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 67 → 80 of 100
2 categories · RankedLightcast
28Judge labels
0First choices
4Negative 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 Talent intelligence for enterprise buyers
Rank 20 of 90 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 12% of its 8 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business81 of 104
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market20 of 90
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise16 of 68
0%12 labels
accepted challenger
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 Lightcast 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 | 0% | 20 of 90 | 12% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Pin at 27% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce planning | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 51 of 98 | 0% | 2 | 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, Lightcast held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Talent intelligence · 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 21 → 17 of 80
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 14 → 17 of 63
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talent 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 21 → 20 of 90 |
| 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 27 → 51 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 Lightcast 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 Lightcast 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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
Direct5 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative13 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained7 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative28 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.
“Lightcast — Labor Market Data & Benchmarking ... Rich supply/demand data | No candidate profiles” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Talent intelligence · comparative prompt · alternative
“Strong for external market research, skills intelligence, and regional talent availability.” Perplexity Sonar · Talent intelligence · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best for labor-market data and benchmarking: Lightcast” Perplexity Sonar · Talent intelligence · direct prompt · alternative
“Better if you mainly need labor-market analysis” GPT-6 Luna · Talent intelligence · direct prompt · alternative
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.
“platforms such as Lightcast are quote-based; with a very limited budget, start with free U.S. Department of Labor resources like O*NET instead” GPT-6 Luna · Talent intelligence · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Lightcast, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Lightcast was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Lightcast, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Lightcast 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 Lightcast. 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 28 of the 28 answers that named Lightcast and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
pin.com15
g2.com13
guideflow.com12
noon.ai12
xobin.com11
jobspipe.dev10
learn.g2.com9
skima.ai8
gartner.com7
metaview.ai7
104 of the 104 domain citations in answers naming Lightcast came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
lightcast.io ranks 8 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Lightcast takes 0% of first choices and Pin takes 27%.ShowHide
Search and answers
lightcast.io ranks 8 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Lightcast takes 0% of first choices and Pin takes 27%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “talent intelligence platform”
9
Position for “talent intelligence platforms”
8
- Searches for its name, Google
- 6,600 a month (“lightcast”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 192 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 106,942 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 14,451 · 472 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 5,044
- 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 20 of 90 in talent intelligence
Segment leader
27%
Pin
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 28 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 28 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
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on lightcast.io
3,732
subdomains included
Content
1,615
counted in the table below
Documentation
1,596
Product · Integration
94 · 2
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,237 | 12 | 2026-09-28 | Talent intelligence, Workforce planning | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 159 | 8 | 2026-11-18 | ||
| Report or ebook | 148 | undated | Talent intelligence | ||
| Case study | 26 | 0 | 2025-11-21 | ||
| Conference or event | 20 | 0 | 2023-12-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 17 | 0 | 2025-04-01 | People analytics | |
| Comparison | 6 | 1 | 2026-08-14 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2024-04-18 | Workforce planning | |
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-11-18Single nation many labour markets planning for regional workforce transitions webinar or virtual event
- 2026-11-11Making pathways visible connecting skills jobs and learning webinar or virtual event
- 2026-11-04Beyond the ai headlines what changing skill demand means for australia webinar or virtual event
- 2026-10-27Demonstrating Institutional Impact webinar or virtual event
- 2026-10-20Attracting and Enrolling Learners webinar or virtual event
- 2026-10-13Building Career Relevant Programs webinar or virtual event
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page lightcast.io 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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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The company
Lightcast is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Lightcast is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The Standard for Labor Market Intelligence
- For
- businesses, education institutions, and governments worldwide
- Hosting
- US & CanadaUnited KingdomEuropeAsia Pacific
- Customers named
- JB HuntNorth Dakota University SystemGuildbridgestoneThe Josh Bersin CompanyHAIBath CollegeEmploy Prince George's
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications
What Lightcast's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: lightcast.io, trust.lightcast.io, lightcast.io/solutions/pricing, lightcast.io/resources/case-studies, lightcast.io/partners. 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 Lightcast'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 Lightcast, 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 Lightcast by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Lightcast 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 Lightcast, 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.