| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate assessment | Talent acquisition | 0% | 23 of 118 | 22% | 9 | 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. |
| Technical hiring assessments | Talent acquisition | 0% | 65 of 71 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by HackerRank at 17% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 16 → 23 of 118 |
| Technical hiring assessm | 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 22 → 65 of 71 |
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
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“TestGorilla or Mercer Mettl are top choices” Mistral Small · Candidate assessment · comparative prompt · first choice
“Best for enterprise-style psychometrics and high-volume structured assessment: Mercer Mettl” GPT-5.4 mini · Candidate assessment · direct prompt · alternative
“Enterprise-wide hiring & talent programs → Mercer | Mettl or eSkill” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Candidate assessment · comparative prompt · alternative
“high-volume campus hiring points to Mercer Mettl” Muse Glimmer 30B · Technical hiring assessm · comparative prompt · alternative
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.
“Mercer Mettl ⚠️ MIXED REVIEWS ... Risk: $500+ losses reported with refund refusals” Kimi K2 · Candidate assessment · negative prompt · soft negative
“it's less specialized for coding depth than the technical-first tools above” GPT-5.4 mini · Technical hiring assessm · direct prompt · soft negative
“Strong validation, but often overkill/heavier for mid-market” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Candidate assessment · direct prompt · soft negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 42 of the 44 answers that named Mercer | Mettl and are not a share of its labels.
135 of the 135 domain citations in answers naming Mercer | Mettl came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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.
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 540 | 11 | 2026-08-13 | Succession planning, 360 feedback | |
| Report or ebook | 48 | 0 | 2026-04-22 | Succession planning | |
| News or press | 8 | undated | Applicant tracking syste | ||
| Comparison | 7 | 0 | 2025-09-19 | ||
| Conference or event | 3 | 0 | 2024-05-31 | ||
| Case study | 2 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | 0 | 2025-05-08 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | 0 | 2021-03-23 |
Every page mettl.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.
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.
What Mercer | Mettl's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: mettl.com, mettl.com/talent-analytics/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 Mercer | Mettl'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 Mercer | Mettl, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Mercer | Mettl by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows: