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 19 → 15 of 97
7 categories · RankedIndeed
135Judge labels
2First choices
54Negative labels
14 / 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
0% in Job advertising for mid-market buyers
Rank 21 of 111 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 31% of its 32 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Indeed →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business19 of 102
0%37 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market21 of 111
0%32 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise91 of 92
0%19 labels
criticized challenger
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 Indeed 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% | 21 of 111 | 31% | 32 | criticized challenger | ▼−3Since September 2026: 3% → 0%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Recruitment marketing and career sites | Talent acquisition | 0% | 101 of 104 | 60% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 23% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Staffing agency platforms | Talent acquisition | 0% | 86 of 136 | 40% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Zoho Recruit at 22% | |
| Recruiting CRM and sourcing | Talent acquisition | 0% | 28 of 111 | 0% | 4 | 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. |
| Compensation benchmarking data | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 131 of 148 | 67% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 19% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Compensation management | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 137 of 140 | 100% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Internal talent marketplace | Performance and talent management | 0% | 88 of 102 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Fuel50 at 47% | =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, Indeed held within the floor in all seven categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Job advertising · by segment
Mid-market▼−3Since September 2026: 3% → 0%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 3% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 9 → 20 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 53 → 88 of 89
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Job advertising | 3% | 0% | ▼−3Since September 2026: 3% → 0%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 9 → 21 of 111 |
| Recruitment marketing | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 18 → 101 of 104 |
| Staffing agency tools | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 86 of 136, unchanged |
| 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 29 → 28 of 111 |
| Compensation benchmarkin | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 131 of 148, unchanged |
| Compensation management | 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 125 → 137 of 140 |
| Internal talent marketpl | 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 52 → 88 of 102 |
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 Indeed 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 Indeed 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 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
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
Direct9 labelsNone
Paraphrase8 labels1
Comparative34 labels24not counted in share
Budget-constrained20 labels1
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative60 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative135 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 29 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.
“The undisputed volume leader (~31.6% market share)... employers now treat Indeed and LinkedIn as their primary paired destinations for general hiring.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Job advertising · comparative prompt · first choice
“Best for: High-volume hiring, broad reach... The largest job seeker audience globally” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Job advertising · comparative prompt · first choice
“Largest reach and volume of job listings; best for broad exposure and response rate.” Mistral Small · Job advertising · comparative prompt · first choice
“Indeed – best overall for employers and the largest pure job search engine.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Job advertising · 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.
“"Indeed has a problem. One in five job listings on the platform may be fake." ... "Indeed has no system to flag or remove these phantom listings."” Muse Glimmer 30B · Job advertising · negative prompt · hard negative
“free employee-reported salary sites like Glassdoor and Indeed, because their data is unverified, often outdated” Perplexity Sonar · Compensation management · negative prompt · hard negative
“Widespread fake and "ghost" job postings (jobs that appear active but aren't)” Kimi K2 · Job advertising · negative prompt · hard negative
“crowdsourced data is entirely unverified and plagued by self-selection bias” Muse Glimmer 30B · Compensation management · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Indeed, over the 135 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Indeed was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Indeed, over the 135 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Indeed 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 Indeed. 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 127 of the 135 answers that named Indeed and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
firsthr.app45
g2.com40
selectsoftwarereviews.com39
pin.com38
noon.ai35
linkedin.com29
guideflow.com23
joveo.com22
hr-ai-index.com20
hrtechsaas.com20
311 of the 311 domain citations in answers naming Indeed came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
indeed.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Indeed takes 0% of first choices and JobTarget takes 23%.ShowHide
Search and answers
indeed.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Indeed 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
- 13,600,000 a month (“indeed”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 15,808 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 179,855,751 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 5,825,367 · 1,616,224 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 279,623
- Paid Google search
- 1,266 searches its ads show for, about 27,914 clicks and $54,963 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 21 of 111 in job advertising
Segment leader
23%
JobTarget
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 135 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 127 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
ShowHideAddresses on indeed.com
23
subdomains included
Content
13
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 12 | 9 | 2026-09-25 | ||
| Blog | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-25Ai agents cybersecurity workforce gap news or press
- 2026-09-23Indeed q3 2026 labor market outlook survey news or press
- 2026-09-04Indeed futureworks 2026 recap news or press
- 2026-08-31Ai job market trends skill matching news or press
- 2026-08-31Trust transparency safety indeed responsible ai news or press
- 2026-08-25Best cities for work news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page indeed.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. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Indeed
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Indeed; a claim can dispute any of them.
Glassdoor/Indeed 1Indeed (Employer/Recruiter side) 1Indeed (Free posting) 1
Follow Indeed
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
Indeed is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Indeed is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- With Indeed, you can search millions of jobs online to find the next step in your career.
- For
- job seekers
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Indeed's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: indeed.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Indeed'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 Indeed, 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 Indeed by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Indeed 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 Indeed, 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.