Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 29 → 19 of 108
7 categories · Ranked20Judge labels
2First choices
6Negative labels
10 / 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
2% in Recruiting CRM for mid-market buyers
Rank 15 of 111 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 3 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business21 of 114
2%2 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market15 of 111
2%3 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 LinkedIn 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 | 2% | 15 of 111 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Gem at 15% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 5% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Internal talent marketplace | Performance and talent management | 0% | 41 of 102 | 0% | 2 | 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. |
| Staffing agency platforms | Talent acquisition | 0% | 87 of 136 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Zoho Recruit at 22% | |
| Applicant tracking systems | Talent acquisition | 0% | 53 of 65 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Greenhouse at 40% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Frontline employee apps | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 71 of 106 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 49% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Mentoring software | Learning and development | 0% | 45 of 77 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Together at 28% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Talent intelligence | Performance and talent management | 0% | 76 of 90 | 100% | 1 | 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. |
Movement
Since September 2026, LinkedIn held within the floor in all seven categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Recruiting CRM · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 5% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 5% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 8 → 15 of 108
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recruiting CRM | 5% | 2% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 5% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 8 → 15 of 111 |
| 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 32 → 41 of 102 |
| Staffing agency tools | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 87 of 136, unchanged |
| Applicant tracking syste | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 53 of 65, unchanged |
| Frontline employee apps | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 71 of 106, unchanged |
| Mentoring software | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 45 of 77, unchanged |
| 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 53 → 76 of 90 |
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 LinkedIn 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 LinkedIn 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labels2
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative10 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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 best candidate sourcing tool is LinkedIn's free basic account combined with free job boards like Indeed and Google for Jobs” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recruiting CRM · budget prompt · first choice
“Use established platforms like LinkedIn, Indeed, and ZipRecruiter (but still verify individual listings)” Kimi K2 · Staffing agency tools · negative 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.
“The parsing quality is often lower than uploading a custom resume file, leading to missing years of experience or garbled skills sections.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Applicant tracking syste · negative prompt · soft negative
“The FTC specifically warns that fake recruiters may contact people through sites such as LinkedIn and Indeed.” GPT-6 Luna · Staffing agency tools · negative prompt · soft negative
“LinkedIn Integrations (General Caution): While powerful, LinkedIn-based solutions carry inherent risks” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Talent intelligence · negative prompt · soft negative
“May contain security vulnerabilities” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Frontline employee apps · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as LinkedIn, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and LinkedIn was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as LinkedIn, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and LinkedIn 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 LinkedIn. 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 18 of the 20 answers that named LinkedIn and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
peoplemanagingpeople.com5
reddit.com5
lever.co4
selectsoftwarereviews.com4
skima.ai4
capterra.com3
consumer.ftc.gov3
forbes.com3
leonar.app3
linkedin.comYour site3
Thirty-four of the thirty-seven domain citations in answers naming LinkedIn came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
linkedin.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, LinkedIn takes 2% of first choices and Gem takes 15%.ShowHide
Search and answers
linkedin.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, LinkedIn takes 2% of first choices and Gem takes 15%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “sourcing tools”
4
Position for “candidate sourcing tool”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 11,100,000 a month (“linkedin”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 77,031 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 331,033,472 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 18,233,164 · 2,762,865 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 13,838,898
- Paid Google search
- 5 searches its ads show for, about 102 clicks and $1,032 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 15 of 111 in Recruiting CRM
Segment leader
15%
Gem
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 20 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 18 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 linkedin.com
814
subdomains included
Content
765
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 | 757 | 14 | 2026-09-23 | ||
| Conference or event | 6 | 0 | 2012-10-01 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-23Linkedin launches new verification features to build professional trust news or press
- 2026-09-18A closer look how we think about elections and politics on linkedin news or press
- 2026-09-16Linkedin data women c suite founders 2026 news or press
- 2026-09-15How linkedin is tackling ai slop news or press
- 2026-09-15Top mbas news or press
- 2026-09-10How can gen z start building a stronger professional network news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page linkedin.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. 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.
Names read as LinkedIn
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as LinkedIn; a claim can dispute any of them.
LinkedIn (free tier) 1LinkedIn / Indeed Apply 1
Follow LinkedIn
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
LinkedIn is its own company.ShowHide
The company
LinkedIn is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
- For
- Anyone looking to navigate their professional life.
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What LinkedIn's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: linkedin.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
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 LinkedIn'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 LinkedIn, 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 LinkedIn by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where LinkedIn 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 LinkedIn, 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.