Small business▲+11Since September 2026: 6% → 17%, +11 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
17%from 6% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 2 pointsRank 5 → 2 of 40
5 categories · RankedSpark Hire
185Judge labels
35First choices
48Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
5Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
50% in Video interviewing for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 66 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
13 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 18% of its 57 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Spark Hire →By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
Small business2 of 42
14%62 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market1 of 66
50%57 labels
endorsed leader
Enterprise3 of 40
6%48 labels
accepted challenger
In video interviewing · 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 Spark Hire 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video interviewing | Talent acquisition | 50% | 1 of 66 | 18% | 57 | endorsed leader | ▼−6Since September 2026: 55% → 49%, −6 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Candidate assessment | Talent acquisition | 0% | 83 of 118 | 25% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by TestGorilla at 52% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Interview scheduling | Talent acquisition | 0% | 62 of 75 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Calendly at 20% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Recruitment marketing and career sites | Talent acquisition | 0% | 90 of 104 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 23% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Technical hiring assessments | Talent acquisition | 0% | 38 of 71 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by HackerRank at 17% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Spark Hire held within the floor in all five categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Video interviewing · by segment
Mid-market▼−6Since September 2026: 55% → 49%, −6 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
49%from 55% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 1 of 63, unchanged
Enterprise▼−6Since September 2026: 11% → 5%, −6 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 11% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 3 of 38, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video interviewing | 55% | 49% | ▼−6Since September 2026: 55% → 49%, −6 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 1 of 66, unchanged |
| Candidate assessment | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 83 of 118, unchanged |
| Interview scheduling | 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 51 → 62 of 75 |
| Recruitment marketing | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 90 of 104, unchanged |
| Technical hiring assessm | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 38 of 71, unchanged |
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 Spark Hire 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 Spark Hire 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 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
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
Direct38 labels17
Paraphrase32 labels12
Comparative42 labels6not counted in share
Budget-constrained24 labels4
Scale-constrained18 labels2
Negative31 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative185 labels in all, every segment counted; 35 of the 42 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.
“Spark Hire is the most widely adopted mid-market video interviewing platform, with transparent pricing and support for both one-way async and live formats.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Video interviewing · direct prompt · first choice
“I'd lean toward Spark Hire because it balances async screening capabilities, straightforward implementation, and reasonable pricing” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Video interviewing · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Best All-Rounder (Async + Live in One): Spark Hire ... Spark Hire is the industry standard for the mid-market.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Video interviewing · direct prompt · first choice
“Spark Hire is widely regarded as the best all‑around video interviewing platform for mid‑market B2B companies” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Video interviewing · direct 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.
“Platforms to Avoid on a Tight Budget | Spark Hire | ~$149-$299/month | Too expensive for limited budgets” Kimi K2 · Video interviewing · budget prompt · hard negative
“Strongly disliked by candidates who describe it as "humiliating" and "completely dehumanizing."” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Video interviewing · negative prompt · hard negative
“Spark Hire is more feature-rich, but its plans start at $249/month billed annually, so it's harder to justify on a tight budget.” GPT-6 Luna · Video interviewing · budget prompt · soft negative
“Tools like *Spark Hire* were popular, but many newer video tools have clunky interfaces that frustrate users on mobile devices.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Recruitment marketing · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Spark Hire, over the 185 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spark Hire was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Spark Hire, over the 185 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spark Hire 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 Spark Hire. 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 176 of the 185 answers that named Spark Hire and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
willo.video97
hiretruffle.com96
sparkhire.comYour site90
pin.com84
hirevire.com79
resources.rework.com77
selectsoftwarereviews.com71
learn.g2.com61
linkedin.com59
firsthr.app55
679 of the 769 domain citations in answers naming Spark Hire came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Spark Hire stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Spark Hire stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “video interviewing platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “video interviewing platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 4,400 a month (“spark hire”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 228 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 11,632 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,418 · 216 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,642
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 15 clicks and $971 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
50%
rank 1 of 66 in video interviewing
First choices
35
across its categories
- Named in
- 185 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 176 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 sparkhire.com
644
subdomains included
Content
386
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
4 · 23
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 123 | 0 | 2026-04-28 | Applicant tracking syste, Interview scheduling | |
| Case study | 108 | 0 | 2025-10-29 | ||
| Podcast or video | 41 | 0 | 2026-06-02 | Applicant tracking syste | |
| Blog | 36 | 0 | 2026-06-08 | Applicant tracking syste | |
| Comparison | 34 | 0 | 2026-06-08 | Applicant tracking syste, Video interviewing | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 23 | 5 | 2026-09-23 | Applicant tracking syste | |
| News or press | 16 | 0 | 2025-08-22 | Applicant tracking syste, Video interviewing | |
| Report or ebook | 5 | 5 | 2026-08-17 | Applicant tracking syste |
Most recent
- 2026-09-23Product updates september 2026 webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-22Align hiring process and business goals webinar or virtual event
- 2026-08-28Hr and hiring managers work better together webinar or virtual event
- 2026-08-19Product updates august 2026 webinar or virtual event
- 2026-08-17Applicant tracking system for construction report or ebook
- 2026-08-13Applicant tracking system for medical practices report or ebook
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page sparkhire.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name applicant tracking syste (27); 4 name its categories the models place it in. 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 Spark Hire
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Spark Hire; a claim can dispute any of them.
Spark Hire (by Greenhouse) 1
Follow Spark Hire
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
Spark Hire is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Spark Hire is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Hiring Software for Lean Teams
- For
- Small & Medium Organizations
- Price stated
- Pricing starts at $249 per month and varies by company size; ATS pricing starts at $335 / month for Recruit Pro and $499 / month for Recruit Growth; all Recruit plans are only available under an annual contract. sparkhire.com/pricing
- Starting price
- 249 sparkhire.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- null sparkhire.com/pricing
- Integrations claimed
- 100 sparkhire.com · 1000 sparkhire.com/pricing pages disagree
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type IIEEO and GDPR compliance
- Customers named
- HolganixOuterboxTeamworkCyprus Credit UnionGustoAcademyXAll Web LeadsSeatgeek
- Not stated on the pages read
- Hosting
What Spark Hire's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: sparkhire.com, sparkhire.com/pricing, trust.sparkhire.com, sparkhire.com/use-case/challenge, sparkhire.com/customers. 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 Spark Hire'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 Spark Hire, 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 Spark Hire by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Spark Hire 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 Spark Hire, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Spark Hire is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Spark Hire is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideAI models recommend Spark Hire first in Video interviewing this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.