Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 9 → 18 of 100
Eightfold · 14 categories · RankedEightfold AI
567Judge labels
99First choices
221Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
14Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
67% in Talent intelligence for enterprise buyers
Rank 4 of 90 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 54% of its 59 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Eightfold AI →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business20 of 104
2%37 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market4 of 90
8%59 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise1 of 68
67%69 labels
endorsed leader
In talent intelligence · 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 Eightfold AI 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talent intelligence | Performance and talent management | 8% | 4 of 90 | 54% | 59 | criticized challenger | ▼−3Since September 2026: 12% → 9%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Internal talent marketplace | Performance and talent management | 2% | 14 of 102 | 47% | 38 | criticized challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| AI recruiting assistants | Talent acquisition | 2% | 14 of 90 | 38% | 26 | criticized challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Skills intelligence | Performance and talent management | 2% | 23 of 127 | 55% | 31 | criticized challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| HR AI assistants | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 136 of 142 | 56% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by MeBeBot at 21% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| People analytics | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 64 of 114 | 25% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Crunchr at 22% | =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% | 27 of 111 | 0% | 3 | 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. |
| Recruitment marketing and career sites | Talent acquisition | 0% | 30 of 104 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 23% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Succession planning | Performance and talent management | 0% | 37 of 93 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 28% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Candidate assessment | Talent acquisition | 0% | 64 of 118 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by TestGorilla at 52% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| HR compliance and policy management | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 84 of 97 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 19% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| HR help desk and case management | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 99 of 108 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Zoho Desk at 19% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Video interviewing | Talent acquisition | 0% | 61 of 66 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Spark Hire at 50% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Workforce planning | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 65 of 98 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 37% | =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, Eightfold AI held within the floor in all fourteen categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Talent intelligence · by segment
Mid-market▼−3Since September 2026: 12% → 9%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
9%from 12% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 4 of 80, unchanged
Enterprise▼−3Since September 2026: 72% → 70%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
70%from 72% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 1 of 63, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talent intelligence | 12% | 9% | ▼−3Since September 2026: 12% → 9%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 4 of 90, unchanged |
| Internal talent marketpl | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 124 → 14 of 102 |
| AI recruiting assistants | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 83 → 14 of 90 |
| Skills intelligence | 4% | 2% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 8 → 23 of 127 |
| HR AI assistants | 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 108 → 136 of 142 |
| People analytics | 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 94 → 64 of 114 |
| Recruiting CRM | 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 30 → 27 of 111 |
| Recruitment marketing | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 30 of 104, unchanged |
| Succession planning | 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 29 → 37 of 93 |
| Candidate assessment | 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 83 → 64 of 118 |
| HR compliance | 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 75 → 84 of 97 |
| HR help desk | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 99 of 108, unchanged |
| Video interviewing | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 61 of 66, unchanged |
| Workforce planning | 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 81 → 65 of 98 |
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 Eightfold AI 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 Eightfold AI 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 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 25 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 16 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 18 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 17 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 4 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 20 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 14 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 15 |
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
Direct109 labels43
Paraphrase105 labels38
Comparative132 labels36not counted in share
Budget-constrained81 labels16
Scale-constrained48 labels2
Negative92 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative567 labels in all, every segment counted; 99 of the 137 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.
“Eightfold AI — The Enterprise Heavyweight ... Best for: Large enterprises needing end-to-end talent intelligence across acquisition, internal mobility, and workforce planning.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Talent intelligence · comparative prompt · first choice
“Primary Focus: Enterprise Skills Intelligence & Full-Lifecycle Matching... Extreme AI scale... Note: Implementation is highly complex, expensive” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Talent intelligence · comparative prompt · first choice
“I'd generally recommend Eightfold AI if your top priority is a single platform that combines external hiring + internal mobility” GPT-5.4 mini · Talent intelligence · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Fuel50 and Eightfold tend to be the most commonly recommended options due to their scalability and mid-market-friendly approach” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Internal talent marketpl · direct 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.
“"Eightfold AI (Extreme Caution on 'Match Scores')… class-action lawsuit… acts as a 'consumer reporting agency' under the Fair Credit Reporting Act"... "Avoid for your size: Eightfold/Phenom/Gloat"” Muse Glimmer 30B · Talent intelligence · negative prompt · hard negative
“This is currently the most notable case. In January 2026, a class-action lawsuit (*Kistler v. Eightfold AI*) was filed in California alleging violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).” MiniMax M2.5 · Talent intelligence · negative prompt · hard negative
“you should generally avoid the following enterprise-native TIPs... Eightfold AI: ... high total cost of ownership (TCO) and long, intensive implementation timelines.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Talent intelligence · direct prompt · hard negative
“requires avoiding massive enterprise suites like Eightfold.ai, Phenom, or Beamery, which easily scale into five- or six-figure annual commitments” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Talent intelligence · budget prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Eightfold AI, over the 567 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Eightfold AI was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Eightfold AI, over the 567 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Eightfold AI 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 Eightfold AI. 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 540 of the 567 answers that named Eightfold AI and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
pin.com209
skima.ai155
g2.com153
hrtechsaas.com148
guideflow.com141
peoplemanagingpeople.com140
engagedly.com121
hr-ai-index.com119
metaview.ai103
gartner.com100
1,389 of the 1,389 domain citations in answers naming Eightfold AI came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
eightfold.ai ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Eightfold AI takes 8% of first choices and Pin takes 27%.ShowHide
Search and answers
eightfold.ai ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Eightfold AI takes 8% of first choices and Pin takes 27%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “talent intelligence platform”
1
Position for “talent intelligence platforms”
2
- Searches for its name, Google
- 4,400 a month (“eightfold ai”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 187 a month
- Its company's site
- eightfold.ai shared with Eightfold's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 53,360 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 4,402 · 346 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 8,807
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
8%
rank 4 of 90 in talent intelligence
Segment leader
27%
Pin
- First choices
- 99 across its categories
- Named in
- 567 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 540 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 Eightfold AI
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Eightfold AI; a claim can dispute any of them.
Eightfold 44Eightfold.ai 17
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The company
Eightfold is the company behind Eightfold AI.ShowHide
The company
Eightfold is the company behind Eightfold AI.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from Eightfold
- Eightfold AI – Talent Intelligence, Eightfold Talent Intelligence
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Eightfold is the agentic talent intelligence company that gives every HR leader, recruiter, and people manager the intelligence to see, develop, and deploy the full depth of talent around them.
- For
- HR leader, recruiter, and people manager
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II certifiedISO 42001 certifiedFR Moderate AttestedSOC 2ISOFedRAMPSOC 2 Type IIISO 42001
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting, customers
What Eightfold AI's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: eightfold.ai/eightfold-ai-for-slack, eightfold.ai/content-eightfold-ai-home, eightfold.ai/nyc-eightfold-matching-model, eightfold.ai/eightfold-ai-for-microsoft-teams, community.eightfold.ai/eightfold-change-management-56. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Eightfold AI by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Eightfold AI 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 Eightfold AI, 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.