Small businessnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 22 of 80, unchanged
2 categories · Named, not rankedPlum
9Judge labels
2First choices
1Negative labels
7 / 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.
Standing
5 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Plum was named 5 times in Candidate assessment and 1 other category, where TestGorilla led with 52%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business23 of 80
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market11 of 118
2%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In candidate assessment · 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 Plum 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate assessment | Talent acquisition | 2% | 11 of 118 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by TestGorilla at 52% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Succession planning | Performance and talent management | 0% | 77 of 93 | 33% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 28% | =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, Plum held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Candidate assessment · by segment
Mid-market▲+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 19 → 11 of 115
EnterprisegoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsNot ranked
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate assessment | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 19 → 11 of 118 |
| Succession 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 30 → 77 of 93 |
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 Plum 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 Plum 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 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 labels1
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative3 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained3 labels1
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 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.
“Mid-market platforms (Criteria Corp, Plum, TestGorilla Plus tier) often hit the sweet spot of capability vs. cost.” Kimi K2 · Candidate assessment · scale prompt · first choice
“Choose Plum if you want assessment-driven identification of future leaders.” Perplexity Sonar · Succession planning · comparative 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.
“Plum - Why be cautious: Lacks regional data filters” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Succession planning · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Plum, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Plum was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Plum, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Plum 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 Plum. 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 9 of the 9 answers that named Plum and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
firsthr.app6
g2.com6
peoplemanagingpeople.com5
jobcannon.io4
adaface.com3
bryq.com3
capterra.com3
criteriacorp.com3
softwareadvice.com3
talentguard.com3
Thirty-nine of the thirty-nine domain citations in answers naming Plum came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on plumestudio.com
281
subdomains included
Content
240
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
1 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 186 | 0 | 2026-04-14 | Learning management syst, Compliance training | |
| Case study | 38 | 37 | 2026-09-28 | Learning management syst | |
| Comparison | 6 | 1 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Report or ebook | 4 | 0 | 2025-12-09 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 0 | 2023-12-25 | Learning management syst, Learning experience plat | |
| Podcast or video | 2 | 2 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | 0 | 2024-01-26 |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page plumestudio.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 Plum
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Plum; a claim can dispute any of them.
Harver/Plum 1
Follow Plum
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
Plum is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Plum is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Custom LMS Development & Training Infrastructure Studio
- For
- training providers and e-learning businesses
- Price stated
- Transparent pricing. plumestudio.com/about/pricing
- Starting price
- $0 per year plumestudio.com/about/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- $0 per year plumestudio.com/about/pricing
- Hosting
- USUKEurope
- Customers named
- Ford CreativeAbsolute DogsGoogle ClassroomBioBuddyAssistance Dogs InternationalTraffic School OnlineAesthetic HubCareer Master Class
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications
What Plum's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: plumestudio.com, plumestudio.com/about/pricing, plumestudio.com/information/platform-control, plumestudio.com/case-studies. 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 Plum'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 Plum, 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 Plum by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Plum 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 Plum, 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.