6 categories · RankedBullhorn
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staffing agency platforms | Talent acquisition | 22% | 2 of 136 | 28% | 50 | criticized challenger | |
| Recruitment marketing and career sites | Talent acquisition | 0% | 28 of 104 | 25% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 23% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Applicant tracking systems | Talent acquisition | 0% | 18 of 65 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Greenhouse at 40% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| AI recruiting assistants | Talent acquisition | 0% | 57 of 90 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Manatal at 31% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Contingent workforce management | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 66 of 121 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by VectorVMS at 16% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Recruiting CRM and sourcing | Talent acquisition | 0% | 103 of 111 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Gem at 15% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Bullhorn across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Choose Bullhorn or TempWorks if you are a traditional staffing business looking to manage your database, clients, and back-office payroll in-house.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Staffing agency tools · comparative prompt · first choice
“Bullhorn remains the long-standing enterprise CRM and ATS for staffing and recruitment agencies globally with strong on automation and deep integrations.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Staffing agency tools · comparative prompt · first choice
“Bullhorn is the go‑to all‑in‑one platform for agencies that want a widely adopted system with strong AI and communication tools.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Staffing agency tools · comparative prompt · first choice
“It is widely considered the "industry standard." ... Choose Bullhorn if: You are scaling fast, need strict Salesforce integration” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Staffing agency tools · comparative 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.
“Bullhorn: Avoid if you're a small agency and cannot justify the enterprise-oriented scope or validate the exact package.” Llama 4 Maverick · Staffing agency tools · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Bullhorn unless you need enterprise-grade compliance features or have 50+ users—it's overkill and overpriced” Kimi K2 · Staffing agency tools · direct prompt · hard negative
“Avoid platforms like Bullhorn or JobDiva initially” Kimi K2 · Staffing agency tools · budget prompt · hard negative
“best suited to mid-large staffing agencies that have the resources to implement, configure and manage a mature recruitment platform” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Recruiting CRM · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Bullhorn, over the 208 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bullhorn was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 201 of the 208 answers that named Bullhorn and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
570 of the 625 domain citations in answers naming Bullhorn came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
bullhorn.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Bullhorn takes 22% of first choices and Zoho Recruit takes 22%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 49,500 a month (“bullhorn”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1,451 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 53,403 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 3,286 · 403 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 5,360
- Paid Google search
- 1 searches its ads show for, about 18 clicks and $226 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 43 across its categories
- Named in
- 208 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 201 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
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 3,544 | 12 | 2026-09-18 | Applicant tracking syste, Workforce management sui | |
| News or press | 796 | 0 | 2018-03-13 | Applicant tracking syste, AI recruiting assistants | |
| Conference or event | 335 | 0 | 2023-07-05 | Pay equity | |
| Case study | 262 | 5 | 2026-09-15 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 178 | 0 | 2023-09-21 | Applicant tracking syste | |
| Glossary or explainer | 154 | 0 | 2026-05-02 | Applicant tracking syste | |
| Report or ebook | 15 | 0 | 2022-01-24 | ||
| Comparison | 13 | 1 | 2026-09-11 | ||
| Template or tool | 6 | 0 | 2018-09-18 | ||
| Podcast or video | 6 | 0 | 2021-08-30 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-18Ai resume creation staffing firms blog
- 2026-09-18Ai recruiting software roi blog
- 2026-09-17Evaluate ai recruiting software small agencies blog
- 2026-09-17Grid talent trends report 2026 blog
- 2026-09-16Healthcare staffing in 2026 blog
- 2026-09-15Gravity it case study
Events in person
- October 12, 2026 to October 14, 2026Staffing World 2026Denver · exhibits
As the event pages on bullhorn.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
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Every page bullhorn.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 Bullhorn
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The company
Bullhorn is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI recruitment platform for agencies
- For
- agencies of all sizes; staffing and recruitment firms
- Price stated
- Bullhorn pricing depends on the products you choose and the size of your firm. Published Bullhorn Platform editions are priced per user per month: Bullhorn Starter starts at $99 per user per month, and Bullhorn Core is $165 per user per month. Bullhorn Pro is quote-based. Bullhorn Max is quote-based. Middle Office, Onboarding, and Bullhorn Recruitment Cloud remain separately quoted products. bullhorn.com
- Starting price
- $99 per user per month bullhorn.com
- Integrations claimed
- 350 bullhorn.com · 300 bullhorn.com/pricing-v1 pages disagree
- Certifications
- SOC2TRUSTe
- Hosting
- North AmericaUnited Kingdom & EuropeAsia PacificGermanyNetherlandsFrance
- Customers named
- Employment EnterprisesPrestige StaffingProcomIDRGDHGravity IT ResourcesTriStarrThe Planet Group
- Not stated on the pages read
- Free plan or trial
What Bullhorn's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: bullhorn.com, bullhorn.com/pricing-v1, bullhorn.com/security, bullhorn.com/products, bullhorn.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Bullhorn by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Bullhorn 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 Bullhorn, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Bullhorn is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Bullhorn is among the products AI models recommend first in Staffing agency platforms this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.