2 categories · RankedLightcast
Lightcast provides labor market intelligence, including workforce data used for workforce planning, benchmarking, location strategy and skills-gap analysis · lightcast.io ↗
Why models recommend it
“Examples praised in comparisons (without major red flags): Lightcast (for labor market data), TalentNeuron, Draup, or JobsPikr”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · first choice
“Lightcast & LinkedIn Talent Insights dominate when you need global labor‑market intelligence.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · first choice
“Choose LinkedIn Talent Insights or Lightcast for labor-market benchmarking and location decisions.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“for example, comparing talent supply, skills demand, wages, or locations: look at Lightcast instead”GPT-6 Luna · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Lightcast, over the 34 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 15 | View → | |
| 26 | 3 | View → | |
| 24 | 0 | View → | |
| 24 | 0 | View → | |
| 20 | 1 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Lightcast →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Lightcast's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- businesses, education institutions, and governments worldwide
- Hosting
- US & Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia Pacific
- Customers named
- JB Hunt, North Dakota University System, Guild, bridgestone, The Josh Bersin Company, HAI, Bath College, Employ Prince George's
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 34 of the 34 answers that named Lightcast and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
100 of the 100 domain citations in answers naming Lightcast 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,237 | 12 | 2026-09-28 | Talent intelligence, Workforce planning | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 159 | 8 | 2026-11-18 | ||
| Report or ebook | 148 | undated | Talent intelligence | ||
| Case study | 26 | 0 | 2025-11-21 | ||
| Conference or event | 20 | 0 | 2023-12-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 17 | 0 | 2025-04-01 | People analytics | |
| Comparison | 6 | 1 | 2026-08-14 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2024-04-18 | Workforce planning | |
| News or press | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page lightcast.io 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.