3 categories · RankedCriteria Corp
Criteria Corp is a candidate assessment product from Criteria, offering skills tests such as the Criteria Basic Skills Test, which measures the basic math and verbal skills needed for a wide variety of entry-level jobs · criteriacorp.com ↗
Strongest at enterprise. Ranked 6 of 107 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
TestGorilla is first at 68%.
TestGorilla is first at 51%. 5 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
SHL is first at 41%.
Why models recommend it
“Criteria Corp, Harver, and Plum bundle personality, cognitive, and behavioral assessments in one platform with strong ATS integration”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Direct question · first choice
“Criteria (by Criteria Corp) stands out as the best overall pre-employment assessment platform for a mid-market B2B company”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · first choice
“My default pick: Criteria Corp for a mid-market B2B company hiring across several job families.”GPT-6 Luna · Direct question · first choice
“start with a mid-market psychometric/soft-skills core like Test Partnership or Criteria Corp”Muse Glimmer 30B · Paraphrase question · first choice
What gives them pause
“under investigation by California authorities for potential illegal bias in employment screening”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Why to Avoid: Issues relate to both assessment quality and billing.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“older or less transparent ones like some legacy SHL, Wonderlic, or Criteria tools”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“Criteria Corp (when used as the primary filter for software engineers)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Criteria Corp, over the 111 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 83 | 35 | Compare → | |
| 68 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 53 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 51 | 3 | View → | |
| 43 | 15 | View → | |
| 42 | 0 | View → | |
| 30 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 23 | 1 | View → | |
| 16 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 15 | 2 | View → |
What the models named instead of Criteria Corp →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Criteria Corp's own site, not checked by Gane.
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How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 102 of the 111 answers that named Criteria Corp and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
323 of the 361 domain citations in answers naming Criteria Corp came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |