yes28 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 10:32yes623 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:41yes206 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 08:05yes227 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 11:15yes86 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 11:54yes2429 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 10:39yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 08:13yes1026 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 09:29yes2023 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 10:11yes2241 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 10:37yes1418 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 08:41yes96 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:21yes34 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 10:09yes1125 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 11:54yes204 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 11:14yes2010 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 07:30yes53 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 10:14yes2121 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 12:03yes54 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 08:53yes2386 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 09:20yes1124 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:42yes2329 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 12:04yes922 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:46no05 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 07:51no06 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 08:28yes622 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 12:09yes318 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 09:44yes189 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 11:54no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:13yes2427 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 11:17yes52 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 07:57no033 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 08:46yes2028 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 11:29yes1452 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 11:13yes1022 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:11yes199 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 07:48yes46 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 11:11yes2126 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:09yes195 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:51yes258 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 08:58yes155 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 11:04yes2443 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 07:58yes52 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:10yes519 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 08:21yes2426 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 10:30yes2583 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 10:52yes2034 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
Clous read as Clous Internal Mobility
Clous (Internal Mobility) read as Clous Internal Mobility
Cornerstone read as Cornerstone OnDemand
Eightfold read as Eightfold AI
Google Sheet read as Google Forms + Sheets
Guru.com read as Guru
Professional.me read as Professional.me Internal Mobility
SAP read as SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace
SAP SuccessFactors read as SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace
Workday read as Workday Talent Marketplace
Unresolved, counted raw
365 Talents
A Slack Channel (#projects-gigs)
Arise
Clutch
Cutshort
FlexiBees
Growth Collective
HCM4ALL (Sprad)
Handy/Angi Services
Huddle Works
Kapa99
Lattice Grow
LinkedIn Internal Ads
LinkedIn's internal mobility approach
ManyPixels
Microsoft Planner
Notion or Airtable
Progression (progression.co)
Topco
Turing.com
ValidMyIdea
Wishup
Working Not Working
YM Careers
Zirtual
skima.ai
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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