Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 26 → 89 of 97
2 categories · RankedCraigslist
25Judge labels
0First choices
15Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
2Categories
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 Job advertising for small business buyers
Rank 108 of 111 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 83% of its 6 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business84 of 102
0%11 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market108 of 111
0%6 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise87 of 92
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
In job advertising · 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 Craigslist 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Job advertising and distribution | Talent acquisition | 0% | 108 of 111 | 83% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by JobTarget at 23% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Skills intelligence | Performance and talent management | 0% | 107 of 127 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Skills Base at 18% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Craigslist held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Job advertising · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 99 → 102 of 103
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 63 → 84 of 89
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Job advertising | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 99 → 108 of 111 |
| Skills intelligence | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 107 of 127, unchanged |
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 13 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 Craigslist 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 Craigslist 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 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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
Comparative4 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative21 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative25 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.
“Frequently cited for fake postings; minimal verification means high scam volume. FTC notes it's a top spot for hijacked ads.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Job advertising · negative prompt · hard negative
“Craigslist is generally a platform to avoid unless you are hiring for highly localized, hourly, or blue-collar roles” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Job advertising · negative prompt · hard negative
“3. Craigslist (for jobs specifically) ... flag Craigslist as having a "high volume of employment fraud” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Job advertising · negative prompt · hard negative
“Craigslist has zero vetting mechanisms. It is rife with employment scams” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Skills intelligence · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Craigslist, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Craigslist was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Craigslist, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Craigslist 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 Craigslist. 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 25 of the 25 answers that named Craigslist and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
firsthr.app12
noon.ai9
linkedin.com8
g2.com7
joinhomebase.com7
pin.com7
100hires.com6
consumer.ftc.gov6
hr-ai-index.com6
selectsoftwarereviews.com6
Seventy-four of the seventy-four domain citations in answers naming Craigslist came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
craigslist.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Craigslist takes 0% of first choices and JobTarget takes 23%.ShowHide
Search and answers
craigslist.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Craigslist takes 0% of first choices and JobTarget takes 23%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “job advertising platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “programmatic job advertising platform”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 7,480,000 a month (“craigslist”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 43,059 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 48,715,578 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 769,380 · 146,835 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 99,416
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 108 of 111 in job advertising
Segment leader
23%
JobTarget
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 25 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 25 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.
Follow Craigslist
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Craigslist is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Craigslist is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- craigslist provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, services, local community, and events
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Craigslist's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: craigslist.org. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
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 Craigslist'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 Craigslist, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Craigslist by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Craigslist 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 Craigslist, 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.