Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 4% now.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 11 of 108, unchanged
Freshteam
31Judge labels
5First choices
5Negative labels
11 / 14Models named it
7Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in Recruiting CRM for mid-market buyers
Rank 11 of 111 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 2 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market11 of 111
4%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In recruiting crm · 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 Freshteam 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recruiting CRM and sourcing | Talent acquisition | 4% | 11 of 111 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Gem at 15% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 4% now. |
| Employee onboarding | Onboarding and employee experience | 2% | 13 of 87 | 20% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 25% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Applicant tracking systems | Talent acquisition | 2% | 10 of 65 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Greenhouse at 40% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. |
| Recruitment marketing and career sites | Talent acquisition | 0% | 82 of 104 | 50% | 2 | 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. |
| HR AI assistants | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 61 of 142 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by MeBeBot at 21% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| HR help desk and case management | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 71 of 108 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Zoho Desk at 19% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| HRIS and HCM platforms | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 61 of 66 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 26% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Freshteam held within the floor in all seven categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Recruiting CRM · by segment
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recruiting CRM | 0% | 4% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 4% now. | New this edition | Rank 11 of 111, unchanged |
| Applicant tracking syste | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 10 of 65, unchanged |
| Employee onboarding | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 13 of 87, unchanged |
| Recruitment marketing | 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 45 → 82 of 104 |
| HR AI assistants | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 61 of 142, unchanged |
| HR help desk | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 71 of 108, unchanged |
| HRIS and HCM platforms | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 61 of 66, 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 Freshteam 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 Freshteam 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 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labels1
Comparative5 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained20 labels4
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative31 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 7 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.
“Start with Freshteam's free tier if you have under 50 employees—it gives you the most comprehensive features at zero cost.” Kimi K2 · Recruiting CRM · budget prompt · first choice
“Start with Zoho Recruit's free plan or Freshteam's free tier (up to 50 employees)” Kimi K2 · Applicant tracking syste · budget prompt · first choice
“Zoho Recruit and Freshteam are the most popular and scalable options” Mistral Small · Recruiting CRM · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Freshteam free to 50 employees is the highest free cap for a managed product” Muse Glimmer 30B · Employee onboarding · budget 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.
“do not buy it. Freshworks has halted new subscriptions and is officially sunsetting the platform” Gemini 3.5 Flash · HRIS and HCM platforms · budget prompt · hard negative
“Do not choose Freshteam. Freshworks stopped taking new subscriptions” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Employee onboarding · budget prompt · hard negative
“Freshteam's analytics may be basic for enterprise-level reporting and occasionally experiences slow load times” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Recruitment marketing · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Freshteam, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Freshteam was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Freshteam, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Freshteam 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 Freshteam. 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 30 of the 31 answers that named Freshteam and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
forbes.com13
peoplemanagingpeople.com13
firsthr.app11
joinhomebase.com9
fitsmallbusiness.com8
zapier.com8
gusto.com7
pin.com7
talenthr.io7
capterra.com6
No domain is on file for Freshteam, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Freshteam
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Freshteam; a claim can dispute any of them.
Freshteam by Freshworks 6Freshteam (by Freshworks) 3Freshteam (Freshworks) 1
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Freshteam by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Freshteam 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 Freshteam, 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.