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Index › HR › Products › OpenCATS · November 2026 Edition

3 categories · Named, not ranked

OpenCATS

opencats.org ↗

–Too few to rank

2/14Models named it

0First choices

2Warnings

November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.

Ranked inTalent intelligence #51 mid-market Applicant tracking systems #36 Staffing agency platforms #129

What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. OpenCATS has 4.

Why models recommend it

No positive label carried a quote.

What gives them pause

“OpenCATS is truly free but requires server hosting and IT upkeep.”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as OpenCATS, over the 5 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

Product	Named together	Picked instead
Zoho Recruit	4	1	View →
Breezy HR	3	2	View →
Manatal	3	0	View →
Beamery	2	0	View →
Eightfold AI	2	0	View →
LinkedIn Talent Insights	2	0	View →
Workello	2	0	View →
Juicebox	1	1	View →
Pin	1	1	View →
Qureos	1	1	View →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

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.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named OpenCATS came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 5 of the 5 answers that named OpenCATS and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

100hires.com2

capterra.com2

firsthr.app2

fitsmallbusiness.com2

forbes.com2

g2.com2

jobspipe.dev2

pin.com2

recruiter.daily.dev2

reqcore.com2

Twenty of the twenty domain citations in answers naming OpenCATS came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

100hires.com/best-applicant-tracking-system-small-business.html2

fitsmallbusiness.com/best-free-applicant-tracking-systems2

forbes.com/advisor/business/best-applicant-tracking-systems2

g2.com/categories/talent-intelligence/small-business2

jobspipe.dev/talent-intelligence-platforms2

pin.com/blog/talent-intelligence-software2

recruiter.daily.dev/resources/affordable-developer-recruiting-tools-startups-guide2

softwaresuggest.com/talent-intelligence-platform2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on OpenCATS across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

Model	Mention	Warning	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	2	0	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0