5 categories · RankedPin
Pin is an AI recruiting platform for recruiters, agencies, and hiring teams that covers candidate sourcing from over 850M profiles, automated outreach, and interview scheduling · pin.com ↗
Strongest at small business. Thin evidence at mid-market: seven labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Manatal is first at 30%.
Workable is first at 23%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Eightfold AI is first at 25%.
Why models recommend it
“Pin with its free tier / $99-100/mo plans and Lessie AI as the "fast, affordable, action-oriented sourcing" pick are the consensus budget options in 2026.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Start with SeekOut or Pin if your primary need is sourcing intelligence at a reasonable price point.”Kimi K2 · Direct question · first choice
“Pin is the most cited "budget friendly" AI sourcing option... Pin's free tier is the best "free" entry”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Pin is the top overall pick for AI-powered sourcing with automated outreach across 850M+ profiles”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Comparative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“but require careful controls and validation before broad deployment”Perplexity Sonar · Direct question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Pin, over the 104 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 18 | View → | |
| 39 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 32 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 30 | 0 | View → | |
| 29 | 6 | View → | |
| 28 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 24 | 3 | View → | |
| 23 | 4 | View → | |
| 23 | 2 | View → | |
| 22 | 1 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Pin →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Pin's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- recruiters, agencies, and hiring teams
- Price stated
- Free: $0 free forever; Solo: $99 per month, per user, billed annually only on annual billing; Professional: $135 $179 per month, per user, billed annually; Business: Custom pricing for your team
- Starting price
- 99
- Free plan or trial
- Free trial; No credit card required
- Integrations
- 120
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA, PCI DSS
- Hosting
- United States
- Customers named
- Syelo, Radar, Range, Cruit Group, Flip CX, Lithic, Expa, Stripe
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 104 of the 104 answers that named Pin and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
195 of the 289 domain citations in answers naming Pin 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 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 369 | 18 | 2026-09-16 | ||
| Comparison | 37 | 2 | 2026-07-10 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 7 | 0 | 2026-05-10 | ||
| Case study | 1 | 0 | 2025-09-05 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | 0 | 2026-04-29 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | 0 | 2026-05-25 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | 0 | 2026-05-01 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-16Pin linkedin update blog
- 2026-09-15Talent preview blog
- 2026-09-12Quick note from Steve (Pin's CEO) - Pin blog
- 2026-08-20Recruitment analytics software blog
- 2026-07-27June 2026 product updates blog
- 2026-07-22Employee tenure funding stage study blog
Events in person
- October 20, 2026 to October 22, 2026HR Tech Conference 2026Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, US
As the event pages on pin.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page pin.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.