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 13 → 74 of 80
Criteria · 3 categories · RankedCriteria Corp
110Judge labels
16First choices
26Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
19% in Candidate assessment for mid-market buyers
Rank 2 of 118 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
7 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 14% of its 35 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Criteria Corp →By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
Small business64 of 80
0%33 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market2 of 118
19%35 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise3 of 75
13%32 labels
accepted challenger
In candidate assessment · 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 Criteria Corp 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate assessment | Talent acquisition | 19% | 2 of 118 | 14% | 35 | accepted challenger | ▲+7Since September 2026: 10% → 17%, +7 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Skills intelligence | Performance and talent management | 0% | 53 of 127 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Skills Base at 18% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Technical hiring assessments | Talent acquisition | 0% | 64 of 71 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by HackerRank at 17% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Criteria Corp held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Candidate assessment · by segment
Mid-market▲+7Since September 2026: 10% → 17%, +7 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
17%from 10% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 2 of 115, unchanged
Enterprise▼−1Since September 2026: 11% → 10%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
10%from 11% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 12 pointsRank 2 → 4 of 67
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate assessment | 10% | 17% | ▲+7Since September 2026: 10% → 17%, +7 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 of 118, unchanged |
| Skills intelligence | 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 44 → 53 of 127 |
| Technical hiring assessm | 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 39 → 64 of 71 |
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 Criteria Corp 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 Criteria Corp 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
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
Direct29 labels10
Paraphrase15 labels2
Comparative20 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained18 labels3
Scale-constrained14 labels1
Negative14 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative110 labels in all, every segment counted; 16 of the 18 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.
“Criteria Corp is a good choice for mid-market companies that want a validated battery embedded in an existing ATS or HRIS stack.” Llama 4 Maverick · Candidate assessment · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“For a 500-person company: Mid-market platforms (Criteria Corp, Plum, TestGorilla Plus tier) often hit the sweet spot” Kimi K2 · Candidate assessment · scale prompt · first choice
“For a mid-market B2B company the platform that is most consistently called out as a fit is Criteria Corp.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Candidate assessment · direct prompt · first choice
“choose SHL or Criteria when you need a broader, structured assessment program” GPT-6 Luna · Candidate assessment · 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.
“Avoid: Criteria Corp, Wonderlic, and HireVue if budget is a concern” Kimi K2 · Candidate assessment · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid platforms like Criteria Corp, Predictive Index, or HireVue” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Candidate assessment · budget prompt · hard negative
“Cons: User interface can feel dated/clunky ... implementation often requires a dedicated project manager.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Candidate assessment · direct prompt · soft negative
“"Criteria Corp, SHL, HireVue, and Wonderlic publish nothing."” Muse Glimmer 30B · Candidate assessment · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Criteria Corp, over the 110 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Criteria Corp was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Criteria Corp, over the 110 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Criteria Corp 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 Criteria Corp. 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 98 of the 110 answers that named Criteria Corp and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
testgorilla.com57
firsthr.app50
bryq.com38
g2.com29
testtrick.com29
peoplemanagingpeople.com28
criteriacorp.comYour site27
pin.com27
hiretruffle.com26
jobcannon.io26
310 of the 337 domain citations in answers naming Criteria Corp came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
criteriacorp.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Criteria Corp takes 19% of first choices and TestGorilla takes 52%.ShowHide
Search and answers
criteriacorp.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Criteria Corp takes 19% of first choices and TestGorilla takes 52%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “assessment platforms”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “pre-employment assessment platform”
3
- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,400 a month (“criteria corp”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 39 a month
- Its company's site
- criteriacorp.com shared with Criteria's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 103,671 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 7,115 · 735 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,760
- Paid Google search
- 9 searches its ads show for, about 394 clicks and $6,427 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
19%
rank 2 of 118 in candidate assessment
Segment leader
52%
TestGorilla
- First choices
- 16 across its categories
- Named in
- 110 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 98 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.
Names read as Criteria Corp
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Criteria Corp; a claim can dispute any of them.
Criteria 10Criteria Corp (HireSelect) 2Criteria (HireSelect) 1Criteria (formerly CritiCorp) 1Criteria Corp (CodeCheck) 1Criteria Corp (Codecheck) 1Criteria Corp (Criteria) 1Criteria Corp (formerly SHL) 1
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The company
Criteria is the company behind Criteria Corp.ShowHide
The company
Criteria is the company behind Criteria Corp.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The Criteria Basic Skills Test (CBST) measures the basic math and verbal skills that are required to succeed in a wide variety of entry-level jobs.
- For
- Most entry-level positions
- Free plan or trial
- Start Free Trial criteriacorp.com/assess/skills/criteria-basic-skills-test-cbst
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Criteria Corp's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: criteriacorp.com/assess/skills/criteria-basic-skills-test-cbst, criteriacorp.com/assessments/skills/criteria-basic-skills-test-2-cbst2, criteriacorp.com/assess/personality/criteria-personality-inventory-cpi, criteriacorp.com/assess/cognitive-aptitude/criteria-attention-skills-test-cast, criteriacorp.com/assess/cognitive-aptitude/criteria-cognitive-aptitude-test-ccat. A claimed page can correct any of 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 Criteria Corp'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 Criteria Corp, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Criteria Corp by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Criteria Corp 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 Criteria Corp, 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 Criteria Corp 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
Wins only: a badge exists where Criteria Corp is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideCriteria Corp is among the products AI models recommend first in Candidate assessment 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.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
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.