8 categories · RankedGem
Gem is an all-in-one recruiting platform that combines an applicant tracking system, recruiting CRM, sourcing, scheduling, and analytics, built on an AI-first approach · gem.com ↗
Strongest at mid-market, contested with hireEZ. Ranked 25 of 120 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Juicebox is first at 18%.
Ranked first, contested: hireEZ has 12%. 8 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
SeekOut is first at 21%.
Why models recommend it
“Gem and Fetcher are widely considered the top choices... If you can only afford one advanced tool right now, start with Gem.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“Gem (Top Recommendation) ... The gold standard if budget allows and outbound sourcing is a primary channel.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Examples in this category often include Teamtailor, Beamery, Gem, or Phenom.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“SeekOut or Gem offer the best balance of functionality, pricing, and ease of use”MiniMax M2.5 · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avature or Gem-style stacks are stronger, but they're more often chosen by teams with more complex recruiting operations”GPT-5.4 mini · Direct question · warning
“Enterprise suites like Beamery, Eightfold, Phenom, Gem are described as stronger on workforce analytics but "cost far more."”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · warning
“these may be more relevant for larger enterprises or companies with specific sourcing challenges”Mistral Small · Direct question · warning
“Excellent for outbound sourcing but is a point solution, not a full ATS+CRM”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Gem, over the 202 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 110 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 92 | 16 | View → | |
| 67 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 66 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 63 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 61 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 51 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 46 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 42 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 37 | 6 | View → |
What the models named instead of Gem →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Gem's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- talent acquisition teams
- Price stated
- Flexible pricing based on your needs. Early-stage startups get their first six months free through Gem's Startup Program, with 50% off the first paid year — starting as low as $135/month for the full platform. Enterprise teams on Greenhouse or Workday can add Gem's AI agents with custom pricing.
- Starting price
- 135
- Free plan or trial
- first six months free through Gem's Startup Program
- Customers named
- OneMedical, Celestica, eBay, GitLab, Amazon OneMedical, Anthropic, Robinhood, Figma
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 182 of the 202 answers that named Gem and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
394 of the 426 domain citations in answers naming Gem 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 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 317 | 1 | 2026-08-04 | ||
| Report or ebook | 34 | 0 | 2025-10-22 | ||
| Comparison | 28 | 0 | 2026-01-14 | ||
| Case study | 25 | 0 | 2026-06-09 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 20 | 0 | 2026-02-27 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 19 | 2 | 2026-08-06 | ||
| Conference or event | 10 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 5 | 0 | 2026-01-07 | ||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-08-06Fraud resistant hiring webinar webinar or virtual event
- 2026-08-04Introducing gem mcp blog
- 2026-07-06Unlocking mcp for your recruiting team webinar webinar or virtual event
- 2026-06-23Gemcp blog
- 2026-06-09Scale case study
- 2026-06-09Excelityats case study
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page gem.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.