5 categories · RankedStanding by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recruiting CRM and sourcing | Talent acquisition | 5% | 8 of 88 | 40% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Lever at 20% |
| Job advertising and distribution | Talent acquisition | 3% | 10 of 109 | 32% | 19 | criticized challenger |
| Internal talent marketplace | Performance and talent management | 0% | 32 of 128 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Fuel50 at 26% |
| Compensation benchmarking data | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 137 of 141 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Payscale at 24% |
| Talent intelligence | Performance and talent management | 0% | 53 of 77 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Pin at 17% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated LinkedIn across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“While LinkedIn offers premium features, the free version still allows you to search for candidates and post jobs. The paid "Recruiter Lite" plan is more affordable” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Recruiting CRM · budget prompt · first choice
“Stick to well-established, reputable job boards with strong verification systems, such as LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster, Glassdoor, and CareerBuilder.” Mistral Small · Job advertising · negative prompt · first choice
“LinkedIn (free basic version) is often the best starting point for candidate sourcing on a limited budget.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recruiting CRM · budget prompt · first choice
“Stick to well-known boards with strong verification (LinkedIn, Glassdoor, FlexJobs is human-reviewed” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Job advertising · negative 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.
“Do not use them for making concrete compensation decisions regarding your 500 employees due to sample bias” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · scale prompt · hard negative
“Scams are commonly carried out through Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, Telegram, LinkedIn, and similar channels, especially when the recruiter contacts you first.” Perplexity Sonar · Job advertising · negative prompt · soft negative
“98 percent of scam vacancies analyzed were found on LinkedIn, though this doesn't mean LinkedIn itself is unsafe” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Job advertising · negative prompt · soft negative
“Any tool that relies on scraping LinkedIn — LinkedIn restricts its API, so scraped profile data is often stale” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Recruiting CRM · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as LinkedIn, over the 78 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
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 63 of the 78 answers that named LinkedIn and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
164 of the 185 domain citations in answers naming LinkedIn came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as LinkedIn
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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.
It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at linkedin.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.
Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.