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Recruiting CRM and sourcing · November 2026 Edition

Lever vs Ashby

Zero of fourteen models named Lever first on the direct prompt; zero named Ashby. Lever was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Ashby by eleven and Lever carries 21 labels and Ashby 12, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Lever

accepted challenger

Named in twelve categories this edition.

Ashby

accepted challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

First-choice share8%6%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#4#6A position in a field of 13; printed, not drawn.
Labels2112A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Lever reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.hireEZ was named alongside these two in twelve of the fourteen direct answers. Gem vs Lever · Gem vs Ashby · hireEZ vs Lever

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the Recruiting CRM and sourcing page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
LeverFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAshby
Direct00
Paraphrase43
Comparative00
Budget-constrained00
Scale-constrained00
Negative00
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Lever and Ashby were named in the same answer 110 times, of the 264 answers naming Lever and the 244 naming Ashby. In those answers Ashby took the first choice fifteen times and Lever twelve.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Lever and Ashby stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Lever Ashby first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Lever on the left and Ashby on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Lever and Ashby stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Perplexity SonarhireEZ alternatives: Gem, Lever, SeekOut, Workable

Neither was named

13 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5LinkedIn Recruiter alternatives: Apollo.io, ZoomInfo
GPT-5.4 miniGem alternatives: LinkedIn Recruiter, Loxo, SeekOut, hireEZ
Gemini 3.5 FlashLinkedIn Recruiter alternatives: Fetcher, Findem, SeekOut, ZoomInfo Talent, hireEZ
Grok 4.20hireEZ alternatives: Findem, SeekOut
Mistral SmallGem, hireEZ alternatives: Fetcher, Findem
DeepSeek V4 FlashhireEZ alternatives: Fetcher, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut
Llama 4 MaverickFetcher, Findem, Gem, hireEZ
Qwen 3.7 FlashGem alternatives: ContactOut, Fetcher, Lusha, hireEZ
Kimi K2Gem alternatives: SeekOut, hireEZ
GLM 4.7 FlashXFetcher, Gem alternatives: hireEZ
MiniMax M2.5Gem, SeekOut alternatives: Fetcher, Juicebox, hireEZ
GPT-6 LunaLinkedIn Recruiter alternatives: Gem, SeekOut
Muse Glimmer 30BGem, hireEZ alternatives: Fetcher, Findem, Humanly, Manatal, TheHireHub.AI

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Level: the same share of first choices.
Lever0%#– of 10
Ashby0%#– of 10
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Lever leads by two points.
Lever8%#4 of 13
Ashby6%#6 of 13
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Ashby leads at enterprise.
Ashby4%#– of 13
Lever0%#– of 13
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Lever

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about Ashby

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.

“Ashby - A recruitment CRM that suits fast-growing companies and provides a single system for applicant tracking, outbound sourcing, CRM, scheduling, and analytics.” Llama 4 Maverick · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.